The Gaming Den

Literally none of us think or have said that they're changing their art to appeal to conservatives. Look at Red Archon's post -- your opinion here is not controversial. We all agree that the art style was changed to appeal the SJW mob. (Just a quick check. I'm not up on my internet slang but I assu...

Hamstertamer's "your daughter is reading books ? Stop being such an irresponsible parent and make her go do things outside!" was double-take worthy levels of dumb. Hamstertamer's "the key to holding a woman's attention is their vagina" was... colorfully offensive. With respect t...

What the fuck? Recently, hamstertamer went on a rant about his friend's too-mature-for-her-age four-year-old daughter in order to one-up JigokuBosatsu and his daughter. Now he states all women are interested in sticking their vaginas into everything everything into their vaginas, even though he pre...

You shouldn't be let anywhere near your friend's four-year-old daughter. What the fuck? Recently, hamstertamer went on a rant about his friend's too-mature-for-her-age four-year-old daughter in order to one-up JigokuBosatsu and his daughter. Now he states all women are interested in sticking their ...

I haven't invested the requisite time to really talk about this book in great detail, so you can just go ahead and ignore my notions, but what I'm seeing and reading tells something about the zeitgeist. Specifically, concerning sexuality. See, the book's illustrations have nearly zero amount of T&a...

People who defend the term "dark ages" are in fact supporting the ignorant version of history. That term was coined at a time when generations of people had been separated enough by time, and had forgotten, and the new liberal scholar class had an ideological conflict of interest with the ...

It's interesting here that you're taking that Zack guy's position with respect to magic item availability, in that (my understanding of his position is) a hole in the rules is more valuable than rules in some instances, because that hole is where narrative control belongs to the GM+players. Oh, go ...

Players have had the expectation of being able to select their magical items out of a catalog or out of an officially approved source without having to kiss up to the DM for almost 15 years now. I know, right? It's no longer the 80's, players' mentality has changed and, try as they might, you can't...

Random encounters are only good for beer&pretzels sessions when the party has nothing better to do. When the group is following specific objectives, however, they're annoying as all hell as all they do it keep the players from what they -actually want to do-. Nah, Random encounters are great fo...

I don't understand the complaint that mistakes have consequences. That's good , it means that there's some actual weight to your quality of play, and you can distinguish between doing well and doing badly. Dude do fuck off. Read any of the half a dozen 30 page long threads about how D&D is not ...

Fixing the monster budget to a per-PC ratio instead of group size will almost certainly make the game easier than you intended to. PC Party size is one of those rare instances where, in terms of asskicking, the marginal utility of each additional PC is greater the more PCs you add. 6 orcs is harder...

That was a tortured and poorly written analogy. Your earlier point *might* have done better had you not focused as much as you did on segregating the real geeks from the fake ones. You would still be wrong, of course. It's already been postulated that prior starter kits & interactive tools fail...

We were talking about building a interactive how-to-play thingamajig to help show people how to play. Now you are talking about marketing D&D with tv shows. Yes, we were talking about interactive how-to-play thingamajigs, and then you brought up your conclusion that there just aren't that many ...

OD&D had some weird design choices if it was supposed to be a wargame... like the Tomb of Horror's emphasis on DM telepathy, monsters that eat your brain if you put your ear against a door, etc. Seems like Pit Fiends and Red Dragons with interesting narrative abilities fit right in. What's even...

Now we get to see the mental gymnastics the 5mind goes through to rationalize how shitty all these monsters are. When I showed them the Pit Fiend, they said it was great that they don't have interesting abilities because 3e Pit Fiends took a long time to fight. That's just the current mindset of th...

Seeing as how you were being loquacious calling nerds/geeks 'fake', I consider it fairly relevant. So you're that kind of idiot? First of all trying to sell to "geeks," and only "geeks" is a bad business strategy. Let me show you how stupid you sound to me, I'll try... I'm a hor...

RadiantPhoenix wrote:

hamstertamer wrote:

virgil wrote:Did you lose your kilt somewhere?

I hate to ask, but what the fuck does that mean?

I think he's trying to say something about "No True Scotsman"

Oh okay, so nothing to do with what I posted. Just a snarky drive by.

virgil wrote:

hamstertamer wrote:No one wants to sit at table on Friday night playing a game with actual geek/nerds.

Did you lose your kilt somewhere?

I hate to ask, but what the fuck does that mean?

Already been done. They had interactive tools for 3rd edition (and probably other editions as well). Single player walk-throughs, examples of combat, everything, all done before. Nothing original about using interactive tools. Nothing original about explaining what an RPG is. So, therefore, that's ...

These were great once you were already a player; they keep you playing the game and buying more stuff. But none of them are outward-facing. To bring new people into the hobby you need to actually give people a safe way to learn the game that doesn't include putting yourself out there in front of a ...

The issue has more to do with what David Rozansky said in the comments then what the angry DM said... tl/dr: WotC was great at selling RPGs before being bought out by Hasbro. Three great selling tools of old Wotc were: 1) The RPGA was "greatest older-cousin network ever." 2) The OGL and D...

M:tG, by its very nature, inherently has much lower barriers to entry, on multiple levels. So, it's not that hard to rope in new players. A starter deck is only a few dollars (money) the rules are much simpler and easier to learn (effort) you play a hand and can move on to something else (time) you...

Now we get to see the mental gymnastics the 5mind goes through to rationalize how shitty all these monsters are. When I showed them the Pit Fiend, they said it was great that they don't have interesting abilities because 3e Pit Fiends took a long time to fight. That's just the current mindset of th...

Hang around 2E D&D grognards more. When they're pressed into talking about the merits of their edition, once you tear down the 'blargh, we had useful fighters back then!' talking point the whole 'you kids are spoiled with your +30 attack rolls these days' talking point isn't far behind. Wait di...

Few weeks back I was chatting with one game designer and question of immersion came up so I thought out this is something worth discussing. Role-playing games do not have rules that make players to role play. Role playing is a voluntary activity that comes from immersion of Player to game being pla...