The Gaming Den

For any journey of an hour or more, the fiddling was largely meaningless. -Username17 And of course none of that is touching on the impact Movement could have on the economics of vehicle engineering. How big of a plane you need is very much a question of how much operating range you need and how fe...

Presumably the NBA thing was definitely an ask Yep. We are deeply shocked by the erroneous comments on Hong Kong made by Mr. Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets. We have lodged representations and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Houston Rockets, and urged the latter to cor...

Close; the movie is set in WW2, so the railway isn't actually finished yet and the British guy is pretty patronizing about it.

I'm 62 years late to the party, so this post is going to be more like a confession than a recommendation. As it turns out, The Bridge On The River Kwai is pretty good. I feel bad about not really understanding this, because I kinda have a bias against many old movies and old war movies in particular...

Yeah, Ned Stark's death actually represented both the heroes and the villains taking a big complicated L and set the table for a bunch of other stuff to happen. Sure, it takes some convenient developments and a big swerve to get there, but the swerve happens because smart people are taken by surpris...

This stuff... doesn't sound that hard to do? I get the impression that a sufficiently-motivated (read: paid) group could slap together a coherent magic system in about a week or so. Or does it just look like that because we're standing on the shoulders of giants? They could, but I think it's pretty...

Shadowrun is one of the only magical systems that provides a short but genuinely useful description of what the "normal" features and limitations of magic are. Those descriptions aren't just player facing metagame concepts, either, they're explicitly known in-universe. For example, Shadowr...

It's 2 vs 4 to me. I lean 4. I like anti-climax.

COH didn't really have raid progression in the same fashion that WoW did and as such builds tended to focus more on fucking around in various ways rather than being laser focused on a particular role. And in WoW crowd control certainly does waffle between OP and unnecessary like Lago was talking abo...

deaddmwalking wrote:If you want more bang for your buck, pick up a fantasy art book like Clyde Caldwell's Savage Hearts

Ironically I feel like his art seems kinda flat.

A lot of this comes down to semantics rather than a failure of imagination. Magic can mean rites or incantations specifically but it is also a general catch-all term for unexplained events which result in impossibilities occurring. I am not opposed to magical events and fictional realms where everyt...

Gladius is also on one of the Playstations, and it allows you to recruit a bear (named Zod) which is one of the strongest things you'll have for most of the game. That alone makes it great. Yeah, there's a Heavy>Medium>Light>Heavy loop in the game and that means if you start as Ursula (a Medium) yo...

Gladius for the original xbox is alright.

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Trying to mechanically enforce story beats rarely ends well. You'd be better off just presenting some basic notes on pacing and the hero's journey and character arcs and let people who are interested in that sort of thing figure it out for themselves. This. The interesting shit happens in play. Pre...

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Deadlands' name recognition stems more from Doomtown just because being in the CCG space in the '90s meant you got to hobnob with MtG. In my nerd circles Deadlands and Legend of the 5 Rings were mostly those things that sounded really cool in InQuest write-ups. We...

In most sports it's not which is why teams have benches and substitutions.

The Mythos is inherently science fiction. That's obviously untrue. I mean you literally just talked about Rats in the Walls. There's tons of Lovecraft stories that have no science fiction element whatsoever. That doesn't mean that Lovecraft and sci-fi can't go together well, I think they can. But t...

seriously, we just shake canes at eachother here

I've been playing civ4 again and it's still glorious. I set things to random and ended up with the Aztecs and a starting city that produces 21 food in a mere 4 tiles. Spoiler alert: There's been some whipping.

I think there's too many moving parts involved for this to be a short conversation. "Only samurai and adepts get extra IPs" isn't a terrible idea but giving them harsh penalties for the privilege is pretty bad unless you're also nerfing the everlovin' christ out of riggers and mages at a m...

They've actually toyed around with 'ware that causes you to soak damage such as adrenal glands but generally those augs have died unmourned deaths because they don't actually give you real ultimate power in exchange for your troubles.

It really depends on builds. Samurai-Mage hybrids with utility magic and a hojillion sensory enhancements are surprisingly affordable if you're willing to risk some drain by tanking your Will stat and instead simply soft-cap a drain attribute that actually does stuff like Charisma, Intellect or Intu...

I think you have 4E Shadowrun and that's it. Yeah, I'd argue that SR4 is sort of an exception that proves the rule; you can reduce the hostility and friction to a low simmer IF everyone acknowledges that one of our tentpole mechanics (the matrix) just plain doesn't work, the timeline has an editori...

The fact that undead characters are conceptually about as resilient as the plot demands hits me as a big untapped resource. After all, one of the reasons people treat combat differently from other mini-games is because it is not always player initiated and because it's intuitive that even victory ma...