The Gaming Den

I don't know what lies you are quoting, A 2011 report from the UNHCR. Known source of dirty filthy inhuman lies that lot. And I mean really the sheer dishonesty, referring to the mere united nations refugee agency reports for information on refugees internationally! Maybe they mean the percentage o...

And it's not about "what some racist told me", it's stuff in the news. Really now. "Stuff in the news". You know. I can watch all kinds of "stuff in the news". It doesn't make it a fucking major public policy issue. All sorts of content free racist beat ups can in fact...

You actually literally pulled the "[They] eat [animal I don't eat] and slaughter it in unhygenic and primitive ways! And they MIGHT be doing so just now RIGHT BEHIND ME! Some other racist dumb fuck told me so!" Could you be any more racist if you picked Chinese, dogs, and restaurants inst...

You're already doing the same thing that was done here - trying to claim every problem is the racist native's fault. That's simply wrong. Whenever different cultures mingle, there will be some problems simply because of misunderstandings, but also because of different values. Things get compounded w...

Well, hundreds (or thousands) of people die each year trying to reach Spain and Italy from North Africa. The EU spends billions on border defense trying to hold them back. The German conservatives rant about bulgarians and romanians trying to immigrate into their social security. Right-Wing Le Pen m...

The devs explicitely want the PCs to be humble(d). I assume they think that high level PCs being proud and not subservient is wrong.

They voted to return to immigration quotas. Though no exact number was given - most bandied around number was "40-45'000 per year", which would mean half the current rate, about 0,5% of the population, and about 4 to 5 times the projected maximum number of immigrants per year that was expe...

The people in the EU "accept" such things because they do not have a choice. Whenever the possibility of a state having its citizen vote on a EU treaty comes up the politicians go all out to avoid it - or, if it still happens and is not aceptable, repeat it until it comes out "right&q...

There's some hemming and hawing about why elves tend to be richer - I personally liked it when Sargent & Gasciogne admitted in The London Sourcebook that royals just cribbed-death'd any orks or trolls that came out, which is part of the reason the UK peerage has more elves than other metatypes....

Trolls with bows the best fighting force? Lol. Any modern military could show them why cavalry went out of use long ago.

It's slightly more structured than what I consider a bullshit 'you'll level when I feel like you'll level.' Which given the Den's utter hatred for relying on a fair and impartial DM for anything else strikes me as a very odd position. As I understand, and with my group, it's "you level when yo...

All my PbP games are solo games, for the reasons Koumei mentioned. And it also allows more exotic concepts and backgrounds for characters to work well. And finally, no balance problems within the party. I usually tell the player to simply make the character he wants to play, not the character that w...

Solo adventures can really focus on stuff you usually do skip over some, since it splits the party. No need to cut scenes short, no need to juggle background story hooks with the adventure arc hooks, you can tailor the game to one character.

Didn't Greenwood himself say his Chosen of Mystra were not quite sane anymore? One might not bother a man with such a reputation, and a "trespassers will be polymorphed" sign on his lawn with every problem.

Again -- if some super-bad-ass is your neighbour, it's hard to claim that you heard about trouble in the neighbourhood and he didn't. Of course, you could always go with "he heard about it and he doesn't give a shit", but why would anyone want to live around bad-ass people (who presumably...

Again -- if some super-bad-ass is your neighbour, it's hard to claim that you heard about trouble in the neighbourhood and he didn't. Of course, you could always go with "he heard about it and he doesn't give a shit", but why would anyone want to live around bad-ass people (who presumably...

I think we had this conversation with Fuchs, previously. I don't recall it ending very well. But since then, I've learned that the US still uses checks because our banking system is slightly different than Europe's. Wikipedia has more on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank http://en....

If advancement is done by levels when the group agrees to advance, then there's no problem with XP farming since there won't be any xp in the game.

The problem is that social encounters don't have equal gains. There's usually simply an aggressor and a defender. If a beggar approaches you on the street, the beggar has everything to gain and the other guy just gains the ability to send the beggar away. Even if the beggar loses, he just moves on ...

PhoneLobster wrote:

Koumei wrote:And any given game can have limits of what Socialing people does, too

You've apparently found a solution to "Here hold my mystery bag" then?

I'd pick DM resp. player discretion for such limits.

[quote="Starmaker]Fuchs, you're a strawmanning idiot. No one's saying it should be impossible for NPCs to lie, negotiate or seduce, I'm saying the PCs should be the ones to decide whether a negotiation directed at them succeeds or not, because they are the protagonists and they are at a HUGE in...

If you are worried about the GM crossing lines you don't want crossed, that's what talking to him is for. "I don't like losing all my stuff, please don't run such adventures" works far better than preemptively killing all NPCs that might be conmen out to steal your stuff, or making it impo...

Are there any unions that offer free legal help? Or other similar organizations? Magazines or tv programs that focus on such stuff?

Honestly, it's even easier than that. Yes, there are certain offenders like Halaster and Elminster. But if you read the setting books, every guildhouse or anime club has a small statblock for the leader, who is typically something like Wizard 15/Archmage 10/Seeker of the Past 5. So they just popula...