The Gaming Den

Okay, throw me into the wolf-pit and set more on fire for this if you must. Preface: Everything I've seen of the original Bearpocalypse World book is an ugly, nauseating, agency-robbing exercise in violating the basic social contract at the gaming table. It's objectively nasty. I stopped reading Dun...

Occluded Sun wrote: Our world hasn't ended, and we can't really compare to the end of others' worlds.

Give it a few months, we seem to be right on track...
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Of course it's a shit argument. Nothing dictates that entertainment (or any other 'commodity, really) aimed primarily at children needs to be terrible. Everything else Frank just said is, however, wishful thinking slash outright wrong. I work with children, a lot of children, in the relevant age-gro...

That still puts the decision whether 'rest' is attainable squarely up to the MC. And if that switch is flicked to Y, people will heal up and recharge, and we're back to square one and we might as well have no recharge mechanic at all, because it will just become another thing people DO. And they wil...

One problem is of course that the recharge currency for 'continuing play' is dumb, useless, and arbitrary, because eight hours (or one hour, or five minutes, or whatever) of in-game time are ultimately as tangible and meaningful as the taste of the chicken broth at the tavern in Hommlet. Sure, a GM ...

Yeah, I understand that we, as ADULTS need to shit all over these teddybears (that sentence looks way weirder written out), but conceptionally, they are really just slightly dumber, fuzzier Jawas, and don't tell me you don't internally fist-bump your best childhood friend every time you hear that 'H...

That, and that bitchin' helmet. Mostly the helmet.

Its not a problem of modern internets. Its a problem of christianity and abrahamic cultures. The lesser the degree of (abrahamic) influence and fanaticism, the more open and natural to sex such a culture is. See Europe vs America in this regard. Are you really equating bring ok with sex with being ...

In Shovelware: The Shoveling, you take the role of one of the Wareshovelers, descendants of an ancient nightmare creature called the Pretentious. Wareshovelers view each other -- and the other shovelware creators of the World of Darkness -- as family, which means that Shovelware is explicitly design...

Wait, so this thing has been 'perfected' over 30+ years, but you only get a wee bit of history and a handful of spells? Chapeau!

I am (for the nth time) working on something similar. I'm going for a condensed mash-up of AS, alt.War and bits from Frank's Fifth Edition thread from yore. I can try to cobble a tl, dr together after I got my first playtest results, which might happen this or the next weekend, if you or anyone are ...

So this happened.

The thing that got a chuckle out of me was how they felt the need to namedrop Pathfinder in their press release. About the new edition of D&D. How the mighty etc. etc

It was written by a guy who literally loves sucking dick. Maybe you're picking up on that. Is it possible to "write gay"? Well, that's a bunch of provincial small-town crap right there. For the record, I am all for people sucking as much dick as they like. If you have a craving for the ta...

I have seen threads where fans of the system were discussing some splat with a bunch of new moves. And it was basically as-close-as-you-can-get-to-actual-circle-self-bukkake-without-it-being-literal-circle-self-bukkake about how "I am already thinking of awesome ways to fuck my players overwith...

IMHO, you will run into two problems: First, no edition of Shadowrun ever has had what you would call a really fast, elegant combat resolution system. I don't know if 4th Edition is the worst offender (that honor belongs to 5th Ed. by default, anyway), but with three die rolls to resolve each attack...

The thing with miniguns is they're conceptually cool and kind of iconic for the genre, but Shadowrun's autofire-rules are a legacy clusterfuck of terribadness so you can't ever really use them. Which is sort of sad. See, back in First Edition, the mayor of Shadowrun Town decided that firing a gun in...

The truth is that the total monopoly on magic by magicians is basically a fuck you to player characters by the chargen rules - it's not even supported by the setting canon. Mundane players should be able to learn and cast ritual sorcery, as well as create and use enchanted items. -Username17 Truefa...

So basically, what Cyberzombie is saying is that it's not worth having this discussion with him because he is in the wrong thread, as this is the "Make Shadowrun less bad" thread and not the "Keep Shadowrun as it is, and if you change anything, then only to make it fit my own grognard...

I don't know. Hiro Protagonist had a strap-on minigun that turned a whole frigate's worth of pirates into red mist in one combat round, well before hitting any sort of genre - intrinsic level cap. I think if your Sam gets a set of really juiced up cybernetics and a tactical computer that lets him do...

FrankTrollman wrote:I don't think it's actually possible to write a worse set of matrix rules.

You are aware that there is bound to be this edition's equivalent of 'Unwired' some point down the line?

Well, yeah, but some time after events of (the movie) Return of the Jedi, it turns out the Emperor had cloned himself a bunch of times. These clones would later undertake aggressive actions. In-universe, it would be possible to refer to these actions as [the] attack of the clones [of the Emperor]. T...

I don't know, but that seems like a pretty shitty lawnmower...

The main problem with your plan is that SR4 combat is simultaneously super fiddly and sluggish as hell. Even when you're a badass one-shotting Zs with a Franchi autoloader, that's still three discrete dice rolls for every mook- roll to hit, dodge, soak. And, as Frank has pointed out on numerous occa...

I guess if you're a cynical asshole who hates the hobby and everybody in it, WotC's DDN office must be a primo awesome place to work right now.

Drain from Shadowrun. I know it's not always genre appropriate, but I want to hack it into everything that has some form of magic.