The Gaming Den

I have found this website, which appears to be run by the rare people who are at least as interested in game books as this subforum. It provides logging for gamebook playthroughs and renders the logs into fancy looking graphs. The full text of some forum favorites - Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Fore...

I am inspired to compare this to a few recent RPGs. Outgunned is the new hotness in action RPGs. It leans heavily on narrative positioning to give players agency and otherwise resembles an elaborate dice rolling game with no choices, but it looks like it hits tropes way better than this. At least it...

Thanks! This was great. I assume the other half of the DNA bomb was on the other side of the ship, and that most of the fun toys (Hunter seeker, booster, spider bit, EMP shielding) were at the armory.

Use the jump jets

We only have one use of the EMP. I prefer to save it for the end game. I vote to engage in battle and hope Volos has our back.

Get the lightning cannon!

I hope to have my cake and eat it too, despite the kaiju carnage it will surely provoke.

I pick the EMP (half vote)

Though I think the Raijin would bring me more joy over the course of the game, the EMP sound like too good an end of game trump card.

Distress signal, that seems noble.

Gojira, then enter the ship.

I definitely want to see this keep going even though I'll post intermittently at best. I'm ok with Dead's allocation, though I might have gone even more resurrection heavy since we seem to be winning flights handily.

Related: I ran a campaign where clerics were essentially technicians who knew the rituals to appear a large number of essentially uncaring deities. It was partially inspired by the blog post below, which I found a nest introduction to historical polytheism. One faction was a big, colonialist empire ...

Yeah, I've read this discussion on rpg.net and RPG pub, but haven't deemed it worthwhile to wade into semi explosive threads. The thing I like most about The Gaming Den is the ethos that a rule can be wrong or bad, and I'm disappointed that the summary of the Den didn't give that idea a fair shake. ...

Ashes Without Number is for post apocalypses, but it skews a bit Western and includes a cowboy class. If you ignore the mutations I think there are good vibes there. I've also heard praise for Weird Frontiers, but can't vouch for it; things get pretty wooly as you venture deep into OSR knockoffs.

I've flirted with Savage Worlds on and off for a decade, and the games I've run have half been terrible and half been awesome. So I have opinions! The first section Any Time, Any Place emphasizes that these rules are GENERIC - they can be used in any genre and any setting. The fanbase, and perhaps t...

Sinless is a Shadowrun clone that can't avoid tripping over its own two feet, but the central mechanic in the downtime phase is controlling assets that you tap to further your interests. Tapping the assets can generate complications, which in turn spawn heists for your gang of criminals to undertak...

You ever looked at Panic At The Dojo? It’s an indie rpg made to emulate 90’s arcade fighters like street fighter and mortal Kombat. I know it’s not the same thing as xianxia, but there’s a lot of conceptual crossover. Only modestly on topic, but I want to point out that the theming on Panic at the ...

The best pitch I've heard for fixing the World's Largest Dungeon's plot is changing the purpose of the dungeon to be a zoo (made by an eccentric wizard or something). That explains the one-of-everything design, the insane imported biomes, and if you squint, the tiny localized scuffles look like enco...

2) Are there any systems out there that do light V heavy attacks well? Meaning both are valid life choices. I think Nimble 2 does this pretty well. This is my preferred 5e replacement at this point (though Shadow of the weird wizard is still in the running). https://nimblerpg.com/pages/nimble-2 The...

Next up - Heroic Careers, so pragma, feel free to share your thoughts. Will do! And you've actually set me up expertly with the following quote: They are not made equally. ... Pretty much you want your career to be Batman - to be able to say that your background gives you all the skills that you co...

Hooray! Saving me the trouble of reading this on my own. I have some opinions about the career system (informed by a similar system in Shadow of the Weird Wizard) when you get to it.

I've also mentioned that I'm working on a Western RPG, and there are some things about Westerns that don't necessarily lend themselves to the d20 system. There were times I thought that making a pirate-RPG would be easier; guns aren't quite as important in the setting, so swinging a cutlass is stil...

Thanks for the review, Dead! This seems hopelessly baroque, but I do like some of the bits that simulate the psychology of gunfights: stare downs and flinches are iconic genre first.

What is the sinful game? Inquiring minds want to avoid it!

I've played a bunch of 5e and I'm not updating to 5.5, but that's mostly because I've gotten bored of the system and a few quality of life changes aren't going to change that for me. The quality of life changes to the classes seem mostly good -- ranger looks more fun out of the box, monk is a compet...

I lean towards curioser and curiouser, again assuming that it sometimes produces a good result and the author wants you to unload ammo at the end.