The Gaming Den

You can take "lame" runes and give powers by implication.

Take a donkey. Donkeys are stubborn. Tie that to some sort of will save, or stand-your-ground type power. (Immovable blob?)

Bread? Sustenance. Healing.

I think there might be room to flip [max level of NPCs] (3 in this case) over to a level 1 PC. So NPC3/PC1 would not exist. NPC3+(plot magicz!) would result in a PC1. PC1s would be local heroes. Or "the renowned soldier" from a militia group or something. NPC 1 - 3(or whatever cap there is...

Oh there's also the Renaissance mercenary problem where as city-states relied upon foreigners more often (and in greater numbers), the mercenaries started playing both sides of the field. They would take money to participate in disputes and then either not fight, flee after low casualties or switch ...

Between DR, creating two separate concentration slots and Ogre's suggestions... I believe a new game has already been created, haha.

Makes you kind of respect the insane bastards that managed to hold together large balls of crazy to get shit done over long periods of time (war campaigns). If I remember correctly from documentaries and random historical sources... the Persian empire didn't have too much difficulty with finding tro...

Explaining a system in person is a lot easier than transmitting the knowledge purely through written means, and having the system designer there in person makes it easier still. This would be the big difference between alpha and beta imo. Beta you expect the material to stand well enough on it's ow...

name_here wrote:Though of course it's insane to actually do a continuous projection down to combat scale.

I've considered doing that as a project to work with object/data models. >_>

6 mile hexes are kind of small by old school standards. I remember 12 and 20 or 24 mile hexes (measured in the same way IIRC; if you're moving from the midpoint of one hex to the midpoint of adjoining one it makes sense) on a bunch of old D&D maps. 20 miles makes a lot of sense, because that's ...

So where can I get the most up-to-date version of the Tome pdf? I've mostly been using the DnD wiki and searching things on tgd I'm going to hazard a guess that Lokathor's superTome is probably the most up to date. But I believe Aktariel made some changes to his repo since we merged it to gitHub th...

I just realized that Ability increases are baked into individual class progression. -___- fml

With out IPM (Integrated Pest Management), pest-resistant crops and pesticide use you get cases like Bhutan. Where apparently their move to being completely organic has seriously hurt their food production. I can't find a citation for this. You got anything recent? I'm still looking for the article...

So despite being nearly 30 (as of writing this) I'm still a punk-rock-kind-of-guy at heart. Which led to me stumbling on an article about Fat Mike writing a musical . He wrote/toyed with it for about 15 years before devoting himself to it. One of the co-producers of Avenue Q emphatically volunteered...

Actually, there's a lot of research that has gone into the effects of nitrogen/"chemical"-fertilizers and how they impact soil ecosystems. I was just at a conference ... a(2?) year(s) ago talking about that. They sampled fert vs no-fert (but previously fertilized) areas and saw that the ec...

How about a 'sorcerer' version of the Tome Fighter? If you mean a sorcerer with the magic equivalent of problem solver, you may be looking for this one . If you mean something else, you'd have to explain yourself. And is the Tome of Prowess any good for noncombat utility expansion? http://dnd-wiki....

This actually sounds like it might be fun?

Holy shit, though, his website is a mess.

Dont know (or care) what this is based on, but it has a few neat ideas in it: http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/strange-grains-d-art-of-not-being.html?spref=tw&m=1 I do think that there should be discussions of what grains are used and where empires grow and shit in worlds. Otherwise we ...

It's damn near impossible to roll a 1 as a halfling.

DnD 5e PHB wrote:Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability
check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must
use the new roll.

awesomeTome on github is the new version meant to replace the awesometome on google code . SuperTome is a project I threw together because my group was playing a Tome game at the time and I find LaTeX a relaxing thing to do while listening to podcasts. We used it as our "unofficial handbook&qu...

Found a couple highlights I was looking for. I think it's fair to include as a highlight that the game appears playable. Literally everything that has been said so far is true but I have been extremely impressed with how tolerable a product they have created. It's not good but it's completely passab...

TarkisFlux wrote:SuperTome is Lokathor's fork of the project. I have no idea if it is more or less complete, or how much it diverges from stuff posted here.

I kept tabs on it for a bit.
He touched just about everything, bringing it to his standards.

I still have a bunch of half finished stuff on my HDD...

I'd really just like this to be a reference topic, so please keep the posts to examples and corrections only. :) I would be appreciative if those of you who have pointed out hilariously bad breaks, combos, scenarios and other fails to re-post them here in a concise format so I may sooth myself with...

This particular issue was something I was trying to think around as well. As far as toes, fingers, limbs, etc being damageable with out actually killing a creature... What about an HP+Wounds kind of thing? HP would scale quickly with level. Being a multiple of your wound points. HP would recover qui...

In regard to "inner power vs outer/external power" ... What if magical weaponry simply allowed expression of your inner power easier? So a +1 can only really *handle* low level skill/abilities/power with out breaking/burning out...etc. While a +5 allows you to UNLEASH THE BEAST! properly. ...

Blicero wrote:[...] a lot of the fluff pieces on his site are pretty neat and clever. It's frustrating, though, that he's such a fuckhead as regards everything else.

True enough. His attitude is unfortunate because now it just sort of colors everything he produces.

[...]on a pretty fat pipe[...]

I'm also seeding

My seed's up.

... because, apparently, I'm still 13 at heart.