The Gaming Den

As someone who absolutely loves Ars Magica... yeah the 5th edition core is a bit of a train wreck

I tried placing Candle flame at Minor Power 2-3 but... well if you do the exponential math that gets pretty crazy pretty quickly. I wanted to preserve more range than that allowed.

2^(7-1) = 64 and 2^(8-1) = 128, which seems to put a candle flame of 80 watts in the range of minor power 7? Sorry about the 1 in 99, you were right, it should be 9999 in 10000. That was an artifact of an earlier less granular power rating system where I had Minor Talents between normal people and T...

Hey all, this my first time posting a game I've tried to make. I've got about 40 pages of notes trying to make the math of the system make sense before I start actually making content for the game. Here's the write up so far. Strange Magic is a game about a world awash with and transformed by Magic,...

Does the den think that PbtA games are salvageable? I see an increasing number of games, like Monster of the Week, that look like games I really want to play, but I can't unsee the whole quantum bears aspect of the system. I ran an aborted campaign of Blades in the Dark which the players really like...

Is the board game Roll Player what you are asking for? It's literally a board game about creating characters for a role playing game without the role playing game, though it does involve a lot of dice rolling. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169426/roll-player For pure optimization I don't know ...

This looks awesome. I can't really comment on the rules provided constructively, though I think they look great. Small setting quibble: I think you shouldn't have atlantis literally falling into the atlantic. I suspect that that would eject water at well over escape velocity, so the resulting 'waves...

Ok so I'm going to preface this comment by saying that I don't even like D&D that much, because I don't want to be accused of being a shill. I'm just interested in the RPG industry and by the question posed by this thread. It seems like one of you posted a comment about how you personally wouldn...

I've been asking at gaming stores whether 5th edition is selling well, and so far everyone I've asked (yes n = only 2) has said that it is in fact selling well. Does anyone know if we can get concrete numbers yet on how it is doing?