The Gaming Den

We're going to want the two standard kinds of scary mythological dogs - one that's huge and fierce, probably multiheaded and/or firebreathing, and one that's huge and black and ominous and howls and then you're doomed. We want at least one of a pegasus and a unicorn. We might also want a few demityp...

that's not how real hacking works at all. Really, you spend an awfully long time finding a flaw in a system that lets you run code at all, and then you package it up to spread itself or phone home or whatever, and get it into the wild somehow (attack sites, mass spam from a throwaway email, etc). Th...

name_here: Guarding major inter-city lines is impractical, especially if there's suburbs in the way. You don't even need legit cyber-ninjas, just some SINless dayworkers in neon green vests and hard hats with a backhoe. The neighbors are likely to notice that some generic construction-type people ar...

Vebyast keeps mentioning gengineers, which doesn't really jive with the concept of demihumans as magical beings. Also, genetically modified fantasy creatures seems like a much more transhumanist deal, or at least a much farther along transhumanist deal than a cyberpunk setting is expected to be. Am ...

I asked this a page or two back, and it seems to have gotten missed in the shuffle. How hereditary are metatypes? While this doesn't really change the overall feel of the world, it will make a big difference in the sort of metatype-based organizations there are (metatype-specific nations will really...

Yeah, that model totally works. I read Almaz as proposing a real Caliphate as a distributed nation, which is dumb for the reasons I pointed out. There are some cults from After Sundown that translate really well to megacorps, distributed organizations, and ideologies in a $PUNK future, and a couple ...

The problem with employing quantum computing as a future tech is that nobody really knows what version of the technology will end up scaling, and this makes a rather big difference in how fast and effective they'll be. The ansible is probably something we can get away with, but much more than that a...

Generally cool, but it conflicts with facebook/twitter tagging - my first guess at a meaning was a social networking specialist. It may also be too clever. Maybe jumper, from "jump in", or rem, contraction of remote?

What is an @Man supposed to be?

Also, given that the tech dwarf, elf and ogre are all angling towards the stereotypes, players are going to form their overall opinions of asura and deep ones from the tech iconics.

What do the metatype demographics look like at the micro level? Is stuff hereditary? if I'm a dwarf, how likely is it that my little brother is an elf?

I could see distributed nations, but really only for ideologies that are reasonably unified. Also, the more temporal power an ideology has as a political party, and the more frequently there are nationalist variants of it, the less likely it is to hold together as a distributed thing. While Scientol...

So, some more things we'll need in North America (pompous french word) Quebec: given how many people already take the possiblity of Quebec seceding seriously, they've got to end up as their own thing post-collapse. Some division of the northeastern metropolis into different chunks. (NY, Boston, Phil...

I don't think we want people distrusting science because the scientists were wrong on a huge global scale. I'd rather have people distrusting science because every new innovation that's going to usher us into a bright, shining future is just another way for the man to keep us down. The worry in punk...

If you're doing antarctic bugs, I'd rather see something along the lines of D&D's Gelugon with a bizarre, alien science. Probably lots of stuff that is a bit more retro-futuristic than the rest of the setting: hovercars and rayguns and big tape reels as the primary data storage mechanism (tape i...

Xanadu should clearly be a kingdom of twisted decadent molemen or something living beneath Mongolia.

What is 10KF? the tgdmb google search only gives one other cryptic reference to the acronym.

So, I'm in Seattle for a 12-week internship coding for amazon. Is there anything I should make sure to see/do/etc. before I leave?

(yes, I know about the Space Needle)

I wasn't saying that all the setting stuff needed to be frontloaded, but you do need enough high-level setting info for someone to have a general feel for the power and tech levels involved when they go into the classes section. Not moving the whole countries and regions description, just telling me...

This may be the fault of my environment (linux, need it for coding), but the first page is blank and the second only has a little bit of text. You really need to put some information about the world at the beginning of the book. If all I know is class names and joke quotes in section headers, that t...

So, while at college, I read: (several of these were discussed upthread, but I got out of the tgdmb habit) Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville. I don't really know how to feel about it. On the one hand, everything I read about the world was really cool, inspiring, or just made me want to know ...

And the Pentium 4 was a low point in real work done per clock cycle, being worse than the Pentium 3, the AMD chips around at the same time, and the more recent Core 2s and Core I*s. This was mostly for marketing reasons; the features they sacrificed that made it less efficient also let them give it ...

Song Of Heroes combined with compressed spell lists is going to let people drop some spells way early - you probably want to restrict it somehow so people aren't dropping Shapechange at level 7 because some crappy PRC gives it at Spell Level 4 and Character Level 17.

IIRC, sunlight is not insta-death for anything. It just reduces powers somewhat in a vaguely defined manner.

Frank had a fairly specific power schedule design in the old thread, but it doesn't appear to have been reposted. I'm pretty sure it included variable power for creatures on a Lunar power schedule depending on time of month and spike power available for Feeding power schedule creatures who drained a...

I don't know about Pitt, but CMU is shutting down half the academic buildings for an afternoon and evening because there's a G-20 dinner in a building just off campus. Unfortunately, they aren't the buildings that all my classes are actually in. Mostly, it means that the Fence has been taken over by...