The Gaming Den

Holy shit someone was on r/rpg like a day ago going "Zak has made a rebuttal and you all shouldn't believe those women and I'm available to answer any questions you might have." I thought it was a troll, especially because of the "PM Me for deets" tone of the whole post but also ...

Fun fact, old religious iconography had a very strict set of aesthetic requirements tenuously rooted in archaic bible fanfiction which is why it all looks incredibly bizarre, but in the same way every time. Like the saints are all drawn with thin noses because in the divine grace of heaven the breat...

That sounds like a kind of british version of My Name Is Earl, no cancer but the show has a similar premise about a white trash american who is trying to turn his life around after a near death experience introduces him to the concept of karma.

To be fair, he's not wrong. Raggi could nail Zak to the fucking cross and there'd be a large number of people insisting he "didn't do enough to condemn Zak". I wouldn't have said it myself, but he's right. It's at best incredibly tone deaf though. If you think you're dealing with an angry...

Lamentations of the Flame Princess released an official statement regarding shitmuffin's contributions to their product: https://www.facebook.com/88524315885/posts/10156179503045886/ The first part is a good neutral business statement about books shitmuffin worked on previously, the cancellation of ...

So like most games direction tends to be up to the MC. Like how a sandbox game in D&D can devolve into "why are we here" without the DM pointing the PCs at interesting landmarks, Monsterhearts can do the same thing. So yeah the MC should have presented an overarching Thing that you cou...

So I enjoy monster hearts more than most bear world games for a couple reasons. - Most of the 7-9 results have the Player (not the MC) picking from a list of 3-4 results. So you can decide what happens and how you react. If I roll a 7-9 on fleeing I can decide to leave something important behind for...

I don't know off the top of my head any women creators (I think the person who wrote Monster Hearts is trans but I can't remember if MtF or FtM and Avery is an ambiguous name). But I wanted to touch on the idea that a lot of the games you found did tend to be story games because I think that makes p...

As disturbing as I find this rebuttal, I am also always gratified when someone sets out to try and "clear their name" and only succeeds in making themselves look more suspect. It's like those "am I the asshole" posts where despite the author's best attempts to make themselves sym...

Is shitmuffin actually getting accused of a crime, or is one of his victims just coming forward with their story? I'm asking since the thread title makes me think he's being formally accused of something, instead of somebody telling their story of how they suffered at the hands of an abuser. I woul...

Overlight is interesting. It looks like it was built primarily for genre smearing. You have seven shards mapped to different colors of light and each shard is a different flavor of adventure. So you've got purple wuxia monks, red mad max raiders, orange is basically orlais from dragon age, and blue ...

Is there a place to find the originals? I was going to listen to this, but I don't want the edited ones. To my knowledge no, Limetown wasn't a super huge podcast phenomenon so I don't think anyone's backed up the original episodes anywhere. You could try asking on the Reddit just in case. I will sa...

Ugh I hate jumping to this thread after I was so hyped about Limetown Season 2 in the 'rocked you' thread but it was such a massive letdown. Apparently the original writers are busy trying to break into the TV industry and a new writing staff was brought on to do season 2 and to pump out a very medi...

Not being able to do anything well is the cause, bordem is the result. This is the same thing. At the risk of being incredibly pedantic it is possible to be frustrated with your character while not being "bored" with it. I think most people tend to equate boredom to apathy. Since the impu...

Masks is ostensibly about teen supers and the mechanics try and reinforce that with the incredibly poorly implemented labels system, but the reason I say it models super heroes well is precisely because it doesn't care about who is technically stronger. My argument is that any game about supers that...

The reason I didn't post the first time, is that I kinda thought "I don't care if the Hulk could beat up Spiderman (well, I DO care, but you know...)." Whether or not a "high-power" character could beat up a "low-power" character (or how useful each character is with t...

Do the legend of Korra comics count? I can't remember how well they sold actually but I know at least some of the stories were dedicated to fleshing out the lesbian relationship they weren't allowed to actually air on television.

The ending of the Life After podcast left me cold after what was otherwise an engaging suspense mystery. Without giving too much away: The protagonist chooses to go back to his unstable borderline abusive spouse when the series felt like it had been building up to an overall theme of letting go and ...

It probably shouldn't come as a vast surprise to anybody that a lot of what Western culture thinks of as "horror" is really just the Western conception of horror. There are pulp stories about the penanggalan from the 1930s, but how many Hollywood movies star that critter? Not many. Like i...

So after three years of Hiatus the Limetown podcast is scheduled to resume production on October 31st and I could not be more stoked. The first season is a sci-thriller styled like a series of investigative journalism interviews with the surviving residents of a place called Limetown, who were thoug...

Right but whether or not vampires know science is kind of beside the point because vampires also know there are fucking vampires, and maybe some other kinds of supernatural nonsense because even with high turnover there's not a lot scientific about how vampires themselves work. So if there's even on...

Is you say "rules light" three times while looking in a mirror Frank Trollman will manifest physically in your house to swear profusely at you for an hour.

Yeah r/rpg is being flooded with advertisements for roll20s VTT competition. While a lot of these are little no name indie projects with not a lot more utility than a shared google doc, the sheer volume of them I hope at least makes Nolan more aware that he's not exactly special either.

I like this idea. Is it possible to reconcile a futuristic gothic-noir cyberpunk setting with small scale personal horror stories while still keeping a dash of vampire politics and ancient conspiracies? Like, assuming it's the future an there are 13 billion people on Earth and megacities and sprawl...

I don't know that you need big organizations and goals in a vampire story though. There's conceptual space available for small scale personal settings that don't rely on a big conspiracy to work. If there's a masquerade it's not because of cover ups, it's because vampires are rare. An endangered spe...