The Gaming Den

I'm pretty sure dismissing fetishes is totally fine. I mean, I think it's a bit weird and dumb to dress up in what amounts to a mascot costume to have sex, but that's really more for practical reasons like "it'd be damned hot in there" and "yet another thing to clean," and with ...

The whole aristotilian cosmology stuff I personally have never delved very far into and don't see the need to. This confuses me. Either: [*]the whole cosmology is important for adjudicating the rules in which case you have been doing it wrong for 16 years. [*]Or it's not and others which have previ...

I'm not a fan of "having to earn my fun," and that's exactly what "complexity paywalls" is all about. ... Within their scope, kiddy classes would be guaranteed never to suck, but bronze medal is as far as they get, so if Timmy likes the game enough and wants more mileage, then p...

I still don't understand that one. Do any class features of the monk improve the dire tiger in any way or could you just replace the monk completely? Cause monks cause more family feuds than Richard Dawson. People who want to be monks want to be vaguely Asian and kill fools with magic unarmed attac...

I still don't understand that one. Do any class features of the monk improve the dire tiger in any way or could you just replace the monk completely?

They have a racial intelligence bonus of 1. An odd number. Have I forgotten something obvious or is that really weird?

Also, resistance to fire means what exactly? Does it halve fire damage or is there a lookup table based on level or something?

So, a question. If you bring a character from game A into game B, then move it into game C, are there any guidelines for doing it? Let's say that you decide that your Lunar Exalted should fit into Shadowrun because they are both dice pool systems, and then you decide to move your Shadowrunning Lunar...

You know what is useful though? Pointing out that a rule is shitty and discussing it. Yeah, that is useful. No doubt about that. In this particular case, I don't really see much point to it though, because the rule is attached to the social system, and social systems have been discussed to death on...

Of course the rules aren't going to be perfect. But that still doesn't excuse passively accepting shitty design. We all passively accept shitty design. Just by buying games like Shadowrun or D&D, we've all actively supported shitty design. If you own or have played any RPG at all, yeah you've s...

Why was music adding to diplomacy rolls not a rule in the first place? Why are diplomatic parties not expected to have a traveling band with them to play a fanfare as the diplomat enters the court to make the diplomat look more impressive? Why did Aladdin have a song and dance as he entered Agrabah ...

Your biggest problem I can see is magic. For those that haven't played, all PCs gets access to magic spells and they are used in face to face battle. Most of these can be used during ship battle, with each casting of a spell affecting the whole ship or is used as a single magic attack against the en...

Ferret wrote: have been bandied about on various fora.

Did you just... why the fuck would you use "fora" as the plural of forum. Please tell me you made a typo or are being 'ironic', rather than actually thinking that "fora" is a reasonable term to use.

Oh, okay, cool. That sounds pretty much what I remember, I just haven't read the books for years so I can't remember too well.

I was just curious because the reasons Kaelik gave seemed to have nothing to do with his argument.

Thanks for the suggestions. To put the frozen food into context, I was over at the house the other night and I seem to remember seeing a chilled pizza in the freezer with an expiry date of 2005. We've already chucked out dried food with expiry dates of over a decade ago, and some foods close to my a...

-Arya's plotline in general, he goal was to reunite with he loving family, which almost happens but then lol red wedding. As of book 5 she is on another continent entirely training with some assassins we don't care about. Arya's plotline is clearly not about reuniting with her family. Arya is a poi...

Does anyone know how to get rid of three freezers full of old food? My grandfather has been out of his house and in hospital/sheltered housing for about a year and doesn't look like he's going back to the house, so we're tidying up to rent out the house. However, he has three freezers with out of da...

Apocalypse World is a system where the DM is told not to plan things in advance and the examples of play include if you succeed very well on a spot check being suddenly surrounded by unbeatable enemies. As in the DM randomly spawned enemies because he felt like it. Other gameplay examples include fa...

Fucking democracy. Fucking lazy voters. Fucking first past the post voting. Urgh. So the latest news in the UK is how the UKIP party got the largest number of seats in the EU and got about 160 local council MPs, when 2 years ago they had no council MPs and much fewer EU MEPs. For those who don't kno...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplography I love the examples in this article. I was amused by the link to haplology : Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon as "haplogy" (subjecting the word "haplology" to haplology). Oh, you witty linguists. Sometimes I wonder wh...

Yeah, but you try telling me that Aran and Danved are awesome... [hr] This sounds like an interesting idea, but what sort of power level are we talking about? Do you grow the same amount of power over a campaign as Path of Radiance, or do you only grow a bit? And then are you thinking about grid com...

The Game of Champions. A Pokemon story based on a mix of games, TV and comics, which while a bit pretentious at times, is full of awesome and beautiful prose.

So wait, if you know you are going to lose the battle you automatically kill yourself. And what is special about the deployment?

Just to make sure- if you die on day X, you go to day X-1. If you kill yourself as soon as you respawn on day X-1, do you respawn on day X-2?

Similar to the Catholic rules against usury, in Islam it is specifically noted that a variety of deals involving anything other than physically trading something you own for something someone else owns at one point in time is worse than fucking your own mother. As in if person A sells something to p...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the whole New Testament come from "Shit Jesus Said", written sometimes multiple generations after Jesus' death and then edited multiple times by the governing Christian authority to agree with their current view?

Notorious, can you shut the fuck up about your love of the legwork. Your position has gradually changed over time: [*]It's not bad that hackers are too complicated to use in combat because they are useful at legwork [*]Hackers should be worse at combat because they are good at legwork [*]Hackers sho...