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I feel like some of those play excessively loosely with the "In D&D" part of the question, Josh.

If Merlin legit had D&D stats since 1st Edition...that's an exception. But Gandalf is emphatically not even a D&D Wizard. He just looks like one.

I have spent a borderline embarassing amount of time trying to figure out what is fucking up the BB Code on this post so catastrophically, and I'm just not seeing it. The 'Close Tags' button is definitely not working either. I'll hold up on posting more until I figure out how to fix this shit or som...

Alright guys, we're designing Hamilton: The Musical: the RPG . And to reference a sillier and lesser musical, when I say "we're", what I mean is you and me (but mostly me) . If at any point after Step 4, anyone wants to ask me "what part of WORDS, NOT NUMBERS DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND&qu...

Oh, I somehow have managed to find a cave deep enough to live in to know almost nothing about Dragonlance after the War of the Lance, so if you're going to post DL spoilers, please put them in spoiler tags. Thanks!

Murlynd's Beard is actually pretty baller. It is arguably better than the entire Arcane Trickster PRC lol. What would you price it at, out of curiosity? Could you wear a bag of holding as underwear and not have to worry about taking your pants off to poo and pee? OgreBattle, what value of "wor...

My guess would be that Elminster tops the list, even though I've never read or played any Forgotten Realms . I'd guess that Raistlin Majere is a close second, though I've DM'd a lot of Dragonlance. And I'd guess that the various uber-wizards of the Greyhawk setting (let's call them Tenser et al. --y...

Clutch is easily in my top-five favorite bands of all time (not least because they are somehow MORE RIFTS THAN RIFTS *, which since we're only talking about the setting, not the rules, is a good thing, although their unparalleled hard-rock chops don't hurt). That said, they've toured so much (they'v...

JonSetanta wrote:I recently saw a cool image of an Azer (you know those flame headed dwarf people?) and thought, what if getting a burning head and/or beard was a feat?
Just a single feat. No scaling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVOoGGYPg0

Chamomile shares my capacity for really liking things that are bad, or terrible, or terribad. I never got into War Hams myself (I own a bunch of 40k minis, and I maintain that I am terrible at assebling, that they are fucking bullshit to assemble, and that fuck those things) but Chamomile and I are ...

Smart Vision – How To Hack The Shit Out Of It Let me give you a peek behind the curtain here, dear reader. I’m going to cyberwhisper a cybersecret in your cyberear. The reason TacNets exist is so they can get hacked. Actually, the preceding page gives the lie to that, that was just the hacker in me...

Infowar Level 2B: Universal Interface As seen in: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, et al. The Universal Interface is a technology that has an equal chance of developing instead of, as well as, before, or after DNI. The Universal Interface is a level of technology beyond Infowar Level 1, whe...

Hi guys. We publish a game called The Singularity System . Disclosure: it does not sell amazingly well, but the proviso there is that we have been increasingly delinquent in getting it into distribution and on the stores of FLGS. Ancient History (the concept, not the user): I did a print run of 250 ...

Delta Green's premise of being secret government agents fighting against Cthulhu is actually a total lie. In reality you are low level chumps stuck on the outer level of an illegal terrorist organisation that went rogue ages ago. The actual government conspiracy is Majestic-12, and you are supposed...

FWIW: I think it's an awesomely good set of house rules for CoC (which I've played very little of) and improves on the core game in every way that matters.

I'm not quite sure why this is an argument. (Except that Kaelik is in it, that's a good reason.)

*checks if he has room in his sig*

OWDYHI is a new thing I'm trying to make be a thing on the Den. Like OSSR is an acronym here and everyone knows what a "Drunk Review" is gonna be, and like how the big purple fascists have their "sell me/unsell me" bullshit which is instantly grok'd. Only time will tell if it bec...

I generally describe the Den informally as a "collective of RPG lovers united in their frothing, vitriolic hatred of virtually every RPG ever written".

Shovel dropped, thread dropped. This is not a crowd I need to source from right now. I will make a new thread for "Sons of Liberty From Scratch" when I got the time. This is just some retarded, pointless shitslinging and I don't want its taint on the new thread. FWIW, I really am "rac...

Shrapnel, I'm really sorry to hear that. That's awful. On a lighter note, and on a personal note: https://i2.wp.com/jennytrout.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sniffing-glue.png (Actually, sniffing glue one of the few stupid drugs I don't actually do. But I had picked today as one of my days to detox ...

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Pretty sure that literally nothing about about the rules for Somatic Components stops you from casting the spell in a grapple. wait, in pathfail, or in 3.5? because if in 3.5, needing to win a grapple check stops you. because you're a wizard, and your grapple bonus is "lol, u srs cuz?" un...

I actually did know that. No salt, no irony, just like...I did know that.

So I have a friend that isn't actually banned from RPG.net yet. Shocking, right? He ran this whole "Savage Math" thing past them and here's what he got back from the math wizzes on the Big Purple (I'm leaving out a lot of irrelevant "but it's fun to playyyyyyyy" type stuff that t...

Speaking of context, if it actually matters to anyone? The PCs aren't fucking playing Hamilton or Burr in the fucking first place, because those characters are NPCs. So their skin color is even less relevant than the 0-value relevance it had in the first place.