The Gaming Den

I kinda envision heaven and hell as having opposite food making mechanisms. I picture the celestial realms as a place where you can mostly just pluck fruit from a tree and not be hungry for a day. I think it's acceptable to just say that celestial realms have super crazy koku multipliers enough to c...

I agree with the concept of GM as director/producer. In an ideal world they are trying to put together the necessary pieces to create a piece of art and while actors and writers add important elements and pieces to it the overall artistic direction is decided by the GM. I also think, at it's best, t...

Not to sideline your question Ogre but I don't think it has to do that or even should. The game has always been about playing characters and that's the rewarding part about it. One person alone could happily play a game that changed scales and spent large amounts of time concerning itself with lumbe...

God forbid people just use their own settings like the special snowflakes they are. But this is in a discussion about the creation of a book with a setting. The topic being debated is if a pokemon setting can be written that does not require a sit down conversation to nail down what exactly it is a...

Pokemasters could be forced to be in the combat area by having to command the pokemon (even if such a thing is a free or swift action) and be relatively nearby for commands to work. I think it's also reasonable for pokemon to either share hp or to have the expectation be that enemies need only beat ...

If you have cavalry riding Rapidashes it won't be Pokemon anymore Very wrong. I'm not. Rapidash wasn't the contentful word in that sentence, cavalry was. If your contention is that you can have armed forces meeting with their pokemon riding dragoons or whatever and that that's not too large a setti...

I'll note that I could totally buy someone telling me that a huge dex made a generally more survivable character. You're trading damage potential for increased Reflex and, perhaps more importantly, increased Stealth. Also even if you go with the strength build nothing's saying you can't hold a light...

Ok I’m on it. So real quick I'll just spoiler my previous posts that are relevant, just to get them all in the same place for easy reference. You can skip past them it'll just be easier if it's all here. I'll also note that the Str is gotten that high by using a point buy to get you an 18 to start, ...

Pokemon is interesting because it is a world exclusively composed of genre conventions. You cannot change a single one of their genre conventions because that is all that thing is. If you have cavalry riding Rapidashes it won't be Pokemon anymore, if you have Alakazam's running their own nations wit...

So I just wrote a big detailed response but realized at the end I may have misunderstood. I thought you were building a 12th level droid character using a Human Replica chasis. My new belief is that you want to know how best to turn the Replica Droid on page 152 of Threats of the Galaxy into the bes...

You need infantry if you actually want to win any battles so I don't think that super duper horse archers are actually a huge problem. If you can kite an enemy that can't fight back forever, I don't know whether "winning battles" is on the table but "eventually and painstakingly kill...

I think all this flight ceiling talk is kind of missing the forest for the trees. I'm not psychologically opposed to making flight more difficult after 300ft or so but if we're recognizing that we should also recognize that someone shooting arrows from 300ft in the air has huge advantages over an op...

The only difference between this and hard set rules is writing things down. If you write down that ink sacs take a dc 50 to turn into bombs then it’s no longer mtp when people do it. If you write the rules you’ve already come up with and perhaps even write things you think would be good to come up w...

I think it's a huge mistake to try to design a mass battle game as a subset of the domain game. No one has successfully modeled a good domain game and no one has successfully modeled even a functional mass battle game and trying to do both at once is delusional. I get that every mother fucker is gon...

All things being equal I think standard hit points is better than any alternative for any game you want to be consumed by the broad public. Hit points are the only system that joe public comes to your game already knowing, only require a single math step, and can be very balanced if you have some in...

I'm gonna argue that Dwarves most famous locations are not in the underdark. They live under the earth I grant you but they are most famous for living in rocky environs immediately adjacent to the outside world. The Lonely Mountain has tons of access to fuel and air from the region all around it. Ev...

I also think the less racial difference the better but one thing that occurs to me that might be neccessarry to model which is size. The town of Storm Giants definitely has to work differently than the town of goblins, that simply must be true. I actually can't think of an easy simply solution to th...

I would add a vote to Lindybeige being less of a fascist than most people, and therefore not a good target for any sort of warning list. I think Lindybeige is a good example of the sort of thing that has to be fine if you want to watch anything but Chomsky speeches. I don't need to live in a bubble....

Also that their belief system fundamentally requires a belief in magic or magical beings and most won't even acknowledge that. Explain this. The foundational believe of libertarianism is that property rights come from above one's society. That they are not bestowed by social contracts but something...

I like prestige as a force that makes conquering other domains easier and the turnaround time before they accept your rule uncontestedly shorter. I've been using just such a thing in my domain rules and it makes intuitive sense to people. Culture victories have been around in games like Civ for as l...

The fundamental traits I have identified amongst libertarians (besides whiteness) is education without critical thinking ability. Libertarians are fond of presenting thought experiments and grand ideologies but every single one of them I've ever been met with breaks apart completely when you ask a s...

The city state still has to secure land outside itself. At whatever point the land is no longer secured is where that land ends. So if Zhent has troll fens that isn't Zhent. If it has vampires that isn't Zhent. The amount of space that D&D tells you you have to travel before you get to space wh...

Corinth is...an ancient Greek city state? Probably that name got recycled into some fantasy nation of significantly larger size, but Google is just getting hits for the historical city. I meant the Ancient Greek city state. I think a polis is more accurate representation of what places in a fantasy...

So the provinces in ACKS are ridiculously too small. The maximum is 16 hexes, which is 512 square miles. That's smaller than 15 of the 76 districts of modern day Czech Republic I don't have information on how large an area a polis or barony might have controlled in the past but I'm confident that t...

My question then is at what point does your farm/business minigame turn into the minigame where you run a town? If running 10 people is Harvest Moon but 1000 people is the domain minigame when does one transition into the other and how? My statement is that there is a space where you have 80 to 200 ...