The Gaming Den

Yes. I found its pace to be much to my disliking, a sentiment the person I was trying the game with agreed to on review of the game. My memory is that Infinity's rules allow very powerful reactions, seemingly more powerful than their actual actions. This can make the game feel very punishing. Imagi...

NotoriousAMP: A 4'x4' table is roughly 1.2 metres on a side. If a 28mm model represents a 1.8m tall human, then that 4'x4' table is the equivalent of 80m on a side. As a result, if you're doing it to scale then this is firmly in close quarters firefight territory. There is no real difference betwee...

Considering we are talking about a platoon sized game (750 points 40k) I would suggest using the command stance system from Fantasy Flight Game's Battles of Napoleon, Eagle and the Lion: Here's the rulebook, skip[ to page 23 . Essentially you draw command chits from a cup for each of your unit group...

Personally I would suggest basing the game off of movement and the suppression there of. Normally the main way you foil someone's goals is by causing casualties, which is 1- highly unrealistic and 2- renders most models into wound counters while the ones who aren't basically can tank oceans of lead ...

Another thing to remember is that Sci Fi warfare is fought under different numbers and density of forces. For example, take WW2. At its peak, you probably had a combined total of close to 70-80 million men under arms. Of these the Eastern front probably had 15 million crammed into it. Even in mass s...

I've been really interested in reading about dogfights and such from WW2, but most WW2 tabletop games I've heard of are focused on land battles. I see WWII aerial battles as one of the last instances of 'dueling' in war where individual skill could really shine. There are a few boardgames which rep...

In 1450, the entire population of Japan was 10 million. In 1453, Mehmed II brought 300,000 soldiers to a battle. The most powerful military force on Earth during that period was the Ottoman Empire. Anyone who says anything differently is talking crazy talk. The runner up for the 15th century is of ...

No, they shouldn't because, that is not what actual fantasy samurai are like. You can argue that's what fantasy Samurai should be but actual Japanese people will think you're weird for it in the same way westerners would think you're weird if you said the archetypal knight should be a morally ambig...

We can, however, tell you that Samurai were not so fond of their swords when they were actual warriors, because bows are a better weapon and emphasising your swordsmanship meant downplaying your bow skill. Source please. I am aware that Samurai were trained to use bows, particularly while riding a ...

that may be in large parts because the winner gets to write history as he likes it i guess? Sort of. Japan had a lot more centralized control for longer than Europe so samurai were always more professional mercenaries than knights. Though you have some romanticism during the civil wars of the 1100'...

Do not listen to this advice, this advice wants to you to try and make things more realistic. Reality is frustrating and unintuitive. You do not want really for reals feudal Japan you want Samurai Warriors where peasant conscripts get bows or if they're really lucky early rifles that occasionally e...

Vegetarianism is expensive. That's a much larger factor. For the peasant of the time, who primarily subsisted on wheat, pulses and beans, there really wasn't that big a difference between vegetarianism and every day except a special one. Only in Northern Europe during the early middle ages (pre pop...

She's so traditional Japanese that she learned naginata in high school Are you sure? O.o Naginata? Really? Isn't that a Pole-Arm Infantry Versus Cavalry Weapon? If so, that's one badass Grandma you have there o.O Funnily enough, the naginata is actually considered a woman's weapon in Japan. The add...

I'd go for more of an adept style flavor to the samurai. They don't really fly though the air and such (most Anime is based on post 1600's Japanese myths and the like), but they have ludicrous self control and toughness. So basically self buffing and hyper aware. Also, THEY DO NOT USE KATANAS AS THE...

Capernicus (the round earth guy) was in charge of a farming community when he was in his 30s. He kept very meticulous records, and there are times mentioned when serfs ran away, and he sent letters to other areas about getting them back, and also arranged hunting parties to retrieve them. This was ...

My biggest tips for running an Urban Indian campaign is to emphasize wealth, progress and grandeur with immense tensions lying in the background. Medieval India was basically a tale of successive waves of Persianate and then Turkic dynasties pouring in from Uzbekistan and Pakistan, setting up shop i...

Just take a perusal through the books of Ezekiel and Revelations. They aren't that long and are super freaking trippy. You'd get a better feel for the monsters than through more modern interpretation books. Plus, big thing to remember is that when angels say, "I come in peace", in the bibl...

Special note: the only one of my PCs that appears in an official Shadowrun book is Chun the Unavoidable, who was a Rigger and an Aspected Conjurer in 3rd edition because I am an unrepetent powergamer. He appears unnamed on page 118 of Augmentation having had his arm lopped off, and named on page 13...

I like how Warhammer Bestiary split the descriptions into... 1) "Rumors about X": A peasant tells you that time he met a guy who fought a wight 2) "First hand encounter with X": A merc tells you what it was like to meet that wight 3) "From X's mouth": The Wight tells y...

The problem with zero to hero stories without a special power is that fiction needs to make sense. In fiction land, the special snowflake stuff comes from magical powers and the like. In the real world, it usually 1- comes from having an at least middle class upbringing with families who highly valu...

And at the end of the day, it's not even important if PCs are immune to hacking or not. Which of course is the situation in Shadowrun. Characters are expected to provide defense against the things they specialize in defending against. Mages defend against spells with counterspelling, Hackers defend...

All my characters have a fear of snakes. I think this started as a gag where all my deadlands characters had that as a hindrance... one almost had a heart attack on the scairt table when we encountered a Mojave Rattler. Dear God that sounds like it must have been an awesome moment. I once marshalle...

As for the tracing and the like, that doesn't matter on the tabletop (and if you were on the tabletop, why wouldn't you just shut down his arm and then kill him when he's defenseless, if it was just another melee attack?) and off the tabletop, while the tracing idea is cool, it really comes down to...

In Deadlands I always stay at least 20 feet away from the guy carrying the dynamite. That and I always assume that someone's dark secret is the only way to kill them.

Plus, damage dealing needs to be a protected role of the street sammy Honestly fuck you. That's bullshit. Poor wording, I don't mean the ability to do damage needs to be protected. I mean that Street Sammies need to be kept more lethal than the rest. With all the magical armor and the like running ...