The Gaming Den

Is there a better (by which I mean has less connotations of being correct and morally good) word for 'rights' which gets across the idea that in some situations people have the legal and socially acceptable option to have sex with 8 year olds and there is nothing stopping them? Because at the moment...

That makes sense.

So general games development and Hollywood are closer to being bubbles, in that more and more money and time is being invested in fewer varieties of genre and more sequels, while the profits needed and predicted are getting larger and larger?

I was just reading a game article and it was saying that: Even though traditional houses like Electronic Arts bought into the Zynga-led ecosystem, the Facebook bubble has clearly since burst, validating a lot of those early concerns about the integrity and viability of that kind of game design. Now ...

How would the idea of heavy armour being a buff work? So putting on heavy plate armour is a huge hassle, stops you doing anything else useful, but makes you incredibly tough in battle. So, most of the time you have light or medium armour for general adventuring around a dungeon, but you buff for an ...

to call people out as being incompetent shitbags But why not just call them incompetent shitbags, or say that they should be ashamed to be alive, and that they're a worthless waste of resources and a terrible burden on the rest of humanity? Or call them gay or something. Yeah, that's a really good ...

Is there any reason why you don't just use the difficulty as the TN and roll a d6 instead of a d20?

Take Harm is AW most controvertial rule for me, because it breaks the logic behind player dice rolling. In my group we dont use it, and simply apply the different outcomes depending on the situation. Wait a moment. You have been shilling Apocalypse World over and over for however long, but you thin...

Thanks for the explanation. I'm sure they could be more stupid about it, but I'm not sure how.

Saints Row 4 debacle? I am now curious. Please, inform me in the most amusing way possible.

Yeah, well, Superboy punched a dent in reality. Beat that for bullshit.

Aliens vs Predator... nah. Never happened. They only crossed over in a couple of comics, and definitely never in films. Or a lot of other crossovers. Definitely not Superman and Batman vs Aliens and Predator.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:... wielding your foot as a scythe...

I thought it was a joke, but you seem to be saying that you can actually use your penis as a 10ft long whip or your eyes as a laser gun.

Any way of doing the perform check as an attack roll is bullshit. It both ignores bonuses (situational, item, etc) as well as penalties (shaken, morale, etc). Using just the skill ranks is both too good at lower levels when it is much higher than otherwise possible, and too shit at higher levels whe...

So, um... what does it do? Apart from being able to kick down a wall and use the remains as a magical lasergun?

Why is Dancing Lights so important? If you really, really want Dancing Lights as a FD option, then you have two options: Give the FD level 0 spells which include Dancing Lights. Give the FD Dancing Lights as a spell-like ability at will or a number of times a day. Otherwise you are insulting the pla...

You know what- I actually liked the idea of making it a charisma based monk- it fits into the perform skill and is possibly more thematic than wisdom. There are two feats that swap all the Monk Wisdom based bonuses to Intelligence based bonuses. If you made up a feat that did the same thing but for ...

Are you deliberately trying to make this shitty? Because if so you've succeeded beyond any shadow of a doubt. First of all, the requirements: you are chucking away a skill and forcing them to take Endurance, Lightning Reflexes and Iron Will. You've already taken every single feat so far meaning they...

This is a joke. Has to be. Surely noone would actually write: "Are you really going to Jew me out of my hard earned money?" and expect it to be taken seriously. And the "He is also an Asian. You must be close friends." Sounds like someone taking the piss out of racists. There is ...

At the end of this story arc, Abeir and Toril will be separate again, and many of the things that happened when they crashed together will go back to the way they were before. So magic will be much like it was before the Spell Plague. Markings that marked spell-plagued people and animals will fade ...

Well then. If your power source is just fluff and in-game description then problem solved. Get rid of the Wizard, Psion and Cleric. All such casters are one of the Beguiler, Necromancer, Healer, Warder, Warmage, Enchanter, Transmuter etc. They also choose whether they are Arcane, Divine or Psionic w...

One of the magitech classes needs to be an altered Gadgeteer . One thing to remember about the Dragonmark Sorceror is that it would need to have stuff from the existing Arcane, Divine and Psionic ability lists. Because at the very least the Healing Mark needs to give you the Divine healing spells. T...

I'm still interested in how Eberron can be fixed. But to some extent it needs rearranging to make more sense. The fluff needs changing so that socially it makes sense why the dragonmarks lead to monopolies. The fluff needs changing so that either halfling barbarians are an actual danger or they are ...

So the fluff cannot change in any way, only the rules? There has to be a guild of bodyguards and a guild of detectives? You aren't taking the basic themes of Eberron and making them awesome, you are rejiggling the rules until it makes more sense, but at the same time relegating all melee characters ...

How attached are you to the current 13 Dragonmarks and Houses? Can we get rid of some and make them better defined? And thinking about it, what range of power will there be in the setting? Are you assuming a 20 level range which has the same power levels as 3.5 or are you going to try and sanify it ...

That's something I'm struggling with. On one hand...melee is shit. Eberron is a post-WW1 setting, pretty much, so wands (or guns) are the big kahuna. At the same time, dudes hitting each other with swords are cool, so...I'm not sure. Honestly, using a wand is seriously preferable to using a sword -...