The Gaming Den

My issue with the Leverage system is a little different from PL's. To my reading, it seems to be the case that: a) Any skill can be used, with a good enough story. b) There is no limit to the number of times a skill can be used. c) There is no point at which you have to stop trying to add beats. Poi...

Make the demi-plane be an improbably large clockwork setup, with gears and wheels and springs and bars large enough for people to stand on. Moving platforms and three dimensions make for interesting fight scenes.

For those not aware, Games Workshop lost a really, really big intellectual property lawsuit against a company called Chapterhouse in 2013. The judges ruled that Chapterhouse was allowed to continue making and selling replica 40k stuff and GW couldn't stop them. Kirby is attempting to spin this as &...

It's interesting that this thread came up again. I was thinking about this as a result of discussing intra-party betrayals with a friend, and I came up with the following. The idea was that regardless of alignment, the entire party is still on the same side and has the same goal; alignment merely de...

I counted a whole 1 minute 28 seconds during that video in which George R R Martin was maliciously not writing the next ASOIAF book. It's like he actively wants to make the series overtake him.

So I just watched the LEGO movie for the first time. The first two thirds is pretty much Robot Chicken: the Movie. The last third is a sudden, weird sidetrack into gnosticism. It is glorious. It +1'd The Matrix. If you haven't seen it, seriously, do so.

And most of it wasn't overpowered in the least, it was crap like "my 14th level barbarian deals 1d6 damage to anything that hits him in melee that doesn't overcome DR, and I'm going to remind you every hit even though the bad guys have DR 10/whatever and even if they didn't 14th level things a...

That's... not even close to being good reasoning, Frank. Let's take it from the top. Firstly, not every combination needs to be populated. There are no Red Talon homids. There are also close to no Fianna or Red Talon metis, because they either kill them or else fob them off to other tribes. There ar...

oWoD Wraith was fairly civilisation-based. I mean, people would enslave one another and soulforge one another into ashtrays and stuff, but there was a general feeling of camraderie and being in a civilisation together. It's a shame that Wraith was, as the common refrain goes, too good an idea to act...

Under the Skin was pretty cool. When I came out of that cinema, the young lady and I were discussing interpretations for ages. It's the sort of film that you can actually chew over in your mind.

There are nowhere near enough vampires to maintain all the clans, and anywhere near enough vampires to support all the clans would shit the masquerade up immediately. Is this simply due to the numbers the books purport, or could just the idea of clans as lineages--not large organizations composed o...

"These lands?" asks The Wolf, gulping down the last of the mutton. "No. We're from up north by Orsha. We arrived with the covenant."

I'll handle seasonal activities in the OOC thread once everyone's declared them.

My opinion is that the Aegis doesn't need to penetrate.

When I ran my African Mage campaign, I used the following demographics: 1 True Mage per million people 1 hedge mage (that is, a static mage) per ten thousand people 1 consor (that is, unawakened but doesn't cause Paradox) per ten thousand people 1 other supernatural (that is, vampire or werecreature...

There is some gear that i would think could be beneficial up there. Cyberlimb Magnetic System, foot anchors, gecko hands . . All these will help you actually stay where you want to be. One could argue that getting an internal airtank might be able to help in some situations, but at the same time, i...

"In meantime", says The Wolf, "My constitutents will patrol area. Will warn of hazards." Building a lab only takes the attentions of a single magus (technically anyone with MT of at least 3 can build one) and takes two seasons: one to get it to a state of basic usability, and the...

I'm an idiot. If you use a Force 10 air spirit then you only need to get up to 800 metres a second, better known as Mach 2.4, which is eminently doable. (I assume an air spirit also helps to overcome air resistance involved in travelling at that speed.) The question then becomes which is cheaper, hi...

Orbital velocity doesn't have to be gained directly upwards. Moving at 8km/s in any direction at all that isn't straight towards the planet will get you into low orbit. Add a little extra to account for air resistance, and it isn't actually that unachievable. The construction of a perfectly straight...

The most powerful superpower that I have ever seen in anything was a character in The Authority who could see ten seconds into the future at all times. I recommend that you do not take this since no sane GM will allow it. If you want to go for cheesy but also awesome, then I recommend control over e...

Now we need to know wether or not the earths manasphere extends up to orbit or not. and if not, where does it end and why. If it ends x meters above the highest point on the ground, you go to mount everest or the kilimanjaro or whatever the highest mountain around may be and can lift stuff higher t...

A Greatform Elemental can lift literally everything in a force based number of meter radius sphere. So if you have big spirits you can lift very very heavy objects. -Username17 This is true, but it won't get you into orbit, no matter how high it lifts you. This plays into a very common misconceptio...

Yeah, 20nuyen per kilogram is nothing compared to the 1k per kilogram mentioned on the same page. but you can't get fragile things such as living beings up like that. And yes, no matter how chromed out your samurai or rigger in a jar is, it still counts as a living being <.< Has anything been done ...

And i repeat: why do it up there? Most anything done up there will come down here at some point, else doing things up there would not be worth it, because you have no market for stuff up there . . Deck into the Lab from the ground, steal project data, move remote controlled equipment to have protot...

I'm looking forward to spectating this one. I've never seen 2E played and it'd be interesting to see how many of the legends are in fact true.

° I think that bad movies should not attempt intentional humor, because bad movies are already jokes to begin with, and it's hard (if not impossible) to make a parody of a parody. To me, So Bad It's Good is unintentional deadpan humor. The enjoyment comes from the fact that the maker(s) thought wha...

It makes it hard for the magician to get his rocks off that session. Yes, that's true. It's like the jungle session where the decker has to fall back on other skills, or the combat-heavy session where the face doesn't get to use Etiquette. It happens occasionally. Shadowrun is a game about specialis...