The Gaming Den

Session 3 the party after much consideration eventually decided to not attack the Necromancer scout leader and instead report him to the people in charge of the city. They were invited into the presence of the dragonborn king by his gnome butler and discussed their findings. The king informed them t...

Issues in order of importance: 1) They should be able to cast spells when not in transformation. I know you don't want that because your theory was "He-man, being a normal guy when not transforming" but most cases like this people can in fact instill a lesser version of their magic without...

Session 2 came early because of scheduling of other games. The players ended up failing to speak with the dead vampire spawn, tracked them back to their homes, figured out things were weird, then went back and picked up the corpses on the theory that they were possessions of the creator for the purp...

Since this game will probably be happening once every three weeks because of alternating timelines, I want to record events so that we have a reference on return. Session one today: A halfling corpse was found by the guards and taken to the undertaker, a rainbow servant/necromancer who immediately d...

Shadow Archer [/size] "Nah man, if you make the light really bright that makes the shadows actually way less dark. I don't know why everyone keeps saying that. Basic refraction and reflection from other objects is just going to light up your shadow more." Shadow Archers are planner types ...

Blood Maestro [/size] "I dream of the morning. It's not time yet." Blood Maestros are a blood magician type that sacrifices from themselves to set up battlefield control type effects. Hit Die: d12 Base Attack Bonus: Full Good Saving Throws: All Good Saves Skill Points: 4+Int Class Skills:...

Powerful Spell For the cost of +4 Meta-Levels, you may instead maximise all damage. Why nerf maximise spell, is it that abusable? Can't speak to the rest, but this is using the Alpha Nerd Metamagic system. What this means is, if you can cast 5th level spells, you can cast first level maximized spel...

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Rainbow Servant [/size] " What if instead of worshiping gods we worshiped flying snakes? " The Rainbow Servant serves Coatl, giant flying snakes. Because of this, they get to spontaneously cast from a list of specific spells, and as they level up they get spontaneous access to most of the...

You absolutely CANNOT trust Kaelik with the 8th level spell Trap The Soul and the name of ANY NPC. I believe I had gems with the name of every single person we knew the names of, including that random person who hired assassins, and also Asmodeus and his daughter, and also each of the PCs. You never...

https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Essentia_Necromancer_(3.5e_Class) Summary=A Necromancer who invests in different kinds of Necromancy each day at different levels. BAB: Low Saves: Fort and Will Good, Ref Poor HD: d6 ==Essentia Necromancer== What if not spell slots, but yes Necromancer. ===Making a Essenti...

finished chapter 2, not chapter 3. Extremely disappointing to find out that the ONE method of interacting in the game, attacks and damages, is also an illusion, because you roll damage rolls that don't actually matter anyway. I mean I wasn't expecting much from the game, but still amazingly bad. I m...

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Thu Aug 28, 2025 1:39 am

Edit - just looking at my post and meant 'look at how lame Bone is as a domain'.

Fair enough then, misread your post. I certainly agree with that sentiment.

I'll eventually catch up to the rest of the thread, but it will probably be a while, I'm at Chapter 2 though now!

Is untouchable supposed to be a costless? a passive? You're permitted 5 cards to be 'active' referred to as a Loadout. Cards in excess of 5 are in your Vault. If you have this card active in your loadout, it is a constant passive bonus. The only cost is the opportunity cost of not placing a more us...

Bone (Warrior/Ranger) offers Deft Maneuvers (take a stress to get to anywhere on the battlefield without having to make a roll); I See it Coming (spend 1 stress to get +1d4 to your Evasion); or Untouchable (gain a bonus to your Evasion equal to half your Agility. At this point it appears that your ...

I have played a fair amount of Lancer, and have generally found it to be quite enjoyable. It has a lot of room for customizing your character/mech build, and your party composition, and a good set of objective based rules for how to win combats and diverse npc mechs for tactically addressing. The tu...

Cuomo's entire campaign is him doing secret meetings with trump, sucking up to trump, and begging trump to take out mamdani. His primary campaign was about how only him, a sexual assaulting bully, can stand up to Trump. Truly love the mind of a centrist democrat. https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbn...

Adams is already running independent and Cuomo promised to.

The billionaires are begging the republican to drop out so they can all unite behind the corrupt centrist (still arguing about which one)

endorsemnt update, Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok, the sending bomb threats to hospitals lady) and George Santos have come out of nowhere to endorse Andrew Cuomo. Thank god the Democrats and the Republicans can finally bipartisanly support the guy a republican billionaire is spending millions of doll...

Oh I forgot, Clyburn and now Bill Clinton stepping in to endorse Cuomo. Entire Democract Party reminding people what it looks like when Democrats actually oppose something (the left.)

The Mayor's race is dialing the NY politics up to 11. Zohran is polling above Cuomo in some polls, he is of course, completely unacceptable, because he's a vile leftist, muslim, some other reason that democrats hate him. There was even a debate, where they asked "What is the first country you w...

Does your system have something like low-power mooks for throwaway encounters, or is it solely focused on 1v1 duels between equal combatants? It has ways for resolving combat for people of different realms. By the nature of the genre you do occasionally want to blow off 10 to 30 guys below you or 5...

Yeah, my system just says "if you have an aoe attack you can use it as an aoe and hit whatever you want (subject to other people's techniques) which for cultivation stuff works fine, but it comes with the territory of "not really caring how many kobolds you can get in the cone of cold."

I think "do[ing] abstract movement well" depends a lot on what the system is trying to present or emulate. I have never seen "abstract positioning for a low level swords and sorcerer dungeon crawler" because the emulated genre or concept of the game sort of requires granulatiry. ...

Truly if the dungeon is supposed to be a prison it should, obviously, have levels, you should go down, because that's just a good way to signal to players, and the fact that it's a perfectly thing perfectly flat plane is baffling to the extreme. But also, another thing that it would make sense to ha...