The Gaming Den

I'm not a dick, I'm really nice. (...) once you have decided that you will spend any part of your life trolling on the internet, you forfeit all rights as a human.If you should get hit by a car--no-one should help you. If you vote on anything--your vote should be thrown away. If you wanted to parti...

So for example, what bonus does something get? Totally made up by him on the spot. How long does the bonus last? Totally made up by him on the spot. Yes it is--the bonus is on a scale of 1-10 or 1-whatever the max bonus is in your system. The time has no upper limit. A) How is that any different fr...

I'm not a dick, I'm really nice. (...) once you have decided that you will spend any part of your life trolling on the internet, you forfeit all rights as a human.If you should get hit by a car--no-one should help you. If you vote on anything--your vote should be thrown away. If you wanted to parti...

I get it that people derive fun from completely arbitrary things, but that doesn't make this comparison any less disingenuous . Loss conditions where you have to retry and start over and a bad ending are completely different things. In a videogame, it's possible to do one or the other or both . Wit...

I haven't heard of a CoC game where you were suppose to immediately come back to life though. The point is that people pay money to look at a screen for 2 hours and die every 10 minutes for 2 hours and still have fun. You will fail and fail and fail and still have fun. Because "The Thing"...

It is plainly obvious that everyone in Virgil's game entered knowing that the game they were playing was not "heroic fantasy" but "horror movie". The entire Henderson story is a flat out example of people "signing up for it" that, quite frankly hated the stupid mortali...

DMs and player may play how they want, but if you have no clear intent when designing the game, then you will not have a decent game. That is the opposite of what you said in the "One IP to rule them all, in Hell!"-thread. Not the general opposite, or kind of the opposite. Exactly. The. O...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahannam "Jahannm (Arabic: جهنم‎) is the Islamic concept of Hell." http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1594422/jewish/Do-Jews-Believe-in-Hell.htm "We [Jews] do believe in a type of Hell [...]"...

Orion's point was that a demon can be whatever is wanted, there need NOT be a default that says they come from the Abyss, or the Nine Hells. I agree that anything can be changed. But for the word 'demon' to mean something, it has to be distinct from other monsters that are not called demons. Why? d...

I think that the simplest change that doesn't make it take even more real-time to get to 20th level is to add the assumption that adventuring isn't nonstop, and that there are long breaks between the ones you play and gain levels during. We've found the easiest change is just to decide when to 'lev...

those that just level when it happens rather than being on a RL time schedule that a character must be level X after Y hours? 4th edition had this built in, did 3rd? For groups that like the experience of playing at 1st and 2nd level, DMs can use an optional experience progression that allows for m...

"Ok, we need a sword of greater Ogre-decapitation. lets go to the mall."
"You enter the magicmart. several people stand inside, watching you or evaluating items."
"ok, let's buy the sword and get out."
End of interaction.

"Ok, we need a sword of greater Ogre-decapitation. lets go to the mall."
"You enter the magicmart. several people stand inside, watching you or evaluating items."
"ok, let's buy the sword and get out."
End of interaction.

and you miss the part where an RPG is not a perfect life simulation model. RPGs get to complicated with skills ? Really ??? Ever played Harnmaster or Rolemaster ? Dude, if you are to stupid to write down 10 numbers, thats your problem. HEY, that is fine for their game, but problematic when you try ...

They why or how is it that so many players use PrCs, when they are a tool for DMs? what book did they appear first in? what does it say about them? Stop asking new qestions before answering old questions. That's not a discussion, that's you throwing more and more shit against the wall. "enrich...

In the case of NWPs they werent explained how to add them, jsut here they are, and that carried over to the weird feat and skill nonsense of the d20 system. (...) so someone needs to brak down skills in games and see what their purpose and function serves. is it jsut the bonuses for some things? is...

LOS is drawn from the person running the program, and if you have a directional re-transmitter then you can use LOS from it if you can draw LOS to it, and you can chain them if you want. Thank you for answering my questions, but I still have a problem with LOS. Since these high-density-signals are ...

Hi everyone, I really like these new matrix rules, and want to try them out in a few weeks, but I have some problems understanding some of them: 1: What, in this case, means LOS? Or to be more specific, LOS from where? If I am in New York, can I use LOS-programs on somebody in Tokio if I have contro...