The Gaming Den

Define the limits of your gods as concisely as you can. Once a limiter for their abilities is presented, how to enslave them should be easy. The superhero and some fantasy genre determine a god's strength by how many worshipers he has. Perhaps there are those who are tasked with uprooting and elimin...

Finger razors and other kinds of strap-on or hidden blades make sense. They don't run out of ammunition, they can be used for tasks other than killing fools, and make a good close-quarters or last ditch combat weapon. I'm fine with blade usage. I don't think you have to rationalize it vs. firearms w...

Due to his ability to "sow great fear" the Sinestro Corps offered Batman their ring. He refused it.

The Scarecrow was deputized as a 24-hour member of the Sinestro Corps during Blackest Night.

I am about to try Tai Chi to help my back finally get back into shape. I haven't been able to exercise much for several years since it gets hurt so easily. If, over the course of a year, I can get close to normal, perhaps #2 will be slightly easier. I would suggest supplementing your Tai Chi with l...

My younger brother was killed almost exactly one month before 9/11 at age 20. My family and I grieved. Hard. We had a few small remembrances over the years. It would almost be easy to let it go into the fuzziness of memory if 9/11 hadn't occurred so soon afterward. But my family has been able to mov...

Captain Donnelly's Irish Catholic brutality was amusing but few of the other characters were particularly engaging, especially compared to the NPCs in earlier Rockstar games like GTA: San Andreas . That might be due to the limitations placed by the noir genre and an attempt at realism rather than sa...

L.A. Noire, while an interesting concept and actually felt like playing a cop, proved being a cop is mostly boring. Agreed. I'm in the last third of the game and at no point have I not been bored. Using the cast of Mad Men and gorgeous scenery doesn't save a Point A-to-Point B-to-Point C game that'...

Ancient History wrote:65 year-old great-grandmother gets F-cup breast implants.

I don't know whether to be grossed out or make motor-boat noises. Also, 65 strikes me as really young for a great-grandmother.

2001 to 2011 was a ten year-span where we could have learned something and become better people. We didn't. We became shittier, more self-absorbed and went shopping. Our economic policies already had the Third World thinking we were assholes - now everyone else does too. Pax Americana. Hurrah. Edit:...

I don't like lean meats. I can't cook them to save my life without them getting dry and unpalatable (that's important when you have erosive esophagitis, dry meats like to get clogged in my throat). And all the people I know in Meatspace that drink protein shakes are likewise fat, heh. You might not...

If you're okay with almonds, try those. My cousin was on the US Olympic Speed Skating team and she swears by them. My doctor is also pushing me away from soy milk toward almond milk with my protein shakes. Cashews are tasty but they're also the fattiest of nuts - they cut your hunger but it's not so...

Don't want players to harm your NPC? Don't give them reason to.

Palpatine and Vader have had games stats since the WEG years and they're the hub of the Star Wars franchise. I had no issue with Harlequin and the other IEs during the 1st/2nd ed. years. My players were happy to hop on the train and treat IEs as a "force of nature" rather than NPCs. I also...

I just downloaded a bunch of late-'90s Camp Lo. Luchini (aka This Is It) is a great caper track.

Normally, when I see posts like this I file them away to the back of my mind or dismiss them outright because I'd rather form my own opinions when it comes to something I can so easily investigate myself. But in this case, I'm just going to take his word on it because Catalyst is apparently too dum...

I'm actually really wondering if there's anyone who'll stand by one of their recent products. I know some of the fans out there who still care check this board from time to time. I want to hear someone who doesn't freelance for CGL stand up for something they've done. Don't worry. The official boar...

The core game needs to be the complete game. Expansion rules eliminate the need to have the GM adjudicate peripheral results. Example: core combat rule states a PC takes 20 points of damage when hit by an arrow. Expansion rule states that when a PC is hit by an arrow he takes 20 points of damage, wh...

Every kid is a space cadet and every dad forgets that he was once a child and did the same damn thing. But here's a question to ask yourself: do you legitimately have difficulty concentrating on tasks... or... when you're panicked/anxious/desperate do you make mistakes that could have been easily av...

College girls are irritating. Give me a stacked and fit MILF any day of the week. You're going to be hard pressed to find any man who hasn't had lady troubles. My own introversion and anxiety kept me away from decent relationships and landed me in a brutal marriage engagement that I ended up running...

My wife has the same issue. It's hereditary in her family. She went off Prilosec and has had success with GIH supplements from the health food store.

Griffith Park in Los Angeles has the ruins of the old Los Angeles County Zoo.

Any major city that has been involved in a war has some labyrinth of abandonded service tunnels. See Tokyo, London, or Beijing.

I'm a fan of the abandoned power plant as the scale is always ginormous.

In '89 Hurricane Hugo winds blew over houses in the mountains of North Carolina, a four hour drive in-land. We even had high winds out here in Indiana. Of course that was a Category 5.

Excellent! This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I know this sounds like a bit more die-rolling than most of you would care for in your games but I think I can make it work in mine with a bit of prep.

Thank you.

It's a "what's the best way to emulate this mechanic" question.

(1) If you can actually get people playing something different -- so that the material they've previously bought isn't satiating their demand -- then you can market them new books. This is essentially how a new edition "fixes" the problem. But you could also theoretically accomplish this ...