The Gaming Den

words You seem to be under the impression that you're responding to me, but your response is so completely detached from anything I actually said that I can't see how you could possibly have actually read what I wrote and imagined that I said any of the things you claimed I did. I know who I'm talk...

Advocating for Independence is not 'open rebellion'. A non-binding vote is a form of protest, not a rebellion. Actions following the vote might or might not qualify as open rebellion. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it is open rebellion because there is nothing in international law that actuall...

There is no crime. There is no proportionality. It's war . Of all the Denners to come out as a monster, why you? You were better than this. I looked up to you. :sad: Except Frank's technically right and Chamomile has never understood the difference between domestic law and international law. That's...

I've heard that in the Qing dynasty twin straight swords were popular with bodyguards who need something easy to carry but can still parry a polearm wielding foe. The idea being one sword parries the polearm while the other attacks. For warfare though carrying a polearm yourself or a shield was pre...

But to be perfectly clear, no one gives a shit about the date of the Marian Reforms. The Marian Reforms are not the date of the invention of the sword. They are not the date of the formation of the Roman Army. First of all, the rest of your statements are just a poor attempt to copy Frank Trollman'...

Are you really trying to assert that two dudes fencing is superior historical data than period records written in an era when these weapons were used to fight actual wars? He's flat out claimed those are worthless, as are historians and historical sources. His only source is the jacket description ...

What DSMatticus was actually asserting was that the pila were generally used as a ranged weapon and that Romans preferred the gladius in melee. What you've provided is evidence that the pilum is really good at being a ranged weapon. That's not a counterargument. And yet he ignores that the Hasta - ...

Spears are highly formidable and I do not claim that I would pose significantly better results if I tagged into this match, but that swordsguy is optimally equipped for failure. I would take almost any other weapon in my dominant hand and I would take literally any other equipment in my of-hand, in...

Zinegata, the transition away from Roman spear phalanxes to the weird sword-wielding quincunx happens both moderately early into the development of Rome, is incredibly enduring, and so well-documented you have to be one of those twats who goes around looking for obscure ways to be wrong simply beca...

Meanwhile in Rome, spears were such useless rubbish the first thing you did when going into battle was throw the damn things away so you could draw your sword and properly stab some fools. That's the British Hollywood history interpretation - which is so full of shit that it's where we got the &quo...

I wonder if speed and reach are good metrics for weapons in a D&D like game. Reach is the OP stat in real life. All other things being equal, the guy with more reach will tend to win. There's just too much to be gained by being able to do damage over a larger surface area (from the perspective ...

Have any of y'all played a D&D game where someone focused on disarming or disarming was a big part of some session critical combat? I like the idea of knocking weapons out of goon's hands, but the hero getting their holy avenger knocked out of their hand then smacked on the shoulder as they wal...

You can't have a single skill system that covers everything, but you can have stealth and social and chase and so on systems. This is getting very close to the core of the issue. Again, the thing to realize about games is that the fun is largely derived from conflict resolution . The issue, at leas...

I was thinking Mordheim or Coreheim, from what I've read SAGA looks neat. Something I'm not clear on is if they have different rules for different kinds of weapons, I'm under the impresison that SAGA units just use their stats ('elite guy' 'conscript guy') and swords/spears/axes are largely interch...

Funny thing: The local minis tabletop group's getting a bit tired of the current Blood Bowl League and they're beginning to feel a Medieval skirmish battle itch. You'd think they're consider AoS, right? Nope, first option was Saga, which is basically so small it's indie: http://www.grippingbeast.co....

For me, the main point of having skills is to give a game world the illusion of having a set of physical laws. So, for example, a game universe where climbing a 10' ladder causes me to fall 9 times out of 10 will feel different from a game universe where I fall 1 time out of 1000. Is that adding &q...

On the flip side, D20's skill system is very bad in pretty much every way it's possible to be bad - so you wouldn't want the skill system to look very much like D20's system. I'm perfectly willing to have a discussion about all the ways D20's skill system is bad, but it's a little off topic here. I...

There was no surge in play when AoS came out, unless you count a negative value as a surge. The tournament scene disintegrated overnight, and even Pathfinder 9th age came out. General's handbook reversed the downhill crash. I am fairly certain that Blood Bowl is presently selling better than AoS in...

Using energy to split Hydrogen out of water and then getting some of the energy back when you recombine it is not a fuel source. If you're going to be real strict about the terminology then what you're looking for is the term propellant , rather than fuel (two very different things but are used int...

In the 2,900 cubic kms of Eros, there is more aluminium, gold, silver, zinc and other base and precious metals than have ever been excavated in history or indeed, could ever be excavated from the upper layers of the Earth's crust. Basically all we have to do is find one high metal content asteroid ...

The key resources to mine from asteroids - for the purpose of an extractive industry providing for people elsewhere - are heavy metals (platinum, nickel, gold, etc.) and rare earths (cerium through yttrium). Keep in mind that neither of these things are something we're ever likely to run out of on ...

Yeah CP Foods is big on slavery, they're a gigantic company in Thailand. They supply cheap and tasty shrimp to 7-11 among other things. Burmese slaves today are the cheapest in the history of Thailand. The slavers still make regular stops in civilization though. Hmmm perhaps a religious priesthood ...

However it's important to note that oil rig workers stay on the rig for two weeks and then get one to three weeks off. Basically they spend roughly half of each month in the rig and the other half in a town . Yes, I agree that you'll need communities if you're presuming that you need at least some ...

The bottom line is that empires are economic entities as well as political ones, and the economic forces are very, very strongly against the formation of a solar empire and very much for the Earth just extracting whatever it wants and hauling it back home for use here. Establishing space colonies, ...

Are there any sci-fantasy adventurer settings that flesh out the planets of the solar system well? The essential issue with "Solar System as a Setting" is that it occupies the uncomfortable midpoint between the present day and the bright/grimdark sci-fi future where technology has essenti...