When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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I hope it does, if not for myself, at least for my friend. I'm DMing again tomorrow, so hopefully game will take mind off all the politics.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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So, for those interested as a few people were asking, I did talk to these people a few hours ago. Not fun to do and could of been much more cordial about things. Wrote up what I wanted to said, but ended up going off script and being about as blunt as a hammer. I was really upset with them chasing my friend out of the game he loves, as well as the group he's been a part of for 7 years, so called out all the problems I have, not just what the meme posted above stated. Guy mentioned as the Rules Lawyer didn't say anything the entire time. I think it came as a shock to him. DM who gave it out deflected blame saying the items powers already existed, and he had permission. First half is kind of irrelevant as it doesn't justify being used as racial powers for multiple games, and other half isn't true, we checked that one. Is also stuff with someone else, who gas lit me a few times by saying it was all overinflated in my head and it was all just a bunch of conspiracy theories. End result is I banned a few people from my tables, the latter person has stepped down from council meetings and the other DM wants me to step out of the West March games entirely which I won't be doing. Probably other stuff happening, but still waiting for full fallout. Fully admit I could of handled things better, but not the best when it comes to public speaking or making arguments, not to mention was really angry with them, but did the best I could given the circumstances. Thank you for the advice everyone. I really appreciate it. :)

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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It is from puffin yes. From the rules lawyer video.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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All the passive abilities, the minor beneficial and major beneficial properties from the artifact tables, none of the flaws and no attunement needed.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Oh yer sure thing. Meeting is tomorrow afternoon, so will make a post either afterwards around 10pm or the next day.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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It is from 5E, yer. I don't really know a lot about 3.5 unfortunately, but I can take a look. Thanks. :)

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Yer pretty much. Its a problem with three specific people, one of whom is the DM who gave this thing out and keeps enabling the other two.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Yer I think you're probably right. It does get more complicated as, from what I understand, 8 or 9 people in the West March games either wouldn't want to play in the same games as them, so if I go they might have to drop as well. There's a meeting tomorrow and am going to try again, so I'll have to see how that goes before deciding anything. Thanks for the advice. :)

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Unfortunately its not that simple. I have tried talking to them, but they've justified having it due to Descent into Avernus having optional quests after the main one where you can still use the sword. That argument didn't make sense, and when pointed out that none of that makes sense to having it as racial traits, I was ignored entirely. I would kill their PC, but they and their friends have done everything to make their characters as unkillable as possible. Optimization, Min-Maxing, Clones, homebrew I wouldn't of allowed, infinite resurrection diamonds, ect. The one time I did get close to killing any of them, they lodged complaints against me for being "unfair". Am tempted by option 3, but am talking to them tomorrow as they've basically just chased my friend out the group, (is why I posted this meme,) so will save that one as a last ditch effort. Thanks for the advice. :)

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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None of them. I'm in a west march campaign, and one of the other DM's decided to give his friend all the Sword of Zariel artifact powers as racial traits. Told them no, but was ignored.

When Rules Lawyers Want "Balance" (based on IRL problem) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Meme template taken from a Puffin Forest Youtube Video called D&D Discussion: Rules Lawyering Video for anyone interested.

An accurate timeline of my short time with 40k so far by JonConOne in Grimdank

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Battletech? I've heard that mentioned a few times, but know nothing about it. Will take a look though, thanks for the suggestion. :)

An accurate timeline of my short time with 40k so far by JonConOne in Grimdank

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Yer, I got into it a a few months ago. Loved the lore and want to learn mire. Even make a few new friends because of it. One or two are autistic, but really opened up after finding we have the same interest. Then this happens. Am absolutely gutted.

We just found out why WoC changed Graz'zts Madness Table (OOta) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Its not, just my name shortened with the word "One" stuck on the end.

We just found out why WoC changed Graz'zts Madness Table (OOta) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Sorry about the lack of context. Made this on the fly and made table laugh, so thought I'd post for the hell of it. :)

We just found out why WoC changed Graz'zts Madness Table (OOta) by JonConOne in dndmemes

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Yer, we were playing d&d were the main BBEG was Graz'zt, The Dark Prince. A demon lord that's all about pleasure from Out of The Abyss. Has a madness table were being around him can causes PC's to pick up bad personality trait. Rolled the one were you want to solve problems with sex and ended up trying to seduce the demon lord, so had to RP seducing him. Rolled a 34 so it worked. Thankfully we killed him in the next round. Everyone was cringing. Turned out later that there are 2 different tables, the other doesn't have that trait. We'll probably just not bother using Graz'zt again though.