The Gaming Den

Okay then, have two models, one with silk, and the other with burlap for you manly men. (I'll take the silk)

I usually google "gaming den bb" when I'm away from my bookmarks, and it comes up on top.

I agree that intent should count, but that's not what the rules say. I also agree that using an [evil] spell to save the world probably wouldn't change your alignment from good, as you do more good than harm, which is why I say screw it to Law vs Chaos, since nobody knows what that means anyway. Use...

I think the real problem is that nobody really knows what the alignments are actually supposed to entail. Frank and K have done a pretty good job of proposing various solutions to that problem by pointing out several different (and often conflicting) viewpoints which are all based in the rules and d...

Why not, everyone else does?

(okay, bad pun)

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/09-AtAllCostsCD/AtAllCostsCD/[br][br]I found that series of books to be quite good science fiction. A tech base that held together, with very little in the way of magic black-box technology. Well thought out implications of the technology base, and the captain stay...

1179237746[/unixtime]][br][br]No, I was countering the notion that parents who are not fit to care for children should have abortions before the child is born but need to have their children shuttled to foster care if they are born. I highly doubt one million children per year are being aborted by ...

1179155074[/unixtime]][br][br]Second myth: Should we kill children because their parents are no good bums? No, we send them to foster care instead. In New York, a major abortion state I might add, we have a law where if you have a child (a born child) and you don't want it, you can drop it off (the...

I havn't played starcraft in a long time, but I agree that it is, by far, the best RTS I've ever played.[br][br]As a nod to limited resource maps, I was playing on a 3 on 3 map, and it ended up being just me (terran) against a lone opponent (protoss). The only reason why I won was that I could lift ...

Presumably it's so that ... um... cloud giants?

What I want to do:[br][br]A class that gives you a spiffy weapon with neat abilities (like the monk).[br]A class that gives you a weapon that can't really be taken away (disarmed, sundered, ect).[br]A class that gives low-grade self-support casting (like psychic warrior or ranger).[br][br]So I guess...

Since we all know the soul knife is a special class, because it doesn't actually get class features (OoO! I have a ... weapon!), but I really like the soul knife concept. So the question is thus: How would you re-build the soul knife to not suck?[br][br]I've got my own ideas (basically this: shamele...

I agree with OrionAnderson -- psudo-scaling seems to be the best option. You scale, but only to a degree. [br][br]I was thinking a minimum and maximum scale. Some weapons are simply more badass than others, So there's a really neat Frostbrand who's minimum is 7, and whos maximum is 15. If you pick i...

That would allow everyone pretty much equal access to the wish economy, because you can either cast planar binding yourself, or buy the candle.

I don't think it would be unreasonable to require that exotics like Planar Currencies would be required to be used to make magic items over 15,000 GP in price.

Here's an idea for Sanctums: For each day you control your sanctum, you can negate a single spell cast within your sanctum as a free action. So if you've only controlled your sanctum for a week (7 days, none of this 10 day faerun crap), then you could negate up to 7 spells of any level that are cast...

The impression that I got was this:[br][br]There is a port-town, called Giza. This city-state pumps out 3 white mana (all that trade), 1 black mana (the dark underbelly), 2 green mana (the forests where they get their wood for their shipwrights), 1 red mana (its ...um fought over?), and 4 blue mana,...

In low/no magic settings, the Wish economy basically doesn't happen. Nobody does Wish, nobody does Planar Binding. It is based on wish, after all, and wishes are pretty much the difinition of high magic.[br][br]You still run into the problem where it's just as efficient to craft +1 swords for money ...

But you're still adventuring for money, just not piles of gold.[br][br]And good characters have just as much use for bound Souls as evil characters. They could either be recovering the bound Soul of a good guy (for resuscitation or to prevent them from being used up in an evil ritual), or they could...

Action Figures, if well made, will beat out of a DVD that you'll probably never watch, and an art book that is probably too oddly shaped to fit on a bookshelf (and thus will never be looked at).[br][br]Action Figures, on the other hand, take up very little shelf space, and will probably look neat. Y...

Chuckles: The 15,000 GP limit comes from the wish spell itself. It can just make any magical item of 15,000 GP or less.[br][br]Also, the reason why you couldn't just comission a wizard to make something worth more than 15,000 GP and pay them in piles of cash is because piles of cash are worthless to...

It's in the Dungeonomicon (top of this very forum), under the header of "Wish and the Economy"[br][br]The short version is this: Wish means that you can get pretty much anything you want that costs less than 15,000 GP for free (or huge piles of gold, depending on where you are in the level...

In computer logic, OR is +, AND is *. This makes sense if you look at it the way computers do -- false is 0 and true is anything else (usually 1).[br][br]A * B is AND, because if one of the two is 0, then the whole statement is 0 (False)[br][br]A + B is OR, because if at least one of the two is 1, t...

Good point about the necromantic intelligences.[br][br]I've got an idea for the problem use of a grave whistle and every peon has their own control pool of undead potentially killing your civilization in a single night of horror. Just make sure everyone gives their undead standing orders to attack a...

I think a more logistically sound method of forming your undead empire is to deliberatly create necromantic intelligences with the specific goal of "mine this gold" or "tend to these fields" -- allthough the perpetual mist effect would be bad for most farming ventures. You might ...