The Gaming Den

If you aren't trying to expand the game's system to handling multiple participants and are in fact focused on one-on-one duels, there are worse places to look for inspiration than David Sirlin's Yomi . The thing about RPS, even with five options, is that single-iteration RPS boils down to total luck...

I don't care enough about TO to put a lot of effort into it, but there are charge builds in D&D that could one-shot Vox. That's probably the best way to kill her, because magic is out if you're outside 20 feet. She's canonically fought in her caverns, which have a low ceiling, so you don't actua...

So I got my hands on a monster manual, Monsters of Norrath, so that I could put some of EQ d20 RPG's character classes in context. I've already mentioned that throwing monsters out of D&D's manuals at them might be a bit too much for most of them to handle. There's plenty of ranged damage availa...

I saw a copy of the Plane of Hate adventure book at my local used bookstore once. I should see if it or any of its friends are still there. I actually thought the comparison to 4e was inevitable, given the whole "MMO" thing, but honestly 4e is probably more entertaining as a combat engine....

was it licensed by Sony and legal to do this? Yes. Bunch of White Wolf writers + Sony license + OGL = EQ RPG, OH YEAH! Chapter 5: Feats: The Disappointing: Did you think feats would be awesome? Yeah, no such luck. You get standard core D&D weaksauce. A lot of the core feats (Blind-Fight, Cleave...

Yes, really. EverQuest: The Questing: Player's Handbook Introduction You may or may not recall this thing that happened in 1999 called EverQuest. The graphical evolution of text-based DikuMUD and quasi-successor to Ultima Online, EverQuest has seriously won an Emmy and has enjoyed attention due to n...

An unexpected amount of vitriol directed at gender-neutral pronouns, Frank, considering that you seem to be fairly left-leaning (at least from my own observations). I'm not sure whether you take issue with the specific pronouns chosen or whether it's the whole idea, but surely the transhumanist soci...

virgil wrote:Is it me or is there a possibly unnatural love for spirits going on here?

Spirits are how you snap the game in half. Seriously.

I don't understand how having multiple flavors of superpowers with different names is relevant. Seriously, if you don't like "magic" as a catch-all term for superpowers in fantasy, just call them superpowers. And until we are discussing a specific game instead of theory arguments about fla...

So we're left wanting two different sanity tracks: a Terror track...and a Despair track... You'll get no argument from me, this is a much better idea and I wish I'd thought of it. Everything I posted I had actually already written several months ago in the span of an hour and was intended to be as ...

HOW TO CTHULHUTECH Presented in the style of: The Gaming Den Fix the fluff yourself. I don't care enough to write setting junk. CORE MECHANICS The core mechanics of Cthulhutech are shitty, obtuse, and needly complicated for no good reason. Strip out the awful KRAFTWERK mechanics and replace them wi...

Aryxbez wrote:If it's already been immaculately detailed, just link me to the post(s) on here, but a listing of them would be appreciated.

Here's a changelog from the devs.

By RAW, if you have purchased a Skill Group, you can't buy specializations for any of the skills in that group. You have to purchase the skill separately to be able to specialize. In theory you can buy a group and then raise some individual skill within the group with karma after chargen, then buy a...

I think that GTFO abilities that don't change the way you actually play the game are dubious design. Flight arguably adds to the tactical landscape. Abilities like Blasphemy are terrible--all Blasphemy does is kill everyone if your level isn't high enough, but if your level IS high enough it serious...

Played s'more You know what, the pokemon videogame feels more like a card game than the Pokemon card game. In the videogame, Nidoking shoots elemental lasers from his mouth and never uses his horn or tail. Substitute is an abstract move carried by mahy pokemon. In the card game, Nidoking has attack...

For a pulp fantasy game in the style of D&D, there are certain things that every adventurer-type character needs to be able to do. There are probably differing opinions on what those are, but I think the list is probably something like: Stab fools. (Broadly, "contribute in combat encounters...

I agree completely that a death spiral is probably an undesirable effect in a D&D-type game--in which people expect to slug it out for a couple rounds, not get double-tapped in the chest and fall down a la Shadowrun. I'm not sure how giving enemies who are wounded offensive bonuses while simulta...

Doesn't increasing the offense of wounded enemies make focused-fire the obvious choice in basically all cases, thus not solving a major problem with critical existence failure?

Ancient History wrote:You laugh, but historically sexual favors were sometimes minted onto coins and tokens of different values to denote their cost.

Excellent username/post synergy.

My approach when running a Tome game was to assume that even poorly-built Tome PCs can handle level-appropriate challenges by the CR system. Well-built Tome PCs will curbstomp level-appropriate challenges by the CR system. If you want to make things harder for their CR, swapping out Toughness for so...

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I want to know why an Australian lesbian chick knows so much about the American Pro Wrestling "scene." Because my mind is officially blown.

If you die in "oldschool" D&D, you might as well just re-roll anyway.

DrP wrote: You can take any pretender available to either nation.

I think that's the answer you were looking for.

Yep, that's pretty much how I figured things would work. All part of the plan. As long as I can build the other R'ylehan national troops and commanders from land-based forts, I'm happy. The loss of crab hybrids is a sad thing, but that's not where my priorities lie. So yes, I'll stand with that deci...

I am assuming that if I gestalt R'lyeh with a land nation as my second nation, my land-based forts will produce R'lyeh's full spectrum of national units and not the coastal hybrids or whatever. (I realize this will leave me with a few unit types that I can't recruit because they'll suffocate, but I ...