The Gaming Den

Instead, they made a new test, looking at the errors of the last one... I thought they just threw out the test and hand-picked the promotions. Or was this new test developed between then and the lawsuit? mean-liar: Lawsuits really aren't their only problem. They also have to worry about EEOC compla...

You know, to a certain extent, I can sympathize with Kaelik's objections. Really, I'm not sure why you need to bother distinguishing between area effects and mulitiple-target effects in an NPS. Basically, your spell effect would allow you to pick a certain number of targets, and area vs. targets can...

Explanation of the District Court's Reasoning in the original case . Basically, you're right that the fear of litigation is a function of the way the EEOC interprets and enforces the law, rather than the law itself. Now, having not read the full decision, I would like to know if SCOTUS actually str...

And if you want to give everyone at the outset of the blast improved evasion against fireball for no other reason then that they are at the outset of the blast, you want a different fireball spell, not a different way of targeting. And that may be perfectly acceptable for Catharz's purposes. I don'...

FrankTrollman wrote:Why are people talking about Energy Substitution as if it were exciting or revolutionary?

-Username17

I think it says more about the blandness and rigidity of 4e than it does about people.

Oh, true, the "Punch him" thing is just bad form - if it were "obviously they're joking" then it'd be a bit of a laugh. Except they're not. They're seriously suggesting players should punch each other. As well as using that to cover their own bad design. Are you serious? If so, ...

Frank's business plan makes a lot of sense, though I'm not sure that A material shouldn't be on something more like a once per two months schedule, especially given WotC's skill level.

I hate Mythbusters. Precisely because they're always claiming something can or cannot be done based on some experimentish-like action that's not the same as what they're supposedly trying to copy. The fact that they're considered a legit source of "proof" is just pathetic. Indeed. They've...

Did FATAL ever make it to a final version? I thought it was permanently stuck in Pathfinder-style beta.

It's not quite that long for corporations. I think (but don't quote me on it) that corporate copyrights last for 28 years or 56 years if renewed. This game would still be covered, though.

I think we're running into the conflicting meanings of "average" here. Some people are probably using average to mean "the median of the bell curve."

But if you want a firemage, all you have to do is reflavor existing powers and say they do fire damage (even if the game mechanics say they do cold damage--wait, new power source: cold fire! Brilliant!) Besides, the fire mage is on its way in Arcane Power 3. What's your problem?

Actually, I think the biggest flaw in the paper (something MartinHarper alluded to) is that the guy mistakes a PvP zone designation for a natural law. Really, that was just a declaration of the owners of the game, not backed up by any penalty for teaming up with the other side. If the developers wan...

Well, if you don't think there are some christians trying to take over... Let me show you some christians taking over. -Crissa They're trying to take over our history with this whole "America was founded on Christianity" bullshit. And actually, since people used Biblical passages to justi...

Fuck. It was in interesting evening, and the game was very different to anything I’ve played before, with a lot of table space taken up by character sheets, action and ability cards , dice etc. It felt like a strange hybrid of board game and roleplaying game at first, but once the notions of the ne...

You know, as a CoH/V outsider myself, I have a question about this PvP area? How big is it? Is there room for some of this non-PvP activity to take place relatively far away from the pillboxes? If so, the other players may have something of a case against Twixt. After all, the minigame objective is ...

...liberal arts majors who took Math for Dummies 101 for their gen-ed requirement. Since those are the people who would most be attracted to rules-lite systems, 3d6 is probably a bad idea for those games. Didn't oWoD have a similar concern in its resolution system, obtuse probability? When the syst...

A_W: thank you for correcting me. It seems I was wrong. Looking at more documentation, it seems more set towards being a proprietary software with the base usage being free. As far as I know, the user still has the ability to modify the source code, and other people can make their own Ubuntu deriva...

Fox and Friends' host Brian Kilmeade[/url]]...we [Americans] keep marrying other species... I guess he's never heard of hybrid vigor. -Crissa And for anybody who didn't click the link, Kilmeade thinks Italians and Irish (or Americans descended from those two groups) are different species. As for th...

It's those methods and his targets that made him hated, not the fact that he was "cheap" and teleported enemies to where they could die. Not really. The hatred started when he had done nothing but use his teleport foe power effectively. He even quotes those chat logs. Yes, they're doing i...

I don't buy PL's blanket hatred of bell curves in all systems, but he has a point about their effect on transparency, especially in a game targeted toward liberal arts majors who took Math for Dummies 101 for their gen-ed requirement. Since those are the people who would most be attracted to rules-l...

Oh yes, RoHoWa was really amusing. I believe we concluded that one Asian teamed with a number of Jews equal to the party size were unstoppable (well, assuming the Jews had enough money; but I'm not sure there were any rules for money in the game). FATAL has to win the prize for bringing together the...

Not to mention the fact that confirming that it's possible for a lava lamp to kill someone isn't the same as confirming that that did happen.

WHich makes me suspicious of Canonical the owner company for using the Ubuntu Trademark which as far as I remember is under the GNU licensing to make a proprietary product. Not quite . They have an extensive list of permitted usage of the trademarks but reserve the right to get after you for usage ...

...but the implementation of the failure mechanics is pretty bad. I agree. Your odds of getting at least one 4 on 3d4 is about 58%. Not bad as a floor, but if you almost never get more than a d4, or if the DM requires extra successes.... And having a 75% chance of a negative complication on most of...