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Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG.

Posted by Malakhon
Genghis the Hutt
member, 2305 posts
Just an average guy :)
Sat 9 Aug 2014
at 02:35
  • msg #2282

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Mythbusters 2005 Episode 42: Steel toe-cap amputation:
Myth: Steel-toe boots are more dangerous to your toes than normal boots when a heavy weight is dropped on them. Whereas a normal boot would just crush your toes, a steel toe would curl and crumple in, cutting your toes off.
BUSTED
Using similar tests to those used to test steel toe boot certification, Adam and Jamie determine that your toes are much safer with steel toe boots than without. There was no toe-cutting curling of the steel toe, and even using a blade attachment didn’t work, only glancing off the steel toe to cut right above where it ended.
They found that the cap actually will curl in and cut off your toes, if you basically drop a car-weight from a height bumper-first on the toes.  Without the steel cap, this would have destroyed the toes completely, but under this scenario the toes were only cut off instead and (if the accident had been real) the toes could have been sewn back on.
HornetCorset:
I had a game where the players looted everything.
I used to not really loot everything... until Living Greyhawk.  "Ok, after the 4-hour play session, the module is over and you all earn negative 20 gold."  "Wait, what?"  Next module: "I want the poor lifestyle where I roll in the dirt and have a -2 modifier to every social interaction and live on whatever food I can scrounge from the trash."  "Ok, now that the module is over, you only lost 3 gold total."  "Didn't I find anything to sell?"  "Well, you could sell that +1 magic weapon you found for 500 gold."  "It would cost me 2000 gold to replace it later!"  After that, we started looting everything.  "Oh, the hobgoblins are wearing dirty scraps?  We take them and use craft: sewing with mend and prestidigitation to get them back into salable condition!"
Genghis the Hutt
member, 2309 posts
Just an average guy :)
Sun 10 Aug 2014
at 07:54
  • msg #2283

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

ShadoPrism
member, 621 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Sun 10 Aug 2014
at 14:00
  • msg #2284

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to Genghis the Hutt (msg # 2283):

AH, but there are so many Fun things to do on that list (and I got one of those artifact level portal devices to - works great for introducing new characters in to games, or loosing those that drop out)
st_nougat
member, 387 posts
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 12:45
  • msg #2285

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

So my players did this and for whatever reason i was thinking about it last night:

5595: (SR) I am no longer allowed to use control actions on someone to have them hand deliver sever kilos of plastic explosives on a timer into a building.
ShadoPrism
member, 623 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 14:14
  • msg #2286

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Was thinking of him and his thing about having Groots remains after he died. So in this instance he is sent a large collection of sticks as that is all that was left of his old body after the crash. (Baby Groot is cute though, they showed him in one of the adds the other day, dancing)
shinanai
member, 151 posts
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 20:51
  • msg #2287

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

5596: In Shadowrun, I shall not create an entire opening scene with the intention of depicting as many people as possible peeling and eating bananas, no matter how hilarious it is to make an entire Yakuza owned club eat bananas.
This message was last edited by the user at 20:52, Mon 11 Aug 2014.
ShadoPrism
member, 624 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 22:23
  • msg #2288

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to shinanai (msg # 2287):

I thought this one over and don't get it. Why are people eating banana's funny ?
pfarland
member, 93 posts
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 22:46
  • msg #2289

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

You would have had to been there.  A dumpster full of peels.
swordchucks
member, 803 posts
Mon 11 Aug 2014
at 23:05
  • msg #2290

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Maybe they're making eye contact while doing it?
ShadoPrism
member, 626 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 01:29
  • msg #2291

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

nope, still don't get it -
ScotttheWanderer
member, 100 posts
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 02:58
  • msg #2292

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

5597: I am no longer allowed to use the BoEF to create Giantborn Kender. No matter how amusing it would be.

5598: I am not allowed to use SoR to create a Half Nymph Swanmay Fire Elemental Savant and call her Fleur Delacour.

5599: I am not allowed to play a pair of redheaded Telepath-Wizards and call them Gred and Forge

5600: The Longbottom warcry is not "It's sodomy time!"
Genghis the Hutt
member, 2313 posts
Just an average guy :)
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 10:09
  • msg #2293

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

ShadoPrism:
I thought this one over and don't get it. Why are people eating banana's funny ?
I see you don't understand the a-peel of the situation. :p
PushBarToOpen
member, 847 posts
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 10:48
  • msg #2294

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

5601: Do not strap random glowing crystals to the barrel of your gun as a makeshift flashlight.

5602: Especially if they are The soul crystals of deceased Eldar war heros.

5603: Not knowing this IC is not an excuse.
shinanai
member, 152 posts
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 12:54
  • msg #2295

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

5604: There is no martial arts maneuver called "Surprise Buttsex" and no, I cannot invent an entire martial art that is based on sodomy just so I can have that.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 13:09, Tue 12 Aug 2014.
Misty Reynolds
member, 177 posts
Life is deadly. So am I,
but only when crossed.
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 14:14
  • msg #2296

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to shinanai (msg # 2295):

So, what kind of hand-to-gland martial art do you use?
Wine Guy
member, 350 posts
So many reds...
So little time.
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 16:23
  • msg #2297

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Genghis the Hutt:
ShadoPrism:
Why are people eating bananas funny ?
I see you don't understand the a-peel of the situation. :p



It's a slippery topic.  Perhaps it needs to be split into a few more posts.
ShadoPrism
member, 629 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Tue 12 Aug 2014
at 21:04
  • msg #2298

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Truthfully many things, that many people find funny totally misses me.
I get humor, I like the Fluffy one and Jeff Dunham, but some of these written or situational jokes, like the one above, make no sense to me.
pfarland
member, 94 posts
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 00:42
  • msg #2299

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 2298):

It's fruity humor, slightly bent.
HornetCorset
member, 228 posts
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 01:48
  • msg #2300

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 2298):

I think the humor might be a bit more in the vein of Monty Python. If you can picture an entire crowd of people eating bananas in no rehearsed or otherwise pre-planned way and not think it's at least a little funny, you probably won't get it at all. But, if you then take that image and drop it as a description the GM is trying to give, being serious, maybe even adding in some drama... well, I think it's funny. But if pfarland is any gauge of the general response, this is just going to turn into a bunch of bad puns.
ShadoPrism
member, 630 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 01:57
  • msg #2301

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Monty Python is all bad puns and slap sticks (mostly slapping of sticks over anyone else's heads).
This message was last edited by the user at 01:57, Wed 13 Aug 2014.
pfarland
member, 95 posts
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 02:09
  • msg #2302

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to HornetCorset (msg # 2300):

I was there in the game.  It was just one of those things that happen.  The game itself is serious, I keep my bad puns OOC.  Though I think yours was unintended.  A BUNCH of banana puns.

And y'all shouldn't be all yellow bellied about the puns.  Some may monkey around, some may even ape them.  One thing though, my puns are never plantain.
ShadoPrism
member, 631 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 02:20
  • msg #2303

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

all this talk of banana's has me craving banana pudding, cake, splits... *drool*
pfarland
member, 96 posts
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 02:23
  • msg #2304

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Certainly not a desert of options.
Genghis the Hutt
member, 2315 posts
Just an average guy :)
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 06:59
  • msg #2305

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

Personally, I think you'd have to be crazy to write in a description like that, full blown gonzon, just plain bananas.
ShadoPrism
member, 633 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Wed 13 Aug 2014
at 14:26
  • msg #2306

Re: Over 9000 things I am no longer permitted to do in an RPG

In reply to Genghis the Hutt (msg # 2305):

And that killed the banana cravings ...
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