The Gaming Den

I understand you want something like this or maybe this. and even to a lesser extent this.

Actually as I post stuff I am more and more into this idea. Guitars and swords go well together, and are almost always badass.

You could do it if he were basically a rogue, but you show him playing a guitar whenever he gets down time, or is hanging in a tavern. When it comes time for battle, you can just play the songs in the background. What you can't do, is have him play a musical instrument in battle. People barely buy t...

It's frankly really bizarre that 4e didn't drop with a fully functional multiclassing system, because everyone is already on the same power schedule. All you had to do was make a 5th level power basically equal to a 5th level power and give people enough powers that they could still be identifiable...

Can anyone think of some stuff 4e did right? Something where there is a mechanic you enjoy using? At the moment I have one thing. XP budgets. Not looking for things it did better than other editions, just things that you enjoyed about it. You might be able to pull minions in as a concept, but I alwa...

Sadly, no. are all less playable and have more problems than 4e. Don't look at it as "how many bad things do they have" look at it as "how many good things do they have". With 4e the only positive I can think of is that they used the XP budget system instead CRs. Everything else...

Its hard to be worse than 4e. I get the feeling it will be.

I'm kind of curious why they think people would opt for fiddly, crunchy, detailed method if the simple option is just as good? Because it won't be. It will be like the optional magic items rules in dark sun. You can choose not to use magic weapons, and instead get these +xs you would get from those...

When people throw out new games, I want as many racial write ups as I can get. Why? Because the default setting is always awful. If I get lots of racial write ups, I can more easily adapt it to one that isn't so bad for. My adapted setting? Typically tops out at like 5 or 6 sentient usually good rac...

I heard someone raving about this, so you may want to check it's authenticity for yourself. ..... [removed] So a Minotaur, for example, Thats literally the example from the PFSRD when explaining how this concept works. For example, in a group of 6th-level characters, a minotaur (CR 4) would possess...

My solution for homebrew games was to top classes at 10 levels long. 10th level is the agreed upon highest level. If we decide we want to go past that, you have to multiclass which works essentially like 3e. You can be a fighter 10, wizard 5/fighter 5. At level 11 you can be a fighter 10/wizard 1, o...

I always liked the idea of forcing mundanes to become magic at some point. Hard code into the game fighting in melee isnt an option. You can start as a sworder, but by level 6 you need to prestige into dragon tamer, leader of the people,, or gadgeteer. If you really only want to play mundanes that's...

. People had grudgingly come to accept that Fighters were underpowered and Clerics were overpowered and were willing to accept major changes to get that fixed. You haven't been to their previous editions board recently. This is still "up for debate" with people regularly saying its not tr...

You know what I hate? Dice size. All the dice are just a bit too small, My friend got me a set of these. http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-LER7694-POLYHEDRAL-JUMBO/dp/B003IHTZGW They are slightly smaller than a baseball and foam. Obnoxious as anything to use. I've also got a d20 in the same ...

I'm trying to figure out why every setting must have orcs be as good at wizarding as everyone else. They don't. That said there is no reason a mechanical penalty to the race is the way to accomplish that. Watch. "In [krusk's fantasy world] orcs are rarely wizards. Orc society places a huge val...

The more common the items, the less impacting they have to be. If you give 1 item per party, it needs to be something like "This compass points to the nearest portal to another world. Also portals are everywhere but no one can see them and so they don't know to use them, or believe they exist. ...

Best system. 3e with no standard length on classes. A wizard is a 20level class, but a fighter is 6. Maybe a ranger goes out to 7 or 8. Prestige classes can exist as normal. If I remember right, in 4e everyone took the first multiclass feat. None of the feats are paticularly good and once you take f...

Murtak wrote:You risk cognitive dissonance though. Stuff too many ideas into a setting and it stops making sense.

This was my main point.

As much as I love the dog soldiers from RIFTS, I worry about animal human hybrids in the game. You end up stating loads of other animal human hybrids, and then every game turns into ninja turtles (which paladium already made). Not bad, but I don't see that as the end goal. If you only stat dogmen pe...

cleric/druid is basically the same, but swap out shivering touch for something good because you can't get spectral hand.

Are you arguing that a level 5 wizard has the following spells. I gave 20 int, cause thats not unreasonable on either side. Level 0 - 4 - BS we don't care about. Level 1 - 5 - Cause Fear, Charm Person, Comprehend Lang, Obscuring Mist, Expeditious Retreat Level 2 - 3 - Alter Self, Spectral Hand, Hold...

Why should(nt) you go here, and what can you expect to do here. Those are the big things honestly. Everything is else is just nice.

So shadowrun has long been one of my favorite systems. I also just realized I don't own any of the splatbooks. I have used arsenal and that one with a thousand subraces on occasion but never felt compelled to buy them. Are any of the splaybooks any good/mandatory/ok-ish? I have a group that if I can...

Only if you have ranged weapons and they don't. Otherwise you're just at a substantial advantage and the battle drags on much longer. FWIW I thought about putting in a thing about bows for web specifically, but figured I would use the term "web" to encompass "Level 1 save or dies in ...

Dude... solid fog and web ARE save-or-dies. You get them stuck and then you kill them at your leisure. Fine, nomenclature fail on my part. I meant genuine "the combat is over on round 2" tactics rather than "the combat ended on round one but we'll mechanically play it out for 6 more ...

IIRC Dragons are under CR-ed because the game is dungeons and dragons . The designers wanted dragons to be something awe/fear inspiring, and so they purposefully made them stronger than indicated CR to reflect that. Stats wise its thanks to the fairly nice spellcasting, huge hit die, good bab and wi...