The Gaming Den

While the others examine the corridor, Betsy retrieves and straps on her armor, a stiff leather breastplate with accompanying bracers, greaves, and shoulder guards. She also retrieves a long wooden pole from one of the carts. Scorched, scarred, and pitted, this pole has clearly seen better days. Ret...

Betsy favors Atani with a small glare. "It is Miss Pemberton-Tambling, Atani. It simply will not do to have you calling me anything else. And no, it shan't be long. I can have this open in but a moment." So saying, Betsy bends over the keyhole, and withdraws a small bit of metal from a pou...

So it's assumed that we've all already met and talked a little shop with each other. Discussed our abilities, our histories a bit perhaps. Got past initial disagreements about elves and drow, paladins and priests and so on, yeah? Well, no one has killed anyone yet, so presumably we're all getting a...

Miss Pemberton-Tambling hops down from the wagon, her gear and armor still safely packed away in her knapsack. She smooths out her dress, and wipes the dust from her brow with a pocket-kerchief. Leaving the disposition of the wagons and coachmen to the others, she heads for the doorway. "Stay b...

Skills and Powers allow a priest to get all the spheres they need, command undead, fighter Thac0, and weapon specialization with edged weapons, or screw edged weapons because hammers are the best end-game weapon in 2e. Skip the fighter STR and CON and HD, those are pretty BS, and STR is replaced by...

3.x skills: characters have arbitrary numbers that don't correspond to level or to resources invested.

Pathfinder skills: characters have arbitrary numbers that don't correspond to level or to resources invested.

Not sure how alignment vanished between notepad and post, but Betsy is LG. I also added proficiencies.

Well, two pounds of copper coins is worth 1gp. And four pounds of iron pots (two pots) costs 1gp. Presumably a block of solid iron would be somewhere in that range, depending on how heavy you want it to be. But you can get 50 lbs of whetstones for 1 gp, so you may want to go with a heavy rock if pri...

Maybe the Empress will get jumped as soon as she leaves her safe area; her enemies aren't watching for the PCs who have been informed in some roundabout way. That kind of ambush would be a better trap for PCs. For an NPC, it's a little unsatisfying. If she's powerful enough, you could borrow a bit ...

Sweet. Having a bunch of party members will make up for our lack of hirelings/henchpersons.

Oh, no wonder I forgot it the first time, it's not in the PHB equipment list! I can replace it with a spear, or we could assume that Betsy encountered a tree at some point in her life.

Technically, kits began with the complete fighter's handbook. But that also has the one kit per character rule.

10 hp is a lot when the other two confirmed characters have 1 hp, each. Focus on keeping Atani alive to keep our average xp up. That'll be important, considering how many new characters we will likely roll up over the course of the dungeon. Also, I forgot to equip Betsy with a 10' pole. That's an es...

Sam: So, it's just Betsy, female halfling 1st-level thief? Yes. Elizabeth "Betsy" Pemberton-Tambling, formerly of the Millfordshire Pemberton-Tamblings. Her mother, Prunella Pemberton-Tambling, was the third daughter of Lord Nigel Pemberton-Tambling, but she married Rupert Birtwistle, of ...

For my own reference, 2e rules are available here . I'll roll 3d6 in order with physical dice because it's traditional and I'm curious what will happen. Str: 7 Dex: 10 Con: 11 Int: 11 Wis: 8 Cha: 9 Good times! Stats are too low to be a Dwarf, Fighter, or Cleric. I'm leaning towards either Elf Mage/T...

Sure, I'm in.

Shrapnel wrote:A question regarding URLs: How do you link to a URL with a "!" or a "?" in it?

You can leave it for people to copy/paste, use the [url] tag, use a shortcut url like goo.gl or bitly, or use these: http://www.december.com/html/spec/esccodes.html

It turns out that people have all kinds of crazy opinions that just happen to all be aimed, by sheerest coincidence, at controlling women's sex lives. Weird but true. Also, people will flip the fuck out when confronted with the idea of people with physical or mental disabilities having sex (or worse...

The "converting monsters into characters" section follows immediately after the portion I quoted. For one-shot players, I'd focus on monsters with one or two interesting abilities, and perhaps one memorable magic item. Don't bother with tome feats, that's too much bookkeeping for a single ...

Would it be a good idea to let Guest Star party members to pick a monster of the same CR as the PCs? If so, should they get Tome feats? Some extra equipment? Or just use a monster as is? While the answer is probably, 'depends on the monster', some general guidelines would be neat. If it's a one-sho...

The art style is so grossly Pathfinder. They had 4 years to come up with a new art direction and "Plagiarize Pathfinder" was what they went with. It is somewhere between the very start of 3.0 and Pathfinder. Kinda lame. That's a Wayne Reynolds piece. I can't imagine why you'd think his pe...

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One of the best web comics. If you haven't read it, now's the time.

I can't find a single non-crank source of information about that petrodollar theory. Even the wikipedia page is a mess of unsourced garbage. Your linked article is basically a joke. The throwaway line about quantitative easing would be my favorite part, but then they end with this gem: Today however...