The Gaming Den

Covent wrote:Google Sick Kitty and SKR

That must have been one sick-ass cat. Hope he's (she?) is doing ok.

Kickstarters are used strictly for promotion by about half of them these days. It's just another way to generate buzz. Still, it's nice to know that SKR is a tone-deaf hack even when he works on vanity projects. That product has no redeeming features at all. It already has $4,000 pledged with 20 da...

Josh_Kablack wrote:Fair warning: it does have a boatload of other fundamental issues, they are just in different places than you may be used to coming in from a D&D or other class/level background.

What are the nature of these issues, and what is the best way to mitigate them in a campaign?

angelfromanotherpin wrote:'Most people only use 10% of their rhymes. What if you could access all of them? Seussy.'

I'm pretty sure that if you're only using 10% of your rhymes, your name is Chuggo. LOL

If you hit 12mil soul level or whatever, you will be fighting people with 99 in all stats. 12 million souls? Jesus, how many rounds of NG+ does it take to accumulate that many? I'd probably be content with beating the game maybe once, twice tops. Are there any decent caster builds that are good in ...

Go ahead and google "hyena penis". I'll wait. Okay, done? Horrified now? Horrifying? More like HILARIOUS! Another one of nature's cruel jokes in action. Just like harlequin babies, or progeria! Good lord. Basically, this is the first thing a certain type of person talks about when they ta...

How good/bad is the PvP in Dark Souls 2? Is it like Dark Souls 1 where you had a bunch of cheaters online running around murdering people like crazy? Or do you actually stand a chance against enemy invaders?

Koumei wrote:Bonus points for having zero direct references to hyena cock.

Um, er.... what?

Dragonlance introduced Kender. And for that, I can never forgive them.

I'm interested in either playing or running a FRPG as of late, but the various D20 systems floating out there all seem to have some major issues, so I was considering using the HERO System rules to that end. It's good to hear that power creep and game balance issues are manageable, and that it doesn...

Speaking to the original title of the thread, my friends that still play TTRPGs had very little interest in D&D Next when it was originally announced. And when they discovered that Shitmuffin and Pundit were involved, that small glimmer of interest went from "very little" to "abso...

One of the major issues with D&D 3.X is the system's damage and defense systems to scale upwards as characters gain levels. One of the bigger issues is that players end up with giant piles of HP once they get to higher levels, which in turn causes the game to slow down because players are calcul...

If you plan on using mods in Skyrim, you will want to install and run LOOT and Wrye Bash so you can 1) put your mods in the proper order and 2) make sure that all of the mods that you are loading that modify monster/treasure/level lists all play together nicely and don't conflict with each other. If...

Some questions regarding how SAME works: 1) How many points is a player given to build their character, and how many points do attributes and skills cost? 2) What resource system is used to determine what powers/spells a character may use in an encounter? Are there multiple resource systems availabl...

Tell me about it. I got 24 mods on FNV, including Requiem For A Capital Wasteland, which gives Fallout 3 as playing ground. Its fucking awesome. Where pray tell can you get Requiem For A Capital Wasteland these days? They pulled it from The Nexus over some kind of copyright legal bullshit. I'm 100 ...

The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut endings came out and they sucked balls. But ME3 was pretty disappointing to begin with so... meh.

I just saw Prometheus, and I enjoyed myself - the movie definitely has a great soundtrack and some really amazing visual effects. That being said, it is much closer to Cabin in the Woods than Alien . I strongly suggest not opening the spoiler until after seeing the film. The premise and theme of th...

Sony is rebooting Spider-Man specifically because their contract has a must make a Spider-Man movie every X number of years or the rights revert clause. And they are re-tooling it to make it more like Twilight. Because you know how the ladies love them some Twilight! It's going to be a fucking trai...

There's some nice stuff in the latest Humble Indie Bundle. I haven't tried Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP yet, and now I feel pretty good about not going for the original or Steam versions. The latest Humble Indie Bundle build is CRAZY GOOD. Maybe one of the best deals in gaming I've ever s...

Further questions: 1) Are Prestige Classes going to be implemented in the system? Is that the primary mechanic that will be used to demarcate when heroic level play ends and epic level play begins? 2) So in terns of resource management, would all classes basically be using Vancoan casting schedules,...

So a simple "4 Martial Classes, 4 Hybrid Classes, 4 Magic Classes" would do fine for me. That would, I think, be a fair minimum effort for KSF. And for that , a class list of: Hero (or Champion) Berserker Soldier Scout Assassin Monk Paladin Ranger Conjurer (Creation and Summon Monster) Il...

I vote for working on KSF. There's a paucity of good fantasy RPGs right now and the sheer number of Fantasy Heartbreakers floating around out there is a fairly good indication of the sustained demand for this sort of thing. I'm not an awesome writer/game designer like Frank or K or Koumei, but I'd b...

I played Diablo 2 single player. And are you going to bitch for 40 minutes about a slight stagger that occurs every once in a while and basically doesn't get in the way of play? I know this is old, but while playing D3 yesterday, I did get killed due to lag when at full health. Granted, I didn't bi...

The Wii U looks like a hell of a piece of hardware, but doesn't really seem to have any games that I'd be interested in. And I doubt that Nintendo will use it to its full potential at any rate.

And Mass Effect 3? Everyone knows that game is shit. Who on earth would want to buy it for the Wii U?

In a single player game, game balance isn't always all that important. There's nobody else's spotlight to consider, so you can just go and make the main character as powerful or as weak as you want. When you have two character types that can kill things relatively quickly at high levels and one cha...