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Neo Phonelobster Prime, In 500 Words or less, clearly, & concisely, what is your Main Argument(s) in regards to the main topic of this Thread? (As defined by the first post).

My goal was to find out what exactly your point of contention is, and I had believed I narrowed it down to those points in your original post of this topic. You use word. Ew. As much as I like a concise post. Yours, at over 400 words (funny how your word count red line is conveniently at the next bi...

I feel like PL simply misunderstood a piece of Koumei's argument, hinged on that misunderstanding as part of their argument and went arghle-barghle from there (I say "Arghle-Barghle", as shown by others here, and myself, it is becoming harder and harder to understand what you're arguing ex...

I am hoping we can get some High-Level TGD-style analysis on this subject ,as well that Discord didn't eat up all the potential discussion we could've had. I learned of this news a couple days ago, and I don't really get why they shot themselves in the foot for what is usually lost in rounding error...

Why the penis insertion? Whats that all about? Welcome to The Gaming Den Phonelobster , we use that term to refer to NPC's of this kind as "self-insertion" or "DM-Penis", to represent how they're an extension of the DM's ego typically. As been shown in most cases, while its acce...

If I'm going to do a DM-Penis character, I usually have them doing background stuff, or if they are doing something in the adventure, it still includes the PC's in some way. Maybe they're holding off a powerful threat that showed up, while the PC's handle the rabble, or the NPC needs the PC's to gua...

Pardon the Double Post, I blame Discord habits, but also the fact this is slightly a tangent of the main topic, so I thought it might be proper to have its own post. Our game uses Talents which are like Feats, but we like the name better. We divide talents into tiers; those available at 1st level, t...

I question the argument of it being hard to look back at your [Tome] Feats, Armor, Spheres?, because they all scaled at the same rate (Roughly every 5 levels). So you knew at 1st/6th/11th/16th you were going to get a thing, so it wasn't really hard to remember looking back at those toggles. Though I...

Welcome back CaptainComics/CommanderComics, it's good to have some members of the TGD return, it would be ideal to get everyone back, and discussing on here (opposed to Discord).

FWIW, probably for the last 10 years I have made it a habit that before I hit post on anything that I spent more than a minute on, I would select all and copy so that I could paste it again if something got fucky in the posting process. That reflex has saved my posts a few times for sure. Same Thir...

I've been meaning to make a Review of the RPG for years now. I might be one of the most well informed on this game in regards to its mechanics. I've been playing it since it came out on Kickstarter, followed its release schedule since, and have personally ran Three and a half Campaigns using pre-mad...

The discord is good, I've gotten more useful discussions out of it than my 2021 posts on here that are mostly derailed to "I don't care, this forum is my personal chatroom shit fuck lol" atmosphere of current Den. The most active thread is politics which I completely ignore, and that &quo...

Has there been any update as to when the Search Function on this site will stop being borked?

Am I the only one who's read the Minotaur Books from Dragonlance? Though I guess the fact it had probably very little to do with Dragons, or Lances, is what made it not Fvcked.

Honestly, I have the same concern that The Adventurer's Almanac has levied here, of taking away discussion from the Den. As I see it, its intent is to to discuss things that TGD hasn't done so in some time...to there, except, we could just simply have the discussions that would've been made on Disco...

Sorry to Double Post, but my inquiry: Does anyone have the link to FrankTrollman 's work he did on the Dark Age Vampire Political Game he was going to do for a campaign? (Up until said White Wolf players got a boner for AC: Black Flag, and abandoned the campaign to go become Vampire Pirates). Haven'...

Dungeons & Dragons & Pathfinder & So On tend to have a grid based combat system with push pull and opportunity attacks, then say "Forced movement doesn't provoke OA's" So does D&D5e actually 'break' if forced movement does provoke OA's, or does it become more fun As I unde...

Weirdly enough, my exposure to Dragonlance was the novels involving the Minotaurs (Hint: My Username is one of the main characters). That seemed like a bunch of Low-Fantasy Conan-style shenanigans going on, which was pretty cool. That, and the Dragonlance RPG Book, which...was something to say the l...

Any updates on the Paizo Unionizing situation?

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:59 pm

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Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:43 pm

is no one else a little said that the den is having another fighter thread? and a 3.x fighter thread at that.

Time is a circle.

I miss Fighter Threads, they were pretty valuable for bringing out illuminating discussion at the time. Build on your knowledge over time and all that.

Golarion also seems to have a gallon of gods. I feel like going the route of (going back to) Gods Being Boss Fights, or Higher CR Monsters will help to cut them down. I sincerely doubt anyone things Hruggek is High Level, or Blibdoolpoolp, Yeenghou, Achaekek, etc. Seems like really could just have s...

It would also help if the combat system was worthwhile, and more than just spamming one or two abilities. Never played any superhero-based MMOs but I figure they did more to add variety to a characters moveset. Letting ye use abilities in ways not directly intended should be free (at worst a hero po...

Pathfinder beat you to it Kinda

So how do you we write rules for this kind of thing? We set numbers for accomplishing tasks, not influencing people. ..This way we can make sure there are things that social characters can reliably do and completely bypass the difficulty of exhaustively modeling one character's psychological makeup...

where should we migrate to? There's frankly an enormous amount of RPG design related resources outside of the Den. Not to mention a much larger growth of game design discussion in general - particularly video and board game design. A lot of the places Denners have traditionally shit upon are actual...