The Gaming Den

Didn't there used to be links to the different Tome threads in this thread? If so, I'm sure not seeing 'em here.

After the forum came back online (big thanks to Zherog et al.), I wanted to go take another look the Tomes and haven't been able to.

Today's Study Question: What are the pros and cons of Democrats getting to 51 (or even 50+KH tier breaker) in Senate? Game On, fbmf Pros: [*]Able to actually get legislation passed, including a competent COVID economic relief bill. [*]Able to pack the supreme court so the 6-3 of insanity can be neu...

Glad to see political discourse creeping back into the Den. I've missed it... Though I do wish the election being discussed were going otherwise. It really does look like Biden's gonna win this thing (though how things'll shape up in the House and Senate has yet to be determined, as if this weren't ...

2020 in one frame:

Not a quote, precisely, but I feel like it nonetheless speaks volumes.

Just got up to Chapter 4. The first chapter didn't really grab me, which IMHO is a big problem. The next few got better, but (again, IMHO) the first one is more important. Lots of exposition, lots of names I may or may not have to remember before things get going. That's not to say it isn't picking...

Good proposed revisions, Whatever. Thanks. I've tweaked Ch15 accordingly. Also, "cheese and soapstone carvings" should be "soapstone carvings and cheese" unless you mean they traded for this: HA! Though if the steaders of Ballinack thought cheese sculptures would entice more cara...

This is good stuff. I noticed that I'd occasionally stumble over an awkward, overlong sentence but that happened more in the initial chapters than the later ones. Ah, that'd probably be because it took a bit for my proofreaders and me to find a good routine for the weekly release schedule. They're ...

I'm working my way through this and it's beautifully written. I can quibble with some decisions, particularly in pacing, but this is interesting fantasy fare that I consider well written enough for publication. Good job! I am eager for more (at chapter 9 right now). Thank you for checking it out, f...

The idea that halflings get physically sick as they get further away from their village was interesting. I'm interested in seeing more of your take on the world. I guess if I had to think of feedback, this seemed more like an introduction / prequel than a chapter. It felt like it was over as soon a...

Thanks for checking it out, You Lost Me. Did anything stand out as being particularly good or bad? Was anything problematic, confusing, or compelling? I'm curious how the setting (or, at least, what of it is visible through the story thus far) comes across, especially from fellow Gaming Den folks si...

Amalgam: Book One The world of Amalgam is made of many things, mixed poorly and left to simmer. Several centuries ago, the hobs stole the secret of iron-working from the dwarves and carved for themselves an empire larger than any other. Slaves would be taught civilization and made into citizens, ev...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Goddamn, that's one hell of a nose on him. Shit takes up like a third of his face.

Of course it is. After all, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow nose.

A new update of note came out recently! The highlights are: A modest overhaul of the Jotun nations' lineups (EA Niefelheim, MA Jotunheim, LA Utgård) as well as the introduction of a new splinter nation: LA Vaettiheim, a nation of goblins and Gygja An visual overhaul on the Jotun nations, with some r...

It's probably been addressed already, because this thread is long and has been around for a while, but it would bear repeating how exotic polities are handled such as undead. You've conquered an area that was formerly ruled by malevolent efreeti who subsist on smoke, but they like the taste of wines...

With that being the case, having more polities is obviously better. Each new polity does one or more of the following: nothing, give you better hex yields, give you more troop recruitment options. And that means that the optimal state for any domain is to have any and all polities present, period, r...

The double-counting issue is a good one to preempt. As the others have said, I quite like that abstraction of looking at the hexes in aggregate rather than tracking things individually. So what if you had to apportion the hexes based on the polities present. For example, if there are 8 hill hexes an...

They also have the Houri who's a sexy chocolate genie lady that can seduce even commanders inside a sieged fort but that one demands nature which isn't a native path either. In the other hand the spell itself costs only air gems and only needs nature level of 1 so if you build up a random pile of n...

Yeah, Ind and Na'Ba are pretty fascinating nations. A couple things to add/correct: 1) MA Ind has guaranteed Order 3... in their capital. Outside of their capital, it's whatever your scales are. And since the number of barbarians you can freespawn a province/rnd is tied to your turmoil scales, you'r...

Erfworld has been circling the drain of non-updates for longer than I can readily recall. Two years? Four? More? Like, how long has it been since there was a direct update on Parson and that whole Toolist crusade thing, and not a seemingly endless line of weird text digressions on distant, unrelated...

Dungeon Keeper Ami is a crossover fanfic wherein Sailor Mercury gets chucked into the world of the Dungeon Keeper games, having to make use of the powers thereof to try and save her soul and two worlds from assorted capital-E Evils. A couple of things: This is an Army of Darkness/Erfworld/HP:MoR/ [...

Also Shinuyama's recruitable flute vampire guys (I forget the name) now have Invulnerable-15. With that, their sleep aura, and their drain life attack, one to two of those plus a dai-bakemono bodyguard are an effective expansion force. Also, the bakemono got made cheaper for mountain provinces (5gp ...

As an aside, the Yellow suicide cults remind me strongly of the Paimon prosperity cult from the movie Hereditary . Spoiler for large image. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/e/ea/King-paimon-hereditary-1.png https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0078/0442/products/8cab8c3d-414c-4211-93...

See, this to me indicates a legitimacy rating. We don't want to go full Paradox and have it be a 0 - 100 rating, because this isn't a computer game where hardware will track and tabulate modifiers, modifiers modifying modifiers, and bonus/penalty decay rates for you. But a -5 to +5 scale which is li...

Slaves have half upkeep and they can recruit chaff for 8gp and 5 resources. An indie commander with a couple dozen patrolling isn't too pricey, in terms of upfront cost or upkeep. That said chaff carries a shield, spear, and javelin means it might actually accomplish something if it ever needs to en...

I'm still experimenting with 'em but LA Pangaea's Centuride Crossbows is pretty interesting. 30gp for an archer is, historically, a bad idea. However, they have a precision of 15 for their crossbows, so they actually hit stuff, the fact that they're stronger translates into more damage on the accura...