The Gaming Den

This blood pyramid requirement means we'd probably have to entirely drop the idea of blood bonding (at least for Kindred)--it'd be way too complicated if Ancillae keep records and rotate between neonates, never drinking from the same twice, and way too broken if all the elders "in charge" ...

Hate to do the bare link drop, but I think Cards Against Humanity fans among the Den will find this very amusing: http://yarukizero.files.wordpress.com/2 ... gnards.pdf

P Also introduced: Narcoject(TM) ! Which is sort of like the Drow Sleep Poison of SR, except the way that Shadowrun's Stun damage overflows to physical damage, woefully overpowered. You can kill just about anybody with these things but shooting them unconscious and then shooting their body until th...

1. Someone has Gallifreyan Psychic Paper? Sounds reasonable. I'm not sure that there really can be a great all encompassing list of potential magic gadgets. The acceptable genres you could grab things from are so vast that listing everything would be longer than the book. For example: someone just ...

Just had our first real After Sundown session. Some rules concerns/questions. My players are having a lot of trouble pricing good Destiny/Secrets. One item we brainstormed (and I called a level 3 Destiny) was an ID card that any extra sees as situation-appropriate authority--police badge, health ins...

Long shot, not sure if this kind of ad is accepted here but I figured I'd put it out--I'm putting together a group to play After Sundown in San Francisco. Any Denners in the area interested in playing? Sunday afternoons, most likely. PM me contact info or reply here?

I want to say I remember reading somewhere that True Secrets Of The Black Hand was written by someone to point out how ridiculous things were getting, only for the WW Editors to not get the joke and publish it intact. Like Spock's Brain in ST:TOS. This sound right to anyone else? Also, A) what does ...

So because it's basically impossible to find a gaming group once you move past D&D--side note, as this deserves a thread of its own: why is this so hard? I live in San Francisco. It's basically a city of 800,000 young dweeby software engineers with lots of cash and not a lot to do. It's not like...

OK, I've never actually played a druid before (gasp!) I know core CoDZilla is pretty good, and it's not just Wild Shape, but what are the best druid spells that I'm not thinking of? I'm 9th level, mostly interested in core spells, but Completes are probably in too. (3.5, obviously.) Looking especial...

So I've been burning time in the weight room listening to the Iliad on audiobook. It's fun, if incredibly repetitive, but the fact keeps kicking me in the balls: these are terrible, terrible people. Some examples. Odysseus and Diomedes are sneaking about at night. They meet a Trojan, Dolon, doing th...

Another interesting point is that with levels, it's harder for a player to fuck up his character royally. Assuming well designed classes, a Rogue 7 is going to have useful abilities. If you're not very good, you might buy useless skills and powers for your thief-themed character with 100 BP. On the ...

True, but it does say:

Beta - use caution

due to space limitations.

Sigh. I really hope they show the judge the first thing that pops up when you get walking directions:

Walking directions are in beta.
Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.

and it gets laughed out of court.

What's the saying, that any parody of fundamentalism will be indistinguishable from the original? I think that's doubly true of North Korea. I find all the stuff on that page very hard to believe...but that doesn't mean I think it's false. Scary.

The Hero and the Rogue are going to have a lot more overlap. The way I'm provisionally looking at them is: Class Build Inspiration Hero Inspiring Mathayus (from The Scorpion King) Hero Questing Prince Eric Hero Avenging Aragorn Rogue Scoundrel Captain Jack Sparrow Rogue Blasphemous Indiana Jones Ro...

The whole time I played WoW, I found myself at least slightly aroused most of the time. 1) TMI 2) You need to get out more. -Crissa At the time I played WoW, I was only allowed to leave the house to go to work. If I so much stopped to get gas or a drink, I was in for it when I got home. So yes, I d...

Heck, I've been listening to the Iliad on podcast recently, and Diomedes (among others) fights gods. In hand to hand. And wins. His powers are limited to, uh, having a loud war cry.

Here are ten songs I thought vaguely representative, taken by hitting forward on shuffle a bunch of times and writing down the ones I liked: * Wicked - No One Mourns The Wicked * Metallica - Battery * Glee - Rose's Turn * Buffy - Something to Sing About * Outkast - Hey Ya! * Da Vinci's Notebook - Th...

That being said, giving people "attributes" which are literally tags that you have or do not have is a fine idea. Having Halflings all carry around the "small" attribute, while all Orcs get the "strong" attribute seems pretty reasonable. Perhaps let people choose an at...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I would think that getting shot would shut a lot of people up real quick.

And yet people complain when I use this method...

Again, because the D&D guys don't talk to the Magic guys. And the whole Planescape thing of Magic really started with Kamigawa , the weird Japanese themed set. ...yeah, you haven't been playing Magic long, have you? Sets up to Mirrodin focused on Dominaria, sure, but always talked about the exi...

It depresses me that in Glee, I just saw the one time Artie will ever dance in that show. He's too good to be stuck in a fuckin' chair.

Wat? If Consent=Yes, Then Rape=No Yes. That's my point . The idea of sticking your dick in something isn't fundamentally "rape," it's fundamentally "sex" and can be "rape" if in addition it's also BadWrong, like if you take advantage of a person who should be able to m...

OK, I missed "them." It still somewhat confuses me that they come back one-by-one and are expired all at once.

Also, classy teamwork there.