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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamond Cross" data-source="post: 5377693" data-attributes="member: 51024">I just came across this list perusing the TV Tropes site for the first time, so I thought I'd post it here. I don't know if any of you have seen it before.This is not the complete list:1. Cannot base characters off the Who's drummer Keith Moon.2. A one man band is not an appropriate bard instrument.3. There is no Gnomish god of heavy artillery.4. My 7th Sea character Boudreaux is not 'Southern' Montaigne.5. Not allowed to blow all my skill points on 1pt professional skills.6. Synchronized panicking is not a proper battle plan.7. Not allowed to use psychic powers to do the dishes.8. How to serve Dragons is not a cookbook.9. My monk's lips must be in sync.10. Just because my character and I can speak German, doesn't mean the GM can.11. Not allowed to berserk for the hell of it, especially during royal masquerades.12. Must learn at least one offensive or defensive spell if I'm the sorcerer.13. Must not murder canon NPCs in their sleep, no matter how cliche they are.14. Ogres are not kosher.15. Plan B is not automatically twice as much gunpowder as Plan A.16. I will not beat Tomb of Horrors in less than 10 minutes from memory.17. Collateral Damage Man is not an appropriate name for a super hero.18. When surrendering I am to hand the sword over HILT first.19. Drow are not good eating.20. Polka is not appropriate marching music.21. No longer allowed to recreate the Death Star Trench Run out of genre.22. There is no such thing as a Gnomish Pygmy War Rhino.23. Any character who has a sensitivity training center named after him will be taken away.24. Even if the rules allow it, I am not allowed to summon 50,000 Blue Whales.25. The green elf does not need food badly.26. Valley speak has no place in a fantasy setting. Especially if you're the paladin.27. I am not to shoot every corpse in the head to make sure they aren't a zombie in Twilight 2000.28. The Goddess' of Marriage chosen weapon is not the whip.29. I cannot have any gun that requires me to continue the damage code on back.30. I am not to kill off all the vampires in the LARP, even if they are terminally stupid.31. The backup trap handler is not whoever has the most HP at the time.32. I cannot buy any animal in groups of 100 or over.33. There is no such skill as 'improvised cooking'34. I am not allowed to base any Droid off any character played by Joe Pesci.35. I am not allowed to convince the entire party to play R2 units.36. I am not allowed to convince the entire party to sit on the same side of the table.37. They do not make black market illegal cyberweapons for rodents.38. When investigating evil cultists not allowed to just torch the decrepit mansion from the outside.39. Gnomes do not have the racial ability 'can lick their eyebrows'40. Gnomes do not have the racial ability to hold their breath for 10 minutes.41. Gnomes do not have the racial ability 'impromptu kickstand'42. Having a big nose adds nothing to my seduction check.43. No longer allowed to set nazi propaganda music to a snappy disco beat.44. Not allowed to spend all 100 character points on 100 1pt skills.45. My character names are not allowed to be double entendres.46. Sliver rhymes with silver because the computer frelling says so.47. They do not make Nair in wookie sizes.48. The elf is restricted to decaf for the rest of the adventure.49. Not allowed to blow up the Death Star before that snotty farm kid gets his shot.50. Not allowed to use thermodynamic science to asphyxiate the orcs' cave instead of exploring it first.51. No longer allowed to use the time machine for booty calls.52. My bard does not know how to play Inna Godda Davida on marachas.53. Not allowed to start a drow character weighing more than a quarter ton.54. Cannot pimp out other party members.55. Before facing the dragon, not allowed to glaze the elf.56. No matter how well I roll, a squirrel cannot carry a horse and rider at full sprint.57. In the middle of a black op I cannot ask a guard to validate parking.58. Expended ammunition is not a business expense.59. Not allowed to pose the Netrunner in embarrassing positions when he's on a run.60. Not allowed to short sheet the bedroll of impotent deities.61. Can only taunt the ranger about his lack of swimming after my USCG E8 saves him.62. I am not allowed to do anything I saw Han Solo do once.63. No, I cannot buy 10,000 marbles even if I say please.64. My paladin's battle cry is not "Good for the Good God"65. There is no Summon Bimbo spell.66. Not allowed to start a character that speaks every language except ones the party speaks.67. There is no Kung Fu manuever "McGuire Swings For Bleachers"68. Bring him back intact includes redundant organs.69. There is more to wizardry than magic missile. Even if I can do 200 damage automatic with no save.70. Not allowed to cook up nerve gas in the sink even if the target number is 5.71. There is no 'annoy' setting on a phasor72. Not allowed to start a character who is over 100 years old unless he's an elf or dwarf. Humans are right out.73. Not allowed to name my cudgel Ceremonial Whoopass Stick.74. My thief's battle cry is not "Run And Live"75. Nor is it "You take care of the orcs, I take care of the traps"The full list can be found here:<a href="http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html" target="_blank">theglen: 1850 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG</a></blockquote>

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