The Gaming Den

Yeah, let's talk about Activision-Blizzard for a moment. Activision-Blizzard (always use their full name) is a cancer on the video game community. Overwatch was one of the first (non-mobile) games to introduce lootboxes, and while the lootbox controversy was going on, Activision-Blizzard said that O...

Why not just use the Shadowrun Spirits services system? Sunrise and sunset are excellent narrative moments, and already have use in D&D (cleric spell preparation varies between sunrise & sunset depending on deity).

I also notice that a lot of the spells have vague casting times, specifying "1 action." Well, what does that mean? A standard action, move action, or full-round action? This is a 3.0 book, and thus uses 3.0 terminology. All spells we now know as "standard action" in 3.5 used the...

But it's not a playstyle that I, the Paizo dev, think is realistic or fits into the genre of fantasy I want to do, ergo it must stuck without a million feats invested into it to make it functional (see also: throwing weapons, slings, crossbows, unarmed combat, having a nonstandard mount that might ...

Any PC specific rpgs that either have engaging gameplay or story, preferably both? I've played all the old school Baldur gates, neverwinter nights, and stuff along with the newer rehashes like pillars and tyranny. I am not going to go through every rpg I've played but I'm always looking for more th...

D&D 3.5, Shadowrun 4E, and FFG's 40k RPGs, which are all more or less the same system repeating itself.

No mention of Wild ARMs XF? PSP, pretty fun take on the Wild ARMs series.

ExXxalted is a garbage fire that's more about making punny jokes than treating anything seriously. Say what you will about Book of Erotic Fantasy, but they at least tried - in a juvenile sort of way, but they tried. ExXxalted doesn't even have that going for it. An OSSR of it would just be dry and b...

Baseline/Chargen Rules Karmagen, 750 Karma. Free Contact Points equal to 3*Cha. Free Knowledge Skills equal to (INT+LOG)*3. Essence Loss only reduces Magic/Resonance maximums. Stacked Foci can exceed Force 6. Special Attributes (Mag, Res, Edge) do not count towards 50% Karma maximum spent on attrib...

Alicorns Being an Alicorn is something that has to be earned. When a Pony (here to mean a Unicorn, Earth Pony, or Pegasus, or their Crystal varieties) has achieved a total of 250 career Karma, if the Pony has a total Notoriety of 5 or less, 25 or more Street Cred, and a Public Awareness of 10 or mo...

Cutie Marks With the advent of the Universal Magical Theory that allows non-Unicorns to use Magic in Equestria (and the human world), cutie marks began to spread through to non-Ponies (and thus increasing the power of Celestia and Luna). Now, nearly every inhabitant of Equestria and Earth bears a C...

Skills It's no secret SR4 suffers from a serious case of skill bloat. So, we're going to trim the skill list. Combat Active Skills Archery (Agi) - Bows, crossbows Ballistics (Agi) - Holdouts, tasers, pistols (light, heavy, machine), submachine guns, shotguns, rifles (sport, sniper), assault rifles,...

Human World Megas Shooters United SU (known colloquially as Shoot You) is the largest arms-manufacturing corporation in the two worlds. Their rise to power was the result of creating Pony Adaptation for guns of all shapes and sizes, and now they produce a wide variety of weaponry for use for both P...

Going over some of the stuff I talked about before in this post. There's arguments to be made both for and not having your other-world equivalent sharing DNA, biometrics, etc. Sharing Biometrics Pros: Can tell certain stories you can't otherwise. -Example: Your otherworld equivalent is a ranking mem...

Let's talk about the government of the two worlds. There's a lot of overlap between the two, but they should be distinctly separate. And of course, when it comes to government, we are of course talking about analogous-to-megacorporations. In this Equestria, the Mane Six refers not to ponies, but to ...

Pony Guns, or how the fuck does pony shoot. I'm handwaving this one because forelegs get used like hands an awful lot, so I'm just going to assume that ponies can use guns like a character with hands. I'm also tempted to have people purchase multiple guns, with "Pony-Adapted" being a free ...

Let's talk a few character options. I listed ponies up there, but I'll be editing that later with the various other character types that exist in the world. Crystal Ponies get lumped in with the other types because they just seem like a palette change to regular ponies, anyways. Changelings should d...

So, body-changing between the worlds is an annoying one when it comes to 'ware. 'Ware is specifically made for a certain shape , and going from four legs to two legs could potentially cause the 'ware to no longer function. I'm going to handwave that way with Magic and say that the 'ware serves ident...

Let's talk Matrix. I want to slot Ends of the Matrix into here whole-cloth, but that's not possible. There's a few reasons I'm doing this on a base of 4E instead of 4E20A, and one of those reasons is the changes made to Riggers. Ends of the Matrix puts VR-bound characters on a 1:1 with astrally proj...

Let's talk about the world of Equestria Girls. Earlier I suggested that ponies and humans move freely between the two worlds - for vacation, for work, or just a day out. Moving between the pony world to the human world gives you a human form, and vice versa. I don't want to create templates based on...

Okay, so, I've established play routines, and what I want this version of SR4E to do - namely, have characters do legwork, infiltration, combat, performing crimes for money. What I don't have is a method of character generation. Karma-based builds are always my bread and butter, because they make ch...

This is going to be an all-encompassing thread to cover this idea that's been rattling around in my head for the past two-years-and-change. Thanks to a "friend" that got me involved in watching My Little Pony, I've been seeing a lot of similarities between the setup of Equestria and that o...

Hunter gets me a mix of Bloodborne and people hunting, something called email hunter, and boots, while ranger gets me a bunch of trucks. The latter is understandable because I was hunting for a new vehicle in the last six months.

...Wasn't caseless ammo the assumption for forever?

Also, if you mean goblinkin, you can say "goblinkin" or something. Though that doesn't traditionally include orcs and definitely doesn't include kobolds. AD&D and earlier lumped orcs under "goblinkin", at least? But yeah, this is ... not a good book. Fuck doing an OSSR of it...