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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#1376: Mar 1st 2013 at 6:48:53 AM

[up]Quoth Slendid Suit:

No, blowing up a meth lab and the enormous Dog meat factory it was hidden in does not count as proportionate retribution.
Wait... Dog meat or dog food?

edited 1st Mar '13 6:49:20 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
SlendidSuit Freelance Worrywart from Probably a Pub Since: Oct, 2011
Freelance Worrywart
#1377: Mar 1st 2013 at 12:31:15 PM

Honestly, a little of both. And some man in there too. Place was seedy.

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Exelixi Lesbarian from Alchemist's workshop Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Lesbarian
#1378: Mar 1st 2013 at 5:15:24 PM

When I tell the GM I want to play a tank, he assumes I mean the damage-soaking kind.

He does NOT assume I'm talking about an actual tank, with three different kinds of cannons and the firepower to destroy a small nation.

Furthermore, even if he is okay with that, he assumes I'm talking about the PILOT of a tank, not a possessed, sentient tank with a smartass attitude and a soothing Russian baritone.

edited 1st Mar '13 5:18:12 PM by Exelixi

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#1379: Mar 1st 2013 at 7:39:53 PM

Exeli: At least your not a cat spirit posessing a tank. Amusing though.

Hijacking a tactical nuke to crack open the worlds mightiest safe is not a sane option.

Who watches the watchmen?
Muramasan13 Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#1380: Mar 1st 2013 at 8:36:20 PM

I may not "stealth" while wielding a running chainsaw.

Smile for me!
DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#1381: Mar 1st 2013 at 9:05:24 PM

[up] Works in Fallout.

CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Neep Revolution of Ruin from Booooooooomblastandruin Since: Jan, 2001
Revolution of Ruin
#1383: Mar 4th 2013 at 7:20:57 PM

  • If I make a grotesque giant zombie / Flesh Golem, I should have a better reason than "I had a dozen corpses and some free time".

You've lost. You're the Bomb Squad after the bomb's gone off. I'm the blast ongoing.
darnpenguin Yakka Foob Mog from one friend to another Since: Jan, 2001
Yakka Foob Mog
#1384: Mar 5th 2013 at 6:51:52 PM

  • If I am falling to my death, I cannot give my allies an extra second to catch me by performing a haymaker on the ground.
  • Even if I have higher strength than my invulnerable ally, I am not to use him as a blunt instrument.
  • I will not invest all my points in a single-use, one segment density control power with no corresponding strength bonus just to see if I can create a black hole.

Add me on Skype: Al Cook (darnpenguin)
Archereon Ave Imperator from Everywhere. Since: Oct, 2010
Ave Imperator
#1385: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:33:28 PM

I am no longer allowed to use 40k battlecries in games not part of the Dark Heresy gameline. Not even as my ex-Coalition headhunter in Rifts, and no, going into battle with a 2 handed chainsaw sword changes nothing. This applies doubly if the character I'm playing is supposed to be stealthy.

edited 5th Mar '13 8:34:03 PM by Archereon

This is a signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
MasterInferno It's Like Arguing on the Internet from Tomb of Malevolence Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
It's Like Arguing on the Internet
#1386: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:42:16 PM

"Lawful Nifty" and "Chaotic Spiffy" are not alignments.

Somehow you know that the time is right.
SlendidSuit Freelance Worrywart from Probably a Pub Since: Oct, 2011
Freelance Worrywart
#1387: Mar 6th 2013 at 5:55:51 AM

Bouncing off that, neither is "Probably Not Good."

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#1388: Mar 6th 2013 at 9:23:59 PM

Lawful Elvish isn't an alignment either.

Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
Cogito Gratia Cogitan
#1389: Mar 6th 2013 at 10:11:34 PM

Can't wait till I get into one of them 3.5 games, so I can start adding to the list myself. tongue

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.
MasterInferno It's Like Arguing on the Internet from Tomb of Malevolence Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
It's Like Arguing on the Internet
#1390: Mar 6th 2013 at 10:43:03 PM

Not allowed to address party members as "Target Practice", "Moving Target", "Meat Shield", "Distraction", "Diversion", or anything similar.

Somehow you know that the time is right.
LastHussar The time is now, from the place is here. Since: Jul, 2009
The time is now,
#1391: Mar 9th 2013 at 8:32:16 AM

Not to use *dead* comrades as cover if they are still capable of saying "Don't use me as cover."

Do the job in front of you.
Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#1392: Mar 9th 2013 at 9:59:58 AM

Not allowed to offhandedly comment on the smell when the high leveled kobold wizard is talking to us. Not allowed to mention the high leveled kobold's (dead) brother when the high leveled kobold wizard is talking to us. Not allowed to mention the wand I stole from the high level kobold's (dead) brother when the high leveled kobold wizard is talking to us. Not allowed to speak when the high leveled kobold wizard is talking to us.

Pre-emptively not allowed to use diplomacy on the other wizard to make him use the wand that I "traded" for with the high leveled kobold wizard. Yes. It has every appearance of being a wand of Fly. Yes. It might be a trap. No. Your character would selfishly guard that thing and resort to use it when it would seem beneficial. Yes. We are being meta as fuck about this.

edited 9th Mar '13 10:00:36 AM by Zeromaeus

Doryna Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#1393: Mar 9th 2013 at 12:18:11 PM

Also not an alignment: "Lawfulsauce."

Exelixi Lesbarian from Alchemist's workshop Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Lesbarian
#1394: Mar 9th 2013 at 12:22:38 PM

Alignments I've jotted down and subsequently been declared unable to use:

Serious Good

Lawful Cheerful

Chaotic Awesome

Lawful Crazy/ Chaotic Crazy

Lawful Alcoholic

Heroic Neutral

Neutral Pacifist

Neutral "Pacifist"

Chaotic Greedy

Lawful Slutty

Kleptomaniac Good

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-
LastHussar The time is now, from the place is here. Since: Jul, 2009
The time is now,
#1395: Mar 9th 2013 at 5:18:26 PM

[up]I want to meet Lawful Slutty - "Well, I'm not allowed to charge..."

Not allowed to set up a company FOR REAL that is named after a major family House/ Corporation in Traveller, and put a codicil in my will leaving it to a descendant in the same years as the game is set, who must be named after my PC, then have my PC walk into the offices and claim his birthright.

Because apparently things don't work like that in real life.

edited 9th Mar '13 5:19:23 PM by LastHussar

Do the job in front of you.
Exelixi Lesbarian from Alchemist's workshop Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Lesbarian
#1396: Mar 9th 2013 at 8:02:26 PM

[up]That's amazing and shouldn'e be forbidden.

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-
Midna Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they) from way down south in the land of the traitors (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they)
#1397: Mar 9th 2013 at 8:02:51 PM

Yes, the DM knows about Rule 50; no, I am not allowed to use an image of Applejack as the pog for my new horse. Some things are appropriate to mix ponies with, this campaign is certainly not.

edited 9th Mar '13 8:05:19 PM by Midna

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#1398: Mar 9th 2013 at 10:58:26 PM

Lawful Paranoid and Neutral Conspirator are not alignments.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
BetaRay Web Slinger/Hope Bringer Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Web Slinger/Hope Bringer
#1399: Mar 9th 2013 at 11:19:20 PM

Paladins are not God's answer to succubi and they do not hand out Lawful Hot Dickings.

You are not alone, and you are not strange. You are you, and everyone has damage. Be the better person.
onFyre Science! from Blighty Since: Apr, 2009
Science!
#1400: Mar 11th 2013 at 10:51:12 AM

Does Magic The Gathering count? Because when I went to the FLGS last saturday, a friend set this one for me:

Not allowed to buy both a Time Warp and a Panoptic Mirror.


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