Things You are No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG

Not me, but the party rogue: Acid flasks are NOT lockpicking tools. Especially when the lock is electronic and the acid melts half the console.

Yeah, I've fused moving mechanisms into stationary slag more than enough times to know that a GM will never let you use acid as a lockpick unless you have enough to destroy the whole danged door (or chest, or safe, or...) in the first place.

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

and : That brings to mind how, since our current group doesn't have a lockpicker, we've been opening locks by basically having me use fire magic to cut through the lock/hinges, blowtorch style. Though given my character's interest in mechanical type things, I might be able to BS that into having enough of a working knowledge of locks to justify knowing how to pick them when/if I get my hands on a set of picks

edited 9th Mar '17 11:01:03 AM by Reflextion

I've just been blasting the holy hell outta them with Eldritch Blast.

I am not to target any of the following with Magic Missile: eyes, ears, tongue, fingers, tendons, spinal column, brainstem, ANY nerve tissue of ANY kind, levers or switches that are integral to the operation of a doomsday device, the straps that hold armor together, belts, scabbards, or holy relics, ESPECIALLY if they are in use.

But you could end fights so quickly with a magic missile to the brainstem.

If it turns out to be a finishing move you could always specify that it was to the brain stem, although yeah, it gets difficult if you say first that it's to the brain stem and then it doesn't kill them, talk about Gameplay and Story Segregation.

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No longer allowed to make encounters trivial by wiping out half our opposition in one turn literally by looking at them funny.

(Rogue Trader, playing a Navigator. Lidless Stare at second level is a monster of a power)

If you think that's OP, you haven't yet seen the high-level Black Crusade psykers with Force Storm. FFG learned their lesson after that and finally made Psy Rating upgrades cost progressive.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

I've seen worse..... friend of mine made the most OP character possible in BC with a psyker, he eventually became a Daemon Prince of Tzeench in which he gained total power over time, and then embarked on a "lets kill the players" campaign with him where he had to do stuff like fight Skabrand with dodging swings from KHORNE'S FUCKING SWORD, battle Harlequin Solitaires, and fight the likes of Bjiorn the Fell Handed and Logan Grimnar, he aced them all..... and then was placed in a sword by a bunch of cultists for his trouble, he went to become a minor feature in the mini sort shared universe our games inhabit, what with being kicked over from his universe to ours by Tzeench as the indecisive mollusc was bored and wanted to see what would happen

advancing the front into TV Tropes

But... Khorne must have something like infinite infamy. Couldn't He just make his attacks un-dodgeable to take the impudent's skull?

edited 19th Mar '17 1:15:17 PM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

because that would be dishonourable, and Khorne is all about honour and giving everyone a chance, he was pissed off at enough Chronos The Eternal for stealing (well, being tricked by Tzeench into stealing) the tiniest fragment of his being that he was willing to take a fucking swing at some petty Daemon Prince himself, but not pissed off enough to act dishonourably

advancing the front into TV Tropes

No longer allowed to tell any Toreador their aesthetic sense is boring. Especially not while they're giving me a job interview.

Apparently one cannot put the "romance back in necromancer".

Granted this was a one off, alcohol-involved D&D game.

Not allowed to reference Ylvis any more.

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Should've gone with Witch Doctor. :P

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

fuck you, now that damn song is stuck in my head.

Also could have gone with "AY-YAY-YAY-YA-HEY!" (I'd Pot Hole to 4 Non Blondes, but we haven't made a page for them for One-Hit Wonder reasons).

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

My Razorclaw Monk is no longer allowed to plan anything for our group after one of her plans got our group incarcerated, chased by three bulettes, two angry giants, a pissed-off ancient Moon Druidess and a town full of angry villagers, though not all at the same time (mostly). The catch was that our only task was to deactivate a construct that was causing a mess of just the local temple.

Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.

Okay, that's a Noodle Incident that needs to be explained

• Eventually there will be a bad guy who decides to shoot you during your transformation sequence.
• If you are used to villains bantering and giving speeches before a fight, make sure that you keep your guard up for the one guy that just dives in.
• I cannot do the above without giving the GM a heads up.
• The werewolf barbarian does not need to be neutered.
  • Nor will he appreciate me trying.
• I cannot dump a sack of catnip into the middle of a catfolk raiding camp and call it 'stealth tactics'
• There is no Half-Bard template.
• Urinating on a Dire Giant Jellyfish doesn't render it defenceless.
• I cannot ask command if they want their Nazis deep-fried or extra crispy.
• I cannot use nazi prisoners as mine clearance devices.
• We cannot perform a Highlander Burial in a Mudskipper drop mech.
• Nazi zombies don't care if you call them cliche.
• I am not allowed to refer to the Tesla cannon as 'my friend Nikolai'
  • Nor can I say 'Nikolai sends his regards' before firing.

Question not my madness, lest ye join me in it.

I'm like 99% percent sure I'm not allowed to blow all my luck just because I wanted to solo the boss anymore, and then protecting said boss when it looks someone's going to killsteal me.

edited 29th Apr '17 2:12:49 PM by Nickpws

Did you also allow him to eat a bunch of ambiguously robotic creatures to become stronger?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Not allowed to order an orbital bombardment on a single Sith. Even if it will totally mess him up.

Also: not allowed to hang from the ceiling while firing a flamethrower, like a pyromaniac disco ball.

No longer allowed to play Count Von Count as a Malkavian in a Vampire The Masquerade LARP.

(I did this once...I think it was the fact it took them 4 sessions to realize that I was playing a muppet from Sesame Street was the reason they threw me out).

If playing a pack of Werewolves in a Vampire LARP, don't make your first action to corner and kill the Prince Of The City's childe. Even if it was just a random pick!

edited 8th May '17 12:11:09 PM by ScrewySqrl