The Gaming Den

Collecting ingredients is the kind of lizard brain fun I enjoy in video games and find abhorrent in table top games. A video game at least has some inventory management built in. If I have to make and maintain a filtered spreadsheet for a ttrpg then it can fuck right off. If the rest of the table ha...

My understanding is that RPG mechanics aren’t patented. Usually you can pick the random number generation methods that seem appropriate for the kind of distribution you desire. I am always super squeamish about glitzy new systems because almost invariably their inventors have zero fuckin clue how ma...

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Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:16 am

What the fuck? I know it’s a meme at this point that you are always wrong, but goddamn. Like every single thing. Dump your cache and cookies and start getting information elsewhere. It can only be an improvement.

For what it's worth, Ukraine banned the then third largest party after then 2014 coup. Ukraine's "democracy" chops have always been mostly fake. I think the situation is complicated for democracy when your neighboring country is actively interfering in elections and attempting to set up q...

Does a country that is occupied and in a daily struggle for its very existence get the luxury of having an opposition government? Martial law is scary because it means a suspension of civil law and regular government. Being in martial law now does not mean that they were not a democracy before being...

3e size in DnD did a pretty good job of giving benefits to smaller and larger sizes, while not making them deal breakers for archetypes. You could still have a viable small melee character or a large caster (assuming you found a way to get large size without wasting caster levels). The numbers and e...

Agreed, that model is pretty problematic. A vastly better "rejection of divine" model would be a pretty simple pathfinder trait. Disbeliever As a person who rejects covenants with gods, your belief is strong enough to repel divine spells. Benefit: You gain a +2 trait bonus on saving throws...

I just set up a 3e hex crawl as a backup campaign for friends so that our DM can take a break whenever he needs to and for my setting I just told em clerics and folks worship whatever they want, deities, pantheon, monster, volcano, an idealized spiked chain (in our old games Spiked Chain was a homeb...

Given that discord channels tend to be more like general chat rooms than organized threads with tables and structure, I think there is zero risk of them replacing the non existent discussions we aren’t having anymore. Discord is good as a sounding board to get quick ideas and responses. Those can on...

Cats should be able to kill commoners by using special trip attacks to cause falling damage tho.

Yeah, siphon discussion from here and try and pull people into your little server so they stop posting here. Because people like you exist. Fuck off. Case in point. For the moment overlooking that you’re being a total shit stain, your presumption that people discussing something elsewhere will have...

I feel like it's a crime that the first two movies laid a groundwork for a setting that indisputably has real ghosts, magic, portals to other realms, maleficent beings... and you can fight them with nuclear powered energy weapons or animated giant mecha statues... and the possible repercussions and ...

There was like, nothing I enjoyed about the 8th movie. I have to imagine the worse sales of the 9th movie were people who were done with the franchise after number 8. I only went to see #9 because my son really wanted to see it. I didn't love it, and it didn't rekindle any love for the franchise, bu...

Are D&D Devils and Demons and plantatreetoids and... werewolves and maybe other stuff consistent in what they're immune or vulnerable to? Or does it tend to be one off. I don't remember if all devils and all demons have the same resistances or if individual ones are different and don't want to ...

Jesus it looks like a fuckin terrible game of Minesweeper.

If it's gonna be rules lite, then I'd rather someone created a Red Dragon Inn version where your adventurer is basically like one of those characters but actually geared up for adventuring rather than drinking hi-jinks. Can have a character creation aspect where you build your deck(s), and can level...

I think the problem is the games industry, not your brain. There's not really a lot of crunchy games with plenty of options coming out right now. Very much this. But hey, speed is nice. And maybe very much this too. I was very disappointed when I saw what rule engine was planned for Lancer. There i...

I'm still down to learn new RPGs so long as friends are interested in it and it isn't one of the rules lite ones that you try and finagle your traits as being relevant for whatever challenge. I haven't learned any new RPGs for years (not counting the various retroclones my friend keeps bringing, sin...

If you're picking an age to be nostalgic for Ghostbusters then 40's seems more accurate. We had the cartoon to grow up with as well.

Fingers crossed anyway

Near as I can tell Rittenhouse is an immature child who got to act out his murder fantasy, found out it was scarier than expected, and is now getting to hobnob with his fascist heroes. That said, it does seem like his actions shots fired in each of the 3 encounters can be justified as self-defense i...

Maybe to give you more chances to get one because everyone needs it. I could be wrong, but I think the complaint is that they should be a Lesser Item in Book of Gears, and thus way MORE likely to be obtained. Doh. I foolishly made the assumption it was listed as Medium *in addition to* Lesser. Even...

Maybe to give you more chances to get one because everyone needs it.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/912683469472165919/912683491173494814/IMG_2902.jpg *fails confusion save and attacks* Lemme try a simple explanation. I just used dnd as an example of something that does not conform to RPS as it has a variety of asymmetric win conditions. Using it as an RPS...

I think I can get behind the premise that gimmicky symmetries and oppositions are bad game design *if* that's all you got. If you made the combat minigame like, just 5 different saving throws types with some pentagram of strengths and weaknesses and that was the only way to win combats, then that wo...