The Gaming Den

Excatly, the target audience is not a certain age group, despite what a knee-jerk supporter might say, it's a certain style of play. Yes, Carebears can be in a hardcore snuff porn flick...but I can respect those that might say such a thing "isn't really Carebear", even if the movie actuall...

Yes, high level DnD4.0 rules don't make any sense in a Dark Sun-type world. So, no end game. There's no beginning game, either. Low level DnD4.0 rules don't make any sense on Athas. Scarce resources? By level 2, a cleric obviates the need for food and water. Granted, that's only clerics, but in a wo...

I was going to say "pure gibberish", but I think Koba said it better.

Gee whiz, I thought literally everything was core. Can you tell me when/where it was announced that three particular books was Core-dly Core? Considering how much was messed up in these allegedly Core-dly Core books, that's kinda bizarre to assume nobody would look into the non-Coredly, but still Co...

Hey, just went there and added my own.

But not for a million years, since that would be too short!

I have a major 'sports' presence, too, though I can't claim to have done anything significant sports related since before the internet existed....it found lots and lots of obscure stuff I did ages ago, though.

I almost think someone's hacked TD's account to make him look stupid or something; he was one of the few Gleemaxians that said relevant things, but this, and his insistence in the face of all rationality on the claim that 'hundreds of thousands means more than a million' kinda makes me wonder if he'...

Awesome idea, RC2, about the 'whack-a-mole' effect from healing downed characters. I might just include a "healing from 0' gives a 'stunned, save ends' effect as a houserule...might make it less goofy. And, TD, honest, most of what you've 'replied' is not a counter-argument. Can you try a real ...

Except, of course, where it doesn't. What the hell does that mean? Sure, there are some abilities like 'gain an extra point of attack per enemy within 10 squares of you', but they're the exception, not the rule. Your party isn't hurt more by the level 14 dragon breathing fire on everyone in a four-...

Except, of course, where it doesn't. In fact, I'm putting together a long piece on how many monster abilities vary dramatically depending on party size, and offer crude, minimal suggestions for how GMs can adjust for that.

The cool thing about RuneQuest is the character development system--only skills you actually successfully use can increase. As your character is pretty much defined by dozens of skills, you're strongly motivated to use those skills in every way possible (and they're narrow skills, unlike DnD4.0, so ...

I do have a version of skill challenges that sort of works (still requires some ad hoc BSing on my part every time, though), although half the players still hate when it's skill challenge time, and half the players (nonidentical) cringe when someone with a +7 rolls a skill instead of the guy with t...

I can certainly feel for you dealing with the wolfpack tactics, although what you see here doesn't come close to matching Gleemax, where I believe such tactics were perfected, or RPGnet, where the wolfpack is kin with the mods. And, after a year of tweaking and houseruling and modifying, I do have a...

I tried it for a while, but it gets boring very quickly. Its been around for ages though, I"m not really sure how it is you're just finding it. IIRC it was basically a 4th edition promotion. Its not meant to be "real" D&D. Just like DnD4.0, then. Thank you, thank you, I'll be her...

Heh, if it's not really D&D, then it suits the paradigms of DnD4.0.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Or vote, either, not that I use facebook.

Yeah, I thought that, too, but there's little reason to believe that diary will 'muck up' the peace, at least in my opinion. I mean, we have much stronger evidence of comparably damaging 'conspiracy theories' pop up all the time, and such gets ignored and buried quite easily. And, since the mucking ...

I'm guessing you mean Rorschach? I don't see anyone else having much of a code (well, Ozymandias doesn't kill things, but he kinda breaks that in a colossal way). Still, Rorschach is flat out insane, and his adherence to a code doesn't really screw anyone else but himself (and, I'm pretty sure his c...

Yes, this one is a major puzzler...Dark Sun was a return to 'hard core' style gaming, while DnD4.0 is all about running away-in-shrieking-little-girl style from that.

Weird thing is, nobody at GenCon seemed to really care, I didn't even realize until I got online that this was the 'big news'.

In Camelot (Lerner and Loew, the opera, sorry bad with names), King Arthur pretty much screws things up with adherence to All Are Equal Before The Law, rather than simply overlooking the affair between Launcelot and Guinevere (Law says some executions-type stuff is what should happen).

So, I reckon this is the stickied thread...is there an official meeting place/time?

I actually decided at near last minute to flap up here, and am now sitting in my hotel room, wondering what the situation will be like tomorrow. This is my first WizKids-free Gencon since they first existed, and with Dungeons and Dragons thoroughly sodomized-murdered-and-body-dumped, and its face gl...

Indeed, Sleep isn't an "I win" spell against high level encounters...but as a level 1 spell, it's an "I win" against level 1 encounters, which sure beats MM at that level.

For Lewis Carrol fans.

Sit on the chair and order everyone to "Behave as though stunned!"

Your class should be defined by your character at the moment. I believe this would be the absolute most difficult to implement in a tabletop RPG. A player having reasonable mastery of the three or so classes, minimum, necessary to make this goal an arguable reality is alot to ask, unless some class...