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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#2876: Nov 26th 2018 at 6:16:16 PM

A song appropriate for dang near everyone in this thread.

A filk song called "Banned from Argo"

Who watches the watchmen?
Robrecht Your friendly neighbourhood Regent from The Netherlands Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Your friendly neighbourhood Regent
#2877: Nov 27th 2018 at 8:58:42 AM

My Eldritch Knight is no longer allowed to sell 'these two excellent magical weapons' in any town or port the parties expects to return to at some point.

Angry gets shit done.
Khudzlin Since: Nov, 2013
#2878: Nov 28th 2018 at 6:09:21 AM

@3of4 Obviously, you choose "mountains" as his favored terrain (assuming a ranger rather than a paladin).

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#2879: Jun 28th 2019 at 2:27:35 PM

In our 5e Warhammer Fantasy Game:

  • My Backup Character is not a Goblin Rogue named Leon Grotsky, of the Gretchin Revolutionary Commitee

Edited by 3of4 on Jun 28th 2019 at 11:33:42 AM

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GoldenKaos Captain of the Dead City from Cirith Ungol Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Captain of the Dead City
#2880: Jul 25th 2019 at 5:15:29 AM

5e? Do you mean 4e?

Wait, are you using DND 5e as the ruleset, but using Warhammer Fantasy as your setting?

Edited by GoldenKaos on Jul 25th 2019 at 1:16:44 PM

"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#2881: Aug 6th 2019 at 4:28:10 AM

Yes, Dungeons and Dragons 5e system, with some houserules, but the Warhammer Fantasy setting.

"You can reply to this Message!"
Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2882: Mar 30th 2020 at 7:44:02 PM

The Rogue is no longer allowed to have solo adventures

The Druid is not allowed to cast heat metal, turn into a spider, and wait under a table for the target to die.

Yes, a monk can take proficiency with Carpenters Tools and presumably can break wooden boards with his bare hands. No, his hands do not count as Carpenter's Tools.

The Druid is to stop casting Snare in front of random doors

The Ranger is to stop casting Snare in front of random doors

House rule, all characters have advantage on detecting Snare cast within 5 feet of a door.

Not allowed to wildshape into player character races.

Wildshape does not make a Kenku immune to the Kenku curse.

Not allowed to steal a ship by wild shaping into a giant octopus and swimming off with it.

TheLyniezian Is not actually from Lyniezia from South Bernicia Since: Aug, 2012
Is not actually from Lyniezia
#2883: Apr 21st 2020 at 8:29:58 AM

My crazy D&D Barbarian Outlander amazon character (in various incarnations) is no longer allowed to do the following:

  • Run headlong into a goblin-infested mausoleum, pursuing said goblins, without checking for traps along the way.
  • Kick in the bedroom door of her sleeping enemies when the rest of the party was supposed to be acting in stealth mode, thereby getting herself decapitated by said enemies and needing to be avenged by her younger sister. (We never found out what happened to that last bit because the campaign was prematurely terminated a session or so later.)
  • Kicking in an obviously unbreakable door out of curiosity and getting her leg broken in the process. (She is allowed to go on to defeat the giant devil final boss with her flashy mace of abomination-bashing, though.)

Edited by TheLyniezian on Apr 21st 2020 at 3:34:07 PM

TheLyniezian Is not actually from Lyniezia from South Bernicia Since: Aug, 2012
Is not actually from Lyniezia
#2884: Apr 21st 2020 at 8:35:39 AM

Oh, and in addition I'm no longer allowed to roll a natural 1 three times in a session and end said session with my character flying out of an upstairs window and getting knocked out, attempting to attack the child-eating hags which were terrorizing the village we were supposed to be helping. She really isn't much use that way.

Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2885: May 15th 2020 at 9:58:20 AM

No longer allowed to make more than 8 attacks per turn. Even if the rules allow it, we've got a game to run.

Not allowed to hold an enemy in a persistent AOE damage effect. Yes, you managed to reduce a mimic with surprise into a joke but logically your arms should have burned off.

Not allowed to hit 9 enemies with a 10 foot wide spell.

Not allowed to pretend the Half-Elf Rogue with Cloak of Elvenkind is dead. Even though we can't see him anymore.

Must refer to the Blizzard Wizard Lizard by his proper ingame name. Whatever that is.

rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#2886: May 15th 2020 at 9:39:22 PM

Not allowed to hit 9 enemies with a 10 foot wide spell.
That sounds like it's their fault for clumping.

Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2887: Jun 2nd 2020 at 4:47:08 PM

Well...yes but they were in melee at the time.

DoctorZtar Snakebit from Somewhere in Nevada Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Desperate
Snakebit
#2888: Nov 15th 2020 at 7:14:16 AM

Does Sentinels of the Multiverse count?

  • I am to remember that the Chairman needs three Underbosses in his trash to flip. We will not repeat the time I fed three of them to the Amphibious Chupacabra and made it impossible to win.
    • Likewise, I am not allowed to have Savage Mana eat them before the flip.
  • It's called "Profane Zealot", not "Damage-Tanking Motherfucker".
  • Gloomweaver is easy, I just have horrible luck with him. This is no longer up to debate.
  • I am no longer allowed to force Spite's drugs out of the deck before everyone else is finished setting up "because it has to happen anyway".
  • The Argent Adept is a privilege, not a right.

"I just wanted to know the truth!"
Vlad3163 Since: Jun, 2022
#2889: Jul 8th 2022 at 9:15:40 AM

A couple from my time playing FFG's Star Wars RPG:

  • No matter how high your Mechanics / Intelligence, or your interpretation of crafting / talents, you cannot convert a set of Mandalorian armor and a light repeating blaster into a set of War Machine armor.

  • I am no longer allowed to consider a shaped charge as a tool for the purposes of talents that allow me to pull small (non-weapon) items from my utility belt/backpack.

Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2890: Jul 25th 2022 at 8:55:28 AM

Just because a weapon is Knockback 9 doesn't mean I can knock it off the map.

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