Things You are No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG

I love eldritch blast, especially now that it blasts my foes back ten feet.

Apparently, even though our group's barbarian takes trophies from slain enemies, I'm suddenly going to become evil if I take and mount the head of a dragonborn fighter that had been giving us problem over the campaign.

From what I've read of it, Eldritch Blast sounds abnormally powerful for a supposed cantrip.

Well, the few descriptions I've come across (Warlock isn't an official class in 3.5 or Pathfinder) have Eldritch Blast scale with the Warlock's level. So Eldritch Blast is more powerful than a cantrip (which wouldn't scale).

We're talking 5e here. Cantrips scale in 5e. And Eldritch Blast in particular is pretty crazy because Warlocks get a bunch of ways of powering it up further.

But I wouldn't call it overpowered- it's the only real attack option they have that doesn't depend on how generous your DM is with short rests.

Warlock is an official class in 3.5. Iirc, it was in Complete Arcane?

Eldritch Blast, as a basic attack cantrip, is pretty decent, comparable in damage to most other attack cantrips. Where it gets really good is through eldritch invocations the warlock can take, such as Agonizing Blast (which adds your CHA modifier bonus to eldritch blast's damage) It's damage scales on par with, say Firebolt, but EB you can target multiple targets with each beam.

1D10 is standard for cantrips in 5E? I was under the impression that cantrips usually did D4 damage...

3.5E Cantrips generally had low damage and you were better off taking the utility spells most of the time.

5E Cantrips deal about the same damage as a main weapon, and scale up with your level.

On top of being at-will whereas 3.5 weren't? Talk about a massive buff. I expected the reverse, being nerfed to compensate for their atwillness.

Now that I think about it, it's probably because someone had a look at the 3.5E Warlock and realized that having a spammable basic attack is a good way of keeping casters (especially low-level casters) fun in games were rest opportunities are few and far between.

Pretty much, the attack spell cantrip for casters is probably my favorite 5E change. In 3.5 once you were out of spells per day as a caster you were basically useless in any combat until you got a long rest.

Attack spell cantrips allow a caster to still be viable in combat once spells run out.

I am no longer allowed to make bad jokes and then force my opponents to laugh with Hideous Laughter.

Just because the Cleric worships a sea goddess and hasn't successfully used an attack spell all session doesn't mean I can dub him "The Salty One"

See, I'm actually required to do that first one.

However, I cannot justify a bonus to my insight check to see if some one is exaggerating just by saying "I went to bard collage. You get lots of practice picking out the truth from the lies."

edited 9th Feb '18 10:28:59 AM by RC1262

Tell your GM "Hey if Sam Riegel is doing it, its okay?" on the first one.

edited 10th Feb '18 4:47:58 AM by 3of4

, Honestly, they're just tired of my lame jokes.

My Tiefling Paladin is to stop getting naked at every opportunity

No drinking before a dungeon crawl. Drinking is for after the dungeon crawl.

No, it is not unfair that the spellbook was cut in half. The Barbarian intentionally cut it in half.

I'm not allowed to have Create Water.

Apparently during a fist-fight, one cannot telekinectially flight a foe into a solid wall repeatedly Also using eldritch blast during said fight is no bueno. .

Does Bigby's Hand count for a fistfight?

I am banned from attempting to seduce monsters in Pathfinder.

Magus, actually. At the beginning of one battle, I tried to seduce a bunch of cloakers as a joke.

Update: I have since also been banned from seducing anything, even if my character is the appropriate gender and species.

edited 23rd Mar '18 12:34:30 AM by Ghostninja109

Lemme guess. You play a bard?

I may not paint my cybernetic mercenary's right hand red and hum "A shadow is cast wherever he stands. Stacks of green paper in his Red right hand." whenever I meet someone new or attempt to do business with a new vendor.

I don't get the reference.

It's the Peaky Blinders theme song, Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

The gnome barbarian in my new D&D 5E group has been forbidden from going into rage without quoting Nicholas Cage. (Probably not a rule that'll be strictly enforced.)

I may not dope slap my teammates with Mage Hand. -Even if the damage is purely emotional.

I will keep my characters strength score in mind before attempting to destroy a weapon

I am not allowed to "fish" with minor illusion.

I may slap my teammates -Even if they deserve it -Even if I'm doing so to cast Green Flame Blade -Even if statistically speaking, doing so should heal them.

Tiling the floor with Shields of Wonder isn't a trap, it's a recipe for Chaos.

edited 25th Feb '18 8:51:34 AM by Belisaurius