The Gaming Den

New theory: ISP is Matt Walsh, but for TTRPGs.

Love the reminder that the only good thing ISP ever posted was their name. Maybe if they focused more on the SP part of that name instead of the I they'd be better.

Guys, it's really important we give benefit of the doubt to Ted Cr-- bahahahahahaha. Holy shit lol

At least we're getting Evangelion references out of it.

It would rock if Cuomo faced charges after writing a book about how he dealt with COVID.

American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chapter 1: Don't get fucking arrested for getting people killed.

Nobody expects the Democrats to ever do anything good in foreign policy though, do they? The Democrats virtually always promise to do the same amount of evil that Republicans do abroad, just a bit quieter. I am glad we have a Democrat in office with control of the House and Senate so we can get to b...

I can now give you an official list: Manchin Sinema Hassan Tester Shaheen King* Hickenlooper Warner Kelly That's the cosponsor's on the amendment that would reduce income caps. So a lot of overlap with the gang of 16 members, but some additions and removals both. I appreciate the information. Looki...

EDIT: I guess I'll also mention that the democrats new plan is to deny relief checks to half of the recipients of the $600. So in case you want to argue that $600 given before the promise was made plus $1400 8 months later is really $2k, it turns out that democrats intend to break their promise to ...

I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you and the rest of the family are all doing OK.

I refuse to believe Biden is so dumb as to produce more of the thing we can't distribute. I'll believe it if it happens, but come on. We've got a lot of vaccine! Just have all the people we've got in the military who have medical training go use that training on sticking needles into arms. That's a ...

Choose my response: 1. Feminism is destroying dwarves, who represent toxic masculinity. 2. Femboy craze: Feminine men are in and elves are very feminine. 3. Playing short ugly dudes is something most tabletop players already do in real life. Why should they want to do it in fantasy time? If you resp...

I can see two ways Biden's federal involvement could work: 1. He does means testing bullshit at the federal level, making him do a worse job than Trump is currently doing. 2. He declares it a threat to public safety and uses federal agencies to do mass vaccinations. This would be much better than Tr...

This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).

I can't wait for DeadDM's next post.

At least the direct payments might get bigger? No thanks to the Biden administration, but that's nice. Being the Worst Child, my parents and I talked politics again over the holidays. Each and every criticism of the Biden administration, from their awful appointments to Biden's personally noxious be...

Biden is picking Lloyd Austin, a former general who is on Raytheon's board of directors, to be our secretary of defense. No issues could possibly arise from the secretary of defense being on the board of a military technology company.

I almost got to test this game at PAX, but the fuckheads running the table said they couldn't reserve times they had open then reserved all the times anyways when I followed their instructions and showed up the moment it opened. This says nothing about the game, but I'm still a little salty about it...

Pros: Dems could tell Mitch McConnell to shove it Cons: they won't Another con to add on is that if the Democrats get the senate they'll have control of the house, senate, and presidency, which means they will bear full responsibility for the shitty COVID-19 response and the economy tanking even th...

DSM: This is literally a thread about the election. It is the place to talk about the election and the actions of the President Elect. YLM: Biden won, Biden is shitty, it's good and cool to point out the ways he is shitty and how he could be less shitty. This thread is specifically about the 2020 el...

This appears to be a very bad election. Like sure, Biden wins, but the Democratic lead in the House is going to be super narrow and the Democrats will probably not get the Senate. I'm not confident they'll even tie it up, making the VP a nonfactor. Biden is going to preside over an economic crash an...

I think it's interesting the two people who have said they prefer 5e (I'm counting you Gnome even though you're basically just doing homebrew) are both DMs. Pragma and Gnome, if you were on the other side of the screen would you prefer a different system? I've only played as a PC in 5e games and my ...

I think Critical Role, Stranger Things, and the rising popularity of D&D podcasts is the entire explanation of 5e being successful. The game is threadbare, it's just an excuse to get together with friends. All the 5e players I know are new D&D players who got into it through that shit, and w...

Except the Wyvern's flyby attack actually models "The wyvern swoops down and attacks Joe Fighter with its talons! The talon clenches around Joe's arm, stinger hovering menacingly as he desperately tries to squirm free! Oh no, Joe is held firm as the stinger whips toward him! Now the poison rac...

I've found tracking XP lends itself to players worrying about missing XP if they don't do certain things, whereas just having everyone level the fuck up at the same time lets the players do whatever they want without worrying "oh no if we don't murder the slightly shady Griffon tamers we'll be ...

Having one square for a sexuality (The Lesbian) seems not great. I think it's great that Koumei got her own square. Way to go, Koumei! I hear you're a very good roleplayer who makes cooler characters than me (which is probably accurate). This is obviously written by edgelords and is thus mostly the...

If you want to just have four people get together and play a campaign and have everybody able to contribute, that's a lot easier with the lower power disparity of 5e. You can still spend a lot of time designing a character and have her be awesome and feel good about that, but it's easier for newcom...