The Gaming Den

For a place that prides itself on heated debate and free expression, people around here certainly get butthurt and whiny a lot.

Battle Lore is the shittiest piece of shit ever to come out of the shithole.

The moment you start thinking that everyone other than you is stupid and uninteresting is the moment when you should stop, step back, and start wondering if perhaps the problem is in yourself.

Low-level survivability can (and should) be improved by giving creatures a size-based penalty/bonus to hit points. Especially hardcore shorties like halflings can get bonus hit points. 1) It goes against your original idea of reducing hit point inflation 2) If Halflings have bonus HP, then Ogres ha...

So I'd really like the story of PR's experience with WFRP.

I know the Tome series has a lot of different mechanics for adding dice to melee damage rolls, like Rage dice, the Your Enemy is Me mechanic of knights, and Death Attack. They all merely add d6 to damage. Which is ok, but, come on - if all your characters roll 1dX + yd6, then what's the point of ha...

A melee character should totally own magic character.

Well, yeah. That's not why industrial hemp is awesome, though. For the record, I don't use pot, despite what the crazed rantings of Zine claim (though I wish I could). I don't use pot anymore either. But I'm fully aware that, if it was legal worldwide, this whole thread wouldn't last this long. Hen...

Industrial hemp has a horrible problem of not having enough THC though.

If the entire world legalized marijuana, it would have been a better place.

At this moment your statement makes absolutely no sense.

The problem is that all fantasy "goes dark" when adult themes are added. I don't know why I think it more goes the other way around: namely, that people started thinking of "dark" as "cool" and "adult". Now how that came to be, I have no idea. But the importa...

I was not contesting that 4e combats can be boring and unmemorable; they can certainly end up that way very easily. I was just raising the point that long combat is by no means unique to 4e in response to : And seriously, does the fact that some other completely unrelated systems have a same fault ...

More specifically, melee damage rolls suck. Dice rolls need to be interesting and engaging - they have to matter. It should make a huge difference if you roll a 1 or a 10 on 1d10. Otherwise they become an unnecessary chore. If you have to roll 1d10 + 30, who cares about what number will come up on t...

Instead, what you should do is to say what you think of the way I think, so I can either say "Thank you", or "Fuck you". You may have mistaken me for someone who wants to argue about politics on a Sunday morning. I want to put your opinions into context of your age. If you are a...

Zinegata wrote: What does it matter?

Because I want to know how old of a man you are to think the way you do.

Now, I'm sure Phone Lobster is gonna claim I'm "squirming away" from the topic, because I pointed out facts outside of his precious "It's stupid to send the military after Bin laden" theory. Here's the thing though: I'm just adding facts to the equation. I'm not denying anything...

Everyone who seriously thinks that the most powerful country in the world mobilizes a part of its military and the military of every other allied country it found on the proverbial yellow pages just to catch a man living in a cave is either retardedly naive, or plain retarded.

My simple criteria for purchasing written modules: 1) How interesting does it seem? Any nice moments in it? 2) How long is it? 3) If it is long, are there opportunities to add some sidequests to freshen things up a bit? 4) Finally, what is the price and, taken all previous factors into account, is i...

What other merchandize did Jordan's Waste Of Time have?

Note that I said "open-ended storytelling". Books and movies are obviously not open-ended, and games are highly limiting in what they let you do. Oh good god. What defect prevented you from reading the paragraph and comprehending it instead of just jumping on the quote button without thin...

I've yet to see anything handle open-ended storytelling better than an RPG. Meh. You can find a couple of unique selling points for everything. But simply having a unique selling point isn't enough. It has to be needed by a large enough niche for the product to be profitable. Like, you have a niche...

RPGs simply haven't gone with the times. Never having been a serious enough market, it hasn't received the attention of the industry that would develop it further to meet today´s needs. The thing is, everything RPGs try to do, more specialized products to better. Way better. So better that, indeed, ...

That's an entirely separate issue; why does God not follow innovations in governing? I mean, burecracy is so 19th century. Is Jesus really going to turn down quallified people just because they weren´t drafted beforehand? Why doesn't he modernize a bit, and remove needless procedures? I am certain i...

I wonder why not wait for Jesus to come down to earth again, and bring his kingdom and whatnot, a little more, y'know, comfortable? Like, if I had a choice between him coming to find me working 12 hours for minimum wage, with little or no health or pension protection, and him coming to find me with ...