The Gaming Den

Since scientists have recently discovered non-carbon based life on earth (arsenic based I think it was) If that's the study I remember, they claimed life that was using arsenic in place of phosphorous. They got a lot of pushback about bad technique, no idea what the current thinking is. . Its a bac...

If you ignore what the Asari look like their biology is actually pretty unique, and if you ignore/gloss over the Taurian culture their appearance is fairly non-human. I think it isn't going out too far on a limb to suggest that an advanced, tool using, space faring culture, regardless of biology, is...

A thought might be to adapt a priority system, like the one FASA used to use in Shadowrun and Mechwarrior. Pull out the 'everybodies got it stuff' like attributes, skills or money and make the catagories various types of power, including martial power. If the catagories are reasonably well balanced ...

Its probably best to have a mix of 'humans with ears on' and 'freaks'. I like Battlelords a bit in this regard. You have giant lizard men who are really more 'big dumb humans with ears on', space samurai methane breathers and Orions (who are REALLY human, with an extra finger'. Then you have an amor...

Well gosh. Give it whatever fucking stats you want and let the players roll their spells and their damage against it.

Seems obvious, chief.

This whole question of Personhood really makes me want to go re-read H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy Papers again, because if I have to deal with people bullshitting their way through what is and isn't personhood, he really did actually answer the question with some heavy thought that just isn't manifesting h...

I just like Frank claiming he'd prefer to live next do to Belkar than Roy. Two things: 1) When I first read this, I recognized OOTS because of Belkar, but I was somehow unable to think of Roy form OOTS and thought of Roy, the guy who posts here. And then I thought, "what alignment is he ?"...

I'd maybe not want to live next door to belker, in a modern suburban setting, no. However, if we are a part of the same "in group" and we needed to defend or get rid of any other "out group", then yeah belkar, all day everyday twice on sundays. Further, by some of the definition...

Yes. Belkar being a indisputably evil halfling (bordering on Psychotic Evil, but its mellowed to a more realistic 'meh, I'd still rather kill you than pay you money, but people are watching' evil recently. Roy is arguably Good, which actually seems to translate to him acting more or less like an ord...

Great. Now I have to worry if my Axe body spray is rape...

If I wanted I think I could make a reasonable argument for why, in werewolf, dogfucking is acceptable, or at the least rebut Frank's nearly histrionic post. But then I would, by necessity, be arguing in favor of dogfucking. And ultimately that is what it comes down to: There is nothing of value to b...

Again: Kratos fights INSIDE giant terrain monsters.

And what is Kratos but a ridiculously high level character?

I would say that in certain cases (the first two pictures), a creature that is so large is not a creature at all, for the purposes of fighting, but a dungeon itself. You don't fight a hydra or a walking mountain, you climb it, seek out the sacred heartstone and shatter it with the legendary Bobby Pi...

I just like Frank claiming he'd prefer to live next do to Belkar than Roy.

Agincourt is not exactly a great example either, as the French Knights apparently refused to help their fellow knights because they didn't want to lower themselves to fighting peasants, and thus remained queued up to fight the handful of English knights at the head of the line. Thus, instead of two ...

Well, that WOULD solve my little problem with the fact that we are now producing more iron in a year than has ever been mined... so what does this one nation actually DO with all that iron? Obviously; THey use it to breed massive armies of Rust Monsters... robbing their enemies of the tools necessar...

Am I missing some secret about Aasimar in all this debate about how to get STR up?

Oh, I fully agree that it would be built inside a massive industrial yard... maybe even one working round the clock, designed to support that level of production... though the mind boggles at what they'd be doing with all that iron eventually. Calling it a throne is rather confusing, as I do refer t...

I did say it was the first step, not the only defense. Having some great honking, twenty ton 'God Throne of Infinite Iron' makes it harder to steal, reducing opportunity and increasing cost over the pilferable 'Pocketwatch of Mining'... but if you leave it in the middle of an open field somewhere th...

To keep people from stealing your Magic Device of Create Iron, you first make it large enough to provide a logistical challenge to moving it around. Yes, a Handy Pocket Watch of Iron Creation is far more portable, and thus resolves, potentially, the issue of how to get all that iron over the next mo...

It might be interesting to compare some of the commentary here to the setting of Eberron. While that setting totally gives humans limited superpowers...er...spells... as racial abilities, you see the 'magic as technology' in the setting. You see a guild formed around people who can just talk over lo...

By your formulation, you also have to out paint the devil, or at least tie him, if you want to turn the contest into one of basic humanity and sportsmanship.

Since you will probably lose at that, you are stuck with being the better sportsman AND bringing the pain at the table.

If we are talking about an RPG, which we are, the Chemist does not actually need to be 'In the Run' to participate. In the movie it made little sense for the chemist to go with them except that they made such a big deal out of recruiting him that leaving him out would have been odd. Ditto the Archit...

I've never particularly liked the Hero's Journey style of story anyways. Or rather: Bored now. Time to jump straight to the killin' and lootin' stories.

I disagree with hogarth. Keeping up the Paul Bunyan theme, at low levels he's just a pretty damn good lumberjack with a heroic streak. Which Paul Bunyan story are you referring to? Don't be daft. Just because no one tells stories of 'wee paul bunyan, the ordinary little boy with a love of axes' doe...