The Gaming Den

I'd be 100% in for god-killing in a RPG if the relevant rules for it were written by Neil Gaiman.

The biggest problem with having the Gods be defeatable enemies is that typically Gods and their associated religions are big parts of the setting background. If you let the players get to high level and stab Illuvatar in the face you then have to throw out a lot of the material in those books you b...

Really, the way D&D currently deals with gods will be disappointing no matter what. If you can just straight fly to Zeus' home and stab him in the face, the setting suffers from stupidity. One of the causes for this stupidity is your answer to the question "how rare and special the PCs are?...

Cargo Cult D&D This is probably the most apt description of this edition I've read. I'm picturing Merals wearing coconuts on his head, waving a pair of sticks around, and it all makes sense, now. It is. Say what you want about 4E, but it's an indisputable fact that they were bold . WotC ate Mea...

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Looks like something D&D gnomes would build.

Can you even call this a Denizens' game if Frank is not on it being attacked on turn 5?

When WoTC's publishing schedule is so scant, that a Deodorant company can release 5e D&D Classes and it becomes noteworthy among social media gaming groups. The real irony is that the class is meant for an earlier edition, it's more of a 3e class than a 5e class. Old Spice's "The Gentleman...

Starmaker wrote:Two employees in a Russian nuclear research facility put a supercomputer online and tried to mine crypto with it.

I'll won't be surprised if the first killer app for quantum computers happens to be a better mining software

Religion in D&D should be somewhere between Roman civic religion, and the modern cult of celebrity. When worshiping the right god provides real material benefits to your community, religion no longer a matter of personal conscience, it is a civic duty just like taxes. Yes, in D&D land you'r...

Didn't they change the drider thing to make it a blessing, not a curse at some point? WHAT? Is this another "bald wizards of Thay" situation? Originally, the wizards of Thay would let their hair grow just fine, but then there was a Thayan domain lord in 2nd edition Ravenloft that had his ...

K wrote:I'm surprised that there was never any pics of the dev team in RPG books.

And I'm not.

Grek wrote:Character generator programs are stupid and bad. The second the DM changes anything related to character creation (be it a house rule, a custom race for their homebrew setting, a custom prestige class) your character generator breaks.

So, non-moddable character generator programs are stupid and bad.

As long as your stating powers are limited by your Clan, there are going to be Clan specific archetypes. Having a Ventrue be anything but a social character is wasteful, because he gets two of the best social powersets and one of the worst combat powersets. There's no reason why you have to use the...

Dragonlance = the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's worldbuilding + David Eddings' inspired party and dialogues (as opposed to Tolkien's sausage fest) + a legendarily bad sense for naming things.

hyzmarca wrote:Jedi aren't space wizards. They're space youxia. That's an important distinction. The role that the Jedi serve in the plot is the role that youxia serve in wuxia movies.

I fixed those strange mispellings for you.

The real question is: would 95% of Werewolf players be cool with playing a Gangrel in Vampire if it was understood the two were basically synonymous? http://s3.amazonaws.com/pix.iemoji.com/images/emoji/apple/ios-11/33/1818.png Of all monsters you could try to combine, vampires and werewolves seem l...

Lets assume for a moment that draconians are indeed sweet-ass hardcore monsters: http://revolver-games.com/rainfall/images/kingOfDragons_screen2.jpg sweetass_hardcore_monster.jpg Even assuming that, I never understood why more people didn't simply yoink the draconians for their own campaign worlds a...

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maglag wrote:The villain(s)/random monsters show up in swimsuits and want to honestly join the fun too.

Through bonding and talking through things the conflict is resolved peacefully and the campaign ends.

Game segues into a new campaign about the conflict between CHILLAX and STUCK-UP people.

The Rocker would probably be best as riling up crowds of angry anarchists into revolutionary mobs that inevitably got slaughtered by corporate security goons. The Reporter, likewise, functions as an outlet to air the corporations dirty laundry so that the public can be outraged by it. In other word...

Prak wrote:An accurate depiction of a D&D party having faced a dragon

Literally the origin for the Cleric and the Elf of CAPCOM's Tower of Doom.

This may seem obvious in hindsight, but you cannot add a "rocker" to a game without also adding problems that can be solved by rocking at them.

>----point-----> Your Heads I chimed in originally because the suggestion that vampires drinking blood could be something as harmless to the victim as taking blood-samples. I wasn't thinking about non-eastern-european vampires when I wrote that and it doesn't even matter because I'm pretty sure nobo...

In the real world, hard lines between monsters never existed until Gary Fucking Gygax wrote a book that had Basilisk and Cockatrice as separate entries with different amounts of hit dice. Vampires, Succubi, Ghosts, and Demons are overlapping terms which are used interchangeably in the source materi...

For vampires to work in a game with "terror" or "horror" anywhere near the taglines, they need to be a hazard to people. I don't understand this point of view. A person who keeps a plantation of fifty slaves who rapes one of them every night is certainly a hazard to people, even...