The Gaming Den

Will'o'wisps weren't much of a problem the first time we met them because I was playing a sorcerer with glitterdust. Blind=lose dex bonus=shattered wisps. By the next time we'd picked up communal resist energy and they were a joke. The trolls and some dragony thing called a peluda met as a random e...

My primary use for gin is the Tom Collins, which is one of my preferred drinks.

As for whiskey sours, I only like them with honey bourbon (I find either the Beam or JD variety to be palatable).

Well, nobody said "after they die." You could make a wish and become Soulless on the spot. Make wish, apply template. DC comics actually put out a (moderately crappy) comic about that situation. Guy thought he was getting a "power now for pain later" deal, but the devil cheated ...

Dwellers of the Forbidden City is a pretty nice sandbox adventure, which comes with several suggested plotlines you could use to drop it into a campaign.

You call this absurd, I call it elegance. Its the same overpowered npc from any other rpg, but while in D&D/Gurps/BRP/Shadowrun you need tons of feats and skills to do it, UA only needs 2 lines. :wink: But if a PC tried to take the same skill, you would smack him down on the basis of...? Not be...

1) how is this different from any other game ? Say, when you enter your dungeon of the week, what prohibits the GM from throwing one hundred black beholders at the group in the first room and make it so the entrance is locked so the group cant run away ? As others have pointed out in myriad other t...

Another mechanic I really like is the "Obsession" mechanics from Unknown Armies adepts: you get stronger the more you actually live out your obsession, doing completely crazy, potentially damaging or social disrupting stuff, like say, an Epideromancer (one who can manipulate living matter...

The reason Champions is awesome and GURPS is kind of shit is because Champions makes purchases (of powers, etc) flexible and versatile, and gives you guidelines for how much points are (or should be) worth. It also stresses that the point cost can (and should) vary depending on circumstances (they s...

Maj wrote:Ess is home! A bit diabetic, but alive and home. Suck it, Death!

Glad everything's (more or less) okay.

Basically pansexuality assumes that it's a legitimate sexual orientation to somehow not be attracted to trans people , because trans people, despite the realities of SRS and hormone therapy, have something that somehow magically makes them "not real" women/men. That, or it assumes that it...

That things could hypothetically be worse is one of the go-to things that never ever cheer anyone up, even in cases when it is indisputably true, so the fact that rape victims are not comforted by the fact that they're still alive is evidence of nothing. Please consider that the conclusion of the v...

My son has become quite a builder in Minecraft. Today, he created a three dimensional human, complete with a digestive tract you could go inside and follow. There was an esophagus, a stomach, and a way out in a relatively anatomically correct manner. It was actually quite remarkable - I was really ...

Wiseman wrote:Whenever they interact with someone for the first time, there's a 20% chance that they must make a will save or punch that person in the face.

Stolen. Much thanks.

Koumei wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if you're a Wizard (you're a Wizard), there are ways around basically all problems.

And that brings us back to Elminster:
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"Spontaneously generated precedent based rulings is an unstable and stupid way to do things that is in every way bad for your goal of "avoiding burdensome bad rules". We'll your rules got you into a months long argument with the Den, that seems pretty burdensome. You apparently still...

I give up on trying to talk with Zak, because he is pretty much the king of goal-post shifting and poor communication. Fuck this "ask me for clarification" bullshit...people have been more than asking, they've been DEMANDING clarification for several pages. And yet now, out of nowhere, he ...

I always found "is higher level than 50-90% of humanity" to be sufficient, to make PCs feel special enough (which doesn't need to be all that special, honestly). Of course, this requires you to posit that most of the world is pretty low level (anywhere from 0th to 2nd, for instance), but I...

I don't know how people can remember dreams so clearly (even quoting things that were said during the dream); I awaken with only vague impressions of what occurred during the dream. Even if I try to narrate/write them down immediately upon waking, it sounds like a drunk retarded person trying to des...

I'm re-reading some 1986 John Varley short stories. As a kid, I found this stuff really icky, what with all the sexual content, but now I see it in a completely different light. Some of this shit, especially concerning sexuality and gender, is really visionary. A lot of what Varley envisioned to ta...

I don't think Frank meant that literally; obviously some people will play anything.

One swallow doesn't make a summer, etc etc.

Thinking about it, any of the three Icewind Dale books can be enjoyably read on their own (assuming you like that kind of thing); they all intertwine, but I read Streams of Silver before I read The Crystal Shard, and I didn't miss much as far as understanding and enjoying the characters and the plot...

Longes wrote:Are pathfinder iconics any good? By "any good" I mean "well optimised" and "showcase the features of the class".

You mean, the iconic characters?
Because if so, let me point out that their iconic fighter uses two-weapon fighting with sword and dagger.

I played quite a bit of AD&D and I remember clerics being nothing more than first aid tents that people resented getting stuck with playing. At least a level 1 cleric got to cast a couple of cure spells and one paralyze-no-save spell (Command). Whereas a level 1 magic-user got to cast one paral...

Unlike later games though you don’t just get two spells per level plus whatever you can find instead every time you go up a spell level or your int goes up or down relatively permanently you roll a percentile dice for every wiz- Spell-Caster spell of that level or just all the spells of every level...

Wheel of Time question: I could swear I heard someone say that Robert Jordan spent two paragraphs (or two pages) describing someone's shoes. Did he? Probably a little hyperbolic...he did tend to go rather overboard with the descriptions of people's outfits, though. If you're familiar with the elabo...