The Gaming Den

I think the core problem is that you really shouldn't try to have concrete systems for diplomacy, because that's really something the GM has to do himself. Convincing someone to do something is very much a matter of who the character is and how the players have acted. While their should be light str...

silva wrote:Small butt, but the tits compensate.

Let me rectify this problem then, not the best photo, but it gets the point across.

Edit: accidental double post. Please accept this photo as my apology:

I would say that Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a good example of where the rules fit the game well. Definitely agree that Shadowrun has a huge disconnect between its genre and the atmosphere it wants and the atmosphere it actually produces. Deadlands classic also had a huge problem combining over co...

Recruiting players for a skype based Deadlands (any flavor of such, Weird West, Noir, Hell on Earth) game. System is going to be savage worlds unmodified, easy character set up and pretty simple game play. I live in St. Louis, so time wise it would be GMT-6, ideally on sundays or weekday evenings, o...

Maxus wrote:That'd be In The Trenches. That forum's for game stories, and playing games.

Whoops, thanks!

Would it be possible to find a place in gaming den for a section where people can recruit gaming den folks for a campaign?

With a large population, the beggar side of the equation can be approximated as an income. From the hero side, something that occurs to me is to have donating to beggars be a way of turning turnip-economy goods into good-aligned social currency, which can be spent on things like, "convincing a...

It would be interesting to see if the demons of the more bureaucratic chinese hell (YaoGuai) could be worked into this setting. Would be scary as fuck to be on the run from someone who wants to make you suffer for someone else's sins that accidentally got placed on your balance sheet. This can basi...

It would be interesting to see if the demons of the more bureaucratic chinese hell (YaoGuai) could be worked into this setting. Would be scary as fuck to be on the run from someone who wants to make you suffer for someone else's sins that accidentally got placed on your balance sheet.

RIFTS books are particularly fun to read. But we all know how the rules are to that game The advantage of converting RIFTS or other games to another system is that you already have a sense of the respective power levels coming in. The fluff is great and the crunch (even if the system is shite) can ...

When I first jointed up I had no idea what MC stood for precisely, but could tell from context that it was (yet another) stand in for DM. Later I became curious enough to dig around and find out what it meant (relative to this community) and ended up finding out it was funny. It's a 'regional' nick...

While I can't really argue against "every gaming group wants different things", the proper answer to this line of argumentation is: so what? No, seriously. Relativism can be a reality when you're actually playing the game, but for the designing stage, it's a poisonous concept. Because it ...

The basic lesson of Conan is that people being shitty to each other for selfish gains makes everyone suffer (and lovecraftian horrors behefit from that kind of negativity), but having someone you can trust your life to is the most precious thing in the world. This sentence basically nails down the ...

I think I'm more comfortable with letting hackers go Aizen on Luddites with holograms than I am with brain-hacking that works similar to Hollywood computer hacking, honestly. It does fit well into their role of "force multiplier" on the tabletop (Edit: forgot I had already said that, sorr...

Conan the Barbarian fits perfectly into Lovecraft inspired settings. Conan is from a Lovecraft inspired setting, because his author and Lovecraft collaborated. I know that, but I phrased it differently, I was assuming that the fact that Lovecraft and Howard collaborated wasn't exactly common knowle...

No matter what you do, you have to answer the question "why are Deckers going on Shadowruns?" if you aren't answering that question, then your Decking rues are useless. I would argue that Deckers should fall somewhat into the same role as the face of the party. They can be force multiplie...

Because that Lovecraftian mood which is all about unimaginable, unknowable otherness and greater beings you cannot begin to understand meshes so well with brutalo movie settings that fetishize detailed displays of explicit violence. Hm. I assume he means new lovecraftian, you know basically generic...

Fixed the tag error, kinda surprised the forum is so fragile.

Frank- okay, I understand it a lot better now, good point.

TheNotoriousAMP, can you start another thread? Shit has gone way past bananas. Yeah, but I'd rather wait a week or so so we've got something a bit more concrete to discuss. For about a page or two it's basically been people fighting, talking past each other or retreading the same stuff, kinda nice ...

You need to fix your tags. From the perspective of spectators, these threads are way more entertaining with the awesome take downs. Game Design is dry. The insults make it fun. While you might prefer not to be called an idiot, the people reading along at home are more likely to learn something abou...

As I said, there's batshit insane opposing forces here. It's like there's a case of anterograde amnesia and no new memories can be formed because there isn't a coherent design here there's just an ejaculatory list of things that sound cool at the moment without any thought about how they interact a...

You really need to sit back and look at the majesty of this thread. There are so many people talking past each other in the last 3 pages with at least 4 separate conversations going on PLUS hentai-scripting images that sort of popped up out of left field. Forget everything you've personally posted ...

Lets all start keeping score of how many times Zak demands apologies, cause that shit is consistently hilarious. Better, just demand one from him for whatever you happen to dislike at that moment in every one of your posts. Zak, I demand an apology for the lack of an appropriate emoticon for this p...

MMOs can be on par with MOBAs. Similar crowd I think. An FAQ / KB could be potentially awesome for TGD, assuming it's put together well. I think it's maybe because they rely on group action, so a person who doesn't know the game drags down the group. Problem is that MMO's and MOBA's are online so y...