The Gaming Den

It actually does matter if your extra dice come from flanking or raging. Except it doesn't. Because all of the conditionals for the damage dice are always easy ones to meet. The explicit intention being that these classes almost always get their damage dice if they want to. Because the entire set o...

"Descriptive failure". What. So you want the GM to just name the class on sight for you? Or if they for some reason do not do that say "your description did not allow me to identify the class from their action, please add more fluff description until I can identify the game mechanical...

So anyway. My prediction of a big Israeli war crime event was based on an observed pattern/media cycle theory that says its probably some time in the next 12 hours or so or they wait another week. And while they are talking up how they are definitely right now ready to storm Raffa in the next five m...

I'd take classes that blend together to be a repudiation of PL's contention that classes must be distinct . If that blending is more than the minimal amount, I'll just point at it as an example of failure in class system design. Kaeliks mentioning all the D&D classes that mostly just do extra d...

Did I miss this? I don't know what you're referring to. And there are four base classes with Necromancer in their names on the den. I think maybe you overestimate my interest in any Tomes++ material, and ESPECIALLY additional stand alone classes, even if written bv Frank or K. And that tome of necr...

The benefit of a class system is that characters invest in the ability that they want No it isn't. But lets change that to "players" so it isn't total insanity. Then I can say, no it isn't. The enforcement of options clustered together in a class isn't the end goal. It's the methodology. ...

I think you failed to understand the point of the thread. The point was not to hypothesize about writing a completely new RPG set from scratch. It was to talk about the existing games being played and what to do about them. But then my advice is something you REALLY don't want to hear. Because with...

I, am talking about our ongoing Tomish games I rarely consider a specific individual user when discussing a rules concept and honestly find it weird and difficult to do so. Much less how their specific rebranded version of the Gentleman's Contract with the serial numbers filed off definitely effect...

If your plan with "Prestige Classes" requires GMs to make custom prestige classes at all it is bad enough. Classes should really be fixed at either game selection or at least setting selection in order to do the things they need/want to do. But if the end point gets to making a unique clas...

What calls for violence? The idiots in power think they can just say that enough and then they can start imprisoning peace activists and using them as pretexts for their own bad actions and excuses for their own failures. They already have been using them as pretexts, and they are very clearly psyc...

Well you see the USA asked Iran, begged really for them to do exactly that. Iran did as asked so they are rewarded with MORE SANCTIONS. Israel did not do as asked in Iran AND Raffa, so they are punished with MORE MONEY AND WEAPONS. The US foreign policy in the middle east for the last 30 years in a ...

I have a new prediction. Israel's next act of war crime will occur in almost exactly 7 days. edit: Actually better specify, their next major, planned, intended, very public one. There will be genocidal soldier tick tocks and under reported gruesome discoveries from Gaza and the West Bank all week.

Actually the latest leaks have been in response to white house press briefings claiming that Israel is a perfect and sinless nation that has committed no war crimes in the last six months, not even 1! Leak says fuck you higher ups you are secretly sitting on a bunch of recent official reports about ...

I had words. But really at this point speculating on who and how Israel is going to warcrime next and then again after that is basically like trying to guess Roberto the Robot's next shivving targets. They have gone full fanatic fascist genocidal rogue state in a truly psychotic way, and I sure as h...

People not liking one of my favorite movies of last year? This is what I was talking about for low fucking bars though. Being better than other movies from 2023 is the standard for liking something harder? Then I guess there isn't any other choice, after all 2023 is the year that "everyone&quo...

Sounds like the D&D movie captured the spirit of the game well, with fun nods for longtime players. I should go and check it out. Am yet to watch it. You know, I've been holding back a bit on my opinion of this movie. In part because I couldn't figure it out. But that triggered it. I think I un...

Yeah but, I mean, fair enough. He is.

Doesn't matter if he was innocent. The police fucked it up so hard that even a guilty party would, should, and very possibly did get off Scott free. Hell they fucked it up so bad that OJ won despite the lawyer OJ had who to this day is proving he is a spectacular idiot. If you are still arguing abou...

socially liberal but fiscally conservative Heard this one a million times, and yeah its a wildly unrealistic and stupid position to take but people love it. They love it because they are rubes and have fallen for everyone's propaganda. They think taking a middle ground makes them sensible, it does ...

Something like 95% chance he thinks of himself as sensible "left of center" and that the far left and far right have been seducing too many away from the sensible center left and its good friend the sensible centrist right. If not that he definitely thinks of himself as only slightly right...

No, I won't. Betting pool on how many posts until he does? But to be clear, not only is your track record such that your denial now makes it MORE likely you will almost immediately do it your MO beyond that is clear. Once the official flip on the genocide occurs you HAVE to change your position to ...

Don't worry, just as the Biden administration think they have laid the rhetorical ground work to retroactively claim innocence (possibly even legally) and good intentions all along once they eventually switch policy (or the genocide burns out on its own). So too does DeadDM think he has already said...

Quick point. DeadDMs current position "Yes its a genocide, yes I will only use that term rarely and grudgingly but there I said it will you shut up now, Also no we cannot possibly do anything about it." is in the end another way to do what all of this, including his recent adoption of whit...

See I told him that Genocide Joe going all in on the refugee bashing would only make his nation more racist, as proven by international precedents, and now look what happened, the racism got him. Now he's caught a full case of white supremacist, which he should have been on the look out for it as sh...

I'm going to counter your counter with the Trump Abraham Accords and say that DeadDMs shallow name dropping understanding of basically everything resulted in a muddling of that and other NYT articles mentioning diplomacy and hostage negotiations. He was most likely operating under a hazy xerox of a ...