The Gaming Den

I think it's cute that we're all coming up with different ways to permute our names when we make secondary accounts to get back into our originals. It's like we're assembling the roster for a TGDMB all-sidekick spinoff. Can we lock fbmf out for a little while and see if The Lesser Fencebuilder makes...

The Wikipedia article for the origin of Washington indicates that 'wheat sheaf' might be a cognate with 'House of Vasa', but I'm not convinced that House of Vasa could be interpreted as 'wheat sheaf'. The modern Swedish word for Wheat appears to be 'vete', while 'vasa' appears most similar to the e...

You might benefit from one of the etymological maps by Omnimap . https://i.imgur.com/Y6bQTZ2.jpg This isn't a black mark on your suggestion, but how the fuck do they get "Marsh Farm" for D.C? It's Wheat Sheaf Town, located in the District of Dove-land. And the only etymology for "Pen...

I think I can see more merit in playing with this idea than just "well it's basically just like rolling on an encounter table using a d78." I'm imagining a campaign where the players are the ones pulling the cards, but the DM is the only one that actually knows what's on the encounter tabl...

Sorry, mates, I'm all outta apocalypse posting energy, Something Awful just had its own succession crisis. I guess I'm not shocked, but I am dimly surprised that the house brand of acerbic catharsis actually started getting to people. I guess I've never deigned to wade in too deeply to the sectarian...

The first of those two images is illustrated with a digital painting. That's instantly more high-brow than otherwise. First of all, painting is an old and prestigious craft, and the Louvre is full of paintings of tits. Painting is also very difficult and time-consuming in a way that everyone finds ...

Ok. So... I think I might be too libertine to make a proper judgement here. I literally so no difference, in terms of explicitness, between these two images- https://66.media.tumblr.com/28670ce7b95ca773eee6646a20bd7e25/tumblr_msmewpqQUj1s8d9d5o1_640.jpg https://i.imgur.com/r4XJ4xH.jpg Anyone have t...

And when they try, it looks like this . The idea of a drow ranger popping a GoPro on the end of his scimitar and choosing the right metal track to play for his hype vid is LARPer as fuck and so goddamned weird - I am not going to lie: I fucking love that trailer . Apropos of nothing, here's some Re...

Yeah, a couple remarks on the idea that Hasbro executives only see the world through the lens of selling another Batman toy: One: It is the Year of Our Lord MMXX, and video games have been cock-slapping traditional toy manufacturers with ever-growing speed and accuracy since the release of the Ninte...

Ah, I see my previous post was pre-empted. Good show. A few comments: You can put religious shit anywhere, it's true - but when you picture a generic ruin, do you picture a generic ruin isn't a ruined temple? Sure. The burnt-down house that was at the end of my cul-de-sac when I was a kid was a ruin...

Following up. These conceits come with a concomitant exercise: When you lay out the symbols of your colors, try to determine if you can come up with satisfactory titles for their intersections. This is what I would read into Mistborn's Nexuses: Void (Ruin) Light (Temple) Nature (Grove) Time (Tower) ...

Not sold on your land concepts. If you're looking to have lots of different lands, you're going to want things much more generic than "Temple." Also you're going to want evil temples that produce Void mana, and so on and so on. Magic set the bar very low by having one of the land types be...

There may have been an element of that, the US upgraded to the .45 after finding the .38 less effective then they wanted in the Philippines, IIRC, so it was due to actual combat experience. OTOH, the British were using the .455 Webley, and later went down to a smaller cartridge because it was more ...

Getting your weapon stuck inside/under someone can easily happen, especially in a chaotic melee. I think it was in Snow Crash that there was this text about how the art of using a katana in battle isn't about putting it inside someone but about pulling it out before that person's angry friend attac...

Stahlseele wrote:i'd thought one would go to Dr.Trollman for that O.o

What? Frank is a German I.T. guy.

I seem to recall there was a particular scholar, predating the printing press, who had the propensity to include full copies, with his manuscripts, of works that he was citing or responding to, and there are some significant works that are only extant in the modern day because of his habit for repli...

Mummies are an odd example because I feel like they actually have quite a bit of room to work with but that's mostly because people don't know what to do with them when they try their goofy monster manual undead categorization schemes. Telling your art crew that you want Egyptian mummies gives you ...

Very close, actually; I eat amphetamines. Much more efficient and produces nearly the same result.

Perhaps I also have preoccupations with Stuff That's Personal, my dude.

Poly relationships are annoying sometimes. My primary and my needleplay partner keep talking about wanting to hook up, but the needleplay partner keeps flaking out every time my primary is available. I'm starting to think that she might not really mean this. Also it's annoying that her boyfriend ha...

I'll take a value rare every time and still usually win. Trying to pick up dollar uncommons at the detriment to your experience is dumb, though. Your time is more valuable than that.

Electoral votes are vested in actual individuals who congregate and cast them at the electoral college. Those people can ostensibly vote how they like. There's laws on the books in certain states that compel them to vote for exactly the candidates that they said they would, but the constitutionality...

My PCs will soon enter a cave that's been sealed to air for some time, and I have a recollection of reading that stagnant air 'goes bad.' Is that a thing, how bad is it, and what can you do about it? Stagnant air will go bad if there's something in there to use up the oxygen. It could have been the...

I don't know if this has been answered already, but is there any real need to have an alignment system at all? Absolutely none whatsoever. But if you have a set of tags and you can hang mechanics on those tags, then they can have substantive worth. Also, people seem to like them for some reason. Pl...

Real doctors can get in trouble for giving medical advice on how to commit fraud, however well intentioned. Yeah, I'm not wild about the idea. But I am offering the benefit of the doubt in assuming that diet genuinely isn't working and that this is a more difficult problem for Starmaker that requir...