The Gaming Den

But we don't have any Elf/Orc crossbreeds because they serve no narrative purpose . The first fantasy character I ever sought to play with a group was literally half-elf, half-orc. And, as a child, the very first time I was confronted with the fact that orcs didn’t have hybrid examples with elves w...

Events were utterly, utterly broken. Inheritance, Imperial Gift, Evil Feeds, and Desperate Measures — my brain just summoned these cards out of my memory and I haven’t thought about them for years. Oh, and Return of Fu Leng a few expansions later. You could Just Win if you flipped these. Folks, we’r...

Card Game Decadence. In the original card game there weren't enough cards to make a mono-Clan deck. {. . .} So the card game became much friendlier to players who made mono-clan decks, but also the game designers got increasingly belligerent about players playing multi-clan decks - going so far as ...

Is there some kind of ideal or iconic "Rogue + Cleric" class? There are prestige classes that smoosh Rogue and Cleric but I don’t think I’d call them iconic . The sole base class that combines some of their elements is the Savant, the class you forgot existed because its opening gambit is...

The potential problem with that is that animal-people are all going to end up feeling very similar. Because the truth is that animals and people aren't very different to begin with; there's only so many times you can make something more perceptive or slightly stronger or slightly faster or slightly...

sticking a monkey tail on an otherwise human character does not an animal person make I was going to say something snarky about humans being technically animals already, but that got me thinking. Couldn't you just take a system you like that has humans or humanoids and tweak/rename them? Orcs are m...

The standard melee combo is Beastmorph Vivisectionist (which is why it's not PFS legal): the epitome of better-than-a-standard-rogue. Ectoplasm Master fits in there, too, and is a personal favorite since it grants undead-raising, which is one of the best downtime pursuits outside of crafting. Consul...