The Gaming Den

If your name is "Pug" you are not high level. That's just a brutal fact of life.

Malazan Book of the Fallen is good high-level D&D esque material.

Variable bonuses aren't a new idea. They aren't even a new idea for Mearls . You had various d4s and d6s and shit to add and subtract from things in Iron Heroes back in the Bush administration. It very definitely isn't faster. I had forgotten all about Iron Heroes and then you had to go and mention...

Rey is a fucking stupid character and Finn is just about the worst black character you could hope for. He is a bumbling moron and mainly exists to make other people look good by comparison.

I'd appreciate if you could cite some evidence because my data indicates that plenty of humans are actually really fucking good at having absolutely no savings whatsoever. We are taking about sociological generalities for fantasy races and comparing them. No one cares about "your data" on...

Elves tend to be very present oriented and therefore they consume a lot and save/invest little. For Men on the other hand, the marginal utility of future goods is higher relative to present goods so they tend to save & invest more.

virgil wrote:Earlier in the thread, with links, it's mentioned that PF2 changes the rules for iterative attacks and critical hits.

Oh. Interesting. I am coming into this late and trying to catch up. I cant find these links.

Wut. What's up with this "1st attack critical on 16" and the "attack 3 times." I don't see anything about that. I mean, if you are correct, this is even worse. Why do ogres get three attacks on full attack, at -5 and -10 on the second and third. That seems dumb for a big retarded...

Correct me if I am wrong but it looks like if this Pathfinder 2 Ogre is in a mirror match with itself they're going to be wailing on each other for six or seven rounds before one of them drops. That is so goddamn stupid and at least 2x or 3x too long. Hacking away at huge piles of hit points is only...

The URL says TGDMB.com, but the last several posters make me think I have gone to Incel.me.... So what do you guys think isp's deal is? My chronic, untreated syphilis caused insanity. Let me tell you, insanity in real life is not fun. It's not like in RPG games when you roll d100 and look up your re...

well lets see... you have more than 6000 posts on an RPG gaming forum.

Case closed.

^ another incel right there.

Not for me, personally. You see, I remember you trying to use 'virgin' as an insult previously. I am the father of three children so an accusation that I'm a virgin is tone deaf at best. However, I think that it's important to have standards and trying to lose one's virginity without regard to with...

I don't think incel means what you think it means. Ah, touchy subject I see. But hey, since we're having an alignment debate, you can answer this one. You invade an orcish encampment for generally good reasons, like they kidnapped someone important to you and you intended this as a rescue mission. ...

So just to be clear, if I find the source, you'll admit that you're wrong? Depends on the source, I suppose. I can imagine there could be a source that might back you up about the killing orc babies thing. Maybe not. I dunno. And ultimately, your desire to engage in this argument is simple proof th...

I remember reading an official source to that effect, but I can't seem to find it now. How convenient...! If you leave evil creatures to their own devices, they will cause additional suffering - it is in their nature to do so - at the very least if it is convenient to do so per the SRD. Perhaps. Bu...

t posits something of that nature which is neither internally consistent nor capable of being used for predicting future action. If the little kids you're stabbing are orc babies, D&D usually posits that as 'good' because killing evil is always good. And killing 'good' is always evil. So you ca...

Ok but morality precedes law so it's useful to have a non-legal term that distinguishes a morally justified killing from an morally unjustified killing. I could be wrong but I tend to think the D&D style of "good and evil as metaphysics" is supposed to provide a non-legal standard for ...

Murder is literally the unlawful killing of another person without justification or excuse . That's what Murder is. Seriously. That's the actual definition. If you have a reason, even a shitty reason that doesn't keep you from going to jail for a long time, it still isn't murder. Wow how retarded c...

It's action movie morality. You can justifiably kill people who are attacking you and you can go into the bad guys' base and kill bad guys. From there some common sense proportionality will help you the rest of the way (probably shouldn't kill a Chaotic Evil guy whose only crime is stealing a few co...

Even WotC doesn't care about 5e anymore. Of the 19 releases of the D&D Brand last year, 13 (more than two thirds) were produced by other companies and just licensed to put the Dungeons & Dragons brand on them. Of the actual Dungeons & Dragons releases from Wizards of the Coast, only one...

So what's the deal with 5e these days?

Does anyone care about it? Do lots of people play it?

It doesn't seem to provoke the extreme hate of 4e, but rather cold indifference (which is possibly worse).

Since this is a design experiment starting with the monster manual, should we also start with an expectation of how long a combat should last? If I had to choose a sweet spot for a "typical" combat duration, I'd pick something like 3 rounds. That's it, I'd like that the initiative count p...

Someone sent me a Steam gift of VERMINTIDE 2. I haven't played it yet but it looks good. Vermintide 1 was good.

This is not to be confused with another game, called GERMANSLIDE.

OgreBattle wrote:
you also search garbage cans for needles to inject yourself with

I am familiar with this lifestyle.

Hit points, Heidegger, Marx... "pain as data, not pain as suffering"... How many times do you suppose guy took a rip from his bong before writing this? At the level of abstraction he's talking about, he is basically just complaining about everything where you fail. Even a binary thing like...