The Gaming Den

I realized the most wonderful thing about Basic Field of Nightmares Made Real today: the reason illusionists don't get tricked by their own illusions, is that they have the incontrovertible proof of having just cast the illusion spell.

Yeah, I've been annoyed for years that basically everyone who wants to add non-Tolkien races to a D&D-offshoot setting comes up with some variation on "furry/fey race" then "evil/outcast race" then "artificial/transformed race" then "extra-magic/psionic race&q...

Good news: because your IRL group disintegrated, you have more time to paint!

I can imagine a dragon in Prak's world quoting Adventurer's Almanac almost word-for-word so easily.

When playing physically, I'd like to use physical dice. Physical dice are inherently fun to roll. I haven't played physically in a long time though.

I seriously do not understand why people would want to roleplay being oppressed (or oppressing people, for that matter), save, perhaps, for a hypothetical table of marginalized players playing an Inglorious Bastards scenario. I mean, sure, maybe the GM says "the townsfolk are all really racist...

I know this will come as a shock to everyone and I'm sure this is a totally unique experience on this board, but my hard drive is full of text documents detailing a D&D clone I'm never going to finish. ... The realistic answer is that it would take a shitload of time to get it to a point where ...

Someone should do an OSSR of how the Tome hype machine worked on the den sometime. I think it has something to do with Username17's fun writing style, but that can't be the whole reason because even his later projects weren't nearly as popular here. Perhaps the appeal to homebrewing, that for a time...

If this was the Holmes from Sherlock he'd just look at the empty space where the post used to be and correctly infer from responses at the time exactly what the post must have said.

Seems a bit botty now, is making new accounts easier than it was before?

Whipstitch wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:12 pm

The real ambitious sorts want to eclipse Azeroth, not Faerun.

Speaking of which, that reminds me: Utterfail taught me with COREFAILURE that quite a lot of established settings have tried to get into RPGs, and were just remarkably bad at it.

If that's the case, then an RPG in a well-established universe people actually know about, like Star Wars, should do even better than D&D, which is more vaguely reminiscent of other fantasy settings people actually know nowadays. Take orcs for example, I bet most D&D players assume they're s...

I like your post Also, this thing where people fall back onto the "correct" option is in a way why I think 4X computer games are the closest you get to TTRPGs on the computer. Like, they're so convoluted that you can't really expect to find the right move, so you kinda have to fall back on...

I think the biggest struggle with starting TTRPGs is "how do you even play this thing?" It's awkward to do like a board game and just tell you exactly how to place the pieces and then follow a strict turn order with well-defined phases. So I think lots of people get pretty overwhelmed unle...

After Sundown?

No no, my optimized character really is that good, I'm not shit talking here, and it wouldn't turn out to be wild overconfidence or some sort of bullshit exploit that would never fly. My character would just walk up and punch him to death. With his balls. I mean, I've seen it. Instead of waiting fo...

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:I don't know about that. D&D 3.X gods have terrible builds. You could probably kill them with a character half their level.

Yeah, but how often do you get to play a 15th level character?

The module I've been playing in recently has Iuz show up, knock the players about a bit (without a proper stat block), and then get immediately defeated by a, uh... Machina Ex Deus.

DDMW wrote:Lots of people like the idea of hirsute Viking, not as many with the idea of a green Viking.

What if... the game used unmodified photographs of renfair people and called them elves and dwarves? Delightfully devilish, Foxwarrior.

Robinhood is reminiscent of a 1928-style bank, they love to lend people money to gamble on stocks with. So when they're selling "your" stocks for you, really they owned those stocks about as much as you did.

You know, if people want to play Twilight Imperium at 8:30 p.m., but you'd rather start a bit earlier, maybe you should look for a west coast american server.

My point, though is that the entire DnD magic system is a bunch of bullshit artifacts. There's a big difference between bullshit artifacts you've read and ones you haven't. All magic systems are a bunch of bullshit artifacts, the ones that seem like they are less like that just put more of the made...

GW army games are derived from wargames. So sometimes there's an aspect of trying to simulate an army of soldiers you don't actually have firm control over, who might come up with various things they'd rather do than what you want them to. Thus troops can run away, frenzy, and are somewhat unwilling...

Yeah, this forum software can be funny sometimes, I had to be pretty careful to not make Krusk's mistake too.

A starting elf has more life experiences than a super old human wizard, might as well imply that they spent all those extra dozens of years on learning about skin care and attractive postures.