The Gaming Den

A piss-poor wrapup of 4e's metaplots, with apparently a few half-decent parts. I never actually read it, mind, but I've heard enough from people I respect to feel confident my time is better spent elsewhere.

I don't see why cyberware scanners are a big problem. It's just being security conscious. You go through a metal detector going into the fucking Smithsonian, and that's a fucking museum. Or are you suggesting that despite the prevalence and existence of implants that can literally give you metal cla...

Rawbeard wrote:You do understand that fat actually make you MORE of a human being? Sometimes double or even triple the amount? What is next? Your mama is ugly like Mila Kunis?

Aw, is someone feeling insecure about their weight?

I hate that fat fuck . So much. If you're referring to Jason Hardy, get your head examined. Guy's a bean pole. Unless you are using some bizarre specimen of irony I'm unfamiliar with. No, I'm stating he's fat, and thus less of a human being. It's an insult. Not an accurate one, but fuck do I care?

Also, who the fuck is Abstruse, and what's with the shilling for Storm Front? 'Best sourcebook since 3rd edition'? Are you fucking kidding me?

I hate that fat fuck. So much.

No one ever has to wash their clothes again!

CGL is a bit shit, and they seem to focusing a lot of the book around convention play 'Shadowrun Missions' than something you'd do at home. From that perspective, railroading is almost mandatory.

Wanna know a fun fact about ranged combat? If someone's shooting at you and you tie on the defense test, if the modified DV of the attack exceeds the cover's armour, then the shot takes only -1 DV and you get to soak the rest. If you're /not/ under cover, it's considered a grazing hit where only tou...

My magpie instinct went off and I bought the thing. It's...pretty? Other than that, I can't really say I'd rather use that than Fourth. Shit like single attack option per action phase, priority build...The whole using marks to hack shit looks fucktarded to me, but I'd need to playtest it a bit.

Er, where I grew up geezer just meant slow old bastard you nicked booze from. Actually, that might fit Shadzar pretty well.

My bloody grandmother is 60 and she uses a tablet. What besides Luddite explains this apparent reluctance to live in the 21st century?

I vote Luddite. Roll20 has drawn, buildable, and uploadable maps /and/ handouts and minis. TTRPG over the net, all set and ready.

To be fair, I've yet to see anyone ever play a dwarf. (Except for me, because Dwarf Faces are too hilarious to pass up.)

I made him French with the handle of Sarko. Because lol.

I will straight up play this, no strings attached.

Hell, even the QSR is fucked. Apparently, being under cover gives the attacker a +2 to +4 bonus for shooting at you. You'd think fifteen minutes of error-checking would catch that, but hey, that's Catalyst. (Presumably, that is not how it's supposed to work.)

Oh, he's an idiot who doesn't understand math. The more you know.

Er...Not quite. It was ruled by Cossacks, and Kievian Rus was the first Slavic state. Russians were Slavs that got raped/invited rape from Viking tribes. That's why Ukrainian is the direct descendant of old Slavonic, and not Russian or Polish.

I'd love to find a GM that's a mind-reader. All the best GMs I've had (and taken pointers from) used things like communication and talking, not 'have an understanding of what his players want without explicitly being told'. Actually, fuck having that guy as GM, I want him on my corporate team. Man's...

You mean 5e? Having watched the results of Mearls, erm, playtest...

But random treasure drops leads to the issue of wanting a wishlist, if for some reason my concept was rapier-dude but all the RNG gave me were mauls or something. Or is it that I simply want conflicting design goals in a single system?

Which do you think is better? I do get a rush when I find that super-duper awesome item I wanted, and annoyed when I kill my 500th orc and find yet more everburning torches or some shit. FATE, obviously, doesn't have the whole 'You find Masamune in a chest!' sort of thing, but how do you replicate t...

FATE? Or the DFRPG, at any rate, but I think magic items count as class features, basically.

I love psionics. I just wish they (according to table and optimisation) either didn't suck or weren't overpowered. I could never get which, since apparently it had to do with how the GM saw things.

Frank, actually, Ukraine, historically, referred to the lands controlled by Ukrainian tribes. There were two different names. (Don't worry, I don't blame you for paying attention to what silly Slavs were doing in the 12th century.) Ukraine was the term for the lands controlled by Kiev, while Okraini...