The Gaming Den

OgreBattle wrote:Maybe his goal is to create content for grognards.txt

He's not defending 4th Edition. But, just in case, ahem... Does breasts on non-placental reptoids hurt your verisimilitude?

PBS lied to me again!

Wait aren't untouchables a real group of people who are still subject to discrimination, and Pundits just went stated them up in a RPG with an INT penalty. Isn't that like extremely fucking offensive. The game also has "Thugee" assassins, which were an invention of the British. Indiana Jo...

I'm sure many people are breathlessly rushing to buy a rulebook written by a guy who spends all day berating people about how rules are not important in RPGs.

@Schleiermacher: The essential problem with that approach is that you have no investment in your character until after the game. Every character that you didn't do something specifically cool with was just a blank slate. When play starts, you're not Aragorn or even Frodo -you're Pippin. And what? Pi...

Let's say two players are pitching their character concept to a normal DM and Shadzar: I totally beat you to this one. I'm starting to think that Shadzar is a troll. He's got the Den arguing with him about 3d6 in order when he has, on several occasions, jumped to the defense of older D&D editio...

Lunging vs. Swinging in GURPS is like chop-slash-thrust in Morrowind. Your weapon is only going to be good for one, so you don't care about the others. Besides, mooks drop fast in GURPS, especially when the party mage starts dropping fireballs. Now, figuring out where multiple combatants are in the ...

Is GURPS: Eberron the answer?

Dude, Shadzar, what the fuck do you know. You're not even a D&D fan anyway. Offered a chance to play some of your favorite edition, you bitched out. Your gaming to bitching about gaming ratio is terrible for the DEN, and that's saying something. Sure I've got him on ignore, but that's not a fai...

I wanted to play an Elf Mage/Thief. ;_;

Well, Shadzar, even if you don't see this, thank you for stopping by to acknowledge my invitation, even if only to turn it down. Though, regarding your specific objections: 1. I figured on just doing voice. I don't want to see your superfluous third nostril or anything like that. 2. Who needs an &qu...

The point is that I basically demonstrated how easy it was to solve his problem of not having a group and offered him a platform to share his style of gaming. That he won't accept my solution merely confirms what most have suspected; that he is a blowhard ranting about crap that he knows nothing abo...

pretty much you only needed magic items if you were going up against the things that required magic items to hit, which means scouring the MM to find the most obscure monsters created for D&D to fight, or dragons. You mean like Elementals, Outsiders, Gargoyles, Golems, and Incorporeal Undead? B...

So, in about a day, I've solved the central fucking tragedy of Shadzar's life.

Shadzar wrote:i wouldnt touch any online chat thing like google to save my life,

Doesn't... use... Google...

Sounds like we got a crew for this crazy train. Send Shad some PMs (I think he has me on ignore).

Shadzaaaaarrrrr... Come out and plaaaaa-aaaaay...

[The Great Fence Builder Speaks] Shadzar requests the PMs stop.[/TGFBS]

That's two.

Hrm... Shadzar might have me on ignore. Someone want to bother him?

Shadzar, If three other posters will step up to the plate with me (maybe two other posters and my girlfriend), I will play in a 2E AD&D game if you will run it in Google+. I will unquestioningly accept any houserules or off-the-cuff rulings you make. I will make a character using whatever guidel...

All of this is why I just dump a ton of cash on my group and encourage them to craft what they want.

Loving this trainwreck... Shadzar, admit it: you have no friends and you hate anyone who has friends. This basically sums up what Shad has been saying from the start of the thread. Shad obviously does not have a group that he plays with. Now, having read the tortured insanity that Shad calls "t...

Is there any reason why it even matters where you got into dnd from. I got introduced to it through M&M and DDO. Is there anything wrong with that? Because Shad's not complaining about 3rd Edition. Shad's complaining about a cultural shift that he blames on the danged vidja games and women gett...

Here's what I basically don't get about shatzar-types... They're all "OMGZ YOU SHOULD BE A FIRST LEVEL, STATS-IN-ORDER-3D6, SHIT FARMER AND IF YOU WANT TO PLAY SOMEONE WITH DEFINED SKILLS OR ABILITIES YOU ARE FUCKING MUNCHKIN SWINE AND I WOULD TOTALLY KICK YOUR ASS BECAUSE I'M AN INTERNET TOUGH...

Shadzar has basically adopted TheRPGSite's incoherent crusade against "storygames", which is why he isn't making any sense.

vagrant wrote: Since I'm new, I'll try and engage Shadzar here.

Shadzar is the Westborough Baptist Church of D&D.

But if you've broken into the dragon's lair, killed his half-dragon sorceress daughter and gotten your ass kicked for it, why wouldn't he then eat you?

So you can provide him with a new daughter, of course.