The High Ground
Lawful good rules lawyers get a bum rap on account of their lawful evil cousins. Those nefarious nitpickers will explain to you precisely why they can murder Orcus with a bag of rats, how they can fashion a railgun out of day laborers and a brick, or why they really do deserve 20 levels worth of XP for nuking a city with a first level spell. You can tell the difference because the lawful good rules lawyer will actually argue for the monsters as well as the PCs. They know that the dice gods love honesty, and that reminding the poor beleaguered GM of his oft-overlooked bonuses will surely be rewarded in the next round. And yes, they may have to suffer glares and outrage and, “Dude! Shut ups!” from the rest of the group, but it is the sacred duty of a lawful good rules lawyer to keep the battlefield an equitable place.
So mad respect to you, Cleric. You may endure power attack damage to the dome for one round, but your carefully bookmarked player’s handbook will be as a sacred relic, your pushed up glasses shall reflect the light of virtue, and your noble battle cry of, “Um, actually,” shall echo through eternity.
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Well, I’ve pointed out to GMs that nothing terrible is supposed to happen to their monsters, not even dropping their weapons, when a nat 1 is rolled, especially not with skill checks. Though this is really more self-protection since everyone seems to assume that some crazy nut’s homebrew rule of inevitable pointless character misery and buffoonery was some beloved standard and I put too much time into making a character to have a 1 in 20 chance per roll to risk them somehow tripping and falling onto the wrong end of their warhammer.
That’s more of a true neutral rules lawyer: “I don’t want this BS to happen to me, therefore etc. etc.” Thus do I praise you with moderate praise.
Moderate praise is the best praise for us neutrals. *ponders finding out if there was something to end that sentence with somewhat more excited than a period and less so than an exclamation mark then realizes there’s nothing to gain from it and wanders off*
Interrobang‽
Ah, the 1,345-day delay interrobang. It’s extra surprising!
I have way too much time on my hands, so pointing out the following are highlights of getting beaten with dice bags:
– Weather Effects
– What one does when pinned (AKA nothing but feeble attempts of escape)
– That bleed effect that has been secretly happening
– Limitations on others class abilities (Read the text oh so carefully my friend)
– Reminding the GM that natural attacks in fact DON’T receive a BAB decrease, only a -5 penalty for secondary.
– Pretty much just ruining an entire ally’s build with one sentence.
Flagellation by dice bag is among the greatest of the rules lawyer’s cleansing rituals. Honor to the technically correct one!
Out of curiosity, how did you ruin your buddy’s build? What was he doing wrong?
“You only get one size increase and one actual increase, so no buddy your enlarged impacted strongjaw improved natural attack Goliath Druid does not work.”
Thus the evil was vanquished, and balance was restored to the land.
In a Vampire game, I pointed out to the Storyteller that the will point I burned only lets me off the hook from the Prince’s Majesty for one turn. After that, my character was boned again…
But you died a just and noble death. GJ.
Am I a LE rules lawyer? Guilty.
1) Polymorph anything into a mouse.
2) Forcecage minimum size on the mouse.
3) Dismiss Polymorph and observe the transformation into a compressed brick of blood, flesh, bone, and items.
There appear to be several online threads about the efficacy of this practice. My opinion defaults to “you sick bastard.” 😛
I am a LG rules lawyer. I’m big into honesty and following the rules, and to.me that goes both ways. The consistency of the rules is important, because anything else is just unfair to me. How can I expect a fair game and treatment if I don’t do the same?
I’m also the only person in my first tabletop group who didn’t cheat with their dice, incidentally.
Go figure.
Heh. Formative experiences I guess. It’s good to have a backstory!