The Gaming Den

S8E3 of Game of Thrones. The entire 80 minutes of the thing was the battle, which felt a bit long, but the big thing I hated was the lack of light. The TV we have in our unit does not handle low light/contrast very well, and there's lots of ghosting. I'd just assumed I was suffering because of the T...

Judging by the double barrel shotgun is this a DOOM2 mod, rather than DOOM? Yeah, it's Doom2. I mean, with the editing I'm doing, I could just add a double-barrel in to Doom1, but that's just extra work. I think I was able to mod the existing gun by only adding in three frames (so you can fire it o...

You might want to spoiler that pic with the knife and pistol. I put this together on a widescreen monitor, so I hadn't thought of that. Done. Anyhoo, I'm always impressed by modders who can stick to a project for long enough to do anything like that, I tend to get discouraged and lose interest too ...

Back in 2013, I started modding DOOM, and decided to make a zombie survival mod. Over the course of a year or so, I got all the behavior of the enemies I wanted down, the new "realistic" guns, and some of the graphics. The graphics are the most time-consuming part, so I never really worked...

I'm sorry about your cat, Count.

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Julian Assange Arrested In London

He was arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. He went to the embassy seven years ago fleeing rape charges, and refused to leave for fear of extradition. Apparently, the rape charges have been dropped.

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Was soak being a roll important for the mechanic opposed to just a flat number that gets subtracted afterwards? Well, damage is static, too (apart from adding from a good attack roll), so you'd end up with non-random damage. I mean, you could roll damage and have soak be static. The soak roll gives...

It's one soak roll , but you had multiple stages of damage. So for example, you're facing 2D damage and you have Body 10. If you roll 2 hits, you stage the damage down to S. If you roll 4 hits, stage it down to M. 6 hits, L. 8+ hits and you take no damage at all. Ah. So you're just subtracting mult...

Compare/contrast this to Fortitude in Vampire: the Masquerade. I haven't read or played that. From what I understand, it uses d10s, and 1s and 10s trigger things (extra dice/rerolls?). Shadowrun had a double-track system where you had 10 boxes of stun and 10 boxes of physical damage to go through -...

Shadowrun's variation of the system had something called damage codes for weapons. So there were four damage levels (Light =1 box, Medium = 3 boxes, Serious = 6 boxes, Deadly = 10...I think, it's been a while). And then the number in front of the damage level was how powerful the attack was. So a 1...

I'm sorry for your loss DSMatticus and Maj.

I've never played Shadowrun or After Sundown, but I've been reading up on the combat of several systems. They largely seem pretty similar: Everyone has ten hit-boxes. Roll your attack, subtract the defense. Any net hits get added to damage. Damage is static, but reduced by defender's soak roll. Now,...

I've had to go through several painful re-listenings of similar messages for the same reason. I suppose some introspection is in order, and I will change how I start leaving messages in the future. "Hi, this is Rob ___. I have a question about ____. You can reach me at ___. So, my question was ...

PBTA? Powered by the Apocalypse. Also seen in that thread you posted in two days ago . It tends to be called "bearworld" here both because 1) they have a lot of *world-named games, like "apocalypse world" and 2) its mechanic is known for creating problems where there were none. ...

Why did you use PBTA as the baseline engine, instead of Shadowrun 4 or GUMSHOE or whatever? I wanted to talk about it for the Den, especially because it’s a PBTA game. I haven’t had a lot of success with PBTA games in the past - my disappointment with Monster of the Week is part of what drove me to...

Just finished Trail of Lightning, which I really liked. I almost never just sit down and read for fun.

As a super big fan of the Borderlands series, I'm geeked about the Borderlands 3 trailer . It looks like we get a new playable siren, and there will be a siren antagonist, possibly in charge of brainwashing psychos. And Maliwan will likely be a (the?) corporate enemy. Also, Tiny Tina is an adult now...

I'm glad to hear things are looking up, and that your child is doing better after that scare.

Are you doing anything to protect against future water damage before going through all of the work of finishing your basement?

Axebird wrote:I liked it more. She reads as tougher and more confident to me. I still wish she was more muscled up, though.

Here you go:

I'll have to read through these more later. I'm liking what I see. I've done similar things in the past both with heartbreakers and various houserules to 3.5. That being said, the thing I did where you address in your caveats is that I only give out a feat per level for every PC class level. NPC lev...