The Gaming Den

Can I add 're-read' to this because the Eragon and Twilight books stole weeks of my life in high school that I'll probably never get back. They both did it in the same way too. Book one was solidly mediocre, but the kind of mediocre that makes you think "well maybe now that the author has a so...

Most people have already mentioned my rewatchables, but I’d like to add The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Dark City, and The Third Man to that list.

Okay, thank you. I see why they went with 5+ then, although I do think 4+ should have been used in 5th edition because of the ridiculous amounts of dice you need to roll. This is gibberish. You don't roll less dice when your target number is 4+, you roll the same number of dice and hits mean less i...

Doing even more yes. And yeah it would going first even more of an issue, but extra rounds are more of an issue on PBP than they are already in RL games. Added on top is going to be justifying the same number of actions already in ten second rounds as in three second rounds, unless I increase it the...

Okay, thank you. I see why they went with 5+ then, although I do think 4+ should have been used in 5th edition because of the ridiculous amounts of dice you need to roll. On extra initiative passes in combat, I'm thinking of switching instead to having extra actions granted by Wired Reflexes and it'...

I am also within 5 degrees of known embezzler and crook Loren L Stoleman. Randall Bills is the brother of my mom's former roomate. Hmm... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd_YyFzPD0 Anyway, Hello and welcome to the Den. Essentially yes. Interesting fact, my mom, who is also Mormon, has no idea why ...

Reading the blog posts, first things I remember is it appearing to nerf the alchemist for no particular reason and the fact that Ogres now it at +10 to-hit. Wizards look pretty much the same, which is both surprising and infuriating given how much other classes apparently have. The only things that...

Just to get a list of things to data-mine further for ideas, to my understanding this is the ranking of 4e supplements -Street Magic: Good -Augmentation: Good if niche -Unwired: Garbage, and I don't need it anyway. -Runner's Companion: Half good, half bad, most of the player options are terrible -Ar...

A long time in replying to this, but I figured it was worth it. I am mostly polite by nature, until enough steam gets built up. And I mostly do PbP due to lack of nearby FLGS time constraints. I am also within 5 degrees of known embezzler and crook Loren L Stoleman. Randall Bills is the brother of m...

Was switching to hits on a 4+ ever in consideration to try and reduce that issue? Doubt it since it doesn't really affect that issue. I think the biggest reason for "fixed TN variable pool" is the question of how hard it is to adjuncate. With the previous system you needed some fierce com...

I was mostly just making a joke about how '30s tech levels are still waaaay in favor of firearms because guns were already a well-developed technology. People may be more heavily armed in Shadowrun than today but that's mostly because body armor and crime are ubiquitous, not because SR small arms a...

Yeah, I mean, obviously you might as well do whatever the hell you want in the name of game balance, but firearms have been pretty mature for a long, long time now and people were mostly just figuring out what form factor is right for warfare back then while pistols and sport rifles were pretty muc...

Reading the blog posts, first things I remember is it appearing to nerf the alchemist for no particular reason and the fact that Ogres now it at +10 to-hit. Wizards look pretty much the same, which is both surprising and infuriating given how much other classes apparently have. The only things that ...

Ten second, or twenty second combat rounds sounds like they would be easy to adjust, and actions in SR 4th feel a little too compressed to have fit inside the time period either way. Adjusting stats and skills for the setting is going to be something that will take longer to decide. The setting is s...

Sorry about the double-post, but I didn't have enough time this morning but decided to post anyway, why I cannot remember. On combat turns: How long do you think they should be? And how would you adjust actions to match? I was thinking of extending to five second turns and maybe revise actions a lit...

I'm actually using the original 4th edition SR book as several people said that 4.5 was really just a sidegrade. I was just going to pick up the fixes people said were good while ditching the ones for the worse.

I've been working on a modified version of Shadowrun 4th edition for a setting I've worked on, and I was wondering what are the biggest issues with it that need fixing? Or all of them really. The good news is that the Matrix does not exist in this setting, so I can avoid that entire mess entirely.

Wasn't the reward also eternal servitude in Heaven, praising some invisible dickbag with a huge ego? So, like Steam, if you get the product you pre-ordered, it will be unenjoyable. Fuck, at least Loki wants to end everything. Technically yes? The Poetic Edda says Ragnarok ends with a new earth bein...

Laziness, for the most part, is my bet. Depending on how open-ended the skills are, there's a large number of possible aims you can have for a skill roll, each of which needs it's own DC. This probably isn't a major problem, but some of the designers probably put it in so as not to have to think of ...

Apparently they are selling physical copies of the playtest for money. Including a Deluxe edition for sixty dollars.

I think that what the next edition is like depends on what demographic they choose to chase for it. That seems to imply that D&D will have designers that are skillful enough to adjust their game design towards a target market and have that have generally successful results. That does not seem t...

I think that what the next edition is like depends on what demographic they choose to chase for it. 5e is pretty well-aimed at new players and fans of the early editions of D&D. If they do a new one, I think they would more than likely aim to capture that market again, since they don't seem to b...

Yeah, while the author himself said that the predictions were without Human intervention, when the two best solutions we have is a trillions dollar carbon eating farm or pumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, I can imagine which is going to be chosen if the next president is willing to admit Cl...

That's a good baseline to go with, and it does make sense, but one question I have is do you think murdering as part of feeding should be voluntary or involuntary? Should it be completely up the to the player/vampire, or a willpower check every time they feed, based on how hungry they are and maybe ...

Vampires with a society complex enough to have political infighting and realistic murder rates are two things that can't coexist, but in this case I actually prefer vampire fiction happening in a bleaker version of Earth where Brazil's murder rate is the baseline and people just accept it (Brazilia...