The Gaming Den

So what is the main selling point of an actual mid-budget Witcher tabletop RPG like this? I've played the first two games, and I enjoyed them, and I imagine I'll enjoy the third when I play it. But I couldn't tell you a single thing about the setting or the magic at this point. Do people have a gen...

Net hits don't increase the severity (L -> M -> S -> D), right? It just results in a higher number of hits the target needs to soak? No, they do increase it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to one hit KO somebody in SR 1-3 with a pistol or a knife. And one-hit KOs where always supposed to be the...

So how fleshed out does Shadowrun get with that, do they ever give detailed info on specific metaplanes and the spirits that inhabit it? There's information on specific metaplanes and deep metaplanes here and there, but never anything detailed. Like, we know there's The Hive, home metaplane of inse...

Railguns are in Arsenal. They all have an Availability >12 and are a lot more expensive than other heavy weapons. You can get a Thunderstruck with the Restricted Gear quality, but that's a massive waste of BP when you can just buy one regularly after the first run or two. Better to start with a T-1 ...

Eh, I think its about Troll sized. Its mentioned to describe that the Hatchiman is supposed to be super "Dangerous despite being old" and that never made sense too me until I realized that its higher body means more armor and power for a smaller package which can fit in a corridor. I mean...

Hamburg would be a pretty cool setting...if SR rules could handle hovertank chase scenes.

Point of order: birds are not technically descended from dinosaurs; there is no point where you could go back through the ancestry of a chicken or an emu and find a T-Rex. Birds and dinosaurs evolved from the same ancestors, and the early birdlike ancestors overlap with when dinosaurs ruled the ear...

Another fringe case where SR4 cyberlimbs are an excellent option are ultra-low Essence cyberzombies. Not only are plenty of cyberlimbs pretty much mandatory if you want to drive Essence down low enough while still using deltaware. The biggest mechanical selling point of SR4 cyberzombies is that thei...

It's still a swarm of shitty toy drones that are restricted to fairly slow ground movement and are destroyed immediately by about anything. Lots of opponents worth bringing a drone swarm along have ways to counter that, or to counter toxins. Which, btw, do not take effect until the end of the combat...

While I can expect any worn gear to not be enlarged, how would such a spell interact with the subject's cyberware? It would get transformed along with the subject, as it's paid for with Essence and counts as part of your aura. Shapechange seems to restrict the range of transformations to critters w...

And if you play in Victorian London, you're causing traffic accidents left and right because you're freaking out the horses of every carriage that you pass by on the street. Now, i don't know how many carriages you could actually expect on a nightly street in historical Victorian London, but pop cu...

But the fact that dogs and pigs want to kill you is presented as being one of the main reasons that vampires stay in cities and avoid rural areas. Problem with that being that cities aren't animal free at all. You have people walking their frequently fuckhuge dogs after sunset, there's plenty of fe...

It sounds like one key thing for a Not Shitty pre-industrial Vampire would be getting rid of Rohtshreck. Which WW obviously did not want to do for some reason. All they really needed to do was tone it down some, and there's the built in excuse that you could simply have vampires who grew up around ...

A halfway optimized street sam, wielding an Ares Alpha with APDS, is perfectly capable of shredding moderate-force spirits in SR4. You're better off using wide bursts, though, as dodge pools for spirits may be quite high.

These maps have been around since the early 1990s. Is there anything else they want to put out? Like, a book that actually gives you a description of these places?

What is more rare, I think, is the kind of wide political and intrigue web seen in pieces like Game of Thrones, where there are dozens of characters in half-dozen different factions bickering between themselves. What's more important here than the number of characters is the general scale of things...

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Shlominus wrote:no one plays dsa becasue they prefer the system over any other. the system is terrible! and that's me speaking as someone who has 2 dsa-campaigns active, with another one planned. Wink

So its like Shadowrun.

DSA is so bad that Germans actually like Shadowrun.

if i had to hazard a guess: just long enough to ask the question and get another question as the answer probably . . Well...my guess is that the trance would have to last at least that long. Maybe the technique needs prep time (laying cards, runinng an astrology program, cutting a sacrifice open an...

I've never heard of this jenga variety, but i can translate if you post a pic of the instructions.

The Setting and players can't handle a mage who uses a bowan. and this is a classless system, so proficiency is not the issue. the game went so far as to make it illigal for mages to use weapons like that in-world. All of the weapon restrictions in DSA are leftovers from 1st editon. The basic rules...

I'm actually really curious as to how much of a market there is for books of magic items like this (format, I mean, not quality) these days. It occurs to me Magic Item Compendium was literally the exact same sort of book, and various "here are a bunch of new guns!" books for, like, Shadow...

Remember that when approaching things from a literary standpoint, the dividing line between high and low fantasy is whether it uses a made up world or not. So when talking about novels, Das Schwarze Auge is high fantasy , while Shadowrun is low fantasy . In an RPG context, the meaning is very diffe...

I mean seriously, Orkland and Yetiland ? Hey, let's not forget the Cyclops Islands, Giantland, the Witch Island and the Troll Cliffs. It's important to remember that 1st edition was hacked together within a few months - Schmidt learned half a year before the planned launch date that somebody else h...

Also, what exactly is unique about Lizardmen crystalomancy, Magic Belly dancing, Shapeshifting warriors (Rage into animals?), and even Witches? etc. I know Tree-top Runner Elfs really were Self-buffing Druids/Clerics or even a Ranger-type PC. Crystallomancy uses gems as a storage medium for spells....

Some of that already shows here, but there's also things that make you wonder where it all went downhill. I hope that it was an enjoyable read nevertheless, that the people familiar with DSA got the rant we're all looking for and that the people unfamiliar with DSA got an entertaining and comprehen...