The Gaming Den

If they weren't so determined to wank to Solars being the best at everything, you could get some of the way while maintaining some of the intentional tiering by having some more supported character types at Dragonblood tier and getting all the celestial-types to materially the same power level. Whi...

Libertad wrote: I mean, if your Camarilla blue-bloods aren't corporate aristocrats, then what are they man?

Feudal aristocrats who fondly misremember Primae Noctis as being as actual thing and think that liberal capitalism is a passing fad.

It is genuinely true that DC's batting average on the small screen has been much better than Marvel's, and the reverse has been true on the large screen. Arrowverse got fucking Kevin Conroy to be old Bruce Wayne and DCEU got Ben Afleck to shout about Martha. It's actually profoundly weird how much ...

Yeah, I think the bluntest way to put it is that it's all of the bad parts of the alignment system and paladin strictures ported over to a game about playing a fucking vampire. The mind reels. Well no, Paladin strictures are much better. Paladin strictures are at least a result of getting your magi...

When did Elsa become a robot?

DS9 had continuity between episodes, something other Star Treks mostly lacked. That enabled better character development and even had a recurring villains and anti-heroes that could be around for more than a single episode. Those tend to be the bones behind why DS9 was my favorite. Same here, but t...

Out of curiosity, when MAS took power in Bolivia, how many members of opposition parties did they murder? Is that number more or less than the current fascist coup? Can't tell if you are serious, but zero. [The Great Fence Builder Speaks] Too close to wishing death on someone for my tastes[/TGFBS]

Tomb of Battle Report Party A, everyone is a pure spellcaster or spellcaster multiclass - Summoned vampires to walk in front of them and trigger traps - Encountered gem crushing gargoyle - Trap room with wall closing in, one character enlarges to slow wall as another casts dig to make a space for t...

. We know that people who are unqualified actually do the things they shouldn't do if they're permitted to do so because that's the world we used to live in. That's historical fact. Used to? Historical? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/28/woman-who-enhanced-butts-with-glue...

Killing animals and plants to eat might constitute violence in the strictest sense of the word, but we're not talking about violence against animals or plants (except as they relate to human beings) - we're talking about violence on human beings and their property by human beings. Of course, killin...

But notice how, in your world-view, your utopia, you would mandate compassion and charity, thereby destroying both and undermining your own ideal, as the only way to secure something by law is the use of force, violence, coercion. You would compel people to love with guns. And rather than just allo...

@Dean: Your understanding is what is childlike. It is as Bastiat said, "Can the law — which necessarily requires the use of force — rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I DEFY ANYONE TO EXTEND IT BEYOND THIS PURPOSE WITHOUT PERVERTING IT, AND, CONSEQUENTLY,...

Except when you're in front of 2 doors and one of them is instant death as if you were playing Dragon's Lair, the only "skill" that will help you is perhaps your poker skills to read your GM's tells that they're about to smoke your dude. The skill is getting someone else to open one of th...

Doesn't that run into the problem of "why do I have HP but bosses don't"? I get that HP is just an abstraction, but it seems like one of those fundamental abstractions like BaB or something. Your description sounds more like a puzzle boss to me. If that's a problem, you can keep HP while ...

Edward Scissorhands is a good one. Technically more Christmas than Halloween, but everything Tim Burton is a little Halloween.

Considering the ongoing "it's Chinese sypware" accusations leveled at the Epic Store, I suspect that Tim Sweeney has to be very vocal about how he totally isn't a Chinese puppet regardless of how far Ma Huateng's hand is jammed up his ass. Actually they've recently announced that they won...

The action economy imbalance seems like it can be solved with having more AoE's baked into the system. This solves the boss's offenses. If a level-appropriate equal-numbers monster does N damage to one character, then a level-appropriate solo monster needs to deal N damage to four characters. But f...

Speaking of the Soulstone, they spent some time telling the audience that Black Widow was totally sincerely and for reals dead with no way to bring her back because of the Soulstone sacrifice. But also too the only other person killed by that means is Gamora , who they brought back in this exact mo...

I guess the time branch thing is technically coherent, maybe... although why would going back to give Dormamu the time stone give the same Dormamu a time stone, rather than now resulting in another sub branch, one where they borrowed the time stone and never returned, and one where they borrowed th...

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/04/macron-hears-police-officer-refuse-to-help-woman-in-danger?__twitter_impression=true French woman goes to the police to get an escort so that she can retrieve her belongings from her home after her boyfriend threatened to kill her. The police tells her...

Agreed, but your point "Watson (the POV character for most of the stories) isn't as good a detective as Holmes" =/= Hyzmarca's assertion that "Holmes sucks as a detective but always seems to dumbass his way into a solution". The explicit fiction of Holmes stories is that there's...

The thing about mysteries is that there isn't one mystery genre. There are many sub-genres that overlap. You've got the classical mystery genre like Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes. The thing about these mysteries is that their protagonists are, from an objective standpoint, terrible investigato...

Which is the core of the whole "20th level Commoner" issue. Yes, it's easy to imagine some amount of strength and adding a number to it. Lifting capacity is measured in kilograms, punching force is measured in pounds, thrown object speed is measured in fractions of C. Fucking whatever. Yo...

I just binge watched The Boys. It's better than it had any right to be. The comic suffered from Garth Ennis trying to be memetic Garth Ennis (out Preacher Preacher, in his words) and not having anyone to really reign him in, as well as mostly sticking to the premise that superheroes are useless and ...

There are some very important powers like "superhuman strength" that really honestly don't scale up to where other powers like mind control and invisibility go to. I mean, how hard would you have to be able to punch before that was nearly as impressive as being invisible and owning a gun?...