Does the Rules Lawyer have the upper hand?!? #dnd #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #dndmeme #ttrpgmeme

[bongoknight]

Jokes on you, you’re playing with a nuclear physicist undergrad and this is my mad scientist outlet

[Zevrael]

"We've officially entered archvillain territory" - "Flattery will get you nowhere"

[wesi.g.]

My dm would respond with something along the lines of: "ever see a mushroom cloud of pure feywild magic?"

[robertdirenzo]

In all honesty retiring his character and making him into a bbeg who now has an atomic bomb would be a legendary use of creativity.

[Artaimus]

"You want this thing that badly?
"Fine. Go ahead and build it. It will take time though - you're building everything from scratch and will likely need to create several metals and alloys that didn't exist before.
"You're going to need to roll multiple checks for each step - of which the dc of the checks is going to get higher and higher as you go - these are not pass/fail checks but how well you succeed on that part.
"What you are doing will quickly attract the attention of the gods who will not want you to succeed and will begin sabotaging you at every step they can.
"At the end the difference between the dc of each check and your result will be added to a total amount - this will be compared against a table that only I will be able to see (baring a third party to keep honesty). This table will determine if the weapon is completed correctly or not.
"Critical failures (which includes missing a check by 10 or more) means that part of the weapon is damaged in some way that will not become obvious right away - perhaps a radiation leak in some shielding or a misfiring circuit. The whole thing might go up early if you screw up enough.
"So go ahead. Let's start rolling."

Additional: As someone who has been playing and DMing for over 20 years at this point, while I wouldn't enjoy my players working on such a project, the idea that the rest of the party could be roped into such a scheme makes for a very exciting storyline. While they begin initial work on the project easily enough, the constantly increasing amount of harassment and confrontations slowly increases the difficulty of each action - forcing the party to further fortify their base of operations which leads to stronger and more fierce some enemies coming to knock at their door, perhaps even other parties sent to stop you from using your obviously world ending weapon.

[UmbralKitten]

"Everybody thought i was joking. I was not." Is such an intimidating thing to hear 😂

[emmaginationstudios]

"You can't handle the nuke!" 😂

[thelostronin]

"As your character goes to trade for required materials, rocks fall everyone dies."

[tiredofliars]

I once brought Dr. Who into my game, and the players killed him and stole his Tardis. They went to a casino in the future, jumped back and forth to make huge bets, and then I had the Doctor show up and take his Tardis, leaving them stranded in 1990 Las Vegas.

[AeonKnigh]

The DM finally learned the ultimate power of "no, absolutely not."

[jesseruiz]

Me being able to admit to my players "I don't know how to handle this" has definitely gotten me out of a jam or 2 hahaha.

[kingavenuemusic]

The DM's job is to set up an adventure situation in which everyone at the table - players *and* DM - are having fun. If nukes fit in to that, great. If not, doesn't matter what I said before, no nukes.

[alexmarshall]

"Flattery will get you nowhere" had me dying. 😂

[galenc]

My standing rule is that any player can make anything they can blueprint without references, if they prove it can be done with the materials at their disposal, and a vaguely medieval level of knowledge. Nothing bad has ever happened, its yielded several fun gadgets, and I don't expect anything short of a table of scientists to be *capable* of abusing it. Its probably not for every table, but I enjoy the occasional flame thrower and alchemical grenade.
Just gonna leave that out there.

[asherael]

"Oh, enjoy playing with someone else"

[Psykolord]

(GM) "Mr. Rules Lawyer, that is a lucid, well thought-out, intelligent idea."

(Rules Laywer) "Thank you GM."

(GM) "Overruled."

[blizz]

"Hey guys. We are not going to play with the artificer anymore. I kicked him from the group."

[MultiSteveB]

Ok GM. Just take the Darth Vader approach on this player:

"I have altered the agreement. *PRAY* I don't alter it further."

[MorningDusk]

DMG, pg 4 “And as a referee, the DM interprets the rules and decides when to abide by them and when to change them.” The DM has absolute authority over the game, and it just so happens that in your world, The Weave siphons radiation from enriched sources, leaving them inert.

[kimudo]

... I like the idea of this being given the thumbs up, problem player gets ready to set it, pisses off the big bad, argues with the DM/GM in front of everyone, finally gets the dramatic pause and presses the button... to nothing at all happening.

Stunned silence. Player "WTF! You okayed this! You're cheating!"

GM/DM long pause and sigh. "I tried to warn you."

Player "But the Dwarmie Dwarf said they had every metal of m-"

GM/DM "Two important things. One: He was selling you something and, Two: He honestly didn't know he was wrong. You're an idiot."