The Gaming Den

So I bought the pdf. From what I skimmed so far, and from what I get from your replies, I get the impression that ideally, DW would play like the D&D episode of Community.
I guess I could be down with that.

There's a lot of gushing for this game it seems. Is it worth it? Is it worth it under the premise of looking for an accessible, quick'n'dirty dungeon crawler with enough meat to potentially last you and a group of strangers for a couple of sessions or even a short campaign?

D D starts out on a right-hand page. On the left is a full-page painting of two scantily clad ladies admiring a floating, glowing cup. [...]] Wait, wait wait... WHAT? So D&D inspired Two girls, one Cup? Just when people were more or less done forgetting Black Leaf, You had to remind the world t...

Ok, so basically, Shadowrun is Reign of Fire now, only outside of this one book, the world fiction doesn't seem to acknowledge that at all? It's really amazing, CGL has already set the quality bar so incredibly low, yet they still constantly and effortlessly manage to slip through under. They are to...

That's where the rum comes into play - it sanitizes and funitizes at the same time!

Did he even take a picture of her boobs?
Or was it just, hey, I'm Joe Camera, I just invented the Camera, now please get your tits out, will ya?

He also made this, which validates the entire existance of his blog almost all by itself.[/url]

So, anyone got any speculation what cataclysmic non-event will sort of occur when that gimmicky countdown on CGL's website is counted... down? (Y'know, on Dec 21st, 2012, hurr hurr) There is even a video teaser for it. It's not even on their official channel, but on Randall "I got Loren Coleman...

Okay, that is either some massive inside-joke-peen-stroking or serious cause for concern and having your meth privileges revoked...
Anyway, 4/5 stars, would read again!

For the purposes of this example, it does kind of matter, because you need to know what market you want chased, by what kind of people, and with what kind of product. See, the more I think about it, the more certain I become that, both as a game-line and as a piece of ongoing world-fiction, Shadowru...

Ok, but as far as I can tell, Paizo's idea of a rules system is to fill encyclopedia after enclopedia worth of paper with barrages of meaningless +/-1s and some clearly broken win/lose combos. I am in no way in the "WHARGARBL Paizo is teh worst" camp, and from what I read and heard, they s...

Healing is a big problem anyway. I actually think the (urgh!) Hit Dice in Next are a good idea. Or rather, if you look real close and real hard and scrub 'em down with a forensic team, you may find residual traces of a good idea, in that giving people the ability to regain hit points without milking...

Re: the 5 minute workday, I guess there needs to be a tangible incentive not to be pissing away in-game time, and a Doomsday Clock seems like a lot of book keeping, what with all the different timers, then combat, the take 20s and shit. For more dungeony crawly games, I guess I could see a sort of r...

FrankTrollman wrote: But if you had people who weren't clowns writing the damn thing, you could put a possible story seed in every bear lore result.
-Username17

Yeah, but then you couldn't fit them all in the same car.

Oh for fuck's sake, Kaelik, get the name-stick out of your ass. Yes, "Fighter" is a bland, stupid name. It's also unevocative, and we could do with something better. But you can't truly believe that changing that name to any of your hokey suggestions will improve anything, anyhow. Because,...

If Fighters are to be a thing, they need to Prestige Class into Demigods and get actual magical demigodly abilities. Need. Not want. -Username17 Yes. And these abilities need to be meaningful, and thematically, narratively and mechanically engaging and interesting enough to warrant their existance....

ModelCitizen wrote:Ideally, find some goatherds up a mountain rolling hand-carved bone d20s.

So, you want playtesting entirely in the hands of the OSR?
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Oh, come on, low hanging fruit etc.

The stuff on par with what the grown-ups get is magic. And how can you connect "no magic" with "should be more god than man"? Sense that makes no. Away with your gibberish. The main reason no one will ever have nice things is because the idioterati will rather get their tiny klo...

Yeah, no, count me in the "Fighters don't need magic, they need meaningful abilities in and out of combat. So not "Cleave, Cleaver, Cleavest", but actual meaningful shit on par with what the grown ups get. I coughed up a quick draft of how you could approach that in the other current ...

It should go to the email you signed up with. I "told" them in the comments that the Rogue "feels" ineffective and not very Roguelike, because I figure whatever OCR program or 3rd world freelancer they'll get to parse the comments will most likely be drilled to watch for the touc...

YMMV, but I think you can totally give your swordguy meaningful abilites without any wizardy flavour at all. Or, at least, reskin some spells without it feeling like a spell. Like, I just made up these Fighter... Class Feature... things. None of them require innate "magic" abilities to wor...

You can tell Enrique he has a sale.

First, props to you, sounds like you and your daughter had a great time. My cub is murat 6 weeks old, but I'm already stockpiling up on indoctrination... Second, could you go into mechanics just a bit? As I understand it, the system is basically opposed rolls on a d12? Is there more to it? How is da...

Hill has an interview on the Podgecast. I haven't listened to it yet, but I asked them if they had talked about the Jewbusters thing. The answer I got was a staggering display of the amount of ignorance, stupidity and pure, unchecked failure a human being can be capable of if they just put their min...

I'm basically ok with just saying that after the Crash (the first one, not the one I'd probably just retcon out of existence) people decided that it's impractical or effectively impossible to keep a dedicated brain-machine interface from breaking your encryption, killing it dead with copious amounts...