The Gaming Den

Would someone be interested in reviewing old d20 adventure modules, like the popular ones from Necromancer Games? You always read that WotC sucked at making 3E adventures and 3rd party publishers were putting out the real shit, and I wonder if that's actually true. From our 2016 perspective, that is...

There is some really good 3rd Party Pathfinder stuff out there. Legendary Games make some fun add-ons, I especially like the materials they did for Carrion Crown and some of the monsters. Their Sword & Planet AP sounds like fun, haven't seen it yet. Dreamscarred Press has been named, meshes pret...

Yikes, this is "DSA, Orkland" levels of bad. Longes, you should do an OSSR of that thing, just because.

If you're using Windows, try clearing your temporary data (CCleaner isn't bad for that) and then open the command console ("CMD") and enter this: "netsh winsock reset catalog" You need to restart, but chances are you'll be able to connect after that. It's some black network magic...

I've had a "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" page when trying to access tgdmb.com for a few times today, right now it seems to work just fine (Win7 64bit, Chrome 47.0.2526.106 m). I am using ProxMate to unblock YouTube, but I've had the problem in the past a few times even without that plugin so I ...

Why wouldn't anyone use the late 3.5 statblocks, which are pretty much exactly what PF is using? It's so much better to read and to find special abilities or damage values or whatever with a sidelong glance, also the CR is at the top and not the bottom which makes a lot more sense. I always thought ...

There legitimately are good ideas to be had in the old editions. Not all of the changes made in the revamp to 3rd edition D&D were great, or even in the correct direction. Going back and looking at some of the things that worked well or well enough in earlier editions and seeing if they could b...

Er... Dragon magazine was what I meant, sorry. Thanks for the pointers!

Does somebody know if there were 3E issues of Dungeon magazine dealing with aquatic environments and character options?

Another thing that Synthesists benefit from is how ridiculously SAD most Charisma-based PF classes are these days. With enough splatbooks in the game you can add Cha to pretty much anything you want, sometimes even twice thanks to PF's terrible power descriptions. A player in my weekly game plays a ...

Are you playing the Borbarad campaign/7 Gezeichnete by any chance? Some of this 1st edition stuff actually foreshadows parts of it, but a lot of the background for that particular campaign only got introduced in 3rd edition. They added tons of details to the magic rules and cosmology just to set th...

How well does a Synthesist Summoner do? In a standard game with fighters and rogues a SS will utterly dominate the "I beat that thing until it stops moving" niche, but if everyone else knows what they're doing a SS is kinda alright. It starts very strong because between your character and...

Yeah, finally someone doing a DSA review
I've recently managed to get a spot in a DSA 3 group of veteran players, so hopefully this will get me prepared for what's coming.

I just read in an old thread on the Big Purple from 2006 that MechWarror is - or was, at one time - linked to Eartdawn and Shadowrun, being the third setting in that timeline of settings. Can someone elaborate? Because that's... not something I thought being possible

Both ENWorld and GiantitP have lots of archivation going on right now, I think most of the interesting content should be saved this way. But depending on what you think of save-worthy content a personal backup via HTTrack might not be a bad idea. Be aware though that most of the older links and thre...

Grek wrote:

• Astral Old School Color Pools are back in 5E, as are random "encounters" in the form of rolling on the Physic Wind table whenever the DM decides they want to.

As someone who never played the old editions: what are color pools?

Thanks for the review so far!

Well, that was an entertaining little ride. Thanks AH! I own a handful of Dungeon/Dragon issues from the 3rd Edition era, and I found them to be good readings for the loo. Like you guys said, generally nice art and a few cool ideas, but mechanics tend to suck (or blow). But I used more than one crea...

The problem as with all Pathfinder feats is that you don't really have the feat slots to spare for fun stuff like this unless you are a full caster. I mean, I can totally see me taking a few damnation feats íf I'm playing a Diviner/Diabolist-Wizard, but as a Magus? Barbarian? Forget it.

The comment about Ryan Dancey leaving for "unrelated reasons" two weeks prior to Paizo pulling the plug makes me a but curious. What will the Steve Jobs of MMO marketing do next?

Thanks guys. I don't have a problem with changing things, but I wanted to make sure to at least understand the standard model of the Matrix (if there is such a thing) before going all homebrew on the matter. So apparently I can throw all kinds of quasi-technical terms at the players and still claim ...

Ok, so I finally got into Shadowrun (yeah!), but the group decided to ditch SR's rules and just use the fluff and the universe. So now I am reading sourcebooks like a maniac, and I have some problems figuring out how the matrix is supposed to work - not in terms of SR-rules, but in terms of concept....

To help you distinguish the two: Sweden has real bears. Germany only has gummy bears.

Huh. I find it amusing that the wording of Alter Summoned Monster means it's more for declawing any summoned opposition since you can replace something summoned with a level 9 spell with something summoned by a level 1 spell. Well, since ASM explicitly says the replacement is under the same conditi...

Link There seems to be a fair amount of outcry and confusion on the Paizo boards because they ignored a lot of known issues and nerfed other things to the ground. Bloodragers now can use shields and re-learn spells, but Swashbucklers got it in the earhole pretty hard. Divine Protection went from st...

To be fair, they just made it easier - you already have options to inflict vulnerability to mind-affecting shenanigans on creatures that would normally be immune to that, such as Threnodic Spell for example.