The Gaming Den

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin Not just scorn; biblical scorn... Robin Laws Still looking for proof that this guy isn't actually meh. ("Feng Shui is awesome" doesn't count.) Does that sound especially paragonal to you? That was probably an awkward callback to the fact that in their arbitrary ti...

is it any good to have a charisma caster without all social skills maxed out in this campaign? My understanding from listening to a KM podcast (haven't actually read the mods), is that there's a "dominion simulator" which you wind up using once the initial adventure is done and the kingdo...

It was a replacement CLW specifically for Rangers. (why? because 2e rangers were divine casters that didn't have their own list; they used the same "priest spheres" system as clerics/druids etc., and in particular for Dark Sun they got major access to one elemental sphere and that's it; no...

Clerics in Athas were weird. First of all, they were better than you. Everyone in Dark Sun gets boned one way or another (Fighters can't find metal equipment, Wizards have to do the whole Defiling/Preserving thing), except Clerics. Clerics have to choose an Elemental patron, but that patron is an a...

They usually sounded pretty high on the 4e podcasts?

They released another packet about a week ago and no fucks were given?

Re: human hate/love. Humans were the only race with access to stat-gen method V from UA. Unlike everyone else, they could pick their class before they rolled dice, then use a tailored, very generous rolling scheme based on what they wanted to play (42d6 spread over 7 stats, typically 9d6 drop lowest...

Wait, you think Ninjas who throw bombs do not exist in fantasy? Yes, I have to admit that my internal image of "stealthy ninja" doesn't include "I throw fucking grenades at you until you die". I'm probably misinformed because a) I think ninjas are lame-o (although perceptibly be...

Me Same Game Testing a flask rogue on their boards scared them so much(...) they nerfed every single piece of equipment on the basic flask rogue (down to the bandoleer!) because apparently that character offended them on some deep level. Quick Draw also got an "alchemical items don't count as ...

I am waiting until the end of his fucking "A-Positive" month before I start picking it apart.

Take the spell Light Lance. You can hold the lance aloft as a beacon of light visible at a range of 90 ft. For every round you hold it aloft the range the lance becomes visible an extra 2 miles. If you hold the lance aloft for the entire 24 hour period of 14400 rounds it will be visible from a dist...

According to many Old WoD fans, they felt that the new setting was just too bland and unimaginative, bereft of direction (in the case of Vampire) and freedom (in the case of Mage). This is getting away from the OT, but does anyone have an explanation for exactly why the nWoD books switched to a &qu...

Hey, are their any good economics RPGs out there? Perhaps some White Wolf style game like Keynesian: The Stimulus Supposedly Traveller was pretty mercantile (e.g. you had to plan out logistics for your trade routes) but I never tried it. Possibly the same for Rogue Trader but I'd guess it's less wo...

By contrast, the first App for a wargame might come out next year - GMT's Twilight Struggle . <insert plugs for VASL, Cyberboard etc. here; I know those probably don't fit the well-lubed definition of "app" but whatever, there's some effort at conversion going on> <also insert usual grumb...

So that’s kind of a thing where kind of what we try to do is look at each edition and what were the key innovations it offered that people really liked and kind of that like okay what are the things that if we roll them back a lot of DND players will feel like well were losing something, we’re losi...

There are literally dozens of worse ways to handle crits, off the top of my head: Adding table lookups (Rolemaster)- which makes resolution longer, and in most implementations makes PC lethality much higher People get sadistic lulz from the gore descriptions, though. (I saw this in RM as you mentio...

I honestly don't even get what "Bounded Accuracy" means as a concept when they say it. "not getting bonuses from class levels" doesn't put any kind of boundary on accuracy whatsoever! I guess it means "we're not doing the bullshit thing from 4e where we give you bonuses but...

Has anyone seen the MM3 math in action and does it fix the padded sumo? All the 4rries are claiming it does. It's better. But level 25 Elites still have 574 hit points and a level 25 Solo has 928. The monsters are better at fighting back, but we're still talking about them having AoEs that do seven...

Because it's D&D, there's game-specific butthurt involved when you put a bad guy in front of the party that they can't kill. I don't think it's a bad idea in itself (obviously it's been used in stuff like Vamp, SR etc.), but in D&D it's putting the average fucktarded PC in the position of wa...

Now, a bit more backstory, Robert Gutschera is this guy . Unlike the inmates currently running the asylum, he can do math . I thought I'd seen a couple gloating references to them "having a real mathematician on staff to check their work", but I can't find the links and I never bothered t...

It was commonplace in modules to give "boss monsters" maximum HP for their HD, which is exactly how they got Voss's 88 HP red dragon. Minor point but the 88 hp is just an artifact of the way 1e did dragon age categories (i.e. all red dragons had 11 hit dice, but baby dragons had 1hp/die, ...

[*] 5E D&D doesn't even try to get its virtual support off of the ground. Not that they won't make a token effort, but it'll be clearly vaporware by the end of the year except for maybe a barely functional version of the 5E character builder that will look stupid and chintzy because of 5E's gre...

Based on that, he uses the same strategy and agrees with Frank's "quote", which strongly approves of 4E. It's a bit more hamhanded than you may be used to seeing here, but it's fairly straightforward. Could be right, but I guess the stumbling block here is, who the fuck uses "Gandhi&...

It's the Gandhi of Game Mechanics part that throws me through a loop. I asked about this the last time it came up. The only guess I've been able to construct since then, is that he was referencing the usual "when ridicule fails to kill a movement it begins to command respect" meme from Fr...

What I don't understand about the elite array is the damn odd numbers. It's supposedly the "most likely stat array you get from 4d6 drop lowest" (i.e. the expected value of the highest roll out of 6x(4d6L1) is around 15, the expected value of the 2nd highest roll out of those 6 is around ...