The Gaming Den

There are quotes of you admitting that the EU cannot be democratically fixed and will continue to stomp on the people of Europe until the guillotines come out. So what? Frank says Brexit is worse than the status quo. (If I understood him correctly.) Your argument looks like, "It can't get bett...

Kaelik wrote:The best part about them copying A New Hope was that it gave better odds of them copying Empire.

RIP the Dream.

Copying Empire strikes back is still likely. Rogue One plays apparently up to 10 minutes before 'A new Hope' timeline wise (according to the above article).

The best skill in the game is Initiative. The rest doesn't do a thing, unless you got a solid GM, in which case Use Computer, Mechanics, Knowledge (tactics) and Knowledge (Galatic Lore) are worthwhile, as are Persuasion and Deception. Don't agree here, Pilot is a thing too. Even without Starship co...

I didn't read any splat books, and skimmed the main book. So Ill ask here: Are humans the best race for a Iron Man build? It depends, dont know the specifics of the iron man build. From the top of the head, I would say no. Unless you Need that one feat really really urgent. Because you get many fea...

CapnTthePirateG wrote:people will riot if you release a new edition after a year.

That would only happen, if enough People would care about 5e. Also it's more than an year allready (at least I think so) and it would take some time, if they wanted to design/bring out 6e...

You might like this one:
http://www.baen.com/warp-speed.html
and the prequel:
http://www.baen.com/the-quantum-connection.html

regarding the modern scientific jargon.
the second one gets very crazy, with nanotechnology, Quantum Connection/teleportation, etc.

While I'm not an d20 modern fan, I do agree about the Timing.
If I remember correctly, it was also after or around the time the 4e sleeping pill got out.

At least, that is the actual military experience of the past century. But thats only because our airplanes are not transformers who can land and walk around! Eh, what I'm trying to say. How is the actual Military experience applicable to an Fantasy world, where the flying things also might be tanks...

Mechalich wrote:At least, that is the actual military experience of the past century.

But thats only because our airplanes are not transformers who can land and walk around!
Eh, what I'm trying to say. How is the actual Military experience applicable to an Fantasy world, where the flying things also might be tanks?

How should one approach a tabletop RPG kickstarter to get the most money out of it without having any 'well known' (D&D, White Wolf, etc.) RPG creditials to begin with? It sounds like this guy just came out of nowhere and got thousands from 148 people. Well I got to know him back then, as one o...

Ancient History wrote:

Would buy/read this book, if real.

It seems weird since the designers have such a hard-on for Chaotic Good, and I know at least one designer has stated that lawful good is another type of evil. You'd think there's be an awesome chaotic good paladin so JJ's waifus can take levels in it and be awesome. Chaotic Good, done the stupid wa...

Shady314 wrote:

Longes wrote:What disappointed me is that all three stories are about big bad magic thing comming to conquer the world

Though quite short the Hong Kong extended edition is thankfully just about dirty cops and corporate maneuvering.

And an demon godess (or something along that line), which you beat up.

Path of Exile has random crafting*.
And the crafting materials double as currency.

*There is some non random crafting, with the Masters, when you Level them.

Omegonthesane wrote:Aren't Backgrounds literally the mechanic from Tome where you get a bullshit bonus for having a backstory? That Frank & K came up with years before 5e was a gleam in Mike Mearls' eye?

If by bullshit you mean bullshit reason, yes.
If by bullshit you mean bullshit bonus (=useless), no.

Rubio dropping out last night made me think of this. He said that it's not in God's plan for him to be president in 2016, or maybe ever. Why do non-Calvinist Christians say things like this? Free will seems to be a huge part of their apologetics. It's used to explain evil and even certain amounts o...

Koumei wrote:Including both of the recent-ish "It's Shadowrun but it isn't called Shadowrun"

What are they called/What are you talking about?

It's cargo cult game design and appeal to nostalgia. The entire reason for retroclones's existance is to make people in the late 30s/40s to feel like idiot teenagers again. And we did back then was to roll dice and to consult tables . I still don't understand, but I guess I'm a bit stupid. What I e...

How does one go about making sure a point buy system is balanced? They're generally more open ended than a level based system like D&D. Generally speaking, having balance on a point buy system is next to impossible (unless it's for a subsystem with limited choices like the spell customization r...

Per the Nanobot build, yes you can. Having never heard of this 'nanobot build' until you mentioned it, followed by some Google research, am I correct in the feeling that it's on the same rules footing as Pun-pun? My first instinct is to ignore criticisms for my Diplomacy variant when they're founde...

Per the Nanobot build, yes you can.

What I remember of Psi-Like abilities sounded like an copy paste from spell like abilities...
How different are they?

various metaplot events had been done by groups of shadowrunners who weren't known to the public, who were blatantly meant to have been "the player party in Module X/Y/Z". Were there any real drawbacks to that approach? (Assuming that "removes the ability to claim a big penis NPC did...

but while they're great at blasting and travel magic, Malazan mages don't do a lot of other things that high-level D&D casters do. I remember more from their mages (if you dont exclude Non-Malazans and even if you do. Even if you do, most things where done by Malazan mages). Not 100% like D&...

I'm going to request the D20 Immortals Handbook and its accompanying Bestiary. You know, the one where size categories go up to "bigger than the universe" and are legitimately monsters with 680d1000 Hit Dice. I too would like to see this. WTF 1 gebraucht ab EUR 2.493,21 While I'm shoked s...