The Gaming Den

-Half-dragon, because when you're on the autism spectrum, you are obligated by ancient rite to build a ridiculous, consuming obsession with some particular, childish triviality; dragons are fourth on the list of traditionally acceptable subjects, right after trains, horses, and Sonic the Hedgehog. ...

Well, a separate but related question might be, "what are the top ten races people want to see in their setting " and the answers which everyone have provided apply pretty well to that inquiry. But in my experience, the top four races people want to play are: -Human, because race is not th...

I wonder if you're not dribbling the entire time and then climaxing on an empty chamber. Either in a retrograde fashion, or in a way that is concealed by your sexual habits; if you're only practicing penetrative sex (and not, for example, oral) you could be dispersing it into the general froth of th...

I surmise they would explore direct electrostimulation of the nerves to drown out the pain. Direct TENS therapy isn't really comfortable but it has some serious upshot when you can mainline it instead of unmitigated, excruciating agony. Or, you know. Just sever her spinal column during the procedure...

The law is clearer than you give it credit for, Uber et al just flaunt it outright. Like, if Uber isn't employing their drivers, then they are, quite simply, an enormous price-fixing conspiracy. They cannot have it two ways and it is a far more direct interpretation of their business to classify the...

Three-Headed Coin: A trick coin, used for japes and cons. When flipped, roll 1d6 to determine the result:

1-3: The coin lands heads-up.
4-6: The coin lands heads-up.
7-9: The coin lands heads-up.

It's not unpopular, it's the essential basis for more games than not. You're getting rightfully shit on because it is completely uninteresting. You're not solving anything, you're not breaking anything, you're not really building anything, you're certainly not "rethinking" anything because...

Putting a PC together is about two pegs above assembling a Lego model. Do it even if you're not confident. Especially if you're not confident. Don't be one of those people who has never changed a tire before.

If Ultrabeasts were going to be the way they bifuricated all the moronic Literal-God-Of-Space-And-Timémon into their own category so that they weren't shitting up every subsequent game's Pokedex, then it would sound like a positive development, but the Pokemon Company sucks the cock of strict contin...

If you are interested in preparing spells via literal navel-gazing, there are rules for spellbook tattoos in Complete Arcane (page 186) which don't require a feat.

It just means that I have a 1TB drive that I can't really use for much right now sitting there. Waiting. After taking the free upgrade offer, your CPU serial number, itself, was noted in the Microsoft validation servers, with an entitlement for Win10. You may install the operating system on that ha...

Reasons I don't want win10: 1-The Metro interface - it's so spectacularly ugly and unintuitive I don't even want to learn it. And seeing my reasonably tech-savvy girlfriend struggle with it for even basic productivity tasks after several months' usage... 2-The total lack of user control over most f...

Positions: -Pathfinder is okay because third edition is okay. They're still making content for it which means that people stay interested, resulting in a more proliferate player-base, and that is fine. -Pathfinder is a bundle of house rules that aren't particularly better than third edition, and thi...

It is acceptable to me that some mons' types be prescriptive instead of descriptive. You wouldn't suppose that Nidoran was necessarily a ground type just by looking at them, but when you find out that they are, it does say something about them. That reminds me, the dichotomy between Ground and Rock ...

Fairy is exactly as good of an idea for a type as Ghost and Dragon. Its squishy-and-pink theme was one that they had going as a sub-theme of Normal for a long time. What I'm more baffled by is why Chansey remained a pure Normal type. Actually, scratch that, what I'm baffled at is why Normal even get...

Yeah, if you're holding back because you don't feel like you have the identity foundation to pursue a gay thing in best faith, then tarry no longer; a dalliance with a straight-ish dude who ends up not really being down is a Queer-101 practicum. Just go for it. Spoon that man. Come to a new, empiric...

Combined arms are good tactical design. If the players get to see the cause and effect and then determine how they want to pull the thread, you're looking at a significant design upshot over the ordinary puzzle scenario of "Rumpelstiltskin is going to stab you in the dick until you say the magi...

In-world, the ice-cream cone Pokemon are obviously the predecessors to the delicious snack. Their secretions are the basis of the flavor which came to be known, after them, as "vanilla," and the notion of serving ice-cream in a cone was a mascot-style marketing technique.

I'm pretty surprised the Thri-Kreen bury their dead. What a waste of good food. Is it not nobler for one's body to remain with the clutch by being subsumed by its other members? Partaking in the flesh of the dead would make a great funerary practice; it brings everyone together, offers closure, and ...

It's a case of carrot and stick, really. I'm certain Prak would be incentivizing the PCs with some kind of upshot along with the coercive pressure.

^ Agreed. They call them "pencil and paper RPGs" for a fucking reason!

If it's a delay then it's also a fine time for the lawyer or diplomat NPC who is handling the case for you to say "yo I gotta take a couple days to get this done, but as long as you guys are just hanging around, can you go check in with my brother for me? He lives up on Kingstreet and says that...

Mechalich, you seem pretty fixated on Thri-Kreen ambivalence towards eating sapient creatures as a slight against good taste. I don't know if you're trying to act scandalized to conform to the OSSR folkways or what, but for most people, the idea of a monster who talks like a person and then proceeds...

I have a friend who knew one of the server admins at the embassy, who died in the attack. His last nesssge to her was that he was nervous about people outside the walls taking photos of the place. Shes convinced Hillary's decision led to his death. "His last message to her." Uh huh. Viler...

The idea governing Pokemon Go is so good that it literally cannot have a failed implementation. Which is great, because there is literally no way in which this implementation isn't fucked. It's cataclysmic. These assholes had Google and Pokemon money, plus an extensive alpha test in the form of an e...