The Gaming Den

Black mesa is sick as the dickens. Remember when it was like four years into the project and it was Never Coming Out? Sometimes, we actually can have nice things.

If anyone here hasn't played it, I urge them to look into it on the grounds that it is 100% free and polished to a mirror sheen. Do it.

In Black Mesa, the fan-made Half Life Source-engine port, Questionable Ethics closes with a really punishing fight with like thirty marines that all drop through the ceiling in a heavy stream. Your kills have to be quick, so a successful encounter probably looks like a dozen chained noscope headshot...

If they want to encourage rolling stats, the modernist approach would be to let everyone roll a single stat-set, but also have the option to use whatever one of their groupmates rolled. It would be great. You could greyhawk an entire party until you got a guy with triple 18s and roll your real chara...

Oh, you're talking about strength checks to knock shit down.

Just discard that horseshit out of hand, maybe?

I don't really understand the conceptual problem. D20 doors have hitpoints and take damage. Some people deal more damage and some doors have more hitpoints. If you have a 30% chance of knocking down a door this round then you're talking enough damage in one blow to buckle the timbers and make everyo...

Strictly speaking, the guys who write the SA front page (there's a front page?!) were awarding glib captions and inclusions in Photoshop Phriday. Whether that can be construed as a "prize" is left to question.

A few years ago, Something Awful had a "make an urban legend" contest. The guy who won came up with the Slender Man. It was just a photoshop thread. Nobody was awarding prizes. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#po...

Maybe if you switched to wireless, you could use the time you save on plugging and unplugging to capitalize some of your sentences.

Wireless charging is the tits and is on devices from several manufacturers..

Lago PARANOIA wrote:So, TGDians, with what we know about the game would you rather play fresh-out-of-the-box 2008 4E D&D or 5E D&D?

I DID play fresh-outta-the-box 4E. So what I'm saying is, 5E all the way.

Dwellers of a Primordial Land of Nothing But Bugs Pets: Big peacock spiders, which are fuzzy for cuddles, come in cute colors, and do fun dances. Livestock: Dairy aphids (herded by domesticated ladybugs, and sometimes stolen by wild ants), kosher locusts, silkworms. Honeypot ants can't be kept, but...

EDIT: This post was written before viewing the repost Count Aurioch just made, and indeed before viewing any other information about Dragon Crown at all. It is from the perspective of almost perfect ignorance about the game, because the nuances of that game are, in fact, almost irrelevant; it is mer...

Man don't you guys know?

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Just... why? Two reasons: One. Zoe allegedly made it clear on her first date ever with ex-boyfriend guy that any and all sexual relations with her were contingent on monogamous exclusivity, and that any infidelity was cause for a retroactive withdrawal of consent. In short, that cheating was tantam...

It is really fucking easy to intuit what Prak's actual beliefs are. I imagine that he wants to say he is an archo-communist in the same way that one would say he's a 12-o-clock boy or a kinkster or whatever the fuck, and that he wants to be loud and proud about how great a neighborly relationship, q...

W.E. is an acronym for "White E-merican", who are the principal conquerors of the electronic frontier, the Wild Wild Web.

As patches go, it's also consistent, and the mechanism is easily executed. A non-trivial number of people are going to be playing it that way, if it's not just made the official answer flat-out.

Here's my Two Step Training Program for Win8 ; after completing it you will be fully enabled to stop being a reactionary jackass who spends even a fucking second of his day being angry about a computer operating system: Step 1: Hit winkey-S to bring up a full-system search. Type the thing you want a...

Giant robot anime Knights of Sidonia is a Netflix original series that they went to Japan to have made out of an existing Manga franchise. So it's "legit," so to speak, but if you watch you can see how it was chosen to appeal to the Western Netflix audience. My primary sense of amusement h...

The Romans spelled it "Color," and so shall I. Any superfluous "u" is merely a damp nook into which the speller accepts the long, penetrating cock of French cultural supremacy. Feel free to take THAT laying down, limeys~

Is there going to be continuity? I think it is fine and even perhaps healthy to just say, "yes, skills will be a level 1-6 thing and then after that you're never going to roll another skillcheck again," but you could keep the gimmick going for fucking ever by re-naming and re-equalizing ev...

Curious, but is there an objective for this list? Are you putting together a design criteria that includes lots of extraneous sheet-cluttering features at higher levels?

I haven't been able to find much phenazopyridine in local pharmacies for the past month or so. Only one box, after I paid a second visit to a place after waiting a couple days; presumably they had a restock, but possibly they just found it in the back and threw it on the shelf. Has there been a shor...

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

"Redguard" being the literal in-universe term for "black dude," ofc.

I just noticed that nobody said Dungeons of Dredmor, either, which is weird because Essence has totally done a shitload of modwork on that game (some of which is featured in an officially sanctioned expansion pack). There's also tome-class item in the game named after me, though, so I'm totally down...