The Gaming Den

I lurked a long time before I posted anything here, and I knew when I did that I was going to have to just outright ignore a lot of people judging from what I'd seen before. Kaelik was on that list along with Frank, of course (and judging from the remarks I've seen elsewhere here to the effect that ...

That's ad hominem. Thanks for the example. This is a new low for the internet. I really expect people to cry ad hominem every time they are insulted, regardless of whether or not it is, but really. The two essential qualities of an ad hominem is 1) insult, 2) saying someone is wrong about something...

I suggest that in the future, if you do not know what a word means, you refrain from offering an opinion on the quality of something that uses that word as an adjective or noun in the name. (Or probably adverb, and maybe even verb). So for example, you should probably not comment on the quality of ...

I think it's fair for me to decide I'm not going to put up with someone being an asshole, whether they're insulting me or my position. I'll concede that I may have been a little predisposed to thinking Frank's a prick before I posted here, but that wouldn't make me wrong to decide not to take shit f...

Even if in 3.5 a book somewhere gives you a hard and fast DC for a skill check, a reasonable DM--not even a spectacular one, but just one that isn't asleep at the screen--will from time to time change the DC. So in your games, sometimes your PCs with +0 jump can jump over 2 inch tall fences and som...

I don't know why you spent so much energy typing up a response if you didn't want to have a conversation. Oh! Right, that's like what I said before, about Frank? Right? So you're mocking me and being clever. And that's some kind of coda on your big slam, or something? Is that how it works? Is there...

Xhieron, you're using way too many words to not make your point and fail to rebut the main criticism, that rules to set guidelines are better than no rules with no guidelines. Your argument that was taken to task was that you are still [implied] equally at the mercy of your peers, which is not the ...

So, is getting insulted by Frank the way you guys baptize people here? I kind of got the impression earlier that that might be the case, and it really makes me feel like I kind of belong. That said, it also looked like the etiquette was to just grin, bear it, and try to engage with Frank in the hope...

My only objection to the original premise is essentially the same Bears raised, to wit, that whether your guidelines are good, bad, or nonexistent, you still have anything you have at the kindly mercy of your DM and the friendly agreement of your fellow players not to flip the table or laugh you out...

I though protip for witches was to be a shaman instead. This is the impression I've gotten as well. Shaman miss out on Hair and Ice Tomb (only because Slumber is too good not to take), but otherwise can do almost everything witches can do and often better in addition to their own suite of toys, plu...

Thanks for the insight, guys. I had to run off to tend to a crying toddler before so I had to cut it a little short. Here's the missing info. The character will be starting with five character levels in whatever configuration I want. He'll be a tiefling because he's the same character for continuity...

So, two weeks later, I'm caught up. I kind of feel like I know you guys for as much time as I've spent reading this thread, almost in the same way that a person in the crowd feels like they know a musician on stage or a comedian doing standup. So hi. I'm not a refugee or a newly enlightened holdout,...