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Re: Terrible super powers

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the ability to forget how the english language works mid-
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The ability to go through absolutely everything and still suffer the effects of going through them.
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The ability to communicate with birds except that whatever you tell them comes off as ornithologically deranged.
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The ability to always have the ability backfire when you use an ability that should be extremely useful. It will always backfire in a way that will not help you.
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The ability to kill someone with a spoon by hitting them 467 times in the face with the spoon in a row
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The ability to attack ONLY by giving people papercuts.
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the ability to be everywhere but not be able to do anything
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Jolty-Kun wrote:The ability to attack ONLY by giving people papercuts.
That would be so useful, though

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the ability to accurately vocalize the sound of a dial up modem.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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The power to deflate children's party balloons by lowering one eyebrow.
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The power to see the future but it's limited to Teen Titans Go! TV schedule
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The power to pacify enraged hamsters.
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the power to melt one singular snowflake with your mind every half hour
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The power to put on your galoshes without bending over.
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the power to kill everyone within 10km by blinking. you can't turn it off.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
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Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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The power to pacify any dog, so long as they are outside of a five mile bubble, any dog inside said bubble will attack you
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The power render villains immobile with laughter over your jokes ... except none of your jokes are funny.
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the ability to do a flawless impression of unvoiced incompetent movie extras.
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Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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the ability to make cars move an inch closer to you
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the power to ingest food without eating it.
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I have tsunami lung power but only when blown through a plastic bendy straw...
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The power to slide across surfaces like they were ice... but you can't control when it activates...
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The power to disappear in a puff of smoke. ... which, unfortunately, leaves you coated in a nasty, unremovable soot.
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The ability to transfer your need to evacuate your bowels to others.
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glowing green farts
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Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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The ability to draw anything you want perfectly... but "Perfect" looks like a 3 year old's rendition of whatever it is.
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The power of having all the power, but having most of said power work against you.
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The power of being intangible, but still effected by gravity so you just fall to the center of the Earth.
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The power to turn smaller citrus fruits into field mice.
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The ability to copy anything perfectly...

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The power to command snakes ... except, of course, snakes can't hear.
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the power to make other people feel the exact amount of pain as you... emotionally/
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Throwing balls of sticky purple stuff.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
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Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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The ability to hurt yours enemies with your insults, but only when you reveal something so embarrassing that the insult just swings back to hit you.
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Disappear by fogging up your glasses on cue...
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The ability to not get sick by dying before you get sick.
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The power to not die of chocolate fudge pizza
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well for that matter any oddly specific immunity that you technically never needed in the first place qualifies

like immunity to mandarin orange peels.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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The power to drink water with a 100 meter long straw.
Buster wrote:well for that matter any oddly specific immunity that you technically never needed in the first place qualifies

like immunity to mandarin orange peels.
You know of this, or? It's pretty close...
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Re: Terrible super powers

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The power to have your bladder burst because you are physically incapable of urinating.
I have ideas and I occasionally put them down.
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