The Gaming Den

- Given a large battle with many participants, you end up with a very large number of thrown swords and guys who slipped in the mud. On a small set of rolls, that 5% chance doesn't seem like much, but if you look at a larger set, it just seems ridiculous. But shit like that happens in real battles ...

@magnuskin:

Critical hit!

1. All Wolves are Dogs. Period. Wolves are a type of Dog.

I thought all dogs were wolves, and that specifically dogs were "Retarded" wolves stuck in puppy-mode.

Also:

And could you guys knock it off with the dog sex? It's really cheap to reduce a complex setting to one of the weird aspects of being a only partial human. One aspect which most players wouldn't even touch with a ten foot pole, because it weirds out people. As I said, if you want to be righteously i...

Clutch9800 wrote:You guys are discussing a criminal conspiracy. Not "Internet Hyperbole" but an actual criminal conspiracy.

Clutch

Nope.

Sure. And VtM is the game about serial rapists. And this statement has more basis than yours, because VtM-style bloodsucking is much more of a metaphor for rape than metis condition is for incest. Even if that were true, the American public is more understanding about discussions of rape than discu...

Interesting.

Paizil = Denizen of Paizo forum, + (lengthy vitriolic rant explaining why they suck).

Thanks for those who took the time to answer, this was really bothering me.

It is the first thing I thought when I saw this..."This can't be real, it is too much like Shadowrun."

This is all very fascinating and educational. Paizo: A company that makes tabletop games. Paizil: Paizo + Fail. (Which I don't really like as a portmanteau because you lose the 'ail' sound of 'fail' and also it is hard to do a portmanteau where half of it is not a real word.') But what exactly does ...

Welp.


Define...Paizo?

I've run into a number of DMs who are obsessed with players creating "detailed, well-developed characters with rich and unique backgrounds," but they also want to play D&D without resurrection spells. Sorry to continue playing devil's advocate, but I primarily GM games without resurre...

I have seen a lot of all three. The venom tends to stand out a bit though.

As for published settings, I never said those were automatically good. Just that you could take the information you learn there and apply it elsewhere. Of course Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms are both terrible settings. We should all feel insulted that I'm actually having to explain this to a De...

SR has resurrection. You generate an effect where the player character would die, then you spend an Edge, and the player character doesn't die. If you actually just let players lose characters, then yes writing long backstories for those characters is a waste of time. -Username17 Whoa! I admit I'm ...

Wow.

I've run into a number of DMs who are obsessed with players creating "detailed, well-developed characters with rich and unique backgrounds," but they also want to play D&D without resurrection spells. Sorry to continue playing devil's advocate, but I primarily GM games without resurre...

Custom campaign settings would be fine if the average person was capable of rendering a fully detailed world. But they aren't, which is the whole reason why published settings sell. 99.9% of the time, what you'll get is something that is woefully incomplete. So if say, you make a character that's s...

I'm pretty good at identifying the warning signs before my time is actually wasted. So I don't have any 'I should have known' stories. But I do have a list of filters you should apply if you don't want your time wasted. 1: Stay away from low magic games. They're an automatic strike 1. If it is both...

Apologizing would involve at some public or private level admitting what he did. Which could be bad for him, since confessing to your crimes is the first thing any lawyer will tell you not to do. I guess I see your point, it's just odd with that memo I read, where it seemed like they were being som...

@TheFlatline: It is that gaming companies usually begin as small business evolving out of a hobby, and they do not have a very good grounding in the business side of things. At least that's my take on it. In all seriousness, it's quite common for victims of Fraud to still be friends and even defend ...

Interesting read.

The main difference in this case is the complete and total lack of criminal prosecution. : /

Edit: Also, remorse.

Point. I forgot that it was gemstones being fenced to begin with.

Imp - those are Devils right? Part of an infernal hierarchy right? So he's going to report this up his chain of command until it reaches a devil of appropriate influence (ie CR) to deal with the matter, and then this feudal devil baron is going to "befriend" the PCs and trade them informa...

Has anyone in the last ten years really been in doubt that THAC0 is bad?

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*Reads one page of the topic.*

I am not going to read this topic.