The Gaming Den

There are three kinds of genies : Genies to whom you can safely say "I wish for you to do what I should wish for"; genies for which no wish is safe; and genies that aren't very powerful or intelligent. Attempting to outwit a hostile DM is pointless. There is no feedback, so you have to ge...

The flayer army has problems. They should be rocking a weird hodgepodge of troops from various mind-controlled enemies, but I could see a whole Roman-Empire theme mixed with armies bred in slave pits. Actually, that might be the solution to the lich problem at the same time. Instead of having a nor...

If you were going to project Mori's military might into near-impassable mountains with defensible caves, how would you alter your deployment? Having some flying zombies for aerial recon is possible, and the ghouls can climb pretty well, but the skeletal hordes are pretty vulnerable if they get crow...

How would you equip a force of gnolls with 1 barbarian level each if you were going to use them against Mori's legions? Are alchemical grenades or oil flasks a cost-effective way of clearing out massed skeletons? Oil flasks could work. If we're assuming normal human skeletons, the 2d6 damage from a...

What do playgrounds look like when every kid is running around casting Prestidigitation, Stick, and Mage Hand on everything they see? Are schools blanketed in AMFs so temper tantrums aren't an emergency situation?

I was trying to come up with a good way to approximate a real shieldwall in DND math, and it occurred to me that having your army all squeezing into spaces with each other might be a reasonable tactic. Every individual dude takes -4 to attacks and -4 to AC, but you get twice as many people into the...

I was trying to come up with a good way to approximate a real shieldwall in DND math, and it occurred to me that having your army all squeezing into spaces with each other might be a reasonable tactic. Every individual dude takes -4 to attacks and -4 to AC, but you get twice as many people into the ...

RRAAAAWWWRR!! I like this idea. Kind of an MMO Black and White + Populous + Spore. The universally-iconic interface is a really nice touch. Combined with the subject matter, I could definitely see this being popular with kids. And we even have the technology for the interface now; previous attempts...

Arcane Mark means that most theft goes away; anything you want to fence needs a casting of Erase , which for non-adventurer gear costs a hundred times more than the item itself. Mage Hand doesn't have much practical use, but has some cultural effects. Specifically, everybody is now fantastically la...

Mori's military, Warrior 3s with tower shields and light armor, sounds a lot like the Roman Legions to me. Back that up with skeletons for shock troops and strategery and with ghouls for filling holes and you've got something that would eat any real-life military for breakfast. The Morian legions ar...

You ever seem savage? Huh, I had not. Thanks for the pointer. Looks like the RTS side is a bit weak - I was thinking that the game would have much more solid RTS mechanics in order to hold FPS players' responsibilities down to small-unit tactics and character builds - but it's definitely close to w...

Modded minecraft, as usual - mostly feed the beast and direwolf20 packs. Kerbal Space Program. B9 aerospace for the awesome cockpits, kethane so I have something interesting to do other than fly around, mechjeb to execute maneuver nodes for me, and a few minor things like docking cameras and quantum...

An asymmetric-multiplayer RTS-FPS hybrid. Some players are playing an RTS and have a whole economy and giant armies and terrain and order queues going on. Some players are playing an FPS, though; whenever someone in the RTS wants to build a hero-type unit, instead of getting just another unit but wi...

A horde of self-replicating clockwork automatons are eating a spherical volume out of the rich, unending mineral deposits on the Elemental Plane of Earth and destroying everything in their way. Find a way to shut down the swarm.

The mayor's favorite thoroughbred owlbear was swallowed by a mad artificer's pocketwatch. Get it back. Or, at least, get enough of it back to continue its line.

:Cast Spell: and :Arbitrary Power: exhibit one of the more interesting character progression systems I've seen. The only problem I see is that, over a long game's series of failures, your character will turn into an incredibly baroque table of abilities and exceptions. Definitely a class for the rul...

You have awoken from the slumber of millennia into eternal new life. Get a passport, get a bank account, and get a job. An ancient necropolitan digs its way through your floor, tells you it just awoke from millennia of slumber, and politely asks for a cup of tea. The local paladins will torture you...

Someone has hypnotized all of the king's carefully-placed imposters and convinced them that they're all the original people. The king is quite annoyed by the loss of his spies.

A rogue druid has Awakened all the animals in the king's new pleasure palace. The king has them besieged for now, but has quietly hired you to kill them all before they find a way to escape. The other kings have equally quietly hired you to break the siege. And there's sure to be a bard somewhere th...

The king's new pleasure palace is built on the site of an ancient aboleth pleasure palace. The disturbed ghosts are producing phantasms of a singularly distressing nature.

Foxwarrior wrote:When someone tries to teleport into an occupied space, the action is wasted.

In that case, your teleport area denial is a simple as a can of silly string.

psychognome wrote:Personally, I would've had it been the Inevitables

I misinterpreted which party you proposed replacing with Inevitables. Nearly laughed myself to death imagining the party delivering a baatorian demand for child support from to a modron.

Huh, from the description I was expecting The Flash or a Culture Knife-Missile. If it's just Jason Bourne or Major Kusanagi, then yeah, all you need is manpower, body armor, cover, and bigger guns. Look at the assault on Section 8's headquarters at the end of SAC, for example: a single standard army...