The Gaming Den

Bit of an odd omission. The three basic types of lycanthrope correspond to wolves, rats, and large cats - but of the three, only the rat has a stat block in the Animals section. The werewolf comes with Beast Form out of the box, so wolves should certainly have listed stats. Bagheera don't come with ...

The Kingpriest had forbidden all mages from his court, if I recall correctly. Fistandantilus got special hanging about privileges for reasons unknown. If Fizban had shown up, the Kingpriest would surely not have listened to him and would have done his best to remove the nuisance. Likewise, all of th...

As the DM, you should be trying to make the experience fun for the players. This is the point of playing a game. Even if the system is horribly broken and mangled, the folks playing it can have a great time if the people in the group can restrain themselves from being assholes. I'd say let the monk ...

I think the CR-first system only has an advantage when you don't mind paring up ropers with ogre magi. I don't mind at all. The most amazing combinations can come about that way. Perhaps the ogres have a tame roper in the entrance cavern to their underground village, and a shift of magi and archers...

This is something that has always bugged me about Monster Manuals: my primary concern when flipping through stat blocks is CR. The alphabetic ordering means I have to go to the back of the book, look at what is available for the CR range I'm interested in, then trek tediously through the entire leng...

You're thinking too much about surfaces. Tremorsense goes through the ground. If the shortest path through ground from you to a creature is within the range of your tremorsense and they aren't standing still, you can tell that they are there. Unless that 5' wall is made of some anti-vibrating crysta...

It does show that if someone is on the other side of a wide, 10' across, 20' deep chasm they're effectively 40' farther away for purposes of tremorsense range. 50', actually. 20' (down) + 10' (across) + 20' (up) I'm still curious about the definition of 'ground'. Does this include any floor? Do wal...

I was GM for last week's session. We had a lot of people show up: CJ: Street Samurai Alyssa: Street Samurai David: Street Samurai Hunter: Adept Gunslinger Michael: Hacker Daniel: Magician Charlie: Magician (aspected Sorcerer) This was unfortunate, as it slowed down combat on a combat-heavy run. It d...

Some monsters have ridiculously good melee basic attacks, though, like getting 6 (or more) attacks, being able to stun a foe on a hit, dominating them, doing massive amounts of damage on a critical, so on. You sure about that? Most monster basic attacks are pretty weak. Things like hydras can only ...

The Spell Design examples in Street Magic have been making me think about slight modifications to existing spells to better suit my purposes. For example, couldn't you make Improved Invisibility touch (-2 DV) and remove single sense (+2 DV) to cloak your visual and audio presence for no extra DV?

You mean love apart from Matrix Stealth, Matrix Perception, protection from Lag, more Threading, and counting twice towards VR initiative?

If TM's automatically get to throw their Resonance into their Fading Resistance Tests, it would seem that a similar houserule to do the same with Magic would be in order. Which means Centering is useless. Given that Magic and Resonance are the two attributes with no hard cap, I also worry about the...

What happens to a Tehcnomancer who is projecting and has their Resonance reduced to 0 by jamming? They just go back into their body, or they're suppressed out of existence until the jamming goes down, potentially throwing them into a perma-coma if they run out of projection time? Something else?) A...

Well, that killed the thread real fast. Let's try answering my own questions. --- The technomancer really shouldn't have to take Piloting Complex Forms himself - instead of 'Innate Form(Pilot)' it should say something along the lines of 'Complex Form(Pilot)' or 'any Pilot complex form.' --- Merge do...

Here's another one. Machine and Industry sprites have Innate Form (Pilot) as an optional power. Innate Form can only give a Complex Form that the compiling technomancer knows himself. I suppose I can't think of any reason a technomancer couldn't have a Pilot Complex Form - they could even have a Vir...

Do Biofeedback Filters apply to Death Note? All of the other program/forms that are affected by them specifically say so. Also, I couldn't find anything (at least on the first page) about what you use to resist Fading. I was assuming Resonance + Willpower, but I could just as easily see it being Sys...