The Gaming Den

The concept of "spell points" as they described them isn't horrible. The name is irredeemable and needs to change.

I'm going to be running a Splinter game pretty soon. While the Splinter-side rules check out and make sense, I'm baffled by the core mechanic for Earth-side stuff, at least for Attribute checks. It's stated that a human average Attribute is 3, but: To make an Attribute Check, roll 2d6. If the result...

RobbyPants wrote:Is TitaniumDragon the "hundred of thousands > millions" guy?

The what guy?

These encounters seem pretty wild, thematically. Most encounters I've seen or run have groups of creatures that are thematically similar or paired in some way, like goblins with worgs, earth elementals with animated statues, groups of assorted bullshit fey, the evil wizard's demon servitors, etc. En...

Besides the 4chan-grade misogyny and possibly racism, nerd gatekeeping is also stupid because it assumes that between the masses of normies there won't be more people as hardcore as the original users. Possible racism? It literally says that things start going wrong as soon as a "brown" s...

In PF2 "Flanked" is a condition you have when there are enemies in a flanking position around you, and it gives you a -2 penalty to AC (or attackers a +2 bonus to hit... I don't remember and it doesn't make a difference). It doesn't go away until they're no longer there. Even creatures tha...

There are a lot of baffling things in that announcement, but directly lifting proficiency bonuses from 5e has got to be one of the weirdest.

Has anyone here played Kingdom Come: Deliverance? The gameplay I've watched makes it look really generic and boring (and with more bugs than a Bethesda title), but it's everywhere and I feel like I'm missing something.

Makes me wonder, how thoroughly should a monster be playtested? Can you just eyeball it, or should you run it against typical parties a couple of times and see what happens? Assuming there is such a thing as a typical party. Most of the time required to do that would be devoted to setting up "...

So... why do people worship evil gods then? Like, even if you want to have a lawful and organized society, what's the benefit of choosing Asmodeus over Abadar? The Petitioner that gets made out of your soul is not meaningfully "you." It doesn't remember or care about any of the people or ...

Yeah, pretty much, though each place is terrible for its own slightly different reasons. Hell gets you tortured for "an eternity", except that if you're worthy and can bear it you turn into a devil instead, and if you aren't you got turned into a literal hell brick. So not really an eterni...

The idea for druids is usually to get the wild property on their armor (dragon hide plate, at the top end). It doesn't really matter whether they're proficient in the armor or not, or what its max Dex bonus is, since it fucks off into the ether when they shapeshift anyway. It's dickery with specific...

Shifter's Edge is right. The one in the book is pretty weird. It requires Weapon Finesse and specifically the Shifter Claws class feature, and adds your shifter level to the damage of your attacks with them but only when you're using Weapon Finesse to determine your attack bonus. What Paizo apparent...

A bow in Starfinder is a level 1 Special weapon that does 1d6 damage at a 60' range increment. It costs 255 credits (you start with 1,000 credits, and yes they're actually called credits). Bows don't have the Analog or Archaic properties, and they don't add Strength to damage, so presumably they're ...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff (the podcast from Ken Hite and Robin D. Laws) recently addressed this... and their conclusion was that 5e has been a smashing success. Really, I'm not sure why this thread is stickied. This thread isn't stickied. And 5e blows ass and definitely hasn't rebooted D&D...

I'm pretty sure what Frank's getting at is that when the police tell you to disperse, and you refuse, they're obviously going to use force to make you disperse. They're not going to shrug and leave. If you resist being forced to disperse... that's a fight, isn't it?

Dom5 is coming out in November (probably) and the teaser page doesn't mention anything about diplomacy, so it seems like it was a shrewd bet.

Idle games seem like the purest, most cynical possible form of 'videogames as an addiction'. Minimal interaction, empty reward, wait for brain to reset. Minimal interaction, empty reward, wait for brain to reset. It doesn't exactly inspire me with hope for the fate of mankind to see how easily the ...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/62769 ... en_Realms/

A D&D 5e idle game. I'm baffled, what reason does this possibly have to exist?

It's surprisingly dry for ostensibly being a chapter about imagining wacky monsters and giving them stats. Most of the pages just have long tables or sidebars on them, with occasional art of a single monster, like this weird-ass harpy. https://i.gyazo.com/d2afecaac3ed20f52ae976d9b5e1fc3e.png Or this...

"What useful purpose does it fulfill" isn't really a question I can answer. I'm pretty sure it just doesn't, looking at it further. I think at best it can serve as a warning for what not to do with a monster generator. Like, right out of the gate when you pick a creature type, none of the ...

It seems like an attempt at testing the waters for a monster creation system in a new edition. It has a lot of suspicious similarities with how monsters now apparently work in Starfinder (D&D but in space, basically), which comes out next month. Paizo released a preview PDF a few days ago called...

Has anyone done a review of Unchained's "Simple Monster Creation" system? It's available in PRD (everything is split on 10 different pages) or d20PFSRD (everything's on one massive page) flavors. I'm having a difficult time articulating exactly what seems so wrong about the whole thing to ...

If they can pull it off, the game they describe sounds neat. They're being incredibly ambitious with content though, if you read their update on character building and difficulty : Character classes must not chain you to a certain concept, but provide you with new ideas, and that can only be made po...

There's a vanishingly tiny chance one specific type of them lands deep slumber on a party and they all die to coup de graces? Dunno. Supposedly Paizo uses a giant spreadsheet to calculate all their monster stats, but either their sheet sucks or it doesn't exist considering how often they publish stu...