Things You are No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG

Not allowed to base my Sorcerer on Henry or Tharja.

edited 15th Aug '15 9:14:38 PM by Tojin

Now the dancing in battle can work. Starlord did it in Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and my veiled dancer did it numerous time.

In my case, it didn't. Especially since the cantrip that I had been repeatedly casting before then was the only thing the party was doing that was actually hurting the glass zombies we were fighting.

Yes, I was quite The Loonie in my early roleplaying days. Not something I'm proud of in hindsight, to be honest.

I think everyone starts off a bit like that. You don't know what you're doing yet, so you do everything.

Or, on the flip side, nothing, especially if the others already know each other and banter amongst themselves.

• May no longer attempt to warp the party away from a diplomatic situation that failed and is turning aggressive without warning the party. Otherwise, you might fail to grab the paladin, but still take his adoptive daughter.

I was about to say, Dance is a perfectly acceptable choice to perform Inspire Courage with in D&D and Pathfinder. I nearly got banned from using Mime for Inspire Courage in Pathfinder, but the GM let it through because it was a very specific circumstance... and because, much to his chagrin, it's actually listen in the book as an acceptable method (in that using Acting for such is listed as a visual, not audible, effect).

1 - I am no longer allowed to bring multi-colour crisp bags to Paranoia games and declare everyone to be breaking the rules (except me because I chose ready-salted)

2 - Roleplaying a drunk person is not an excuse to ignore the 4th wall

3 - I am no longer allowed to play time-travelers on the grounds I end up being a walking paradox each time

3a - Complaining about my past self being a selfish bastard is right out

3b - Further complaints about my future self constantly whining will also not be tolerated

4 - I am no longer allowed to stampede to the Exterminatus button upon finding a single heretic

5 - d7s are not the same as d6s

6 - I cannot use bluff to break the Laws of Physics

7 - I am no longer permitted to learn the profession 'President'

No longer allowed to abuse Lightning Reflexes to blast the plot-critical NPC before anyone can react.

Not permitted to actually sing what my character is singing. Apparently I nearly caused emotional trauma-induced deafness.

Just because I have a laser rifle doesn't mean I don't have to Aim.

Allowing others to abuse Lightning Reflexes to tackle me before I shoot the plot-critical NPC is acceptable, however.

16. Not allowed to conclude an adventure with a lecture on economics.

edited 23rd Aug '15 3:51:57 PM by Ezekiel

• Aasimar and Teiflings do not mutually annihilate on contact.

• Angels are not 'just obedient demons', in-game or out.

• I cannot just raid the wizard's undefended spice cupboard and call it a day.

17. Just because Pathfinder has an Inquisitor class doesn't mean I'm allowed to call an Exterminatus.

It's devils who are obedient demons, come on.

....And now I want to use the Unchained Variant Multiclassing to to a Inquisitor/gunslinger just to shout "HERESY!" before shooting someone all the time.

So apparently surfing on the nose of the group's corvette as we drop out of warp isn't allowed anymore.

"Anymore" ? It was before ?

using the time machine to stop oroku saki from killing hamato yoshi, while noble, still isnt allowed in the group im in. and neither is turning him into a mutant dinosaur with a prehensile tounge.

It wasn't expressly disallowed before.

I get a feeling my idea of Samuel L. Jackson inspired Shadowrunner w/ a voice modulator always set on the highest volume setting (100 decibels) in the future might be something I'll be barred from doing, but I'll do it anyways.

No longer allowed to add magic users to CR 1 encounters after killing a few P Cs [oops]

• Dumping aluminium fillings on a rust monster and lighting it on fire doesn't work.

• I am to stop abusing the 'Dire' prefix.
  • I cannot combine 'Dire' and 'Giant' in the same monster, it's one or the other.

• Driders are not vulnerable to bug bombs.

• No more recursive doppelgangers.

• I am not allowed to base my wizard off of Magicka.

• I cannot make a golem out of the P Cs, living or dead.

• I do not have blood in my potion system.
  • I do not have blood in my coffee system.

• No lighting halflings on fire just 'to see them do the burny dance'.
  • No lighting anything on fire just 'to see them do the burny dance'.

• Screaming 'Blood for the Blood God!' does not intimidate chaotic beings more because I apparently worship 'those guys'.

• Tengu are not afraid of scarecrows.

One of our players is no longer allowed to wrestle leeches.

Everyone else is still cool, though?

no more simian animal companions or familiars, especially if im just using them to justify the ammout of bananas i buy.

no more buying bananas just to use the peels as a trap

banana peels cannot be disarmed, as they don't count as traps, i have to actively avoid it.

i cannot make banana golems, and even if i could, they would be very impractical and a waste of bananas.

edited 5th Sep '15 3:20:40 PM by Alucart23

She's the only one that's tried it yet. Same reason nobody else is explicitly banned from dropping shrunken heads into enchanted streams yet.

Having a character speak only in Major League Gamer-speak does not qualify for the Speech Impediment flaw.

Yes, someone suggested this. Fortunately, it was simply in jest, but I found it pretty funny and worthy for this.