The Gaming Den

Looks like this'll be the last one for awhile, so I want to thank you guys for being so civil about it (most religion threads tend to get... inflammatory, heh, most boards I've been to).[br][br] Seriously there's a lot of stuff that just doesn't make sense. If the universe was designed by some super...

Frank (...darn it >_>):[br][br]I've heard that argument ("You can't believe in an omni-God and still have free will") at least a hundred times, literally, and I'm really starting to get tired of it, because it's not true .[br][br]I'll start with a parallel. Most of us have probably heard t...

Heh, yeah, I was posting that while you were editing it. I edited in a reply to your edit up there too.

Catharz--[br][br] There are people who would rather be dead than suffer as they are suffering. The reason they don't take the 'easy way out' is because they believe that if they do, they'll suffer worse. For ever. [br][br]That's not really a logical position to take, though, since you're going to di...

I'm scared of even touching a bible lately for fear of becoming one of them. [br][br]Because that would be so terrible, wouldn't it? :rolleyes: [br][br]Arguing with Frank doesn't get anyone anywhere (although it can be hilarious at times), so I'll focus on Lago's post. Which, by the way; I apprecia...

Another community I'm a member of has been running multi-annual gaming/roleplay "writing tournaments" online. As an overview, it's basically a giant crossover fanfiction with rules and violence, which I find pretty entertaining but which also has limited appeal in some places.[br][br]Anywa...

Quote battle... commence! Thanks again for the replies, Shau. :][br][br] You can have the diplomacy check there, but ultimately what you are really doing is making another inteligent creature your slave for the game. This is really bad when you consider the fact that you can openly sell griffons and...

No problem. :] I'm just glad to help out (and also glad that I read this thread at work and thus still had the safe archive at home, heh).

Oops. Here you go.

With the Work Offline function and History, I have that last page on the thread up until Frank's post about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy (er, the WOTC one, heh...), if it's needed. (It might be because I've been up for too long, but I can't figure out if the threads on Weasel's link ...

I'd say it's more the Heartless have Regeneration, rather than DR-- I didn't play the game and only watched some of it; but wasn't the deal with the Keyblade that it was the only thing that could "free their hearts" and thus defeat Heartless for "good"? Judging by how easily they...

...I am man enough to admit defeat.

...and cry. :'(

Oh, really? I was basing that quip off of Lago's line here:[br][br] I mean, Sidereals probably have the worst physical chassis of all of the celestial exalts, [br][br]not out of any professional opinion. I've been curious about Exalted, but never really had a chance to play it (nobody out here does)...

Lies. There are no ugly women in RPGs, console or table-top.[br][br]Anyway, I don't know much about Exalted, but it seems like you could go another step further and have broken up with the hot Sidereal who taught you martial arts. That makes you happy-- you've got the skillz-- and it makes your GM h...

The most astoundingly useless WoD character I've seen [outside a game of Hunter] was this guy who played a Mage with most of his dots in social skills and Firearms, and who took that Flaw that you got Paradoxed for every spell you cast outside your sanctum, whether it was coincidental or not. He was...

I do; thanks much. :] First off, let me add that many skill uses are just for flavor-- the goal was to make skills more useful, sure; but they are still the red-headed stepchildren of D&D mechanics. I didn't really want the role of skills to utterly replace feats or class features-- which is why...

I have a similar practice when it comes to "obtaining" books that might not be any good. Which I hope is understandable, given that the last WOTC book I bought on "faith" was Magic of Incarnum. :| [br][br]I bought a couple of the 3.0 books, but never did get the 3.5 Core ones (no...

The Crusader text has some terrible wording, but Frank and Lago are right (and unfortunately for us, Customer Service's opinions don't really have any more weight than any other gamer who is decently rules-savvy but doesn't have the books on hand, and are just that-- opinions). I think the important...

Crissa-- There's probably two possible answers for it. One is what we call the "half-orc logic," where options meant for beginners are intentionally underpowered to make up for their ease of use (and if you want to reach out to the casual gamer, it's hard to think of a more accessible way ...

It is, but thanks for doing so; I appreciate it. [br][br]Generally, when the DC is based on spell level, the base DC is higher than usual (25, for Disable Device's case), and there's often some other sort of restriction to it (like time-- the DC is actually effectively 35, because taking 7 rounds to...

Heh, fair enough; and thanks. :] I was just wondering if there was a split or anything, since some folks here post there but not others, you know. But yeah, there is more gaming talk over here; so here we are. (And just "Wayne" is fine; the "Sir" thing is just something to add wh...

You know, I never knew this board had a welcome thread. >_> Well, better late than never.[br][br]Also-- unless it's secret, forbidden lore, or something-- can I ask about the history of TGD? Just curious because I remember checking out Nifty some time in... uh, 2003 or 2004, I think (I ended up ther...

The name comes from this ancient thread , inspiration for more than a couple changes to the skill system in my latest campaign. Player reaction has mostly been positive (predictably; coupled with the news I was making all skills class skills, the Bard thought Christmas had come early), but there's n...

It's kind of funny... I never played much AD&D, but in the 2E days, basically nobody knew what they were doing, and I got by just fine as a half-elf Ranger (yes, straight-classed, why do you ask? >_>). But since 3E I've played in about a dozen groups (mostly in the first two and last two years),...

To be fair, Frank, "balancing" a class compared to what D&D is is substantially different compared to how things ought to be balanced. In a world (or at least a gaming table) where a group isn't even interested in playing the kind of game you and K are working on (like my old one :/), ...