The Gaming Den

Really, the "right" and "left" wings that exist in contemporary liberal democracy are so similiar in so many respects that the idea of there being a coherent ideological space between them is utterly laughable. The salient faults in the West arise not from the issues that are at ...

So, some post-preseason notes: New Graves is crazy broken with like a 56 percent winrate. He's incredibly oppressive in lane thanks to his new autoattacks and Q damage, has fantastic waveclear, and still manages to be reasonably tanky with his old passive being tied to his E. He's basically what Gra...

If the Eurocrats force Greece to default on its debts there likely will be something they can spin as disaster - maybe even a self-fulfilling prophecy if FUD causes a run on Greek banks or something. There's reason for Syriza not to press all the way, harder than their predecessors in government wo...

So, how how much faster does an Aristotelian object with twice the weight fall? Aristotle says that the speed is directly proportional to the weight. So a 10kg object falls 10 times as fast as a 1kg object. Of course, then you run immediately into Galileo's objection. Okay, so if a 1kg object falls...

Yeah, I'd definitely try to condense it down to two rolls. Also, were you planning on unique resource managment systems for each school of magic, and were you planning on allowing characters to mix-n-match? Moreover, from what I remember of your class write-up, some of these look like class features...

How the fuck is that not flagrantly illegal, when it's that blatant? It's being referred to the electoral commission... which apparently Newman blatantly stacked with loyalists. So good luck with that. But yeah it pretty much IS illegal. But conservatives don't care, the law never applies to THEM, ...

The difference is that if I'm not very much mistaken, the early Shadowrun authors were actually pretty deeply invested in the stuff they based their magic system on and knew a lot about it. I question whether anyone on the current ArM team has that level of knowledge or investment in Aristotelian m...

It's not quite as ridiculous as that. It's just the idea that theoretically a designer could make a game which relied on Aristotelian physics, and presented it in sufficient detail and coherence in the game book itself that players could use it, without relying on a vague pointer to centuries of ar...

if I remember correctly, the oft-shouted statistics that global inequality and poverty and so on plummeted over the past 50 years or whatever immediately becomes false if you exclude socialist countries, so there's that. I can't find the relevant data, but given the degree to which China and Russia ...

Just out of curiosity, how have studied Aristotelian medieval metaphysics at a university level? Hell, how many of you have studied Aristotle at a university level for more than a week or so? Raise your hands if, without googling, you can tell me whether Ockham ran more towards realism or nominalis...

Just out of curiosity, how have studied Aristotelian medieval metaphysics at a university level? Hell, how many of you have studied Aristotle at a university level for more than a week or so? Raise your hands if, without googling, you can tell me whether Ockham ran more towards realism or nominalism.

The solution space for drop-out has actually been pretty well mapped-out, mostly by Frank. Just search for "Nash Equilibrium," and the arguments should come up. Basically, you have two choices. Firstly, you can create really awesome bonuses for people turning their shit on (SR5's wireless ...

Remember the Nazi propaganda film that was a plot point in Inglorious Basterds, about the dude killing all those Americans? That's basically what American Sniper is. Pure and simple. The only difference is American Sniper throws a few sots to the presence of PTSD in the military; beyond that they're...

If you're set on hacking being an actual part of the game, you could try and implement an effects-based hacking thingy like a few people have been talking about. If you heavily abstract a network and put in some provisos making sure brains are at the centre of them, you could have net hits on an opp...

I put up a thread in IMOI about removing the dodge step from SR; obviously yours would be different given that you're overhauling everything, but doing a straight-up conversion of 1 point of threshold for every three dice of a defense dicepool seems like it would work out mathematically. Blade broug...

There's wide bursts on top cover and movement and dodge penalties, as well. Do you think some could be removed?

So, the town that I live in has a colossal number of wealthy families who have high academic expectations for their children. I have a therapist/friend (i've known him for about fifteen years) who works extensively for these families and local schools. I'm charming, speak well, have a cool accent, ...

So, I'm starting up a shadowrun campaign soon over skype/roll20, and in order to make everything simpler and easier for the purposes of writing macros, I was wondering how easy it would be to straight-up remove the dodge roll from the shadowrun combat system, leaving only attack and soak. My knowled...

Literally the only thing that the "PCs cherry-pick their own gear" does is adding time to character generation, complexity to numbers on charsheet and more exploitable loops to the mechanics. But the end result in 3.5 is exactly the same as if gear did not exist and monsters had their num...

So, I've been medicated for about three weeks now. First time I had a shrink that didn't either drug me until I can't feel feelings anymore or just told me nothing was wrong. And every once in a while, I literally shudder about how batshit fucking insane my worldview was... even when I thought I wa...

So, the town that I live in has a colossal number of wealthy families who have high academic expectations for their children. I have a therapist/friend (i've known him for about fifteen years) who works extensively for these families and local schools. I'm charming, speak well, have a cool accent, a...

One thing that popped up in my mind- In Ars Magica, covenant managment and expansion is as big a part of the game as everything else; while it varies from campaign to campaign, getting peasants to give you crops and trading shit for books and building magical brooms is a recognizable Part Of The Gam...

The bonuses that MBW gives you over standard WR really aren't that great. Anyone worth their salt is going to be using Gymnastics Dodge when MBW only gives a bonus to regular dodge, and the skillwire capability is pointless if you're already a badass, which as a PC, you are. One extra point of react...

I just want to say that despite having very little engagment with either anime or Cthulhu, this is totally dope and I'd throw down a good chunk of change and badger all my friends to do the same thing. Just a couple quick questions; are blue and green and purple the actual names that are going to en...

I'm physically can't bring myself to even glance at that disgusting cesspool. but how is ENWorld handling it?