The Gaming Den

Thanks for the feedback! :cool: I'll just jump right into it. Xd6 skills. I am somewhat partial to this as i’m focusing on a 3d6 game engine, but i strongly suspect the skill DC math for xd6 skill checks will not work out smoothly, especially when say a challenge must be done by multiple characters,...

For shits and giggles, I dug up all my old notes on this game and compiled them into a single PDF file. Didn't really edit anything, since I wanted to see how much I had worked on. My motivation's ground to a halt with the cessation of IRL tabletop goodness, but when I slapped it all together I real...

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:22 am

Supporting argument... countries shaped like dragons.

This is some high level deep thought right here.

Hey, man. Nothing wrong with ripping off Bionicle. Nothing at all.

Personally, I think the best option is to just start killing player characters. You have to fuck up really hard to die in something like 5e. The only time I've seen it happen is when enemies go for the kill after the PC is down, which is generally understood to be unsportsmanlike behavior anyway - o...

At this point, why not give let player characters and boss monsters either auto-succeed on a saving throw or nullify a critical hit through expending a meta resource? Like some kind of... fate point. But if they spend that and still fuck up, then they should just die. Sometimes players make mistakes...

"I like X" isn't much of a kickstarter for discussion as it naturally leads to the responses of, "I also like X", "I like Y" or "Okay" and the conversation is hard to develop from there. You say that, but the first two replies were "how dare you suggest ...

PL, what the hell are you babbling about? I'm a fan of the kind who dies so I can get all their cool shit and use it for their REAL purpose - making my penis feel big in a pretend fantasy game. Unlike real life, high-level NPCs in TTRPGs exist as a stepping stone for my story. But like real life, an...

That's fair. Most of my Brute investment is unnecessary, honestly. It fits the character but it isn't POWERGAMING hard enough. Gladiator would be more thematic and probably more effective, but with an 8 in my Key Ability Modifier, I'm not gonna pray that people fail my saving throws. At level 12 tha...

There is no price to me, though. It's just free power. I'll take it 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to fictionally die.

Have you ever straight up killed a defenseless opponent because you thought it was possible that they might sneak up and kill a party member while they were sleeping? One of those opponents that is 'too dangerous to let live'? Would you have felt compelled to do so if you KNEW that you COULDN'T get...

Sure... since my Incanter is a hodge-podge of abilities, even if his casting tradition is really cool I'm going to start with my Striker for coherency's sake. He is Yujiro Hanma , but an orc. He kills people for fun. That's it, that's his whole character. https://i.imgur.com/qlvy8dh.jpeg Grapp, the ...

Man, in the past year I've shat out nearly a dozen characters for 5e using this system and I haven't looked back. This has made 5e a lot more tolerable to play purely using the class system. My longest-running one has been an Incanter who's a squishy CON caster battling mana addiction at every step....

The real "issue", if you can call it that, is that some players are okay with their PCs dying and others are not. These viewpoints cannot coexist within the same game. Some people will never do anything to risk their character and others don't give a single flying fuck about changing Gorb ...

People will buy anything. It's just his job to find the suckers.

Is the problem that your character doesn't also die in a badass explosion that levels the playing field while leaving your allies completely unscathed?

Aren't the vast majority of settings, in fact, non-Tolkien?

But the cleric would starve to death without the fighter chewing her food and spitting it into her mouth!

Did what? Acquired new telekinetic powers? Probably happened in some alternate universe/timeline. Or dominated someone to carry him? Probably happens a lot. But usually he has a wheelchair/hover chair. No. I mean used his immense psychic power to just fling his body around like a ragdoll. That's wa...

The regular old fit and broadly competent Marvel heroes do start feeling kinda samey after a while despite having unique power sets and sometimes the fun happens when the psion gets strength drained to 0 and has to repeatedly fling himself back to town with telekinesis. Please tell me Professor X d...

The answer is the same today as it was sixteen years ago when we started saying Fighters should be allowed to have Nice Things: if the only justification for doing superhuman feats is "it's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit", then EVERY PC needs to have magic. Period. If the game setting ...

Most people don't have the teeth to handle real crunch anymore.

I (unfortunately) never played Tome but it enamored me back before I even knew what the Den was. I've been in love with the idea of scaling character options ever since. I wonder if when building a game from the ground-up with scaling mechanics like this - how do you hit that sweet spot between char...

I don't give a shit that this thread is a decade old and got necro'd by a bot. This is still surprisingly relevant even outside of the tabletop space. I was just spitballing ideas for an early-access video game that just recently introduced classes. They're bare bones in mechanics but mostly solid t...

nylyqi wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:17 am

The concept of a game mechanic has been around for years, but it has not yet been put into practice. It is time to change that.

Holy shit, big brain concepts comin' from the bot. TRUE game mechanics have never been tried. All the other game mechanics throughout history were just trial runs.