The Gaming Den

Since Comprehend13 wasn't here when last I asked, assuming it is the correct move to give failed banks lots of government money to stay afloat, why should they be bailed out rather than bought out? You failed as a private business, now you get to be nationalised. Probably something to the effect of...

MGuy wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:09 pm

Why respond to the car thing and not the more substantive criticisms of your screed?

Because I'm posting from my phone and doing extensive typing on it is annoying.

I'm sure you clowns can jerk each other off until I'm back at a sensible keyboard.

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:31 pm

Bullshit you do.

Would be an odd thing to lie about, given how unarduous it is to prove it.





I drive a 2011 Honda CR-Z, and have for... six, seven years?

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:13 pm

When they come to take away mah needlessly giant car

I drive a tiny hybrid.

But go on, do keep attacking that strawman. I'm sure someone will find it compelling.

You are just on a hair trigger about your gun nut love and therefore read any mildly poetic criticism of the US military as actually about trying to take away your 14th rifle. You know what? I'm done. You constantly intentionally mischaracterize anyone who vaguely disagrees with you, and I'm sick o...

For one you're already essentially eating the bug, metaphorically if not literally, and confiscating private jets is great for show but doesn't at all get at the heart of the disaster we're facing. My understanding is that those private jets output an absurd amount of CO2, and given how often these...

I think confiscating every private jet and thereafter banning private air travel would be a good start and something I'd gladly support.

But if you tell me the solution is to "eat the bugs," you can come attempt to make me do so at gunpoint.

JonSetanta wrote: ↑

Mon May 02, 2022 10:58 pm

I read the Summoner and found it to be well balanced.

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

Wait hang on, I've got it. We have a new housemate so we had a traditional celebration so I've had something like ten standard drinks and have come to a great realisation: crafting is performed by finding ingredients, that are all in Tetris piece style shapes. And you have to fill a grid (cleanly) ...

I spent some time going over the summoner class -- thanks for posting something substantial here. I appreciate you taking the time to look it over. Superficially, my max summons cr is much higher, especially at later levels, but you don't have any time limits from what I see on the summons Correct,...

I've been doing pet classes as part of my approach to my 5e homebrew. Here are a couple examples: Summoner , Gestalt . I'm not sure how well either of those contribute to the discussion, but I think they hit on some points that have been brought up, and might be useful fodder for "this is reaso...

You have jumped the shark.

Kaelik wrote:So you are saying that I'm correct right now?

I'm saying that you're a lying, dishonest jackass, and I have no interest in further discussion with you.

Welcome to my ignore list.

Bye.

Not so! I am totally capable of articulating Kaelik's 'plan'. It's just that doing so is against the forum rules regarding advocating for the death of real world people. You divined from a post where I said "Doing this wouldn't help" that actually I have a plan for improving the world tha...

The Den's original sin was pretty much this. It subscribed to the idea that is now popularly called "Radical Honesty". Its premise is that by being completely honest - even to the point of being an asshole - you'd be able to greatly improve your design and not come up with "obvious&q...

Races I've also started referring to races as "peoples," but I'm probably going to use those terms interchangeably here and throughout my writing. Over the years, my relationship with typical fantasy races has been really rocky. I've never liked elves: specifically I've never liked how th...

Gnome, if you were on the other side of the screen would you prefer a different system? I'm not sure how much I actually like being on the other side of the screen, at this point, but that's less about system and more about... general approach to gaming, I think. I'm currently in a PF game, being r...

I have yet to meet a D&D vet (even a 4e vet!) who prefers 5th. Do we even have one on the Den? I might qualify, at this point. But I'm running PF APs in 5e using a bunch of homebrew converted from my 3.X setting, and using a 5e homebrewed monster design paradigm that is basically a port of 4e. ...

Yeah, the two short rests back-to-back is admittedly a problem. One thing to keep in mind here, I think, is that void debt is intended to be the casting resource. So the voidchild - the void primary caster class - is using this system in lieu of spell slots. I intentionally made hollow not focus on ...

Spitballing: You could go with enemies doing more damage to you. "For each level of void debt that you have incurred, enemies do 1d6 additional damage to you when they damage you with an attack." This scales gracefully as the Hollow's HP and damage mitigation goes up, and it gives the sen...

The penalties imposed by each level of void debt are absolutely the biggest concern. As I said, past iterations had little to no teeth, but I'm concerned I may have gone a bit too far in the other direction. If anyone has a proposal for still effective progression that has some bite, but is maybe le...

To give folks some greater context and see what I mean when I say that I want classes that are the same role but from different beams to feel different, I figured I'd throw the time tank out here. This one has the quanta (time's spell-equivalents) list at the end, but as no one is currently playing ...

You have a Borg class and a Mimic. That means I would, at the very least, consider playing your game... and I dunk on 5e for being boring as shit all the time. I think the issue, ultimately, is that the core D&D classes are bland. It's nothing against them, they're just old hat, at this point. ...

OgreBattle wrote:What are the kata like?

Here you go. Note that only 1st and 2nd level katas are written, at the moment.

I don't think I see any of the Katas? Yeah, this doc doesn't have them, unfortunately. Trying to be better about that, and including all the stuff for a class in its doc when I print them to pdf like this. Most of them are translations of various things taken from the shadow magic section of the 3e...