The Gaming Den

At the beginning of the Aftermath chapter of Emergence, there is a short fiction piece about brothers Bobby and Joey, of which Joey is apparently now dead and an e-ghost. This short fiction piece by Ancient History is the only part of the two brothers plotline that actually made it into the book. T...

Nice to see the Groatster get continued use.

I don't like to disparage a guy, but Jason Hardy doesn't know the rules. He tried answering a rule question, once, and he failed hard. Really really hard. It wasn't even a difficult question. There was no time limit involved. He could have asked someone who did learn the rules for help, but he didn'...

As with all things, it depends. In the days of oD&D/AD&D, your choices at character generation were in part limited by what stats you rolled. The ability to plan a character out on paper didn't really happen until you got some Player's Option that let you divvy up points to our different att...

Well, sortof. When you learn a Sorcery style, you get one basic spell (provided you meet the prerequisites). Getting more spells is a function of either a class feature or a feat like Sorceror's Boon, and again their are prerequisites on each spell which generally equate to a level limit because the...

There's a lot that's weird and retarded with Denver. Really, Denver should have gotten it's own book ( Denver 2073 , in the same vein as Seattle 2072 , was something I argued long and hard for) if they were going to address it rather than throw it into Spy Games . My general argument is that if some...

The Rotten Apple is an example of a problem SR has been facing for some time: a diminishing freelancer pool. Old authors would get bored, burnt out, or pissed about money and leave, and the line dev would then try to get replacements either from the pool of SR Missions writers (who often are familia...

Mike Wich showed up to talk about his contributions to War! (and The Laughing Man, who some of you might recall trolled this very thread dozens of pages ago). I responded with a condensed version of Frank's rant about the trees plot... ...Ghost I hate the trees plot. I don't drink, and it makes me ...

Found the Artifacts Unbound Project Spec.

Alternates - These are people who believe they are survivors of a parallel world or timeline. The universe has altered to accept them - their histories line up, their new "families" remember them and have the correct genetics and everything, but at the same time everything feels wrong to ...

This post? Jason's full of shit (again). Well, start with the glaring absence: Runner's Toolkit . The writing for that was basically finished when I left, so they had to re-do PACKS...which writing should have been complete for months now. Why it isn't on the schedule is bizarre to me. Also no word...

As a sorcerer you have available to you a certain number of magical styles (collections of associated spells) and power points (PP, used to cast spells). Many spells have various prerequisites and requirements before you can learn and/or cast them. When you want to cast a spell, you spend the PP and...

I did a one-off adventure mixing Conan d20 with Cthulhu d20. The two magical systems actually work fairly well together - Conan has the "Stars are Right" type magical paths which nicely complement both the theme and mechanics to Mythos-spells, which can be distinct and overlay regular sorc...

I am not aware of any of the freelancer's religions, whether they be Mormon or otherwise. Filamena Young is female.

I probably burned whatever good will I just had left on my cross-post to Dumpshock and the Official Forums, but it amuses me to compare the two threads. Dumpshock: about 500 posts, 10,400+ views. Official forums: 110 posts, 1065 views.

He did the revamp in SR4A, yes.

I've been over this before, but the writers are... Aaron Pavao , who I think did most of the mechanics. Aaron has done some previous work in Shadowrun, notably in Unwired (where he hid a proposal for marriage to his then-gf), Runners Companion (AI rules, priority system), Running Wild , Feral Cities...

They lost their best map guy, Mikael Brodu, quite a while back.

I'd be careful about how far you took this path of looking logically at fantasy. The last time I tried that, I had to write a section about why fucking a werewolf didn't impregnate an elf with a litter of puppies (chromosome mismatch, no breeding between species), and then I had to go back and write...

<sigh> Ghost dammit. They went with the trees plot. Link to earlier in the thread talking about the trees plot.

Sort of an interesting counterpart to the Registry would be entities that deliberately edit out or place themselves in memories. So you'd be talking to your wife about your friend Jack...and she looks at you like you're nuts because she's never heard of Jack before. At first you might think you're s...

There's a few people stating that it felt like the authors never had read/played SR before. Which is obvious. They're all Batttletech writers. Well, no. Aaron (who, last I checked, did the rules) has been contributing to SR products for a while now, notably the revamped Matrix rules in SR4A and con...

I dunno. I would see an Unplace as more of a superspace - a general place designed for you to move through. Uniform, bland, immediately forgettable, like a mall or airport. So completely forgettable that you can pass by or through them without a second thought or a second look, your brain filling in...

Life sucked and then you died. Death was not an improvement, because the afterlife sucks. Instead of heaven or hell you're left in a storm-tossed shadow realm, ruled by a couple ethnocentric empires anyone sane would describe as ancient and evil except the things they're fighting against are older a...

I haven't heard much. Production has been pretty damn slow, considering the state projects were in when I left...but that's not really terribly surprising, sadly. They've been padding output with "classic" releases and some minor pdf-only shit, so expect more of the same around Christmas w...