Time for a D&D Good Idea/Bad Idea!

[Eridanis]

Good idea: Casting detect thoughts on your enemy.
Not-so-good idea: Casting detect thoughts on your reflection in the mirror.

Good idea: Rescuing a princess from a hungry dragon.
Not-so-good idea: Rescuing a dragon from a hungry princess.

Good idea: Praying to your deity for spells to help you defeat your enemy.
Not-so-good idea: Praying to your enemy's deity to not grant him spells to defeat you.

Good idea: Diverting a river to clean out the stables.
Not-so-good idea: Diverting a river to clean out the stables before the horses live there.

Good idea: Following Ariadne's thread to reach safety.
Not-so-good idea: Following a geneweigel thread to reach a compromise.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

Good Idea: Listening to the Dead Alewives skit about D&D
Bad idea: around obsessive-compulsive quoters

Good idea: Bringing mountaint dew and cheetoes to a game
bad idea: with the group mentioned above

Good Idea: Casting spells
Bad idea: when playing call of cthulhu

Good Idea: Owning unreal tournament
Bad Idea: letting your obssessive gaming group find out.

Good Idea: Looting, Killing, Pillaging
Bad Idea: Out of character

Good Idea: Expressing yourself by listening to music
Bad Idea: while your parents are around

Good Idea: Eating pie.
Bad Idea: eating the orc.

 

[Guillaume]

Good thread !

Here's my take :

Good idea : Diving of a bridge to rescue your liege's wife from drowning in the river bellow.
Bad idea : Doing so while wearing a full plate armor.

 

[Bagpuss]

Good Idea: Building a Stronghold
Bad Idea: Getting Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen to decorate it.

(Perhaps only UK folks will get this)

Here is reference material http://www.llb.co.uk/ warning anyone with taste should avoid it.

Favourite LLB quote "Think of colours as flavours and lick your walls" do that in a dungeon and there's no telling what you might catch (or what might catch you).

 

[Psychotic Jim]

Good idea: Having boars as animal companions
Bad idea: Bringing them to a village of starving people

Good idea: Having boars as animal companions
Bad idea: Having boors as animal companions (especially the in-laws).


Good idea: Robbing the local, weak-looking shopkeeper on the street corner to make yourself rich.
Bad idea: In the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Xarlen]

Good Idea: Moving in to touch the BBEG with the Slay Living you have in your hand.
Bad Idea: Going with the impulse to scratch your nose first.

 

[DM with a vengence]

Good Idea: Getting a high Int score for extra skill points...
Bad Idea: ...Using those points on Use Rope and Craft: Basketry

Good Idea: Winning initiative and charging the enemy...
Bad Idea: ... before the wizard drops Fireballs in Lightning bolts into their midst.

Good Idea: Sending someone in first to scout the enemy with stealth and skill.
Bad Idea: Sending the platemailed fighter in to scout the enemy with a +3 Flaming Greatsword of Howling.

Good Idea: Buying many powerful scrolls.
Bad Idea: Swimming with many poweful scrolls.

 

[Psychotic Jim]

Who says its a bad idea?

Could be a bad idea if the dwarf barbarian survives to beat the pusher to a grimy stain on the dungeon floor...

 

[Jamdin]

Good idea: Bard sings his deathsong to his goddess
Bad idea: The goddess actually listens, kills the army of orcs & now the bard is her avatar (hey, it's bad for the orcs)

Good idea: Using psychic abilities
Bad idea: Using psychic abilities in haunted cave with a ghost trickster running loose

Good idea: Let's kill the gods
Bad idea: Your buddies betray you to the gods so they can become demi-gods

Good idea: Getting drunk with your friend
Bad idea: Forgetting that your friend is a rogue

Good idea: Getting drunk at a dive where the pirates all hang out
Bad idea: Getting drunk when pirates goes recuiting

Good idea: Having a sentient shield
Bad idea: Having a sentient shield with a salty mermaid who knows words that puts sailors to shame (and who's horny to boot)

Good idea: Buying that magical sword
Bad idea: Leaving your magical sword on your mount while you take a leak

Good idea: Sweet talking criminals instead of fighting them when you have a high charm skill
Bad idea: The criminals actually like your sweet talking ways & you find yourself with your own gang & you're a traveling minstrel

Good idea: Making a pass at the elvish ranger
Bad idea: Finding out the elvish ranger is into furry things (literally)

 

[Xarlen]

Good idea: Making a pass at the elvish ranger
Bad idea: Finding out the elvish ranger is into furry things (literally)

Only bad if you don't have an Alter Self spell, or a Polymorph.