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[Mad_Jack]

What rules lawyer does that?!

I ran a game for a group of engineers once - while describing a cracked and fragile-looking ice bridge the party was crossing, one of the engineers stopped me, broke out his calculator, and announced that the bridge wouldn't hold the weight of the party... Despite my protests, the entire group decided that they'd all fallen to their deaths and began rolling up new characters...

And I actually have, on several occasions, pointed out that, by RAW, my character should now be dead. (Of course, I'm contrary enough to actually enjoy having my characters die to obscure rules technicalities, lol.)

 

[Vaalingrade]

The term "megadungeon" is probably not something that would exist in-universe.

"Improbably large murder hole that exists to try and kill the people who actually matter in the world and make zero sense when you tihnk about it." Probably could be constructed as one word in a language like German.

Metagaming is surreptitiously slipping out a mobile phone to Google the answer to a riddle. That happened in one of my games.

It's only fair, considering that's where most riddles come from. Not like most DMs are making up a riddle on their own/know the answer to stock riddles on their own.

 

[Voadam]

What rules lawyer does that?!

I have not died from it but I often point out rules that are being missed even to our detriment. There is a regular in-joke of our face-to-face group "Thanks, [Voadam]."

 

[Maxperson]

Nevermind

 

[Maxperson]

 

[not-so-newguy]

Funny Video that's about 5 minutes

 

[Tony Vargas]

"I don't know, I didn't expect to get this far"

Funny, but, technically, a 1e magic-user didn't get to pick any spells for reaching 2nd level. At first level, they were randomly determined. At 2nd, nothing.
At 3rd, depending on the DMs reading of the rules, you might get to pick a 2nd level spell. Maybe.

But, mostly, it seems like you were supposed to glean them from scrolls found in your adventures.

 

[Voadam]

But, mostly, it seems like you were supposed to glean them from scrolls found in your adventures.

Don't forget the spellbooks of dead enemy Magic Users! I got a bunch that way.

Also there was the very rare NPC who was willing to trade/teach spells, or the more common fellow MU you could possibly collaborate with.

 

[Staffan]

The last one “Psychopatic” isn’t meta-gaming. The player/character is drawing on in-world information (it doesn’t make sense for a helpless child to be wandering around the lower levels of a dungeon) to make an in-character conclusion (she is dangerous and we should attack her).

Agent J would be proud of your reasoning.

 

[MarkB]

When your PCs think outside the box and destroy a major plot point
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As nitpicks go, that one seems pretty paltry.

Also, I fear evil chicken more than I fear evil hobbit.