The Gaming Den

late to the party; don't know if you bought already or not; but here's my 2cp: .380 is for pocket/purse carry, when you want minimal weight/printing. any other use, and you might be setting yourself up for failure. dedicated nightstand should probs be a full-size (mag capacity), no smaller than 9mm ...

My question is this: am I being arbitrary with this distinction, or even wrong to do this? If I'm not, how would you more eloquently describe this guideline I'm intuitively following? a thing my group has settled on is basically that if you summon/call a creature, that creature cannot use any abili...

WHERE IS THAT 3RD HAND COMING FROM?!

with all this talk of elegant pissing:

If you're connecting through a VPN, it's very possible that someone has used one of the IP addresses belonging to your VPN to attempt a DDoS or other attack on a site hosted by the entity that owns the web servers for the Den. Connections are probably refused from that IP for any and all websites h...

that's obviously not my actual IP address, of course

is that maybe some source of some spam at one point?

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okay, how about more specific detail?

remember, not signed in and got the following white screen message:
"Access denied. Your IP address [192.200.24.30] is blacklisted. If you feel this is in error please contact your hosting providers abuse department."

what is this even?

The Werewolves in Nightlife have three forms: a human, a wolf man, and a dire wolf. What earthly purpose are the other two forms? I can't even remember what they are called. The glabro was good for getting some of your hulk-out muscle without driving all the nearby humans into Delerium or giving up...

Masquerade's success was an example of a rpg going viral. There is nothing there beyond ripping of Ann Rice, rules that looked easy and the green marble with a rose cover. By historic happenstance that clicked with a large group of people that wanted to play something, but certainly not AD&D 2e...

the #s don't lie. because of that: - feeding ought be a non-lethal endeavor. looks like harems, ghouls, and drunk/drugged-out party kids all who get to wake up tomorrow all the way down. - murder of baselines must needs to be reserved for last-resort protecting of the masquerade. those who find them...

and frank double posted 17 minutes apart.
i blame the board server.

anyways, thoughts? like i said, i already accept that this probably can't work; but what might it look like if someone were to try? I think the most profitable design space to explore here is something much more tightly limited than traditional RPGs. I can outright give you examples of various co-o...

see, this seems reasonable. I assume that all these supplements are assumed to be optional? (don't play SR, so i don't know). seems much like in gurps, where there very much is the expectation that the gm is supposed to say something like "we're using Basic Set, Powers, and Action, no alien (di...

well, fuck me. seems the conclusion is "it would look like a giant pile of ass and fail". (though, i'm willing to consider observations to the contrary) sure, i could nit pick at your examples; but not in a way that would meaningfully advance the conversation. i just get so frustrated with...

hmmm ... okay, let's look at MtG: as the game has developed and expanded, they split off sets and established various formats . but it is essentially the same game. I guess d&d 4e pretended to try to do that with Essentials ; but that was an afterthought. same could probably said and concluded o...

yes, i understand. you seem to be answering a question i've already conceded; doesn't address the question at hand. okay, here's an example: the current(ish) thread about crafting stealth mini-games: one could redefine what d&d stealth skills do and how they work without having to redesign the w...

yes i have. while solid, i'm not sure i see how that fits in to the thing i'm getting at here.

this echoes my initial thoughts. but i'm also not very good at hammering out rules from whole cloth, so there's that. as for the base resolution mechanic ... my conclusion so far is that this is the one thing that'll have to be on the Final Destination course. you might be able to make subtle tweaks...

preface: I realize this is probably a complete non-starter for a plethora of reasons; I'm just trying to explore the thought space of what such a thing might look like. Had a random thought about potential design strategy for a hypothetical rpg .... instead of pumping out a new edition every x years...

So, in a RL world the the Clinton Body Count is supposedly a thing (irrespective of how tinfoil-hat it may or may not be), in a world of actual vampire conspiracies permeating throughout all levels of society, the #s shouldn't be that hard to deal with. Also, why wouldn't there be a coterie or 5 wor...

got IP blocked while not even signed in. :confused: wonder if related to: 1) intermittently refreshing throughout the day :confused: 2) connecting through a VPN :confused: 3) [hell if I know] anybody else have this happen? guesses what it could be? (changed vpn connection; seems fine ... for now)

Dude, chill. Seriously. That thing you seized on wasn't designed as an argument; that was me trying to bow out gracefully. Untwist your panties and move on.

Yes, the very best Stealth systems in use today are "roll the dice and tell the MC how stealthy your character is being, using the results of the numbers as an improv prompt, then the MC will riff some shit off the top of his head." And that is actually the preferred mode of play for many...

[...] If Stealth is a "roll until you fail" situation, then iterative probability means that you will fail and stealth is useless. If Stealth is a "roll a bunch of dice and succeed if you get middling results" situation, then iterative probability works in your favor. Okay, I do...

Fair enough. Call me a garden variety train conductor, but here's my take: Once the boxes have been checked (via hooks, bread crumbs, etc.) and the 2 paths are set in motion (via a series of player choices/decisions), they will cross in some fashion. (provided, of course, the players/PCs seemed to c...