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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.
#2426: Oct 14th 2015 at 4:35:00 PM

Dwarves are no longer allowed to dance on Dyvers Wharves. That fire while an accident did burn down the dock yard...and the shipyard...and about a full quarter of the warehouse district...and the mayors house.

Who watches the watchmen?
Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2427: Oct 14th 2015 at 5:15:03 PM

The weather gods may only distribute water based products from the skies.

TeChameleon Irritable Reptilian from Alberta, Canada Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Irritable Reptilian
#2428: Oct 14th 2015 at 5:57:49 PM

I cannot summon Kryptonite Elementals in the DC Setting. Or Outside the DC setting, it doesn't exist there.
... you can't? You mean, your DC character doesn't have the Kryptonite Man's phone number and/or enough money to hire him? tongue

Of course, if you're a magic-using supervillain (or hero, I guess, if you're going up against one of the umpteen bajillion evil Kryptonians that survived the destruction of Krypton), which I'm assuming you are, since you're summoning elementals, I'm not sure what you'd need kryptonite for in the first place, since Kryptonians aren't any more immune to magic than anyone else is.

Belisaurius Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts from Big Blue Nowhere Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Artisan of Auspicious Artifacts
#2429: Oct 15th 2015 at 6:50:45 AM

I am not the God of Asskicking....yet.

It is wrong to convince others to worship me...for the moment.

edited 15th Oct '15 6:51:26 AM by Belisaurius

TheManFromOutside My god, its full of tropes.... from Two realities to the left, one entropy level up Since: Feb, 2015
My god, its full of tropes....
#2430: Oct 17th 2015 at 3:52:10 AM

  • I am to stop getting into staring matches with the abyss.

  • Thread necromancy =/= real necromancy.
    • I still get an alignment check though.

  • Despite how cool the order is, ball over cannister only works with 18th century cannon.
    • I am to stop ordering my crew to load 'X over Y' without knowing what it will do or if it will even work during combat.

  • Napalmed thermite is not the reason humanity is the nuclear option in the Dresden Files.
    • Neither is it the reason I am the nuclear option in Dresden files.
      • I am not the nuclear option in anything.

Question not my madness, lest ye join me in it.
Ashfire A Star Wars Nerd from In My Own Little World Since: Aug, 2013
A Star Wars Nerd
#2431: Oct 20th 2015 at 1:46:09 AM

Warforged do not make good lawn art.

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#2432: Oct 20th 2015 at 6:13:57 AM

[up] What about gnomes?

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#2434: Oct 20th 2015 at 7:16:42 PM

I thought that was just a slur against dwarves?

Bigots, man. Make up more new definitions than kids-these-days ever dreamed of.

edited 20th Oct '15 7:16:58 PM by rikalous

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#2435: Oct 20th 2015 at 7:50:03 PM

[up] No, it's about gnomes. Git gud, man. tongue (And yes, the Disc has gnomes on it; Wee Mad Arthur and Buggy Swires are gnomes, and by implication, the Feegles might be too, even though they're pictsies).

edited 20th Oct '15 7:50:41 PM by Knowlessman

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#2436: Oct 20th 2015 at 10:28:51 PM

Wee Mad Arthur is a Feegle, at least by birth. He's only a gnome by adoption.

And "lawn ornament" as an anti-dwarf slur comes up a couple times.

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#2437: Oct 21st 2015 at 9:44:25 AM

[up] Coulda sworn it was only used in the context of gnomes. :/

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
Medinoc Chaotic Greedy from France Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Chaotic Greedy
#2438: Oct 22nd 2015 at 1:35:25 AM

[up]Well, apart from in Harry Potter, garden gnomes are visually indistinguishable from Snow White-esque dwarves...

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#2439: Oct 22nd 2015 at 4:13:23 AM

[up][up]I don't think it's ever been used in the context of Disc gnomes.

In large part because any time racism shows up in the Disc it's a) the old dwarf-troll thing or b) Jingo. So any anti-gnome slurs that might have been developed don't come up.

edited 22nd Oct '15 4:14:24 AM by rikalous

Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
#2440: Oct 26th 2015 at 2:22:45 PM

Since you guys are kind enough to give me ideas:

  • Gnomes do not get concealment bonuses for wearing funny hats and standing very, very still.
  • Trying to hire Gnome mercenaries to stand around on the lawn while wearing funny hats will get me thrown out of the recruitment office.

edited 26th Oct '15 2:23:01 PM by Azreal341

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.
#2441: Nov 10th 2015 at 2:40:26 AM

Even if it would *totally* work by the crafting golems rule, I am not allowed to make a Summoner in DFRP who summons Surprisingly cheery gun-armed stationary turrets

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Think of the mooks!
#2442: Nov 10th 2015 at 7:36:38 AM

Wait... what about a Summoner who summons Gigantor?

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
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.
#2443: Nov 12th 2015 at 1:25:13 PM

....Would probably require human sacrifice (or subscribing to some nasty newsletters) to power summon such a capable being :P?

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#2444: Nov 22nd 2015 at 8:21:28 PM

Members of the Rebel Alliance do not use "Death to the False Emperor!" as a battle cry.

edited 22nd Nov '15 8:21:41 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
AETHDH Troll with a Pen Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Troll with a Pen
#2445: Nov 24th 2015 at 9:27:22 PM

I am not allowed to blow up half the party, drop a Sequoia red wood on the other half, and be sincerely thanked by everyone for doing so.

We chose Fish
Ashfire A Star Wars Nerd from In My Own Little World Since: Aug, 2013
A Star Wars Nerd
#2446: Dec 13th 2015 at 3:08:49 PM

Our party necromancer is no longer allowed to drag herself, the binder, and the warlock into a temple of Pelor. Even if she really, really needs holy water.

Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
#2447: Dec 13th 2015 at 4:38:15 PM

I may not choose "Lollard" as my Clerics religion if it's just and excuse to shout "For the Lols!" as a battle cry.

rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#2448: Dec 13th 2015 at 8:53:39 PM

Right. If you want that battle cry, you just name your party "The Lols."

My D&D group actually did that, battle cry and all. It was not a very serious campaign.

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Think of the mooks!
#2449: Dec 15th 2015 at 9:11:04 AM

I'd say something, but I'm the same guy who deliberately incorporated "lol" into his character's name, just to see if I could. The GM didn't realize it until I pointed it out and since then deliberately mispronounces my character's name so as to not give me any further satisfaction.

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#2450: Dec 24th 2015 at 6:33:26 AM

Alcohol is NOT the solution to everything. Even if I am a dwarf barbarian.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

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