The Gaming Den

Time for fbmf to make that archive available, I think.

Wow, I sure would have egg on my face right about now if I had made a thread about how 5e is actually a huge step up or something crazy like that.

Kitchen

Appears to trigger the word filter... It makes it hard to talk about kitchen-sink fantasy.

TI is an hour of fun crammed into an entire goddamn day. I'll stick to Galaxy Trucker, thanks.

MGuy wrote:I am now wondering if dead is actually a conservative.

It took you this long? Dead is very, very obviously and openly a conservative, though not a Republican. People like him were more common about 60 years ago.

One problem with social combat that you'd have to resolve is that in many circumstances, even when the issue has clearly been settled in the minds of any onlookers, there's nothing that really forces anyone to stop talking. Even when you've driven your interlocutor into a full-blown narcissistic mel...

I never expected to describe Frank Trollman as "pathetic," but here we are. Quitting the forum "forever," changing your handle, and slinking back months later to issue a parting shot loaded with self-serving faux martyrdom - as though you haven't been reading every word since you...

The irony of Prak making performative displays of aggression over what are very transparently old grievances with another poster in the very thread in which we're discussing how performative aggression and old grievances have killed the forum is sweeter than the finest wine.

fbmf, if you choose to shutter the forum, can you please make a backup available for download from your Google Drive or MegaUpload or suchlike? I don't know how much more valuable content the community is going to produce going forward, but there is certainly a huge amount of valuable material here ...

You are all full of shit. The coronavirus is 100% a media psyop hoax. They're just taking flu statistics and moving them over to "covid". They've got the whole world fooled. Trump knows, he just wont play into their hand, they want him to go to war with China over a fairy tale. They, just...

I thought he quit RPGs altogether like twenty years ago. He did . According to his LinkedIn he started working for Microsoft in 2001 and stayed there for 10 years before doing product development work for a string of tech companies (including and most recently Amazon) until August 2018 when he came...

There's a bit of a double standard here in that casters expect to have full access to the spell list and to be able to pick and choose, whereas if a fighter brings the same expectation it's frowned on. I know people regularly bitch about the idea that you can walk into a town and trade a bunch of du...

If you're weary, the extra d6s have their 1, 2, and 3 converted to zero , which means that being tired makes a bigger difference for highly skilled characters and relatively easy tasks. For a character with one skill dot against a “moderate” difficulty (target number 14), the chances of success do ...

Apparently, this is not how it works. The blessing cannot be transmitted via streaming, because there is something integral to the ritual in the priest physically being there. Apparently the blessing of the eucharist has an area of effect and cannot work over video. But now I want to test this. Lik...

Illinois just closed all restaurants (except drive-through and delivery) and last night my place of business implemented mandatory work from home for everyone whose job allows it.

The mayor of Chicago refused to close public schools, but the governor forced the issue by ordering all schools in the state be closed for the next 3 weeks at least. It's long past time from a social distancing strategic perspective, but this is really going to hit poor people even harder since scho...

Didn't Molly do the hand razors thing because firearms were heavily restricted in the Sprawl? I seem to recall that Johnny Mnemonic opens with him making his own shells for a sketchy black market shotgun because it wasn't a world where you could easily get your hands on crazy military cybernetic fir...

The moment the surgeon general said that circumcision has no medical benefit should probably have been the last time anyone in America talked about continuing the practice seriously. Times change: There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV in...

To have any discussion about the prequels sucking one has to assume the Redlettermedia material has already been consumed by all parties present and move forward with those points accepted. With that put forward a few additional details are relevant. It is inarguable that in the 70's a filmmaking g...

The issue is that what should be happening with the arid plains is the farmers should be fencing off larger areas. Making up for poorer yields per acre by just running goats and pigs on larger areas. The farms still make 20 Koku, they are just physically larger farms. Unlike the Hills or the Jungle...

Once you've devoted time to giving players the ability to build irrigation improvements, you might want to obviate that ability entirely at the next tier (in the same sense that lockpicking is basically irrelevant at some point.) You might not! Yeah, that's pretty much the page that I'm on: current...

Could something like an advanced background help with the sages/specialist question? What I’m thinking is that a creature can trade out their ability to gain levels for a Profession that gives them a bunch of skills and abilities related to that profession. In successive tiers there are better prof...

Some people like it, but Civ V didn't do it for me. Doing something else while other players are on a bathroom break seems to me to be a bit antisocial but not really disruptive. I don't know how it can be anything other than rude and disruptive to play Civ while other people are taking their turns,...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:What about when it's the GM?

It's certainly more alarming when it's the GM, but Whiysper's advice still applies. You have to talk about it and actually ask the problem player why they're doing what they're doing. I don't know your table dynamic; was the GM shanghaied into running the campaign?