The Gaming Den

If some courtesy on that front is a norm and there's reasonable tournament rules that allow retconning back to a reasonable point (say, last card played, or X activated abilities or something if you need an exact cut off) you can have a more complicated board state and let players work through it m...

PF 2e doesn't release until August 2019. They were selling physical copies of the playtest materials. How fucking dare they. Seriously, what incredible nerve. It gets worse. Halfway through the playtest they started releasing updates that significantly changed the core systems of the game and often...

I took the time to read the Fighter and all I could think is "why is this so fucking complicated"? I mean, I am glad that Fighters have options other than "hit" but choosing from like 18 feats at every goddamn level seems unnecessary and overwhelming, ESPECIALLY if as a few peopl...

Example : counterspell. There's a level 1 wizard feat to counterspell (p 139). It's a reaction, with trigger "a creature casts a spell that you have prepared." There's no indication about how you identify a spell being cast. So you look at the description of the arcana skill (p 145), ther...

Axebird wrote:PF 2e doesn't release until August 2019. They were selling physical copies of the playtest materials.

How fucking dare they. Seriously, what incredible nerve.

erik wrote:That’s halfway down the first page and uses a lowecase “e”. Can’t expect a motherfucker to find that shit!

Word.

So a friend recently mentioned to me that Pathfinder was coming out with a second edition soon and I think I have a memory of seeing one in a Barnes & Nobles so I guess it actually dropped. I probably would have heard more buzz around it if I had not dropped out of the TTRPG scene so hard. What'...

I like how his argument is basically that you can have infinite space because everyone is going to netdeck super hard while the casuals eat shit. roflmao Anyway we need to narrow down the question the OP is asking here, I think. Is the question "How many cards can be in play" (so, for the...

Speaking as a moderately big Chaosium fan, Greg Stafford was a fucking boss. He will be missed.

First off, tgd's 15th birthday us coming up! We should have us a quinceañera . Secondly, I really didn't know where to post this, none of the existing threads in AtGD seemed right but that did seem like the right forum to put it in, and anyway I didn't think it was worth making its own topic mainly ...

Partly it's that adventuring parties don't have a permanent home, partly it's a non-zero amount of the money THAT I EARNED, and players aren't spending non-zero money on something that doesn't go on their character sheet in some way. I mean, I do. And most of the D&D players I've played with ha...

Voted for #1 (and again, finding groups PERIOD, but I'm sure that my crippling social anxiety doesn't help with that), but #3 would be an issue for me if I was in a position to be picky, which as I alluded to in my post in the other poll...I am not. EDIT: If I had to pick "Other" in either...

I chose the first option but honestly...finding groups period. I have never gamed with strangers before though, rustling up players at D&D launch events and FNMs and whatever. I will have to learn to do so now. For all my gaming years my players were close friends and generally speaking my statu...

For you, it requires traps, murder, dragons and magical equipment. For me, it requires an ensemble cast of diverse skills undertaking missions that individual characters alone could not accomplish, where they face some form of strong, targeted opposition which must be dealt with, and dealing with i...

This was a rough year for me and gaming was not the ample cornucopia it's been in the past. That said highlights include the leg of my Delta Green campaign I ran over the summer, where in general players were wonderfully good sports about having their characters suddenly killed off in horrible, grue...

just popped in to see if we were talking about "Magic Schools" i.e. Abjuration or "Magic Schools" i.e. Hogwarts lol

I actually didn't know that you could "Take 1". But then again I've never really run into a situation where I wanted to fail a test. Book Bomb is awesome. Honestly, I don't even consider it cheese, let alone broken. I mean casting all of those explosive runes is a HUGE investment of time, ...

I'm not questioning the murder part, but it suddenly occurred to me how specious the hobo part is. By second or third level a PC spending only about 10% of their gold can secure a constant supply of good food and nice inns. By fifth or sixth level, it's closer to 1% that will keep them living a plus...

Huh, I was just futzing around with an alchemist who made 2k worth of alchemical items a day. On the other hand, that was level 15, so no one cares. I had stacked modifiers to get 280x craft speed on top of a +60 mod. The fact that a +60 mod earns you only 45gp per day is silly. Nice to know that m...

He's being pretty cool about it, he immediately realized it was a problem, his words: Second, I'd put money on the design logic here being a reaction to the same kind of munchkinry that lead to PunPun or the commoner railgun, the logic here being that, no matter how you cook the numbers, no you don'...

What the!?

Level 5 Book Bomb: I learned this trick over a decade ago on the Wizards forums. Explosive Runes is the abjuration spell that just blows everything away, but only if properly prepared. So the thing is you just buy a 50gp book with a hundred pages in it, and at the end of every day cast Explosive Ru...

So I was writing an excessively long e-mail bitching at my DM about the crafting rules in Pathfinder and I remembered that this place exists. :viking: :rofl: So anyway yeah, it looks like now I'm playing Pathfinder. It's not my first choice. It's not even my first choice for a flavor of D&D (I s...

Based on what little just I heard, Heavy Gear sounds a fair bit like my own Singularity System, which has mechs a popping. Since Hiram McD is looking to make his own mecha game as his stated intention in the OP, I won't recommend Singularity as such but I thought I would mention it because giant fig...

The best system ever won't save you from a crap GM and, by the same token, great GMs can make even bearworld apocalypse world enjoyable bearable.

fixed.

The Age of Worms Adventure Path has a pretty sweet adventure around the middle-ish that focuses on gladiatorial combat, including pre-made opposition teams. Probably worth a look.

Level 8-10 as I recall.