The Gaming Den

If you as a DM had to pick one AP, which one would it be? I ran this question by the DM. She's run Curse of the Crimson Throne (ongoing), Legacy of Fire, and Kingmaker, and read through large portions of Serpent's Skull and whatever the current one is. Overall, she'd go with Kingmaker. She also sai...

I've played through several of the Pathfinder APs, myself, and I largely agree with hogarth's assessments. Here are my responses and thoughts. Curse of the Crimson Throne. The adventure path starts building up to a possible revolution in the city, but then sends the PCs on a series of typical fetch ...

Vincent Baker certainly does seem to be supernaturally charming. It's a big part of why his forums aren't that useful. A huge percentage of posters there are his real-life friends, and the conversation is absolutely full of in-jokes, weird dialect, stories about games played personally with him, an...

Meanwhile, most of my social circle found Dogs confusing and uninspiring. My social circle is mostly that, too, but there is a subset that loves DitV. Mysteriously, members of this latter group are all from Massachusetts and picked up the game by playing it with the author rather than reading the b...

I think if the rough setting (mormon cowboy paladins evading the federal government) were transplanted into a better system (dice pool or d20 or whatever) then you'd come out with something that people would want to play. Everyone I've told the game's outline to has wanted to play it, until they've...

Your opinion is shared by many: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/?name_order=asc Ebert gave it half a star. Choice quote: '"The Last Airbender" is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that...

However, time dilation has been measured and observed, so FTL communication WILL result in non-causal communication; which is a...troubling scenario. Actually, you can still have causality, what you lack is locality. Remember that Bell's Theorem lets you have locality or causality, but not both. Th...

3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars is a rules-light Space Marine-themed game. It stands as one example of an RPG that has a fixed resource supply used by the GM. Each planet assaulted has a certain amount of "threat tokens" which the GM uses to have aliens attack you. Once those tokens are go...

We voted for Martha Coakley. Not that I was exactly thrilled by it, since her campaign platform was essentially "i r generic democrat" and she never bothered to try to tell me anything more. But Juton is right: it's a non-issue, since the previous majority existed on paper only. But, here'...

Keep in mind that, in contests like this, a winning method often has a component banned just to discourage copycats. So, regardless of how powerful item X objectively is, it might be banned just because it happened to be part of a winning combo. So ToS is like trying to apply the rules of Construct...

Keep in mind that, in contests like this, a winning method often has a component banned just to discourage copycats. So, regardless of how powerful item X objectively is, it might be banned just because it happened to be part of a winning combo.

She had imagined that it was full of people who carry guns Incidentally, this is how I imagine the US is. I'm hesitant to visit the cities there due to reservations about getting shot for asking directions. Luckily, about the only person I want to visit there lives in Iowa. Fun story: my brother bo...

The guys from Top Gear thought that the Alabama stereotypes were untrue, that they were at most gross exaggerations of reality, that people like Maxus should be believed, and so there wasn't any actual harm in doing things that the stereotype of the gun-toting redneck would have warned you off of. T...

Tzor: Neutrinos have an interaction length scale of one light year in lead. You're looking to get eight orders of magnitude of boost. Designing a metamaterial that is opaque to neutrinos* would first require massive investment in fundamental research, in the hopes of advancing the field to the point...

...so, yeah, lots of interest in Dark Sun, I guess? I left for a conference when the thread was only 1 page.

I'm going to be in Washington D.C. for the ACS national meeting, and I was wondering if anyone happened to have some recommendations for gaming-related stuff to check out. Favorite shops, curiosities, or whatever.

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http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20090814 Dark Sun in 4E. I had to look up what the 4E rules were for starvation and thirst. For reference, here they are from page 159. Starvation, Thirst, and Suffocation When deprived of food, water, or air, the rule of three applies. An adventurer can...

I recommend years of cheerleading and positive reinforcement. Draw up a 5 year plan now. Seriously.

I'm interested in making castles, too. I think it's cool. I do not think that it's cool to put the screws to people who want to make castles. Stronghold Builder's Guide was atrocious and offensive. It put price tags on things that used to be free and then told us that your Warrior King can't have a...

Wow, there's a lot of useless, vitriolic dreck in the OP, much of which is out-and-out false Wow, there's a lot of useless, math-impaired nonsense in the fanboi's post, much of which is out-and-out false. That said, I actually picked up the Pathfinder monster book at Free PRG day, so I've looked at...

Also, David Noonan. He made Stronghold Builder's Guide. That's all. Funny story: back in... 2002, I think, maybe 2003, I spilled a drink on my friend's copy of the Stronghold Builder's Guide. So I bought him a new one and kept the damaged one. I actually like it. I'm not saying you couldn't make up...

Any thoughts on setting books besides the FRCS? I personally seem to get a lot of use out of Underdark, surprisingly. Unapproachable East has gotten a lot of reading but no actual play after several years on the shelf.

You know, twenty years ago, a coworker of mine, commenting in a Sushi resturant in downtown Manhatten (more near the Flatiron building than Wall Street) once insisted that a good "Uni" was better than the "Big O." I've taken her word at face value, but one of these days I really...

Complete Warrior and Complete Adventurer are great sources for mêlée feats. Races Of Stone gives, well, my favorite PrC ever. Frostburn has some of the best feats and spells anywhere, as well as some interesting environmental rules. Many find Dragon Magic useful for the Dragonfire Adept, which can ...