The Gaming Den

See, that's exactly the kind of lengthy exchange I'm trying to avoid in person, Kaelik. I guess I could just walk away, but that ain't good for bidness--I might be trying to sell a game to this Paizil. What if I went with something like Frank's first (six year old!) post from "Why Pathfinder Is...

I really want to like Savage Worlds because it's popular, it's quasi-open source, and it's philosophically a lot like HERO System, only without enough crunch to cause brain paralysis in halfwits that can't do maths.

Tell me why you think it's good and/or bad.

where does pretentious, retro, stupid come from?

and does it map to GNS like...

Pretentious: Narrativist
Retro: Gamist
Stupid: Simulationist???

I see the first two analogies, but not the third.

It wasn't really a great joke to be honest, just a reference to a band I (am ashamed to admit) really like. It almost certainly wasn't the best joke in SR5 (that's the rules themselves, *rimshot*), but it might have been the best joke in the gear chapter. Second best after the "Guns Near Me&quo...

Alright, Chamomile. We've agreed privately to drop it. Let's drop it. :bash: My company's professionalism is super important to me, but everyone on the board at a minimum knows that my company's CEO (i.e. me) is a crazy person that tried to kill himself over getting fired from Shadowrun , which kind...

JMH: If you or one of your agents are spying on this, I don't think any of this breaks NDA. If you disagree, alert me immediately by email and I'll redact anything that retroactively violates my NDA. I received a request for disclosure via PM and I figured I'd make it public. My Catalyst Credits, to...

I lol'd. : )

Kaelik wrote:

Neurosis wrote:he invented GNS which is, while flawed, useful

You one dumb stupid person.

Really, so you've never used "Gamist", "Simulationist", or "Narrativist" in a way that helped facilitate a discussion?

NEVER EVER EVER?

TY Chamomile (!!)

My favorite thing about the Den is the procedure it invented for crowdsourcing game design. In my opinion, Frank is the second most important person in the field of RPG design theory behind Ron Edwards (and some of you might put him first, and that's fine, and some of you might be all like "FUC...

As the co-owner of ETG, I got to conventions all the goddamn time. Invariably, I spend some dead time talking to some Paizil who wants to tell me how great Pathfinder is and how it "fixed" 3.5. I always try to Parrot Frank's arguments from six years ago in the "Pathfinder is still bad...

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The three Denlancers left standing (Prak, Hicks, Dean) e-mail Mikaela your deets so we can get your NDAs signed and start talking projects.

Schwarz Neurosis out.

the mother fucker part was the important part, and I got that right

Rolling big piles of dice is awesome. Shit, even storygames have figured this out.

e: the ones that let you roll dice at all.

Ouch. My feels.

FWIW, Relentless: I assure you that it's a million times better than any of the editions I had the good sense not to publish.

Doubt sounds exactly like my current Delta Green campaign, just with different rules.

Does it have san-loss or san-loss equivalent or even *squee* multiple sanity meters like the hot mess that is Unknown Armies?

shit I'll stat him up. not full stats just like, the relevant ones I noticed. Pete L., Westchester Street Doc Known Attributes: Logic 5* Charisma 2 Known Skills: First Aid 6 (Wound Closure +2) Unarmed Combat 2 (Grappling +2) Intimidate 4 (Mental +2) Biotech 2+ *Being a black Trump supporter invalida...

Chamomile just gave my thread its TLDR.

What does Doubt do that After Sunset doesn't do? What does Doubt do well that After Sunset does poorly? Is the basic answer that "in-Doubt, players are people"? Can't be that, people can't "subtly control reality". Is the answer that "Doubt" is "not-Mage" with...

Sorry for my failure to define alksdjfklasjldfj. I've had a alksdjfklasjldfj of a rough week. I'm mostly posting to the den for stress relief, not looking to actually start, let alone win, any arguments.

Kaelik my lovely: I'll assume that puts you in the 'broadly disagree' camp. : )

Like, seriously, please define the magic line between "Game Design" and "Writing Content" because it doesn't exist.

I actually think I can, but...some other thread, some other day.

I will partially concede that point, but I would say that building content for D&D and Shadowrun and Vampire reduces the number of bad games you need to make before you can make a good one, but not to 0 , if that makes any sense. Important caveat: you don't need to publish the shitty games you m...

This is a master consolidation thread for Doubt stuff. Original Thread Villains Mechanics Protagonists Herrings Playtest (new, contains updated rules/design stuff) echo Because I've been having a rough time of it lately, pretend that this post isn't a year and a month too late and really really laz...

Depending on where you come from philosophically, this will either be "argument to authority fallacy" or "obvious common sense". Informed By: On Writing by Stephen King You want to be a game designer. You start designing games. Buried in you, somewhere deep down, are an untold nu...

Physical survival update: I am fine, 16 staples and a truly badass trauma surgeon ( he reminded me of a Street Doc with exceptionally bad beside manner for a Street Doc, ) later, my left arm is most of the way reattached. The last clause of that sentence was hyperbole, but I did do a number on mysel...