The Gaming Den

Would someone other than PL explain why it's controversial to ask when you sit down to play a game it should be possible to lose that game. Short Answer: Because people Play Games for different reasons. Expanded: And those reasons might not be the same as yours. It really is that simple. Understand...

Also any recommendations for software to make a character sheet with?

Well, I tend to do everything in Excel, so I may not be the best person to ask.

I don't remember double posting but whatevs.

I'm skimming through it now. In General, You really need an editor. 1.2: I love the description for Shadow. 2.1: Open Skill Checks: The Example probably needs a Target Number. 2.3.1: Increment: Initial Reaction is UGH WHAT. I had to skip to another section and then come back to it before figuring ou...

So, what are your thoughts about something like Edge in After Sundown? If there was an actual in-game mechanic/resource for getting out of shit-situations, would that be more palpable?

As a general rule the Giant Fucking Crab is a more difficult monster than the Medium Water Elemental, that was supposed to be a fairly uncontroversial statement. No one's actually disagreeing about Giant Crab vs. Water Elemental. What I've been trying to get at is that not all comparisons are going...

I fall under the first category.

We can say that when party A goes to the beach and fights a Water Elemental (CR 3) and party B goes to the same beach and faces a Giant Crab, we can say with reasonable certainty that party B faces an encounter that was objectively more difficult. As isp says even the "no objective difficulty&...

Perhaps it would be more accurate to claim that one cannot measure the objective difficulty of something precisely enough to tell whether a fight against one Orc is easier or harder than a different fight against two Orcs. The giant crab is just so extreme that one can expect it to be an excruciati...

Resources use a per-adventure model (not per-day), and come from a fixed pool with variable costs (low-level spells/abilities consume 1 FP, while higher-level ones consume 2-4). You get 4-9 at first level, +1 per additional level - so, for example, a typical level 6 character has about 13 FP, and c...

Aryxbez wrote:Let's make C&C, with the Dream Team of The Gaming Den

You were there the last time we had this conversation. Nothing has changed; we still hate each other way too much to actually be productive as a community.

Incidentally an article from it: Alternative Multi-classing Rules, by Robert J. Schwalb and Matt Sernett Intredasting. -e- So, if I'm reading through this right, this new method of multiclassing is basically, "You get the class features of the class you pick at level 1. After that you can pick...

a easy alternative to actually refining the basic rules, something they haven't done much of at all. What do we mean by Basic Rules? If we don't include feats in that definition, then I'm assuming we're cutting out other Content like Classes, Races, and Spells. That leaves us with HowToPlay.pdf and...

I think the big thing is whether or not Wizards decides to make more Tools for 5E like they did with 4E. The (off-line) character builder was the best thing 4E did for itself and I don't 5E "succeeding" without that type of support (and that seems extremely unlikely). At the very least, th...

Alright, I got invited to a pathfinder game, and at least 1 person in the group isn't a complete douche (and he says they're not the over-serious type of gamers, which is good for me). If I wanted to play a warrior type using a longspear that jumps around and has mobility skills, what would be the ...

I shoulda been clearer. I have a bad habit of writing and rewriting things and sometimes I lose what my actual point was supposed to be. Anyhow, when I say Interaction, I mean the full spectrum of interaction, which will include reactions and interrupts. So, what I really meant to say was that cutti...

OgreBattle wrote:Is an abortion clinic arsonist LAWFUL or CHAOTIC in alignment

Chaotic.
And now that I've taken the bait...

I have two issues with this 1) In a game that is nominally about Player Interactions, not allowing players to interact with another player's actions is definitely an omission. 2) In the scenario that Player A starts an action and Player B can't do anything about it until after it's resolved, Player ...

I guess it's important to note that there are well defined ways for taking a monster and upgrading it in 3.5e, and not in 4e. ??? p174 of the 4E DMG goes over upgrading monsters and it's stupidly simple. (+1 to Attack Rolls and Defenses; +1 to damage every other level; extra hit points based on som...

Just do it(, dawg).

From what I've seen, the Core System has improved but the actual content is pretty half-ass.

My avatar is Psyduck for a reason.

No way, I'm totally serious.

This is all pretty silly.
Alignments have always been easy to figure out (as long as you agree with how I define them).

Surprisingly long! Harry spends an awful lot of time leaning on everyone else to do everything, and only shows up to trip the quest triggers marked "Must be Harry Potter to continue" which require that and only that . This teaches us all a valuable lesson about friendship. And then he kil...