The Gaming Den

Alright I'll come clean If I understand correctly, you're taking your existing homebrew campaign/system and running sessions with various mechanics and subsystems swapped out to study the player reactions. If that's the gist of it, that's a great idea and definitely how RPG development should be do...

Ah, the classic "reply to someone then ban them from your thread" tactic. Gets 'em every time. What's weird about it is that PL didn't ask a bad question and in answering it dean got to explain his thinking. I'm not sure how this equates to threadshit. My guess is that there's an expectat...

I've played around with letting players pay resources to succeed if they want to, doing so makes your refresh mechanic very important in determining the pace of your game but it works well. Imagine for instance that you can buff any physical skill check by taking on "Fatigue" and can buff ...

Is testing... "translations" of every other system except your own the best way to further the development of your own system? https://i.ibb.co/yYgtrfV/Mcfly.jpg While this is a classic PL threadshit it lets me talk about something cool anyway so I'ma do that. The answer is totally! A gam...

Y'know, a run of the mill fantasy heartbreaker. Orcs, elves, swords, mages. I think it's worth considering having a setting that's well-integrated with the rules. Something like Earthdawn (though very much not actually Earthdawn), where the game logic is also the world logic. You've rumbled me mate...

People have pointed out some nice base systems but pointing out elements like "Fate's skill categories" or "D&D3's skill DC list" is actually crazy helpful. It occurs to me that that's how I design new things at the beginning, finding what pieces of systems I know I think are...

In your opinion what is the best game engine to hack? I have a functional knowledge of most systems out there but you need to spend a lot of time and practice to learn a systems language well enough to rewrite it's material around just the base engine and still get something good. If you were going ...

Nah, defining terms and ideas in a design space is valuable. GNS isn't bad because someone created terms and defined them as a means to discuss ideas. Gamist, Narrative, and Simulationist could be valuable terms to use in a discussion about RPG's. Like Id, Ego, and Superego they create a framework f...

It's an amazing movie and it's bad Rotten Tomatoes score is one of the things that made me realize RT measures how approachable a movie is not how good it is. 13th Warrior is a great and surprisingly historically rich film.

Your solution is the opposite of what you think it is. To make things seem more "epic" you need to set a stronger base tone. God of War is only "epic" because in the west you have as much education on greek history and mythology as you do literally fucking anything. The stupid th...

I like the terms high context and low context to transmit the idea you're discussing. I concur with the use of those terms.

Everything Orion mentioned as being emblematic of an "embedded" game could be accomplished in rules-lite improv setting where the DM is agreeable and there are no meaningful consequences of failure. That would be very low-thought experience, where everyone is working together to tell an i...

Absolutely that should exist but doesn't actually address the problem. The question isn't "How do panthers with shadow tentacles exist?" the question is "How can a panther get shadow tentacles". Evolutions are different than crafting monsters narratively. Yes a wizard could be up...

My preference is to just have a Body stat for stuff like that. If one would struggle to explain the narrative difference between stats to someone unfamiliar with the rules then there shouldn't be a difference. Strength and Speed being in two categories is very defensible. Brock Lesnar's and Anderson...

There's been a lot of talk about Pokemon lately because...I dunno, one assumes something terrible happened to AA during childhood :-P, but any conversation about mixing D&D and pokemon or even styling one like the other has me wondering something. Has anyone ever thought of or made an explanatio...

Because UI is massively important and, all things considered, contributes more to people's enjoyment of a product than the mechanical underpinnings. Would you feel the same way about the pokemon franchise if all the mechanics were identical but it lacked beautiful ui? Would you have enjoyed picking ...

I can't contribute much, since I've spent enough time in my life being on the edge of turning into a bitter atheist https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDBehindTheScreen/comments/ebo73o/an_unconventional_random_adventure_generator_tarot/ First of all this is bonkers helpful and I'm gonna be working my way th...

You should be clearer who you’re speaking to, but if it is me I will say only that this thread has a goal incompatible with another discussion of why everything should be Mousetrap. It could be described as a thread that desires to...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:I dunno, produce new content?

PL, I didn't read whatever you wrote, I won't read the next one. Fuck off. You don't need to deliver a parting speech about me ignoring your advice. Lets show you've grown and don't need direct instructions from Forum Daddy to take a pretty obvious cue. Lets see if you can go one thread without need...

That's cool. I've had you on ignore for years. Stop posting in my threads, you haven't said anything valuable in years. Thanks for the input, fuck off now.

So take every tarot card and give them 4 options each depending upon their location? Or do you want further interaction where death as key and tower as obstacle have special meaning? Yes to the former, spot on, no to the latter. Ogrebattle's stuff is super helpful too. Let me sketch out my idea. Im...

I had a really good idea today about Tarot card based encounter generation. I wanted to farm out to the community if people have seen/made anything like that I could take a look at. Ideally without sending anyone money. If you own anything of the like feel free to PM me about it as well. I think it ...

No politics is a perfectly reasonable rule for these parts. I consider myself more of a defensive fighter in that arena and generally only become involved when someone has been acting fucked for a long time, so it does nothing but save me effort and energy to not have to watch for that shit. I rejec...

Every element of the pokemon world breaks down if you don't institute limits on how many creatures one person can control at a time. It's not unique to this. If I can send 100 caterpies to do anything you game is busted and fucked.

Does anyone know a fantasy book series about a world where mages have visible aura's and there are mage hunter characters who work for the kingdom who learn to see those aura's to hunt mages?
It's kinda like Running Man but with mages.