The Gaming Den

I think curses should give penalties in the immediate and as curse wounds pile up you should probably turn into a frog

I like the distribution on 2d8 much more than I like 3d6. Here's what I was think of today at work.[br][br]If you set the basic damage that someone does on a hit to 2d8+Stat+level. Then you give as defense DR equal to another stat + level, things work out pretty nice. [br][br]I would say that improv...

Paladins, a crafter wizard and a Barbarian/Necromancer can't pull their weight by third level? Obviously the druid is the problem.

Well the old way was balanced in that crits always just added an extra percent to your average damage. Really easy to figure out and balance.[br]Also extra crit chance and extra crit multiplier were balance. The number of critical hits was dependent on your chance to hit so there was no case where e...

I like the idea of Centaurs or even indeed a mishmash of varios taurs as the last race. Especially if modeled after persian magi or Bhojaka

Their dharma problem could be because of not being endogamous enough. If you catch my drift.

The easiest way to keep track would be to make hitpoints the last digit on your "damageometer" and every time you run out you take a wound level and go back up to full, subtract any excess etc.[br][br]I'm guessing though that we want some other specific condition to happen when HP's drop t...

I don't like rolling for hit points I think it's unnecessary but I fully support rolling for stats.[br][br]As for wound levels, I imagine that they would be a building penalty against certain actions. So that traps/early combats could have a lasting effect on a character and have HP change up and do...

I say "speed of light" because to me causality goes along with thermodynamics as one of those things that should really just be obeyed in the game world. I'm cool with breaking just about anything else.[br][br]I really like the matrix rules btw, I'll be using them if I have a chance to pla...

1194827494[/unixtime]]Wow, that thread is still going? Last time I was on that thread, I was trying to help you understand that you can't actually send information through quantum entanglement (though it could be used for encryption keys that can't be hacked). [br][br][br]You mean you can't send in...

Currently have: An B Sc. in Math and Physics (joint). And an abortive attempt at actuarial studies.[br][br]Currently working: As an manager in a wine store. (One of the 8 private ones in manitoba, the only one with a lisence to sell spirits.[br][br]Currently looking: To move into the exciting field ...

I think people also need to remember. A disproportionate number of games come out of Japan. Black people aren't even on their radar.

They want to make you pay extra to get some mordenkainen with your D&D

Why do the commanders have to be the main characters.[br][br]I've seen a lot of other scifi where the main characters are just joe blow trying to get along in the world (in space) and the commanders are cool but not hands on.[br][br]I don't think that recycling the worst parts of star trek has anyth...

yeah nominal is the column you ignore because the effects of inflation have not been factored in.[br][br]This means that while the GDP was higher in Dollar value in 1929 than in 1936. Things cost less in 1936 so the fact that people weren't quite making as much is irrelevant. [br][br]You can look at...

Umm all of the sources Crissa posted indicate that the GDP was back to 1929 level by 1936 after which there was a slight downturn. Note that the gdp never falls below the 1929 level after 1936.

Please bother to read the sources you're telling people to read.

The fiendish brute appears all in bold and title sized font on my computer. Which is thematic but hard to read.

Then Law isn't stagnation it's regression. (To a time in the past percieved as being better than now.)[br][br]I don't think creating entropy is a useful or particularly sensible goal. Attempting to achieve the heat death of the universe doesn't seem to me to be an ideal anyone would strive for. Even...

Well since the government is what makes property rights possible I really don't see this as being at all a suprise. Ideally though this should be working the other way, we should be buldozing walmarts to build homes.[br]This doesn't change that the best way to aquire property is to heap debt on the ...

Ok So I got a little drunk and went cd shopping the other day.[br][br]It's not like it hasn't happened to everyone. . .[br][br]But I got a DVD of Nick Cave Videos, Leonard Cohen's first album, Cat Power's You are Free, The Valley of Giants (to round off my Arts and Crafts Collection) and Belle &...

I went to a show last night it was pretty freaking awesome. I got to see Montag , Apostle of Hustle and Stars all for the low low price of $15 CDN. Man I love going to shows a small bars where you can wrestle your way to a few feet from the band just cause you want it so bad you can deal with the dr...

I've been playtesting the idea since it was posted. It works well if you tune your numbers to a pace you feel comfortable with.

Yeah there's invertable formulae mapping the natural numbers to the evens and the odds y= x/2 for even and y= (x+1)/2 for odds where y is the corresponding natural number. So they have the same size. As far as I know aleph-nought is the "smallest" infinity. So any infinite subset of the Ra...

I don't like the beetles much but GWAR is freaking awesome.

I just bought some CD's yesterday. All the Smiths stuff was going for $7.99 CDN and I thought to myself ... "Finally I can justify owning the Smiths, not listenting mind you, just owning."[br][br]Then I picked up Hayden's Elk-Lake Serenade and GYBE!'s Lift your fists like skinny antennas t...

Honestly I have trouble seeing why a good enough hider can't just be fucking invisible. The example that keeps coming up with striking someone in broad daylight without cover of darkness and having them not see you should pretty much be the pinnacle of what the hide skill can accomplish. If inproved...