Forbidden List

This page is devoted to the "Forbidden" elements of ITM: Abilities, trainers, powers, and such things that have proven themselves too unbalanced for regular gameplay in the past.

Introduction and List
As a freeform game, one might think that there would be a lot of things banned from play as "Forbidden". However only a select few pieces of equipment, abilities and mechanics have made their way to this section. These are the most definitive and certain bans. However, GMs frequently ban, nerf, reinterpret or balance elements as needed.


 * Trading Card Game Users (This includes Duelists, Planeswalkers, Battle Brawlers, ect. This does not include trainers from Persona, or the Mon Colle Nights, ect.)


 * Quixotic Unity


 * Any full party fusion save for nyx avatar state and final form
 * The Death Note and Death Note characters
 * Any combination of General Grievous, Overwrite, Snap Dragon, the Final Fantasy ability "Throw" and Dark Excalibur.
 * Magi of any shape or form.
 * Taking the character Archer from the visual novel "Fate/Stay Night" by Type-Moon as a trainer.
 * Most anything else from the Type-Moon universe, including Gate of Babylon.
 * The use of Entropy in any capacity. (Fuck Entropy.) Note that this does not apply to abilities called entropy, or based on entropy inspirationally, but moves which actually use the scientific concept: Entropomancers, Entropy Magi, any Mage: The Ascension magus abilities centered on it, etc.
 * Stacking battle resets (Borrowed Time, Chrono Shift, etc.)
 * Stacking multicasts (Chaotic Flames, Multicast, Mad Magic, Chainspell, Quickening, X-Magic, Storyfisher acceleration, W-Magic Materia, etc.)
 * Some DotA, HoN, LoL, AoS, etc. abilities, especially out of archetype
 * Changing Chopsticks
 * Blood magic spells, The Quick and the Dead, Strife and Skirmish, and Black crown flame
 * Pain
 * Pegasus
 * Kyoka Suigetsu
 * Sakanade

There are also soft bans: Moves that are at the discretion of the GM to ban or control but can be allowed when necessary for archetypes.
 * DotA, HoN, LoL, Demigod and other AoS-style maps' abilities and equipment. Equipment tends to be unable to be equipped unless specifically trained by a trainer from these continuities. Similarly, abilities must be gained directly from trainers or archetypes and not, for example, elemental spirits.
 * R. Daneel has been put onto the soft ban list.

Trivia
The Forbidden list was formerly called the "Ban" list until Quixotic Unity changed its name in honor of creators Mika Izinsky and Pegasus Crawford.

If you look closely the Ban List repeats itself unnecessarily. Several times in fact!