The Gaming Den

As a long time shadowrun and vampire player it's really just the apologetics that puzzle me. When someone asks how your bad character sleeps at night you can always just say "on a pile of money and opiates."

People are going to get attached to something , but if you gave them some agency operator or handler character to get attached to, they'd probably find it easier to say "this guy is my real character, even though I only play them for like twenty minutes of each four hour session, because I pla...

There are things like Heroquest and Runescape and Talisman. Not necessarily good , but the fact that they exist speaks to people wanting to play real heroes that still maybe just fight a dragon and fucking lose . It doesn't all have to be gongfarmers and ratcatchers for a game where your character ...

As a symbol of greed psychedelic vulture demons aren't half bad and the Lord of Change consistently brings some decent sculpts and paint jobs to the table. Tzeentch definitely sucks ass but I think the Vrock expies could have held up if stapled onto a better concept.

Prak wrote:GM Dick Waving seems to, primarily, be a symptom of toxic masculinity.

Oh, if only.

My sister was tested this morning and I guess they're gonna be shutting down the food processing plant she works at for a while. Here's hoping she doesn't have it, I guess.

I like how he's off by a factor of 10 and it's still more accurate than his other claims.

DenizenKane wrote: Trump knows, he just wont play into their hand, they want him to go to war with China over a fairy tale.

I can't wait to hear how this is compatible with Trump publicly affirming he has a high degree of confidence in the "It came from a Chinese lab" theory.

i think she stole my cat

I'd offer to contribute to this but all I bring to the table is bad grammar, zero math skills and a big pile of pet character concepts I'd inevitably end up showering favoritism upon. So, qualified for D&D, but not this.

You can easily tell because a ton of the forum fanboys are of the paint huffing "Single player games shouldn't even try to be balanced" set. I suppose that could be called a difference of opinion, but I'd stress to developers that going that route is a great way to make sure you never get ...

Given the amazing ineptitude/callousness of his handlers I'm perfectly fine with him choking on some of his own turbulence. I'm not happy about it but at this point I'd definitely take the wisdom of the pissed off crowds over leaving Trump alone with fucking Jared.

EDIT: Oh god, I didn't know there was a video game coming out. I wonder how much they're going to water this shit down? The good news is if they concentrate on fighting the villains there is a path forward and that path is Furry Soldier Sailor Moon: Remember Sailor Moon SuperS, where the Dark Carni...

The layers of dog fucking and incest in this game are overlapping and very complicated. And I can understand how it got that way, but it's still wild to me that no one with editorial control over this project ever stepped in to say "we can't have multiple overlapping labels of incest, rape, an...

Even if it's technically possible to cast these goobers I'm leery of going too combo heavy with an initial card set design anyway. It's desirable to have archetypes that reward players for successfully constructing a megazord but getting that balance right is a tough needle to thread. It's easy to a...

Frank touches on this, but the Werewolf playing field is...complicated. It's not, really. That graphic grossly over-complicates the game (at the time the graphic was made, at least. Don't know about post-90s stuff). I don't buy this. Even your post seems pretty damning when you realize that each de...

Yeah, I mean, obvious Shadowrun stan over here but ultimately Cyberpunk 2020's greatest strength is that it has Cyberpunk in the name and Netrunner was pretty cool. As an RPG property it came across as being defined by what it didn't have in comparison to Shadowrun. That's a strength in the sense th...

However, fighters can't (in standard 3e) enchant their own gear, so fighters handwaving the acquisition of a magic sword mid-adventure when they can't make one on their own is something people complain about...and if wizards couldn't learn spells on their own but could only acquire spells by retrie...

I have decided I don't care about anything in this thread that isn't related to Butterlord finally hitting wider distribution.

Honestly what gives with these people? Why are they playing D&D and not looking for another TTRPG that suits their needs? This is a super weird take given you can change a rpg by busting out a notepad. People want organic advancement because working with whatever tools you find in your environm...

Things were definitely more openly sexist back then but I wouldn't say another world, sadly. I am very confident I know at least one dude who would float the concept "ironically" and then double down and power trip if the player seemed annoyed rather than amused by the suggestion. The big ...

FrankTrollman wrote: The US would actually be doing OK if it had a leader who wasn't a joke character from a Dickens novel.

-Username17

This is just base slander.


Everyone knows Trump is a Captain Planet villain.

People do dumb things but I think we should pause to recognize how benign the typical overreaction is. I say this because the state of US politics dictates that there are already deplorables on facebook acting like showing concern before Trump admitted there was a problem was tantamount to fomenting...

Not a doctor, so I'll get swooped on this hard by frank, but this is the kinda stuff that bears repeating so I'll talk a bit anyway. The most comforting thing here is viruses aren't actually being managed by some dude trying to wipe out Madagascar in Plague Inc. Mutations will happen but selective p...

^^ With a mimic you can just stab it and root through the carcass when it eats your shit. With the Bag of Devouring if you "successfully" put something into it then it's probably gone forever. If it tries eating you personally then you also get to have a slapfight with your DM because the ...