The Gaming Den

Don't let it be said that I'm not willing to stand corrected... Quick correction to your Gaming Den post: At the Catalyst seminar, Loren mentioned that the internet rumors were not going to be discussed, but he did not leave--he stayed there the whole time. I know because I sat next to him. He left ...

In Indiana, there's actually a massive push to eliminate property taxes. This has me banging my head against the wall. Property taxes are one of the few ways you can accurately predict what your state revenue will be year after year.

Yeah, Coleman went to GenCon. And at the Catalyst panel, before anyone even asked a question, he stated, "We're not talking about it" and left the room. Way to clear the air there, buddy. Why have there been no formal charges? Because it's a white collar crime committed by a dinky-ass game...

So why not pull the trigger and be done with it? What does the South offer the North aside from oil and medical expertise? The majority of Southerners actually do want to stick with the rest of the country. Because the South is economically less well-to-do than the North there is no check against c...

So who are the nigh-invulnerable entities that secretly run the world of Eberron? It's a three-way split between the dragons from the far-away continent of Argonnessen, the quori from the Plane of Dreams who run the far-away continent of Sarlona, and the Lords of Dust, servants of fiends trapped in...

I like the magitech. For me, it's the biggest draw to the setting. Also, agreed on the big baddies living elsewhere which makes the PCs the toughest kids on the block.

When I played 3.5 and we pulled out Paizo's Critical Hit deck cards it was fun for us. It inspired a lot more role-playing in combat, rather than between dice rolling sessions, and laughter. Anything that keeps players engaged, I think it to be a good thing. However, the DM considered using the Crit...

Has anyone here actually played the Ravenloft Board Game? I'm considering this as a Christmas present for the wife and myself as something to play together.

George Will: The earth doesn't care. Extinctions that are, unlike carbon dioxide excesses, permanent. The earth did not reverse the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today extinctions result mostly from human population pressures—habitat destruction, pesticides, etc.—but "slowing man-made extinctio...

To be blunt, people just like to side with Cuba because it gives them a way to be anti-American while still looking cool. Forgetting the fact that Cuba actually supported communist movements in Angola and Ethiopia with actual troops, and in Ethiopia said communist movement had their leaders convict...

http://www.shadowrun4.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DragonCon-Shadowrun-Player-Group_Team__Hostage.jpg Props to the dude who made the full on troll outfit, complete with horns. That beats the lazy-ass "stick on some elf ears and don a leather jacket" approach of most SR costume...

The jobs that make you the most money are the jobs that will make you want to slit your wrists. Unless you enjoy working 100 hour weeks as a Wall Street douchebag.

I've yet to meet anyone who has actually, seriously ran an adventure off of a PDF on a laptop, so we're going to gloss over that option. I'm running the Star Wars Saga 'Dawn of Defiance' adventure series off my laptop. I'd prefer not to but printing those layered PDFs has a tendency to freeze the c...

Cheap books can look cheap and can bring down the overall feel of a product line. There's cheap and then there's CHEAP. Not every product needs to look like a graphic designer made sweet, sweet love to it. SR Missions used a basic template and the layout artist dropped the text in. I think somethin...

Parthenon wrote:Makes more sense than anything else I've heard: Why homosexuals aren't allowed in the military

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize

I would love to see Shadowrun with more small, localized adventures like 1st and 2nd edition had. Problem is, we were told repeatedly that those adventures did not sell. I can't tell you how accurate that is, because I never had the numbers. But that's what we were told. Maybe it's the wrong quanti...

Are you saying this just about fourth edition sourcebooks or about all campaign/event books (Renraku Arcology Shutdown, etc.) Campaign/event books. It's not a new thing, obviously. Shutdown took place during the 2nd ed. years and after FanPro grabbed the license during the 3rd ed. years plot books ...

According to SoNA the Ute didn't want SLC because the area was a massive mana ebb and the Ute shamans consider it defiled ground. No reason why is given.

I think Jason Levine pops in here from time to time. He wrote this section. You can ask him what his intentions were.

Aren't there like super-talented and dedicated fans willing to step up and fill this role? (In fact, afaik that describes Robert long before the debacle that caused him to leave CGL.) The super-talented, super-dedicated fans have either been burned by CGL or don't want to stick their hands to a pro...

Someone queue up the Mr. Pink speech from Reservoir Dogs.

By whatever measurement retailers use to track sales of product I don't think we will begin to see a drop-off in sales due to quality in the near future. Most gamers are unaware of all the recent non-payment/theft goings-on and are still burning through the credit built by Rob Boyle and Peter Taylor...

$2 per bag.

"The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the worl...

Zinegata wrote:Beck and Palin?

I can't see any political moderate voting for that pair. If they ran on the Republican ticket it would be a landslide for the Democrats.