The Gaming Den

If you are a hacking super badass who regulary hacks into the NSA, gets away with, and then goes and steals billion's from microsoft, playing Shadowun is not a power fantasy. Your definition of Shadowrun is too Super Powered for my tastes. Last dozen adventures or so with my group we were dealing w...

If you're powerful in a fantasy it's a power fantasy. Power can be more than bulging biceps and/or being able to shoot fire out of your hands. I would say power fantasy is about feeling powerful, and when I'm a 1st level character I don't feel powerful at all. Yeah, a Paranoia character has a super...

Well tautologically, if pretty much everything that you aren't doing in real life falls under power fantasy, then doing pretty much anything is to express power fantasies, yeah. But honestly it is bullshit that if I play steve the crap covered farmer (who is better at farming than I am) that that i...

Sounds like Silva needs roleplaying and quickly resolved combat. My prescription is phone sex while playing Skyrim. That said, I do have to second the idea that simple rules don't necessarily equal a fast combat. This is particularly true in games with a "damage soak" or parry mechanic. I'...

Also in 3e, the non-combat skills are more complete and Fighters get less of them than ever before. But that's not a problem from the dawn of Thieves, it's 25 years later now and the skill system has started to exclude pure MTP resolution from people's games. DMs by now will ask for a skill check w...

They already made a game where Fighters are the same as Wizards and everything is an abstraction. It's called 4E.

I disagree, which is why I dislike Pathfinder's approach to "combat maneuvers." Tripping a Centaur should be a shitload more difficult than knocking a weapon out of his grip. Likewise, "judo-flipping" and sundering a quarterstaff with greataxe involve two radically different skil...

They could theoretically encounter greenblood oil (poison) at first level for CON damage. I think Shadows (STR damage) and Allips (WIS danage) are both CR 3.

My min-maxxed FATE character is Sackpunch Dicklaser. Disad: "Masochistic Compulsion: Scrotal Torture." Advantage: "Dick Laser." Sackpunch responds to all situations by crying and punching himself in the balls for Fate chips. When something ABSOLUTELY needs to die, he cashes in al...

Shadzar was raped by a player with a guisarme-voulge.

D&D stuff tends to break down at high levels, just because your wizard's capabilities expand - the Fighter will like the Ring of Not Getting Burned To Death at just about any level, but for wizards that's like a second or third-level spell. Basically, if a wizard of the same level can duplicate...

shadzar is more imaginative than all of you.

Film at 11.

deaddmwalking wrote:Wow, you must play with some shitty people.

Dead, you are the closest thing to a friend that shadzar has. He doesn't play with anyone, and has admitted to such.

Kaelik's hostility is well known to be a driving force behind internet rape culture.

According to D&D religions, both moral wrongs and moral rights get you rewarded equally well in the afterlife by the Gods of Evil and the Gods of Good respectively. Evil worshipers of Evil Gods get magical powers, great riches and a happy afterlife just as often as Good worshipers of Good Gods ...

I would like to thank Zak for single-handedly destroying all stereotypes about the sort of people who argue about stuff on the internet. "Shut up, virgin!" "I'm literally surrounded by porn stars." Also, while Kaelik is most certainly NOT a real person, he has made statements abo...

The problem with any "Rule of Cool" resolution system is that it's AWESOME until anyone in the group has a different notion of cool. If three people view a "Rule of Cool" scenario playing out, they will respond in potentially three different ways: 1. That's AWESOME! I wish I was ...

No, in Apocalypse World if you say "I shoot the sheriff" and roll a 10+, you shoot him. He is shot. You do an amount of damage based on your weapon and his armor. If he's unarmored and you're using any sort of respectable weapon, he's probably done, because NPCs have terrible health. That...

In other words, if you say "I wanna shot the sheriff in the face" ... in Shadowrun the GM would set a difficulty for the roll based on physical situational modifiers (distance, visibility, target area of exposition, gun recoil, etc) while in Apocalypse World you would roll without any mod...

You're right, we need to somehow buff Clerics and Druids. They're falling behind.

In a stereotypical fantasy world where only the rarest fraction of people can do magic and they jealously guard their power, it makes sense for technology to continue developing. In an HP-verse where NOT doing magic is like the equivalent of having Down's Syndrome, then it doesn't make sense for peo...

virgil wrote:If 3E isn't the best D&D we currently have, let alone the best we've ever had, what is?

You can ignore krakatoa. He's a 4rry goon.

Clearly the best version of D&D is a handful of notes written on a napkin by Gygax because rules are bad and get in the way of RAELIZARM!

Point buy systems seem to break down in two common ways. 1. "We're not designing this for the munchkins, so balance isn't needed." Essentially, the point buys don't create equivalent characters and you may as well just have the DM create the characters. 2. "You can spend five points o...

Old School Gaming: Where your sword has a back-story and your PC doesn't.

Thoughts ? I think you could just find a shadzar quote somewhere to expound on easier than porting over stuff from RPGShite. That said, those guys have a serious obsession about the various factors in gaming culture that are rotting the minds of the impressionable youth. As such, way too much navel...