The Gaming Den

Roy, the period of time everyone is referencing, I believe, was the same general time-period when the "Threads that Make Us [Do Things] got shut down, and I suspect that you were (possibly unconsciously) trying to vent your frustration. As I recall the Sundering thread, most people had essentia...

Caedrus had a thread (I think in this forum, IMOI) a while back about separating magical powers into clearly defined thematic and mechanical effects. Something like that is really a Good Idea, and though I think it bogged down cuz Frank and Caedrus started arguing over (basically) semantics, I bet s...

First, Koumei, I am truly in awe of your (and JE's) ability to consistently turn out not-shite at an almost alarming pace. I would love to play DC with my chums at some point, but we are all almost entirely illiterate on anything other than what could be learned from Lago's "Sell Me on 40K"...

Unless they perform the ritual that lets them retain their full powers.

The idea is that, at least after you get to the second tier, your base of operations will be the power site that you control (an idea that K brought up when discussing TNE). So, for your Tier 2 adventures, you'll have your first site as your primary base of operations. Each time you get to a new tie...

The idea would be that tiers would actually mean something. The jump in prowess from 5 to 6 would be far larger than from 6 to 7. Within a tier, you might have the same power list from which to choose, and your advancement would be mostly diversifying and general endurance improvement. In contrast, ...

[with this post, I guess I'm joining the grand Den tradition of theorizing about how I feel the Ideal RPG could work] So, as everyone knows, one of the biggest...quirks of 3.x is its its extreme power-gain curve. Everyone loves to harp on about how cool medieval staples like pretty castles and large...

I just reinstalled Rome Total War after my hard drive got wiped again and was re-hooked almost immediately. There are undeniably annoying features (like the fact that armies take so long to move, and you honestly have to massacre your big cities' populations every couple years to keep them from rebe...

I made some Tome feats for shifters and warforged (and also dragonmarked dudes, but those aren't really complete) here (http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=49763). After my (admittedly little) work, none of my players chose to be shifters or warforged, so I can't say if they're totally ready, but t...

For me, it's more knowing that I could win everything without anyone else's help than actually doing it. (As Roy said, this seems to be the most common style on this forum). I enjoy games (as a player or a DM) far more when everyone is doing something than when it's just one person talking to all th...

As for alignments, I'm going to have to agree with Lago in that a lot 4E's alignment is slightly more logical. Unaligned is a really nice alignment, although I think they should have differeniated Unaligned from Neutral (which implies an honest to boccob concern for the Balance). I also would have p...

Yes, please elaborate.

How did 4E do summoning? I'm assuming it wasn't a loads-o-minionz type thing. And which classes got it? I would have though that it would have required a "summoner" class. As for prestige classes, I also like the idea that Wulf presented. I guess EQ2 does this as well or something. So, at ...

Please.

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with Righteous Might? Even if the ability score enhancements don't stack with Divine Power, it's still giving you Con, AC (as of debatable use as that is), DR, and reach.

Dude, gtfo. Now.

I liked that "points of darkness" explanation that came up in one of the TNE threads. Where most of society is settled, or at least deserted, and nasty critters are actually pretty rare.

I'm currently running a 3.x game that usually meets once a week.

Well, I'm the other way; I like Eberron-style extremely distant and uncaring (possibly non-existent) gods. Then you have easy answers to questions like "Why doesn't god X send a couple of solars down to kick bad guy Y's ass?" (Which usually ends in vague muttering about balances of power,...

There's also a bunch of creatures (notably the Fiend Wurm) that are really just CR 6 (if not lower) ish challenges that took Viagra of Death that suddenly gave them way bigger numbers. The game designers expect that monsters with CR 6 tactics are good challenges for epic characters. The Malebranche ...

I apologize for this minor thread-hijacking (though it's not really the first), but what the fuck is up with the Monster Manual II? CR 15 creatures with 90 hp and 14 AC, all those horrible high CR creatures with hundreds of hit points and intelligences of effectively 0, the complete lack of any rela...

Isn't that like what Guild Wars does, only with two stats? (I've never played it, but from what I heard, each class has one big stat (Rangers have Sneakiness, etc) that determines your power)

I don't know. I picked up Anathem and read the first 30 pages or so at the library, but I just couldn't get into it. Something about the style seemed fundamentally worse than the excellence of Cryptonomicom and Snow Crash. I might give it another try later.

Yes. I happen to be a rather large fan of Pynchon. Just in terms of pure writing abilty, bad puns, and seriously weird stuff going on. Gravity's Rainbow=total win. Turtledove's stuff isn't really bad per se (and his ideas are great), but he has one of the most repetitive and generally bad writing st...

Would anyone care to comment on the quality of the Shadowrun Missions line?