The Gaming Den

There's a difference between a piece of art made by someone with shitty views and a piece of art that contains those shitty views. The Usual Suspects doesn't contain sexually harassment of underage boys, and if it did, its quality would suffer. I don't like a lot of Stallone movies because the conta...

Probably, but I'm not a physicist so I can't say for sure. The concerns raised in the xkcd are still an issue, as you are so far past the speed of sound that unless you are in a hard vacuum, your projectile will be destroyed by the stress and its energy will start to diffuse. Lasers will probably wo...

A coil gun is a projectile weapon system that accelerates a projectile via magnetism inside the barrel rather than a chemical reaction. So similar to the function of a firearm. Alright correct me if I'm mathing wrong. But. 299,792,458*(4.02/4127.69)=291951.877921 E=.5(4127.69)(85235899021.6) E=175,...

Well, this is conservation of momentum. Now, relativistic speeds mean that the mass of the projectile will increase as it accelerates in some nasty bit of calculus. Without that, the gun would have the same momentum in recoil as the projectile, and would travel at (speed of the projectile) * (mass o...

K and Kaelik are both lawyers, presumably in different fields. I am an unemployed student, going into social work so my field of expertise will be "ways the Australian Government is trying to fuck with you and cut your benefits" and "how to lie, cheat and steal your way into getting ...

Death Curse creating Dread Wraiths is a problem. If it's just the party, they can probably stop anyone from dying, but if they kill it in a town, it's going to infect dozens of people and turn some number of them into monster with a CR 3 higher than the Culler itself. Its stats are a little low for ...

You can remodel the house, but it's very difficult to change your neighborhood. (It's not easy to remodel, but if you live there long enough, you'll probably do some work.)

I'm not sure what you mean by not being fond of the neighborhood. Is it the neighbors, the location, the crime rate...?

Huh, I was just futzing around with an alchemist who made 2k worth of alchemical items a day. On the other hand, that was level 15, so no one cares. I had stacked modifiers to get 280x craft speed on top of a +60 mod. The fact that a +60 mod earns you only 45gp per day is silly. Nice to know that m...

Huh, I was just futzing around with an alchemist who made 2k worth of alchemical items a day. On the other hand, that was level 15, so no one cares. I had stacked modifiers to get 280x craft speed on top of a +60 mod. The fact that a +60 mod earns you only 45gp per day is silly. The real problem is ...

They posted their "design goals" if you can call them that. 1. Create a new edition of Pathfinder that's much simpler to learn and play—a core system that's easy to grasp but expandable—while remaining true to the spirit of what makes Pathfinder great: customization, flexibility of story, ...

Sure, I'll put some I've found recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_planets (Some weird ones in there) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-year_Rose (at least 700 years old) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz_Long (German Olympian who befriended a black competitor at the 1936 Oly...

While we are talking about theoretical game mechanics, I just had a thought on how to do aid another. The current system works well for groups of one expert and many dabblers, but fails when there are multiple characters of similar proficiency, because it is usually better for each to roll separatel...

What about the Amonkhet domains? At least two of those give heavy armor.

So, a friend asked me to join a short 5e campaign this summer. Probably 2-6th level. I've never played 5e, what are some interesting builds at that level? So in seriousness, what are you trying to do? Generally, characters aren't that interesting, so you could literally just throw darts and get you...

So, a friend asked me to join a short 5e campaign this summer. Probably 2-6th level. I've never played 5e, what are some interesting builds at that level?

The idea isn't to reduce variance, but to escape bounded accuracy.

What would it do for 5e if I took every d20 roll, subtracted 7 from the DC and made it a d6?

"Look, if we were just marsupials, everything would be better."
"Yeah!"
"Wellll..."
"EVERYTHING!"

It's a Pathfinder class, I think? Linguistics as a class skill.

I'd recommend against the 1d4+1, because it forces your players to recalculate things more often than a flat bonus.

Taking a both a dip into Sorcerer and the Sorcerer VMC is not allowed.

One of the criminal associations is approaching a leadership crisis. The current leader is not truly strong enough to hold his position. Perhaps he was propped up by a powerful backer who just died. Perhaps he has weakened recently due to age, illness, or injury. Regardless, normally he would be gon...

I have no experience, but this seems to answer some of those questions. "The archery-only California spring turkey season is for two weeks after the general turkey season closes (May 1 – 14, 2017). You can also use a bow during the general seasons in the fall and spring. " I'm going to ass...

In what way are the voters not civilians? Should Britain have shot every American who agreed with the revolution, no matter what they had done or not done to support it?

The earthquake happened off the west coast of Mexico in the Pacific. Florida is in the Atlantic. So, no, not at all.