The Gaming Den

Brief note before I go to bed: If you're drawing numbers out of a hat, your d100 has to be a draw->replace->draw, not a straight draw->draw or you eliminate a tenth of the options (which are fortunately fairly evenly spread, but still) because you can't have doubles. Maybe also mention that in eithe...

15) Because 15 points of Intelligence gives me 1 points of Phantom Essence and 25 points of Willpower gives me 2 points of Phantom Essence. It's a matter of where you round (truncate, actually). 17) Hm. Something like that. I didn't realise Artisan(weapons) wasn't a skill, and I'm not sure about Hob...

I like playing CN characters because for the most part they require the most dickishness on the MC's part to say any given action is out of bounds. Granted, this is only because TN is some sort of weird-ass balance worship rather than just not spending your life as a champion of some ill-defined ide...

I've no idea what would happen in a society of golems that don't need to eat sleep or breathe. For humans, eating is a common time for social interaction - building trust - and sleeping is an important time for using that trust - relying on people to protect you, or at least not kill you. Without e...

2-4) That's how you have it worded. It's just that, with a Brawn of 30 and an Athletics of 10, a [Hard] task is 1d100+20 - 21% chance of success. If you have a leg injury that gives you -10 to Athletics checks, that's not an 11% chance of success, it's a 16% chance of success, because the penalty al...

Numbers are good. 1) Something like that, yeah. 2-4) Much better. Still, "Add any relevant bonuses, penalties and difficulty modifiers" Isn't all of this already included in the "skill modifier" or "modifier total" referenced before? Is anything lost by saying "Add...

[stream of consciousness theorizing] See, if you call someone "Gay", there's a chance you mean they're like a woman, and thus inferior. But if you call them "Big Gay", you're reaffirming their masculinity so it's okay. They're not less of a man, they're just a man who likes to fu...

Okay then. p5: Under d100: It should be noted that the 10s digit and the 1s digit need to be differentiated before rolling. I know people who wouldn't even realize the probability is different that way than just picking what you want after. p5: Under Basic Mechanics: What is the modifier? Skill+Attr...

I only just read this thread, which is actually probably for the best because without that last post I probably wouldn't have had much interest, but now I'm all sorts of excited. That said, I'm reading through the PDF now and am starting to have input. Questions, though: Do you even care about my in...

Huh! That looks interesting. I might have to look into it more.

I was talking about this, though.

I haven't yet summoned the interest to research the origins of twerking. Honestly, I doubt I ever will. I don't even know what it is, since all I've gotten from context is "dancing by shaking your ass" and I seriously doubt that's culture-specific enough to be appropriated. So I don't know...

Ok, time for the latest installment of "Prak is a horrible bigot who is somehow queer and bi/pan/whateversexual." Posted here because it's vaguely related. Shhh. The link tussock just posted seems to show that being a member of a group that has been oppressed doesn't magically keep you fr...

Lets derail this thread: momothefiddler, how do you like MH? Haven't actually started yet - that's this week - but the Witch and I (I'm a Sage) are having a great time with the magic system. I absolutely adore modern fantasy magic, especially when it's big and ritualistic and affected by sympathy a...

christos means anointed in classic greek. Just like with Messiah. In fact, "Christ" and "Messiah" are generally considered valid translations of each other. tussock skipped that step, though. And I believe Jesus comes from the Hebrew Yehoshua, but my Hebrew is minimal. Jesus is ...

Okay. I apparently need to be a bit more clear: GURPS is point-buy. The GURPS splat Monster Hunters has mandatory templates with some choices within each template, and the templates take up almost all of your points. This means that GURPS Monster Hunters is essentially a class-based splat. Having gl...

Perhaps I expressed myself badly in the op. Lemme retry it: If the D&D formula enjoys such a huge popularity as a tactical combat game, shouldnt it have spawned games with actucal skirmish/small-unit tactics themes ? Where are the games with classes like "pointman", "support"...

I prefer "Badassery". My character solves problem because he's badass. And he can do many other stuff. Because he's badass. Anyway, I think our two characters are in the same tier and can play together. Wanna play UA? You're both basketweavers. A real pro optimizer would take Failing at 1...

I was thinking that characters should just take "Win the game" or "Succeed at things" and put maximum points in it, but I now realise, thanks to Lie Badly, that they should actually do the following: "Fail to shoot someone in the throat - 1%" "Tell the absolute tr...

AncientH: The demons/evil spirits in Oriental Adventures are the Oni, represented by the title ____ no Oni. They're summoned like demons and can make more of themselves, and if they steal your name (it's complicated and doesn't happen much) they become super powerful. http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/UylIy-E...

schpeelah wrote:As far as I can tell, the slash is a generic "we skipped a bunch of words, you know what they are" sign in English.

I can't think of any examples of this but also I feel like you might be right and I'm just drawing a blank because reasons.

Huh.

What's the origin of the DR ##/XX formatting? Like, I know that now it means that you can subtract ## damage from any source that's not XX, but why on earth is that represented by "##/XX"?? I can't see why that means "unless you have". Like, I originally read it as division. Is t...

At this point the discussion turned full dishonest mode, so Im ignoring everyone except Momo, cyberzombie, Ice9, mLangsdorf and other honest posters. ;) I'm curious, how do you determine your capitalization? By rolling 2d6. On a success, its all upper case, on a miss, its all lower, on a success at...

silva wrote:At this point the discussion turned full dishonest mode, so Im ignoring everyone except Momo, cyberzombie, Ice9, mLangsdorf and other honest posters.

I'm curious, how do you determine your capitalization?

Dont know, it started with a simple discussion between me and a friend. No other goal than trying to reach a more coherent and logical answer. silva, take a step back here. You and your friend (and the rest of us) can get bogged down in a discussion of what mythic 'really means', but as with most d...

lstyer wrote:All player characters get the following free skills: Body: General Athletics, Struggle

Oh man, I'm glad I have something to do for when I run out of Power Points!