The Gaming Den

I've been lurking this thread and now that the drama is over, I would like to congratulate all the filthy Stalinists in here on a job well done.

Theoretically, Godzilla could have been made the solution to the worlds energy problems . . Simply ship off all your nuclear waste to some desolate island, like the bikini atoll and have him eat it on a regular basis. he has no reason to leave his radioactive paradise because he gets fed his radioa...

If you're really still nervous, come up with a name other than "Sphere" and you should be golden (e.g. Domain, Realm, Path, Way, Form). The only one of the actual Sphere names that's remotely unique to WW is "Correspondence," which they changed to "Space" in Awakening a...

Here's what Jervis Johnson, one of the game designers, had to say about Squats back in 2004: I know I shouldn't get drawn on this... but... can't... resist Seriously, a couple of points just so you can have an informed debate based on the real reasons that Squats are no longer available. Be warned, ...

So what do you do in a genre where the heroes are expected to kill a bunch of mooks? The mooks all wake up a few hours later? I think a better solution is for characters with 0 hp to be "dying" so that they can be rescued with first aid/healing magic/a bacta tank/genre equivalent but woul...

So what do you do in a genre where the heroes are expected to kill a bunch of mooks? The mooks all wake up a few hours later? I think a better solution is for characters with 0 hp to be "dying" so that they can be rescued with first aid/healing magic/a bacta tank/genre equivalent but woul...

Losing the fight or dying (not perma-death) needs to be somehow less desireable than winning (or the reverse if you want to go for something weird). Fights that only happen for fighting's sake absolutely fall into this problem. But if you're fighting for some kind of story-related reason , well, th...

I remember an article (I think it was in Pyramid?) where they posited a V:TM setting crossed over with Cyberpunk. The masquerade was over, because detection tech was too good and too prevalent, and being a vampire had lost a lot of cachet because cybersamurai were very competitive at asskicking, an...

Koumei wrote:They should release a Dynasty Warriors style game where you just play as Mawile (with the option to Megavolve when your Musou Gauge fills up) and chomp through other pokemonpeople.

Maybe if Pokemon x Nobunaga's Ambition gets a sequel...

Your block of gibberish characters proved to me just how wrong I am about everything. Congratulations Kaelik, you win the thread and the Internet. Your prize is an extra inch on your penis. Keep up the good work, champ! http://images.zaazu.com/img/clap-animated-animation-clap-smiley-emoticon-000340-...

Fix your quote tags Mord - 2 posts back now. Thanks; I had no idea what was screwing up the page templates so badly. [hr] And right usually does not involve building a mob grinder, because it is faster and better to do literally everything without doing that, and just occasionally enchanting pickax...

Dude, it is fucking minecraft, not a fighting game. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. What the ever loving fuck are you doing that requires enchants to do it? You can't kill a Balor with your fighter. You build literally all the things without enchanting, and do it faster than grinding a...

Longes wrote:It's not that obscure. Anyone who sys.admined UNIX knows it

There's no way they can edit the MM or DMG based on feedback from the published PHB and still keep to their printing/shipping schedule. I can't think of any explanation for the delay other than that the writing team crapped the bed.

You are a fucking idiot. Enchanting is not essential to anything. A Diamond pickaxe lasts literally forever if you only use it to mine the things you need diamond for. Diamond Armor is insane. All enchants do is make it last slightly longer or slightly more protective. You don't need that shit to d...

Point of fact, both of those statements are wrong. You can get by just fine never enchanting anything, and you can enchant things with the XP you get from mining. That's like saying that you can beat Starcraft without buying any unit upgrades, or Castlevania without using anything but the whip. It ...

This is absolutely fucking dumb. If you want to play a game about grinding monsters, those exist. If you want to play a game about gathering resources and building stuff, you do that. There is no reason to make the resource gathering part of the building game into more monster grinding. Minecraft a...

Like the rest of the Internet, I got caught up in Minecraft and later Terraria when they first hit the scene. A few months later, I realized that the whole "mine for resources" mechanic is even worse than the kind of grindy fetch-quest bullshit that has prevented me from enjoying practical...

That said, we've never tried an exhaustive history of the game companies, though Frank's posted some in-depth threads. I've been going through the items listed on the Den Review index thread, but if you can direct me to any of the in-depth threads you're referring to that aren't included there, I'd...

This analysis is really entertaining and insightful. Is there any chance Frank or AncientHistory (or some other learned person) could write up the overall history of WotC, White Wolf, or other major gaming company? Frank & AH repeatedly allude to the conditions of working at WW/CCP that contribu...

Crossbow bolts dipped in vamperiod blood? Yes, that is exactly what we all needed to really get on board with NWoD. Pardon me while I buy all the books.

That's what Standard format MtG feels like to me. Do you know Netrunner ? Its awesome. Its from the same author of MtG. Hah; yeah, I guess my list does actually describe a CCG, with the exception of the last point - being able to improvise stuff outside the box; that one's pretty important though. ...

PS: Privilege. Turns out if you're a white hetero male in the US, and are the type who gets told to "check your privilege" once or twice, that gets you an article in Time Magazine about how waa waa waa fucking crybaby. Really. http://www.donotlink.com/framed?29531 I guess even Time Magazi...