The Gaming Den

What's the cost for a hacker to take control of someone's mind? If a magician righteously fails in the attempt he bleeds out his nose or worse. But if a hacker does it through pure technological means...? "Connection failed, try again." I'm not against the idea of brain-hacks, especially i...

Chamomile wrote:I want to play a Battlefighter.

I would pit him against an army of Fightsters and Numagicusers.

I think Cathay is pretty cool. It was everything I wanted.

Speaking from experience the Sugar Busters approach is a fairly effective and easy food plan to follow. I switched my meals to a whey protein shake in the morning followed by a low-carb lunch and dinner. If I needed a snack I ate an apple or something so incredibly whole wheat it cut my mouth accomp...

I checked out the preview of the new SR gun book. My contrary opinion: the production quality is sweet. Full color illios look great. Same with the airplane book. But who wants to buy a product filled with weapons that won't even be used in game? Is there there that big a call for "vintage"...

That would explain the chubby people I know who run all the time yet never seem to lose a pound. When I switched to a combination of weight resistance with moderate cardio and yoga I dropped 15 pounds pretty quickly. I probably could have lost the weight with just the yoga since it focuses on variat...

Designating a color swatch with a single word like "salmon" is a commercial practice used to simply purchase. Real color lovers use CMYK (plus a white base if using paint), hexadecimal or Pantone numbers to determine color.

More warmed up stuff with little original content and charging people twice for stuff that's in the pdf's and in dead tree format... I don't care if the material is original or not. It's the mandate with each new edition of an RPG to re-hash old material and tweak the stats to fit the new engine. T...

There was an entire mini-series written by Geoff Johns prior to "Infinite Crisis" that pulled apart and set into stone Power Girl's official origins. She started as a junior Justice Society of America member when she was introduced in the 1970s. She was retconned into a magical Atlantean a...

I would emphasize pursuing an internship. Some do pay, though not much, and income isn't the point. It's another way to network and gain needed experience. If a company likes you they'll typically hire you on after a set point. If there's an opening, that is. I would also recommend finding a recruit...

Quantumboost wrote:Their value as a ruleset has to be actually negative for their intended purpose.

Ahhhh, I see. That qualifier clears it up for me. Thanks.

It predates that significantly. Statement withdrawn. It's the first time I remember seeing its use. Its also not intended as a slight on resolving stuff by just talking. When used as a negative its because a game designer copped out and wrote a bunch of stuff that cold be summarised as MTP. Its als...

I've lurked long enough to be intrigued by the game design notion of "magical tea party." The crowd here seems to use it for non-crunchy game conflict resolution. <snip> However, I would be interested to read other folks' definitions and examples. For this crowd, coining MTP was originall...

hermit wrote:@LabRat: You wrote Brussels for Spy Games? Isn't it supposed to desecrate focus on London?

That's the follow-up espionage book, Conspiracy Theories. Spy Games is a "Deep Shadows" sourcebook like War!.

sabs wrote: 2) Arabs? What Arabs, there aint no Arabs in France

Sure there are. There's been a significant Arab population in France since at least WWI.

Not Justice League Unlimited? That show was the bee's knees.

I saw SR4A and the Sixth World Almanac on the shelf at an Indianapolis Borders yesterday. The game store chains seem to be hit and miss in my area but the small indie shops have most if not all of the 4th ed. material still in print.

Currently watching via Netflix:
- Doctor Who
- The Boondocks
- Breaking Bad
- Caprica
- Dollhouse
- Family Guy
- Futurama
- Justified
- Mad Men
- Sons of Anarchy
- Torchwood
- True Blood
- The Walking Dead

Finished watching via Netflix:
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Tudors

I haven't run it but both my wife and I own copies of Spycraft 2.0. After GMing D&D 3.x and Star Wars Saga I'm pretty sick of most OGL D20 games and their bullshit issues. So maybe I'm damning it with faint praise but Spycraft seems like one of the least broken of the current crop of D20-based p...

Beyond the "Missions" stuff, PDF-only releases have been part of CGL's plans for awhile. John Dunn was spearheading that effort under Peter Taylor before they both walked away. Outside my gaming group the only non-Internet contact I have is with my FLGS owner. I recently learned he's on a ...

I'm sorry to hear you lost your source of employment, Koumei. You have my sympathy. I know full well how working a soul & body-crushing job in an at-will employment system sucks.

Fuchs wrote:It's bad enough. And many consider the novels canon.

The game writers pick and choose what is considered to be canon. Novels aren't canon but they aren't NOT canon either.

Metagenetics doesn't just affect metahumanity; it's also the x-factor for Awakened flora and fauna. According to Paranormal Animals of North America , when the Awakening hit several species of life died as they could not adapt to the post-industrial environment in which they had Awakened. Also, not ...

When making a character in Earthdawn, does someone have to pay some amount of something to be "magical"? Or are you considered magical by default? If considered magical by default, is it possible play someone non-magical? Because if everyone has the potential to gain Talents, then everyon...

Good role-playing can include but is not limited to the following: 1. Creative Problem-Solving - Investigating alternative options, working within the framework of the game to overcome an obstacle, etc. 2. Recognizing Mental Limitations/Advantages of a PC - Reacting how your character would react, a...