The Gaming Den

Microsoft is trying to patent a straight-up 1984 kind of device. Looks...fun. Best quote from the article: "It’s refreshing to see Microsoft eschewing its play-nice-with-everyone approach to business for some old-fashioned, straight-up evil." http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-micros...

In English it literally has no connotations that are not a racial reference. It does mean a color in Spanish , but unlike Latin , Spanish is not generally used by English speakers except when actually communicating in Spanish. Since this is an English, and not Spanish, message board, Negro is racia...

TBH, I've never seen him outside of a very carefully controlled message board that doesn't allow talking about politics, religion, or basically anything that might offend someone. He's always sounded like he had very interesting opinions on those matters, so I assumed that interesting conversations ...

Ah, my misunderstanding then. I have to ask -- what the hell is offensive about his name? What could "OmniNegro" possibly mean that is offensive to anyone? So people in the US between the turn of the century and the 1960s used it to refer to Americans of African descent...so fucking what? ...

niger, nigra, nigrum: black Don't be a douchebag. It may not literally be Latin, but it's directly descended from Latin. 1550s, from Sp. or Port. negro "black," from L. nigrum (nom. niger) "black, dark, sable, dusky," figuratively "gloomy, unlucky, bad, wicked," of unk...

Yeah, there's a lot of "this guy isn't giving sources so obviously he's a whackjob so obviously I don't actually have to read what he said" going on here. But it seems that it's kind of too late for anything actually interesting to come of this. I apologize to everyone for my obviously mis...

So the guy that I invited over here because I wanted to see him rant more openly about his political views -- OmniNegro (yes, he's my fault, feel free to hate me) -- PMs me and tells me that his account might get banned because people are bitching about his username. SERIOUSLY? All you barrel-of-coc...

This is a place where people like to argue using look-up-able facts. I don't think that arguing via anecdote is going to get much useful discussion going, unfortunately.

(Here in the USA, we are more Socialist that most countries that are actually considered Socialist and/or Communist. More of our GDP goes to welfare/aid for the poor than any nation that actually acknowledges they are Socialist/Communist. But that is something I should not go into depth on since I ...

At one point one of the Little Ponies had to go looking for...something or someone, I forget. I suggested she encounter some of the Transformers and Joes in her search, specifically, a scene where she flies up to Shipwreck who is drinking some amber fluid from a bottle. Shipwreck would just stare a...

Except that MacGyver doesn't re-use his equipment. He re-creates it on the fly for every occasion. Batman has supercool specialized gizmos that hang around from scene to scene and adventure to adventure, and has ridiculous one-offs that he either creates or just happens to have handy at the right mo...

Word, Fwib. Word.

How do you dual wield kusari-gama? A kusari-gama is a two-handed weapon by nature.

I can't agree more with OrionAnderson. I've always loved Everway for the 'threadweaving' idea - where you could have a legendary artifact in your possession from level one, but not have access to it's abilities until you were of an appropriate level to do it.[br][br]With Orion's rule, a Samurai's An...

"It's okay if people want to play games that are inferior to my own." [br][br]Really? That's what you got out of K's post? I got something more like "If all of your players are willing to play a 'low-level' game even at mid- to high- levels, of course you won't have a problem, and th...

Really, the notion that there even exists a coherent entity that is "the designers" is false. [br][br]"The designers" that brought us everything good about D&D 3.0 were all fired . The people that bring us new material nowadays (since before 3.5 hit the shelves) are more ofte...

But there's no need for adventuring wizards to make magic items. That's what the retirees are for.

Don't be a spoon, squidface. ;p

Norm: check the latest Nomicon (Races of War, IIRC) thread. Somewhere in the first two pages, Frank discusses his situation. Also, doing a Search in the IMHO forum for "Book of Gears" should net you the result you're looking for.

Swashbucklers do it Gracefully.[br][br]Scouts do it in motion.[br][br]Frenzied Berzerkers to it to everyone .[br][br]Artificers do it with lots and lots of toys.[br][br]Pale Masters do it with a prosthetic.[br][br]Oozemasters shouldn't do it.[br][br]Eidolomancers can't do it.[br][br]Forsakers won't ...

Hellz yeah! I'd play with a catgirl for stats like that.[br] Wait...that didn't come out right... [br][br]Seriously, everyone I know doesn't really care that much. They look at the stats first, and come up with a story based on whatever race matches the stats they want. The only drawback is that the...

My 2 cents:[br][br]In every campaign I've run past the first one I completed, I've made several house rules that make spellcasting in general work MUCH more effectively in my games:[br][br]1) ALL spells have a DC of 10+1/2 HD+Stat. The penalty for using a 2nd level spell slot to Hold someone is that...

Ack. Sho' 'nuff. My bad.

Technically, the "most advantageous" manner of stacking would result in a 120' foil. I'm not sure how much you want that, though...

Bah. Let them stack and make it a 90' total Foil.