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Too funny for the gamers out there. A list of things some gamer was told by his GM he is no longer allowed to do. Those familiar with Steve Jackson Games would recognize this type of gamer as a munchkin.

Steve Jackson Games Forums - 400 things Mr. Welch can no longer do in a RPG

Here’s a few:

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 cliché 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.

January 9th, 2006 at 9:43 pm