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- Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Horror in Isolation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3733
I would imagine making the PCs some kind of distressed population could be shoehorned into the task: refugees fleeing a war being stalked by a supernatural terror, for example. You could also push things into a post-apocalypse future, or even a dystopian one where some identifiable racial minority h...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
- Replies: 168
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4e was an attempt to revive the RPG to promote more miniatures sales, by getting the minis guy in to lead the design and make them more compatible. About six months out from printing dates they realised they had a dog and changed a whole bunch of stuff... More info on this please. This may just be ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
- Replies: 168
- Views: 55865
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Im sick of systems
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12239
In my gamgaming groups I end up reading the rules and telling people how to play, including the GM. The rest of the group reads at their own pace, catches my screwups, and generally gets up to speed about a month later. That's not ideal, but it works. It does make me wonder how these games would pro...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
This: 5th edition is therapy edition. And it seems to me to succeed wildly at it, if online reviews in fora and on Amazon are any indication. It literally does not matter what type of game the rules (or lack thereof) facilitate. This is an edition purely there to vindicate and placate highly specifi...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A Star Wars TTRPG worth playing.
- Replies: 135
- Views: 31623
SW:EotE and its relatives suffer from its primary resolution mechanic of Successes and Advantages. On some skill checks the Advantage results are better than Successes, overage of Successes on most checks doesn't mean anything (and your ideal roll is often 1 Success and everything else an Advantage)...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
mean_liar: really? I have no idea why you are trying to continue this argument in private messages, but I can promise you that that is not a thing that's happening. If you're going to walk away after shitting on the conversation with a bad joke trollpost (which is fine, it has to end somehow, fuck ...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tabletop gaming guilty pleasures: what are yours?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 12089
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
BUT THEY'RE FROM CHINA EDIT - On a marginally more serious note, pejorative terms are generally not used precisely because they're pejorative and obfuscating. Frankly, Dark Continent and Chinaman fell out of vogue precisely because... they were pejorative. Racism creates labels, and labels hoist mea...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
It's pejorative, but not racist. Hell, its purpose is to be pejorative. I happen to not think that's particularly helpful. Like, a villein doesn't really exist in Rome and probably got raped and killed less often than Roman house slaves and actually enjoyed some protections beyond being valuable pro...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
Chinamen, all around. Or orientals, I guess. Calling them Asians is too square for the Den. TOO COOL 4 SKOOL, or something. That's what this argument boils down to. I abandoned rural Africa as the Dark Continent as a rhetorical device. It's still a shitty place to live. I will still continue to use ...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
- Replies: 2279
- Views: 303542
You generally didn't have a lot of combat options, you weren't using a grid/location was abstracted, there weren't AoOs, HPs were lower, and there really wasn't a system to give levels to monsters - they were just as they appeared on the tin. So 50 orcs was led by a chieftain or somesuch and maybe a...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 5:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26607
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
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- Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
Considering the Dark Continent as being a racist phrase is like complaining about the word niggardly. Sure, why the fuck not, post-modernism is awesome. Why don't you tell me A.) what general time-frame 'Dark Continent' started to appear and B.) the general sociopolitical zeitgeist of the culture t...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tabletop gaming guilty pleasures: what are yours?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 12089
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407615
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:13 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: URL tag hides a post's content
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6214
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:40 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: URL tag hides a post's content
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6214
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So, posting this: So Africa is the Dark Continent still? Calling the Early Middle Ages the Dark Ages is about as clued in as "Chinaman". There is a preferred nomenclature, dude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) As this: So Africa is the Dark Continent still? Calling ...