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PC: "There's a treasure chest full of treasure in here right?"

PC: "Can i ____?"

"Hey, we're going to play a stone age setting campaign, do you have any ideas for your character?"

I don't say "No but.." I say "NO!" and then I smack the players hand with a ruler!

I get told "no" a lot because I enjoy physics and there is an engineer at the table, we get together to try and use physical aspects of the spells to do Rube Goldberg-esk traps and such.

What do you mean I can't play a Tarrasque...?

I had a player their very first character was a half-elf rogue. She wanted to be born from the goddess of death and have a necklace of 3 wishes that don't go away.....at level 1.

I usually have to say no because the players have used up their actions; "no, you don't have cunning action and you've already attacked, so you can't hide."

"You step into a room that is empty but for a small table in the center of it."

In the two year long campaign I’ve been running I’ve had to say “Maybe when you’re a higher level” more than a flat no.

Most of the time in our group we are pretty reasonable with each other and we dont usually flat-out say no, we usually compromise

Can we skin the Bullette?

One of my favorite quotes, and I don't remember where its from. But: "God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no."

If a player asks to do something stupid I usually ask "how is your character doing this/going to do this?" Make them do all the hard work of justify their stupidity.

DM: Can I say NO to my players?

Best phrases: yes, yes but, yes and, no but

I don't DM often but when I do I tend to say ''No'' by just saying stuff like ''Are you absolutely sure that you wish to attack this lord,right in the middle of the court full of knights?'' or smth along those lines. And I don't even need to say no to anything related to character creation by saying ''All races in PHB are ok and these races I've picked are also ok,all normal classes and all subclasses and spells included in phb and XGTE are ok''

This also depends on the maturity level of the players. If you have a first time-er who is used to video games as the closest they've been to a Table Top like D&D suggestions will be like asking an 7 year old for 'what they want from Santa.' If that's the case as a GM you might not want to offer this as an option.

Not sure if this entirely counts, but one time when the main antagonist of mine made an off-handed comment about someone a PC valued, said PC used their Luckblade's Only wish to both try and kill the villain and reveal the location of the valued NPC. Since the wish was so vague, as in, pretty much worded similar to how I described it, I basically said nothing happens (Though certain truths of the wish did/were to come, as a wish to me is a wish). As a result the player, not the PC, but the player, actually rage quit and left the table. Then proceeded to complain about this to the other players over DIscord whilst the game was still running. I wasn't really sure how to process that, but I eventually just kicked the player from the game entirely.