The Gaming Den

I confess, I'm mostly ambivalent toward the presence or absence of such a filter, so long as the filtered dictionary isn't too large (defined in an entirely arbitrary way, by me). Some people may sometimes find it easier to rely on a slew of unimaginative curses rather than address whatever topic is...

I think magic users should be able to heal (or buff in general), control battlefield conditions, or gain important information better than non-casters. Non-casters, then, would interact socially, deal damage, and make information actionable. This might just be me, but I think that making social int...

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I must confess, I haven't played Arkham Horror, but I sure want to play this. Good stuff, Frank. Although I do miss Seattle just a bit.

Gelare, you could accomplish the same thing by being able to sell it back to the company, who could then sell that piece of ownership to whoever they wanted. Ownership rolls, debt contracts, and wealth transfers are more transparent and much harder to hide. As long as there is some enforced process...

It's essentially just a bond, or even one of those CD bank accounts. Which means that when someone sells it to someone else, they are trading in money . Person A is selling a bank account to Person B, when neither one of them actually knows what the exact contents of the bank account are. That's ba...

[*] The Stock Market? How about we eliminate it? All those guys who make their money facilitating gambling on the moment by moment perceived value of companies to other gamblers, how about we classify that shit as the anti-productive gambling that it is and just eliminate it from the economy altoge...

Talisman wrote:[*]All class abilities are available as feats except spellcasting. And barbarian rage, because that's overpowered.

...animal companion?

Pedestrians should have the right of way on most surface streets. Pedestrians do have the right of way on all surface streets in some places. I believe that in Virginia, pedestrians always have the right of way, all the time, ever, even if there is no crosswalk. This is to make sure that drivers ha...

Judging__Eagle wrote:Sinfest does not update 7 days a week.

Only schlockmercenary does that. I think that it's the only comic that does that.

What about Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal?

Ugh, Heroes. I still watch it for some silly reason - maybe I still misguidedly hope that the writers will come to their senses - but man, I hate virtually all of the characters. Especially Claire, whom I really despise as a whiny, stupid bitch, and who has somehow become one of the main (possibly e...

Yeah, you need to come up with a sophisticated and difficult to game measure of 'real wealth' possibly with some sort of weighted mean - you could choice to weight up the poor and weight down the rich for example. Even that is nigh-useless, because the fact is, Most senators would work for a dollar...

weapons of legacy never much appealed to me, like most of the other overly complicated shit they churned out towards the end, but each character is getting a free WoL, so... I'll deal with it. In all honesty, you'd be better off selling the weapon (or simply setting it on fire) than you would be by...

Yeah, Weapons of Legacy is balls. Maybe there's one or two items in the book that Wizards forgot to nerf the heck out of, but really, they're just awful. If you're into the masochism thing, you can always just buy an intelligent weapon with the gold you would have spent on those idiotic rituals that...

Most senators would work for a dollar a day if they could figure out how to survive their 6 year term. The golden parachute waiting any of them who leave office is larger than any government paycheck would ever be. Congressional salaries are a convenient thing to bitch about, but they don't even ma...

In my opinion, politicians (and civil servants?) salaries, and more importantly retirement benefits, should be linked to median incomes, or mean incomes excluding the top 10% wealthiest of the population, or counting them at half weight or something. Why not modal income? The idea of making politic...

Really, though, the problem in part is this: in DND, a fight takes 30 seconds. Really. That's even the target point. If rounds were longer it'd be less stupid , though i like resource conservation stratagy. Dude, Shadowrun. Four initiative passes crammed into three-second rounds. Once you reach the...

So who, exactly, are you saying should feel guilty about this? I think the idea is that we should feel guilty because we're human, not because we're personally at fault. Thanks for trying to clear that up, but I'm still a bit confused. Is guilt the proper emotion to feel toward that? I wasn't alive...

Eh, Beast Boy was always a wuss, ever since he botched that Terra situation. Cyborg was a little better. Of course, I'll never understand why Raven got an entire season of fanservice.

Fun fact: Iceland recently collapsed. Like, all of it. The country. The three banks that manage all of the nation's wealth were leveraged for some ridiculous amount like ten times the GDP, and it came crashing down on them in a major way. That probably has something to do with it.

Lago, I have to hope that I'm misunderstanding your point, because if I'm not, it's really just the dumbest shit I've ever heard. You said this: Right now, I support making history less Eurocentric and whitewashing of some really extreme villainy our (white) heroes have done to them. Which is basica...

I, personally, had nothing to do with the European colonists murdering the Native Americans and driving them out of their ancestral lands. I think it was a heinous thing to do, but the fact that I happen to be of European extraction does not mean I should be held accountable for their crimes. There...

If the Kachinas are unable to breathe while not moving, how do they sleep?

Sounds potentially promising to me as well, although I share IGTN's concerns about people getting pushed off the RNG. If the passive bonuses go to, say, damage instead of to-hit, the problem isn't as bad, but then you might not sufficiently care about those bonuses to hold off on using your mega abi...

It's an old style mathematics which forgets that spreadsheets have existed for the last thirty years and that very few businesses need this sort of listing, being able to create the reports by computer. -Crissa This. I thoroughly enjoyed calc, but accounting is just dismal, tedious drudgery. You po...