The Gaming Den

Ooh! Are they going to make in-combat healing worth do - I can't finish that sentence with a straight face. Paladin does it. Swift action healing that scales and can cure a number of conditions a scaling number of times per day. They could go the vampiric way. Do damage and heal based off that dama...

Id just give them a couple ships I either chose or built so I am familiar with its capabilities and know it will be powerful without being broken and their choice can keep the group on the same page. If they pick the smuggler cargo freighter there will be different expectations than if they pick the...

An odd quirk of the system is that in chargen you want to double down on a weapon skill to get two free talent points. Magic skills start you with glyphs instead, and those can be bought with money. Great advice! Though if you are going for a pure mage I found most of the talents outside of magic a...

Am I the only one who read that original line as "I want to make an RPG based on Hamilton, except I don't want to include [Historical Figures X & Y] to mandatorily be non-white?" You're not the only one but we just weren't looking hard enough for the racism. Which is in itself pretty ...

Alternatively, just refluff a wizard? I may be missing something. The Deadly Fist archetype turns the Soulknife into a better monk. No refluffling required. Even if you add Gifted your powers and power points are very small but you can get very appropriate acrobatic and monkish abilities but it's s...

I imagine he wants to fight primarily with his hands and do some crouching tiger/hidden Dragon style wire acrobatics shit occasionally, preferably without needing to carry around a spellbook or feel like an asshole. Then play a Deadly Fist (and maybe combine with Gifted Blade.) Soulknife with a mon...

DnD: Don't track money down to the goddamn penny like the game does by default. Don't put coins and loot hidden all over your enemies so they have to rifle through their damn pockets. Use less humanoid opponents with gear suitable for PCs. Humanoid opponents can have super shitty/mundane gear PCs wo...

In the same vein you want everyone in your cabal to take the 5 dot merit Ritual Synergy (Tome of the Watchtowers) turning your cabal into a fucking super mage that can cast damn near anything with prep time. So long as everyone is focusing on their paths and not spreading themselves thin. Since it's...

You can also free APEX and she will defend the Anarch States and stop the corps from moving on them in one ending. Turning down his job offer and then having the Anarch States kick ass must be pretty humiliating for him and SK. I forget if that requires giving APEX the Dragon killing virus. Anyways ...

What disappointed me is that all three stories are about big bad magic thing comming to conquer the world Though quite short the Hong Kong extended edition is thankfully just about dirty cops and corporate maneuvering. And an demon godess (or something along that line), which you beat up. No that's...

Longes wrote:What disappointed me is that all three stories are about big bad magic thing comming to conquer the world

Though quite short the Hong Kong extended edition is thankfully just about dirty cops and corporate maneuvering.

they don't actually want to spend so much time or stress buying individual ammunition clips - is already part of modern design which the cranky oldtimer crowd typically dismisses as "dumbing down" a game. I realize you have no argument and you are bouncing around between games pointing ou...

Zinegata wrote:He IS Zap Brannigan.

Zap is many things but at least he's funny. Bradford isn't funny. Bradford has no redeeming qualities. He probably gets people killed just getting the Commander coffee.

Any theory that hinges on someone faking their death. So Marlowe.

Every PC is in competition to see who can be da biggest an' da 'ardest?
Could be pretty fun.

I honestly don't know how to create a coherent and interesting global vampire society. The main problems as I see them are: * Age. Vampire society doesn't exist until about 16th century, when mail becomes somewhat reliable. The problem is that vampires are ill equipped for travel, so there's practi...

I love Arkham Horror and I'd love it even more if the tasks/missions were more fulfilling and players could more reliably pull them off. I've played it with a number of friends who also play ttrpgs from time to time and we've managed to craft stories out of the random experiences. Of course it makes...

The Daily Show had Greg Gutland on to talk to. Gutland said that he is a "Right Wing Liberal" ...can anyone tell me what the fuck that means!? Greg Gutfeld isn't it. Someone who supports some policies considered right wing and also some policies considered liberal? Like one may be fiscall...

You mean the tutorial hacking 5 minutes into the game? I think the tutorial does a piss poor job explaining whats happening. It took me about 10 tries to figure out the matching first time I played. This was on PC where the controls are horrendous. The mouse does NOT work. Why are you scrolling up w...

As for Conan themselves.... they relied upon several things in Ron E. Howard's writings: [*]Fear of the Eldritch, Warlocks, Witches, and Practitioners of the Darke Artes (Howard and Lovecraft wrote in Lovecraft's shared setting) [*]Encyclopedic knowledge of: plants, animals, crafting improvised wea...

So a couple personal life things. 1. I gave up drinking soda (mostly) back in August. I feel skinnier probably only lost a few pounds tho, but now I have a really good appreciation for how a sober alcoholic must feel. I have longing whenever I see a bottle of root beer, and want to just sniff those...

Do you enjoy accounts of tabletop roleplaying sessions?
If so try Fandible. They record as they play a tabletop roleplaying game. Usually the game is very comedic no matter what system/setting they are doing that week which are wide and varied.

Of course you can convey thought provoking themes through a tabletop game. Its a story and any story can tackle any themes. Will players self-reflect on the issues you bring up? Like Prak says maybe but they can still appreciate the themes of their game without sitting around in deep self reflection...

AndreiChekov wrote: Nazi Germany...

No. Scroll down to the section on atheism specifically.

That is the main reason given in the Dresden Files and it is stupid but there are less stupid factors as well. A) The various factions police their own. If a wizard is going too far the Wardens show up and cut their head off. B) Wizards and their magic fuck up technology so surrounding phones/camera...