The Gaming Den

Frank is helping.

Fucks wrote:So we still don't have anyone here who purchased Spy Games and give us a review of it?

No, it sounds like Frank has officially run out of Give-A-Fuck(TM). I know my supply is so limited I can't even be bothered to torrent Deadly Skies.

I agree that printing material that was previously released in a separate PDF product isn't necessarily wrong. Not everyone goes in for the PDFs, and if the material makes sense next to each other and is presented in a compelling way there is value there. I'm with Wesley on not purchasing another Sh...

Oh lord, I can imagine his trollface after pulling that off. Also, are there stats for the vector thrust MBTs Frank has been comparing Dragons to? At one point stats were kept sparse because if you needed to know it was too late for you. Thanks to War! you have stats, you just can't apply them in a...

I just a had a situation in game the other night where I specifically made sure not to use these rules. Guess what? Everything was fine. Well, not for the bad guys... Custom fast attack LAV lands in the open garage door of the PCs hideout. The craft is designed to allow the entire front to open so t...

I recall showing a friend the website Leviathans years ago. Back then I was still a fan of CGL and he was still with his wife. I do really hope that CGL gets the damn thing out sometime soon. If Leviathans is half way successful for them there might be some way to get Shadowrun away from them. I kno...

I'm trying really hard to care about all this. Can you guys at least throw in some funny cat pictures or some shit? I would run it all through the Googlator, but I can't seem to give a fuck of sufficient magnitude. Can someone let me know if any of this pertains to Shadowrun or the situation there of?

So Way of the Adapt isn't a canon rules supplement? Pretty ballsy introducing a line of "Shadowrun Options" products when they haven't released a solid rules supplement in how long? I kinda dig the mechanic of making some abilities cheaper based on a thematic affinity. And I see why they m...

I had a laugh this weekend when a friend at the local gaming store asked me if all these Shadowrun "netbooks" he'd been seeing online were legit. After a clarification of my feelings on the legitimacy of the current publisher I let him know that yes, CGL did release them and that we were s...

So in Earthdawn the potential exists for anyone to use magic, but it's easier for some than others. We can consider this typical of a high mana level environment. So its not so much the lack or presence of some x-factor, but the personal potential in every person to be expressed by exposure to the c...

When making a character in Earthdawn, does someone have to pay some amount of something to be "magical"? Or are you considered magical by default? If considered magical by default, is it possible play someone non-magical? Because if everyone has the potential to gain Talents, then everyone...

As it happens, there are known traits which are determined biologically but not genetically. Of course there are. But as I recall from Street Magic, there is in fact a mage gene . Which means that while it requires proper environmental pressure to awaken, but if you lack the gene, you can't ever aw...

Yes, there is some stupid shit: like how Peter Taylor wrote up India as the undisputed #1 power on the planet - a unified, weather manipulating magocracy with 10 million mages in it - that miraculously hadn't been mentioned in any previous books despite wielding literally more military might than a...

An artist I know who did some work for CGL refereed to Randall as "A joke who seemed like he was delivering pizzas yesterday and has no idea how to do the job he's been handed today". Randall hired Jason. Good luck getting some order back in the place. It does seem like once you're in they...

I've always liked the bits of fiction where shits going down. You know, on the run. I don't necessarily need to know who the players are (but it helps if I like them), I want a little bit of action to start off my rules. If I meet a character I want to think "Wow, I wanna be like that!". Y...

If CGL was a professional operation with competent leadership that took charge in the wake of a tragic situation that shattered the company, I would be cheering on anyone who stepped up to write for them. But we have the same fuckers who put the company in the situation it was then running the compa...

Who's fighting the good fight? I'm killing time 'cause my mid-terms are over and I just turned in one of the big freelance projects I was working on. If butting heads with Frank Trollman on a few forums is the worst thing that happens to me all day, big fucking deal. It's just the internet. Nothing...

You're working for the company, you're a company man. If the company is bad, that makes you a bad guy company man. And CGL is bad. Right here, dude. You're never going to get a neutral review here, and you know it. You're going to get heat for working for a corrupt company like CGL, and you know it...

You're working for the company, you're a company man. If the company is bad, that makes you a bad guy company man. And CGL is bad. Right here, dude. You're never going to get a neutral review here, and you know it. You're going to get heat for working for a corrupt company like CGL, and you know it...

Ok, not sure what that's doing in Attitude but it doesn't sound too strange. I thought I saw something on Dumpshock about it giving a STR of 8 and dropping AGI to 1, but it didn't make sense. In a world where you can wirelessly experience being your own car, right down to "feeling" the win...

Nothing to do with translation. Hardy's stating that a book that's distributed through an illegal vendor is in itself an illegal item. Which is just nuts. That's like saying an album that Prince Paul released solely to Napster in the late-'90s would be illegal. Ouch. If the state of things has gott...

I can sort of get the Kerouac thing, just as a joke. The intellectual property rights for Kerouac's works were the subject of an incredibly complicated set of nested inheritances, forged signatures, and bad blood. He died in 1969, so even if they extended copyrights of dead people to a hundred year...

Infrastructure has it's own rewards. CGL has no infrastructure. Without taking the time to build the system you need to make quality product you'll have smooth sailing until you don't, then you're dead. Oh, and while you're sailing you have to get out and push the boat yourself. Wanna go check out t...

Every defense I've read for the current crop of books out of CGL has been "Well, it's not complete or accurate; but I can totally use [Insert Here] in my game if I write it up..." Nothing is prefect, but the books we've had in the past have been a lot closer. None of the Shadowrun products...

Overwatch much? Pre SR4 my hackers spent the run back at base and remotely supported the group via various types of wireless tech and direct matrix hacking. In SR4, I basically do the same. Sure you can have a commlink with you and hang out with the big guns, but why? Wifi blocking paint? Give the m...