The Gaming Den

OgreBattle wrote:Flatten sounds like it will have a lot of weird interactions

Could a monk with Gloves of Ghost Touch use the Shadow as a weapon?

Are the Tempo/Measure bits restricted to swords and daggers? How do halberds and spiked chains fit in either way?

The Cataclysm is complete ass but like a lot of total ass ideas there is a kernel of what could be a good idea. I barely remember anything about the Wall, and thinking about I realize that even when I was a kid and liked Dragonlance, it was so hard to give a shit about the religious aspects of the b...

Nice review, Libertad. It's definitely a cool book- it also made me think of the Ethshar stuff by Lawrence Watt-Evans, which hews pretty close to the expected fantasy TTRPG setting but fleshes out how magic would be used for commercial purposes if you take it to the logical extension.

Stubbazubba wrote: Eh, it's not tiny, but adjacent squares doesn't give you much breathing room.

Don't forget to enable the "Karl Urban gives you the finger" plugin while you're on imgur. Very motivating!

Thanks guys, handy!

virgil, I'm guessing you have the most experience playing/running this, could you give me your thoughts on the damage/stress economy? Is damage something that crops up as needing to be addressed frequently out in the field and stress more as a downtime issue?

A few observations from some vintage RPG stuff I've been idly reading. From the Menzobaranzan box set: -most single male drow get happy endings at massage parlors. -there is a very specific spell that gives you fake illusionary boobs on top of your regular boobs, but you can drop the illusion and sh...

Why shouldn't they just be children children?

Everyone is special a construct, Dash Den. Which is another way of saying that no one is. Seriously, though, why worry about the Construct type- all your different construct types take the place of player races, and... I don't honestly know much about Bioniclemando... are there non-construct people...

Blicero wrote:Fighter1/Rogue2/Cleric3/Wizard20/Archmage5/"Epic4"

That reminds me of the sort of stat block you'd see in Deities & Demigods.

Serious question, did we formally decide that "OSR conceits" should be labeled "OSR deceits" or is that a Freudian slip? Either way, it's awesome and I want on the train.

I had had high hopes for the Sphynx RPG, and now that I have gotten to read the English translation I am quite disappointed. The people who had played it years ago spoke highly of it having a unique research/investigation mechanic but it pretty much has no mechanics at all. It's a mother-may-I story...

Whipstitch wrote:I remember being 12 and thinking that D&D was just going to work out fine, which led to my siblings being murdered by skeletons

This is quite a timeless and poetic image

Say what you want about something like the Fighting Fantasy book Sword of the Samurai, a product of late 80s orientalism (along with Oriental Adventures and billions of ninja movies), but at least there is a bunch of shit for a PC to do.

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:Magic doesn’t count as testimony in a legal context, because one time a Shugenja used magic to prove some dick killed someone and they were wrong.

I'd like to believe this is a sly reference to Rashomon.

A couple thoughts. First, context is much better. Second, I feel like a lot of the context bits are really just moving the crunch vs. fluff slider, or toggling the meta switch, or reskinning fluff (the Monster Summoning/Call Pegasus Knights example). None of which are bad but I don't know that we ne...

I guess it's time to punish myself by re-reading those. It's been a while. Is there an OSSR for old wacky fantasy novels?

I remember only two things about Donaldson's Covenant series that have stuck with me and I still think are cool. The first is the part about how the poisonous ghost swamps and some of the random mutant creatures are the way they are because of a river running under Mount Doom Thunder washing out the...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: It's... kind of depressing.

Sturgeon's Law rearing its ugly head, but I'm starting to think it should be amended to "Everything is crap, but 90% of it is different crap."

I've always like edowars' "ABCs of Scavenging" . A items are Attachments, purpose built by the Ancients to attach to a Base item; for example, attaching a scope to a rifle. B items are Base items, things that are already inherently useful; examples include guns, baseball bats, helmets, cha...

I'm liking this so far. My anxious brain wants to see a couple points of similarity with my own heartbreaker, but the only one that actually has any substance is that I also have a Mimic class. In that case, though, the Mimic is the rogue variation for a demonic race. Hope you have more to post!

Good point! you should be able to get it during the adventure, but before you reach the conclusion. There is a lot of support for a training montage to develop the skill or talent you need; especially in cases where the protagonists initially suffer an apparent defeat. T https://i.imgur.com/uXtPbsX....

This definitely sits well in the RPG space of all the self-contained one page RPGs. Honestly, I think this would work well as a card game.

Barbarian Warlord, Beheader of Hydras, Savior of Princesses, Owner Manager of the Finest Chain of Delicatessens in the land We've periodically discussed the finicky mechanic of earning feats based on defeating enemies- you don't want to interrupt your game so one PC goes off chasing 1000 gnolls to ...