The Gaming Den

You people are insane. Hipster. And they are a very, very good thing.

This one helps me stop crying. I'm Not Crying

The question is not exactly annoying, but for you Americans: do you make your own food? I mean actual cooking from scratch, not heating up some revolting junk from the frozen foods aisle. From what I'm gathering from media ranging from tv shows to news articles, actual food appears to be in decline ...

Goddammit, I wasn't logged on and mistakenly read shadzar's post. You ask what pollutant causes violence? He fucking does.

There are two arguments against gun ban. 1) Ain' no g-man tellin' me what to do. Strong advocates of this thinking usually include drunk drivers and parents who beat their kids. 2) I want to shoot my gun 'cause it makes me feel like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction . People arguing this just don't ...

Though often considered unsavory in rpgs, I think for children the option to change character on the fly could be pretty important. And that shit should go right in the rules. In addition, I think what your daughter so very viscerally pointed out, the very uncontrolled imagination of kids probably l...

K wrote: Half of Americans think that they are going to be millionaires within 10 years, so there is a certain amount of preparing of the field that people want to do.

Is there an actual source for this? It sounds like something that might be true, but it could just as well be informed hyperbole.

The traps also sort of bother me; are there a lot of them and approximately how do they work? If they're as frequent as in an average Indiana Jones dungeon, the trap-oriented option (trap option?), the Explorer that is, can be pretty exclusive, meaning, they get to dodge them and even interact with ...

I am terrified by the fact that you're doing a better job at this than the goddamn Wizards of the Coast. I am inclined to play this with my nephew. And I personally would like to play a ranger, so that tells me you're doing something differently. The thing I noticed is that some of the abilities are...

Could Fence Builder start selling T-Shirts that had relevant prints, like an Obama's "Hope"-campaign colored vrock with the text "CR 3" OR "CR 9." Other ideas include a John Travolta from Grease with zippers for eyes and a Giant Fucking Crab. I'm just saying, with fair ...

Finally, a game that gives statistics to guys who have zippers instead of eyes. I run into John Travoltas who have zippers instead of eyes in games all the time, both as a DM and as a PC.

Where are the space aliens? I might sound sarcastic, but I really mean, what's with the lack of Predator and shit?

LM wrote: My PC's have never had a problem with shallow diplomacy rules but if they did I would not start brewing the magic tea. I would write more expansive social rules.

Oh dear, oh dear.

Ahh, it was all sort winding down, but now LM has the opportunity of a lifetime to show just how deep he can dig himself. I think he's more fun to watch than that GC feller, because he's even worse at this.

If sabs and Kaelik are going to go into a semantics argument in the usual Den-style frenzy over that, I may not survive it.

This thread is getting more surreal by the minute. Now the evil long-lost twin brother is coming back from the dead? I can't fucking wait until it turns out GC is Frank's son and K kidnaps Kaelik into a secret torture chamber until Kaelik agrees to marry him. Fuck it, LM alone is like a romantic int...

The concept is not as dumb as it seemed at first, but you'd have to go further with it. Spells, Incarnum, Weeaboo Fightan Magic, Binding, that sort of thing, accessible via some method similar to the feat approach you took, like Divine Magician (gain domain spells) and such. Right now, your system s...

MR. GC, I actually know unfortunate amounts of that challenge and it had an unusually low amount of arbitrary rulings. It may be hard to imagine, but when someone says "I use ability X" and the DM says "Doesn't work," it wasn't arbitrary, but planned beforehands in a revoltingly ...

But you have to admit, it does have a pretty underlined relation to the topic at hand. If you don't succeed, you fail at D&D. If you do succeed, the DM is holding back. Right?

Vaguely related to discussion of DM vs. Players: anyone here remember the Iron Siege created by or based on the work of Dicefreaks. It was something like "Make an ECL 70 character, win a CR 70 Dispater who is in an impregnable tower." There were a few DM's for this challenge and it was lit...

I assume, after LM's hilariously dramatic revelation, that he's not disclosing any details because he's currently running the game and doesn't want LM or the supposed other players to come over here and read their statblocks. Which does beg the question: why the fuck would he then choose this encoun...

For this bizarre personality type, for a few years, being called "sociopath" is a compliment, so you shouldn't toss that around. I think Mr. GC is something online anonymity, BG and TGD bred, sort of an extreme outcome of the internet charop culture. At first I thought he was just one of t...

I think I partly like these new trolls, but I think they're being given way too much screen time.

At mid/high levels I'd start adding HD based-bonuses, perhaps. Clean immunity after a certain level of DR, maybe. Something like that.

The Trojan War is a shit example. In D&D challenge rating or power level or whatever you feel like calling it means crossing off stupid mortal shit from your list of things that bother you. A high-level cleric or something is supposed to have erased "throat being slit by guy whose superpowe...