The Gaming Den

First of all, the D&D multiverse is not consistent between or within editions or settings or individual writers' output. As such, trying to figure out how things work "in D&D" or even "in Forgotten Realms" is kinda futile. The body of TGD articles taken in entirety and th...

SlyJohnny wrote:The characters start with differing amounts of HP and credits, right?

IIRC pregenerated characters starts with differing amounts of HP and credits. Custom characters start with a fixed amount of both.
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The first time I played this book, I died to a blue option. Argh.

Ancient History wrote:

that guy wrote:I feel sorry for many of my individual friends who are Republicans and/or conservatives

Fuck that guy.

I think he's referring to a sequence with the same characteristics as in the OP - one composed of ordered integers starting with 1. Which can be done in log10(pattern) time if you just want a valid index. I'm not sure off hand what it would be if you wanted to find the earliest index - ie. "21...

Well, there's the obvious downside of never feeling any emotion or passion ever again. If you are incapable of feeling down about it then it's not really a downside for you. Sure it'll lead to trouble for your loved/hated ones but you don't care anymore. If you'll be incapable of expressing prefere...

Round 2 has started, and there are two problems, as before. Problem 1 is the rain trap in 3d . Problem 2 is the good old "earliest appearance of sequence in string". This time we're expected to use stdin-stdout, so submission checking is probably semi-automated -- great news. I was told Pr...

New year and a new attempt! (Also, the chance of funemployment is now higher than ever: they forced me to take a fucking literacy test written by an illiterate teambuilding coach, which I failed.) This is Stage 1, which only requires submitting a web form with numerical answers, no source code, no t...

Except you know, how both of those comparisons are fucking garbage and one of them (kamehameha) straight up contradicts the main point by using a less known person in the first example. But vastly more people know Goku's signature attack. That's the main point -- whether something well-known named ...

Spoiler alert, if your view of "who is more famous Isaac Newton or Raistlin?" is dependent on the number of history of science scholars at all, then your theory is wrong. Sorry buddy, inventing calculus counts, and so does inventing hand spells. Old dead people are famous for inventing th...

You have to establish the metric of fame. My mostly unfounded feeling is that - Raistlin is a character that the most people give a shit about. - Elminster is a character that the most people have seen in media, particularly videogames (but don't give a shit about his story). - Any of the Greyhawk s...

Reread this. The Harry Potter houses are a bad system for an IP-scrubbed roleplaying game. Consider that in Harry Potter itself, there are: House Hero: Chosen Hero, Clever Hero, Chump Hero House Villain: Clever Villain, Chump Villain House Clever: Clever Extra House Chump: Chump Extra with Chosen, ...

But, in general, it depends on what you want to use it for. I need more information. Because different tasks require different specs. I want to pass the RHCSA exam (so I don't get caught with my pants down again when someone is looking for certified Linux sysadmins and promises pre-war salaries), m...

I need a new PC. The budget is roughly $1000, negotiable (I'm applying for loan refinancing and can get extra cash for personal expenses).

Should I buy one now, or are price drops or some fundamental gamechangers that matter at this price level expected in the near future?

I have not found players (or people even) completely adverse to "better than you" people in their fantasy literature/RPGs. Why hello there. (I've met people who hate power fantasies. They're not the D&D audience, but they exist.) The reason there is so much elf wankery is because thei...

It's also written by a woman. In certain ways is a parody of the lolicon genre as the teacher and his students finds themselves in various awkward situations, in other ways it's a serious complex story where part of growing up is learning to understand what others around you want and what they need...

Give your players an unmarked map of the maze with details (secret doors, renovations) left out.

Team Neutral could be a feasible faction that someone might support if you make them Team Disarmament. Both the White Robes and the Black Robes want to have a final epic showdown where their side wins completely and the other guys are destroyed forever, and are willing to accept tremendous amounts ...

If you don't care about what Dragonlance fans think, why are you using Krynn in the first place ? Riding dragons, leading dragon armies, fighting a world war, and improving a world than not once in history has been pleasant. Setting right an established world is a more satisfying prospect than a ho...

Kaelik wrote:whereas Dragonlance books at least are supposedly based on the events of the game

Dragonlance books are not based on the events of the game. They got TPKed in the first adventure. To quote the commentary, "It would've been a really short book."

^ Pretty much this. Furthermore, some authors did actually implement these retcons. There is, for example, a prequel book with a kender who's a viewpoint character and a fairly useful member of his party (think Frodo). There's a story in one of the anthologies about an alt-Krynn where the Kingpriest...

Koumei wrote:Even with their knowledge you still need a PC who still has abilities the doppler could arguably mimic.

...Fighter?

RobbyPants wrote:A DC 15 Heal or Knoweldge(Religion) check shows they died of ability drain (those skills do that?).

Yes, this is by no means new in 3.0/3.5 adventures. Heal diagnoses, Knowledge (Religion) includes knowledge of undead.

In a surprising amount of actual, you know, THOUGHT, the conversation was carried out via sending and Jenya was just writing down the message and reply - and holy shit, they're both 25 words. ACTUAL ADHERENCE TO THE RULES FROM JAMES JACOBS. My heart, it may give out from shock. Also the last bit wa...

Ancient History wrote:

I know it's not global warming, or gun deaths, or national debt, but it's still a misleading graph. Not cool, Pornhub. Not cool. <.<