The Gaming Den

TiaC wrote:The idea was that there would be times when people don't run because while running, attacks auto-hit you and your block rate plummets.

But you agree, pretty much never because you actually ran out of stamina somehow.

If you've got an android phone, download Pixel Dungeon. Zero permissions required, 100% free, no banner advertisements, and it is a solid as fuck roguelike. You might have some misgivings about playing a game of that genre using a touchscreen, but the control scheme in Pixel Dungeon will make you be...

Stat points worked great in the original Diablo. The Magic and Dexterity stats were very important, and Strength was, too, up to the point that 98% of the players (and the dev team) would want to experience. The game is smaller in scope, and displays the tendency of many roguelikes to pretty much le...

I have to say, "Rescuing Money" sounds like a movie the GOP want to produce, about how one brave man called Mittens will save the common billionaire's money from the hands of the evil communist terrorist muslim president. All with a scene where the valiant action hero bravely unloads into...

nockermensch wrote:@virgil and Eikre: You read goblins, and the first deficiency you notice in the author is his artistic skills?

Um... yes?

Because you can show a page of his comic to literally anybody and that is the first thing they would notice is crappy, too?

You read goblins, and the first deficiency you notice in the author is his time management skills? I totally agree that he shouldn't keep hyperpolishing all his work, but mostly because all his coloring and inking skills are hot rancid fucking garbage. If he can't at least be fucked to go back to hi...

Kaelik, you're a worthless piece of shit who has never done a damn thing that earned you a bit of consideration. Maxus, the prose in your signature is really, really bad. I'm sorry that this doesn't actually have anything to do with the subject at hand, but it bothers me every time I accidentally r...

Considering that the teacher was my Physics teacher, and that religion of no kind was brought up during class, I'm pretty sure that the debate was his way of making us learn about antiquated thought systems more interesting. The fact that the other team failed to do any work at all on the project s...

I surmise that the winning side would not really use debate to gain converts at all. They would win by forcing a Civilization-esque Culture Victory by coming up with the raddest music, sickest videogames, and coolest forums posters, which have a far greater chance of attracting attention among polit...

I'd go with Denizens and Delvers, and then use those terms in the books to describe the monsters that have taken up residence in dungeons and abandoned structures such as ancient ruins, and the adventurers which kill them and take their stuff. Do this, and make certain the most prevalent denizen ra...

Then you offer strength a multiplicative effect contingent on the weapon's base damage and offer dexterity set damage from precision.

Obviously more options amounts to more power, in the absolute sense. But I imagine the idea here is to furnish the player with options that are mutually exclusive, in the sense that they can bring one to bear at any given instant, and make sure there's a utilitarian granularity where any particular...

Smart move reserving the topic, space on the internet is pretty tight right now. Don't want anyone taking your spot!

I agree. If you want to recognize numerical item effects in any substantial way but think there's a problem with the christmas tree effect, then deal with it in the outfitting minigame, don't try to create exernalities with inbuilt features of your core mechanic. If your problem is with managing an ...

Dear Ant, I have house centipedes. On one hand, they voraciously hunt and kill organisms that could be considered unsanitary and hazardous to my health or property, like termites, bed-bugs, and you. On the other hand, my girlfriend hates their creepy crawling gyrations, and even though I think they'...

You know, as much as I like to buck the convention when I've got to fill out paperwork to express my character's oeuvre, the schematic for a character application does help me overcome to tendency to procrastinate when I would otherwise have only a blank sheet of paper and a compulsion to use prose ...

And at level 6, Animate Dead justifies a character's whole existence. Give Necromancer Guy a free Animate Dead SLA (Skeletons Only; So Much Cleaner!), an aura of Desecration, a Negative Energy touch-attack, and you're done.

(These ideas are aimed at Josh's list, obviously)

Since it's a oneshot and you're trying to design around exotic niches why not just write a CR6 monster guy for some of those characters? They don't need to have classes. Give Healbot six medium-big HD, a fast healing Vigor sort of thing, a blood transfusion attack where he pumps fresh HP out of an e...

You can eschew defense rolls when you're play-by-posting. I mean, the conceptual transition from 3X to 4E moves all the rolls to the attacker by averaging rolls for saves and then randomizing the spell DC, and it's not difficult to do the same deal for other systems. Even if you don't want to altar ...

That's the conceit, yeah, but they've been writing books about the cards' stories for years and years and they still haven't really arrived at a good explanation for what sort of narrative hangs on a combat system like that. Ostensibly, everyone whose name is worth learning is either a summoner or a...

Yeah, the objective is to give them zero information and nothing to work with, not merely a different sort of information that they will gladly use to justify stapling your cock to your forehead. Don't fucking lie to the cops.

Your legal advice is phenomenally shitty.

The open disdain for twilight is more pervasive than twilight itself.

No, that's not a good thing to leech off.

I appreciate the salesman's logic in that but think it puts you at risk of a situation such as 3.5's, where the consensus drew a line and started excluding the 3.0 manuals and dragon magazines from their consideration. It's the kind of thing that can happen now that anyone interested in the hobby, e...

I came into this topic about writing evil but tolerable societies, and found one that stirred the fires of hate and genocide in my heart so greatly that I missed their whole fucking point and lost control of my ellipsis!

BRAVO~

Isn't that really easy? You just cost pistols like you would ammo. So you have 50 or so magic pistols in a magical brace of storing like the Haversack and handwave reloading them between combat. If you're shooting more than 50 times a combat then you have a problem anyway. Nothing is stopping you f...