The Gaming Den

I'm going to fork into another thread, since I don't want to talk specifically about adventurer economies, I want to talk about economies in general. (But it will get down to adventurer economies at some point).

yay ghost in the machine nonsense that fails even in an imaginary world where we know souls exist and there is an afterlife! That is beyond retarded.

I would argue that called hits are bad in systems with no hit locations. Systems with hit locations can actually support it without issue. Do you have an example of a game with hit locations that you think does it well? All the ones I've seen have pretty much sucked ass, although we got some entert...

With coins being displaced out of treasure drops, Greyhawking is now de jour? Well, its a matter of convenience and ability to trade. Horses and salt are pretty easy to sell and transport. The temple's marble facing - not so much. I don't recommend counting things which are basically nailed down as...

I think the first thing we want to do when we start refiguring adventure economies is get off this obsession with everything having piles of coins. I mean, this might make sense for a dragon (although *where does he get them*?), but for most monsters they'll have at best a small change purse. This i...

notice your own word.. SUPPLEMENT... as in shit you CAN use if you want, but NOT required to play the game. Oh, fwiw, OD+D is just a supplement to Chainmail. It's not even playable on its own, because it has no combat system until that later supplement you're denigrating. So if supplements don't co...

You know, I asked some very basic questions because I don't own the fucking 1974 printing of a book that is so irrelevant to the hobby at this point as it might as well be non-existent. Heck, I don't own any of the OD+D print runs. I assumed those became D+D, of which I do own the first box (and whi...

Don't be ridiculous! It's not an Escape Artist check at all; as we all know, the standard procedure for a small creature to escape the body of another, larger creature in 3e is to "cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to deal [some number] points of damage to the [desir...

I agree that the lack of interesting things she has to say is shocking. And sometimes she just fails to do the research, on topics that are trivial to investigate, from which *even stronger* claims could instead be made, and I just have to facepalm. Take her Women in Refrigerators video, a topic its...

Kinda makes me think of this . I've toyed around with it (with various takes on it) on-and-off for the last 4-5 years .... every time I get back to it, I can't help but notice how railroady it likely will be. If that was referring to me? You make it not railroady by letting the players have a way i...

You could also run a Matrix campaign where death simply kicks you out. It isn't all a dream, because there's something critical *in* the Matrix that you actually need (information probably). But you fully incarnate in teh matrix, and the whole party can get their avatars routinely wiped without actu...

And how is the thief not a fighting man? Those are general categories, which have subcategories (ie, the actual classes) within them. Hint: the Hobbit class is a Thief class. maybe you need to learn to read? read the quoted portion of the book as i am NOT going to copy/paste the entire text illegal...

And how is the thief not a fighting man? Those are general categories, which have subcategories (ie, the actual classes) within them. Hint: the Hobbit class is a Thief class.

Next you're going to claim the original box didn't provide for locked doors and traps either.

what the flying fuck shadzar. I'm pretty sure my D+D box includes a thief class. It also includes an elf class (because wtf?). Arguing the thief wasn't original to the game is so bonkers that you must enjoy a solipsistic existence. You clearly aren't talking about the same game that anyone else is, ...

So... The entire game is broken in half by the invention of some kind of wheeled cart that can be pulled and easily transported up and down cliffs. And somehow manages to fit through small holes, and isn't hampered by underground water hazards, and manages all this with medieval technology... hones...

I'm not sure I would ever want to play more than a one shot of that. I sure as fuck don't want to play a game for very long if my character can never master the absurdly broken talent of seeing in the dark. I think you have to imagine this as being a less fantastic and more grimdark world than D+D....

Assuming you're just on the astral plane, not teleporting. The SRD tells us two important things: -Subjective Gravity -The plane is Timeless. So, travel in the astral plane is fast. IIRC, you define down and fall in that direction. Since you hit terminal velocity in like 2 rounds, this is stupid fas...

I don't get the excuses people make for Gygax. Sure, he was inventing the wheel from scratch, whatever, but whenever I or anyone I know is homebrewing a game on a forum and we want to use dice, we have someone roll 2d6 or whatever and they get to add modifiers if their character is good at whatever...

Mearls is worse designer Gygax hated players. You're really going to need a tiebreaker criterion Agreed on Mearls as worse designer. Not actually sure Gygax hates players more. I mean, releasing rules sets that cause friends to come to (hopefully only figurative) blows over a game is pretty high on...

I don't really understand the position that pro-death individuals support death in the game and ALSO the assumption that most killed characters should be raised. I don't understand why you wouldn't just adopt a KO'd style scenario where losing your hp makes you go down for a fight but you still get...

Team Basketweaver. Team basketweaver's core conceit is that weather you succeed or fail/ live or die in an RPG is the sole domain of the MC. Thus if your character died it's the MCs fault, and conversely whenever your character succeeds a something it's because the MC let you. This point of view is...

You know, I never thought I would see the day when the den WANTED monte cook in charge of dnd again. idk, I have more respect for Monte Cook than most professional RPG designers. I mean, 3e wasn't perfect, but it was a vast improvement on 2nd edition in a lot of ways. For me, a designer doesn't hav...

1. you don't throw a spear with two hands. While his example was poor, it doesn't actually answer the question: "what happens when you throw a weapon with 2 hands?". (Hammer toss or a Caber come to mind). I would assume you get 1.5x str mod to damage. Despite the Caber appearing in an act...

Capes would probably work pretty well if your group was into a game that was more about telling a story than having their own character. While technically written as a superhero RPG, I could see the system adapted to other genres reasonably well. Depending on what genre you think D+D is in... (Dunge...

In 3.5 the literal reading of wealth by level. With the literal reading a character is supposed to have X gp in gear. If a PC lost all their gold betting on centaur racing then the MC is supposed to give them the gold needed to bring them back in line with their peers. This allows the Flask Rogue t...