The Gaming Den

Yeah, Kevin is the WH equivalent of Timmy. I don't remember the source. Ah, thank you. Odd. I just kind of figured Warhammer would use the same categories with an additional one for "I like to paint," so I assumed Kevin was "I like to paint miniatures" as opposed to "MOAR P...

rasmuswagner wrote:There's Age of Sigmar, which is GW officially declaring that they don't give a fuck about anything anymore but pushing miniatures to Kevins.

Kevins?

I'm guessing this is some kind of miniatures gaming equivalent to Timmy/Spike/Vorthos/etc?

Sanders has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, but now has a lot of exposure. I think I read that his twitter followers shot up by like 30k immediately after the debates. Anyway seniors love him and millennials love him...he's probably not going to win the nomination, but he's enough of ...

Then shouldn't Development in of itself have a multiplier to it? Like, I'm speaking from a communist perspective here but it seems to me that as observed by the real world a development score of 10 (Sweden) and a tax rate of 8 is more attractive to non-rich immigrants than a development score of 8 ...

Shrapnel's avatar is oddly fitting.

Aztecs had some kind of game involving hard rubber balls, hoops, and the sacrifice of one of the teams to the gods at the end. I don't know if we've really learned anything more about it since I was a kid and first heard about our hazy knowledge of this thing. Yes, you score points by getting the b...

Koumei wrote:It's only within the last six months that I learned ennui is pronounced "on-wee" and not "en-noo-wi".

WHAT? YOU--

IT'S PRONOUNCED THAT WAY?!

MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE!

Does that sound like a game that advocates treating Burakumin like subhumans to you? Given that they are on one of the lowest ranks of the Celestial Order and stated to generally not be free of it even after reincarnation? Yes, actually. That's worse than Buddhism and Hinduism's worst. "Not on...

You still haven't established that L5R is racist. You've asserted it, nothing more. I have previously established it, as has just about everyone in the thread. I see no reason to revisit that establishment. We can resume this conversation when you have demonstrated the ability to understand that. J...

No, it's not racism when a Western writer puts out a game about Japan, or China, ancient or otherwise. A few people will advance that argument, but I don't agree with them. I believe that it's racism when they do it in a shitty racist way. This is the majority opinion, more or less, on this subject,...

Actually, it does. Even given the ability to travel, people do not often travel away from their linguistic sphere because of the discomfort and unfamiliarity involved with not speaking local languages. Keeping this in mind, one can see if they zoom in that this gentleman is not only of a typical Asi...

Kaelik wrote:Seriously, there is literally no way that such a game isn't racist as shit.

I try to keep an open mind to any possibility. Given infinite time, yadda yadda. Prak's find confirms the far more likely event though.

OgreBattle wrote:Bonus points if there's a social mechanic to encourage you to play up certain Black archtypes (like honor in an oriental setting).

What would you say those are, tho'?

The reason people don't like this class is implicit in the text: you are handling unclean stuff, blood and flesh and waste. That's all. No racism involved. How does your rosy theory deal with the fact that decades after their families stopped being forced to handle shit, the descendants of the Eta ...

The reason people don't like this class is implicit in the text: you are handling unclean stuff, blood and flesh and waste. That's all. No racism involved. That's kind of like saying the reason people disliked Africans is because they did menial labor such as picking cotton that was beneath most pe...

It's too bad, because "city overridden by xenomorphs in yon cyberpunk wasteland" sounds like an awesome setup. But Shadowrun's specific version hamstrings itself at every turn.

On one hand, inside sources are not very hard to get in the RPG industry.

On the other claw, silva's level of competence leaves me to believe it is beyond him even with the fabled "natural twenty."

I personally think it'd be fun to play in a game which used anachronistic natural philosophy, but if I were to do so, I would do it expressly as "modern natural science is correct, EXCEPT . . ." which is, you know, the foundation of most scifi settings, I'd just be projecting to a mytholog...

Did you even like, read the fucking article? Gygax had controlling interest until Blume exercised his option. He had no particular reason to believe he had lost control of the company until he did. I have no special love for Gygax, but it would take a very skillful and much more business-aware perso...

Koumei wrote:Wait, so now that Shadzar can't shit the thread up with stupidity, Occluded Sun thinks he has to step up to the task?

There will always be a shadlennsaroy.

As someone who hasn't actually played in any real 2E D&D PnP games, did people in the beforetimes really and truly try to get their characters killed off because their stats were shitty and the DM wouldn't let them reroll? I mean, I make a lot of snide remarks about the whole 3d6 in order crap ...

Thanks Frank, that is a lot less confusing than the RotW blurb. Personally, I probably wouldn't have the first ones been born from a single tree but like everything (trees, stones, bushes, lakes, grasslands, etc.) resulting in a variety of looks. While cool from a thematic perspective, and it looks...

Anyway, gun to my head, if I was making Elan for a new edition I think it would look like this: Elan The Elan are synthetic Humans created by the Aboleth. They look like Humans, talk like Humans, and remember like Humans, but their insides are filled with yellow fluid and mysterious gelatinous glob...

It's like someone with the username Spinal Tap decrying having their numbers go to eleven.

More or less in Shadowrun, your characters are mortal. What's hilarious is he's posting stuff like this from the name Cyberzombie, which is pretty much the Shadowrun answer to "what if you load 6.0 Essence of cyberware on a person instead of 5.9?!" In a game which features giant cybered-u...