My mental image of FrankTrollman is Dr. Frank N Furter

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:24 am

and soon, he will be an actual Dr. Frank, right?

The general feeling of The Den is like a strange castle you discover on the roadside. It's a place that many more populous RPG discussion forums consider 'deviant' and 'vulgar'. Many of y'all have ended up here because of warnings and bans just because you were being yourself in a place that didn't tolerate.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:29 am

I ended up here googling for Soulknife class fixes and somehow googled for a Jester and...that was that.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:31 am

I ended up here through being someone who trawled Nifty but never posted.

I don't even remember how I ended up on Nifty.

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:50 am

I found the Tomes on the Wizards of the Coast message boards and somehow found The Den when looking for them again. That was shortly before the 2008 board crash / hosting issue, but I didn't actually create an account until much more recently.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:54 am

I was exposed to the Tomes and The Wish and The Word and some of the Frank & K threads from the WOTC boards well after the fact, and I liked the writing style and content enough to google around and see what else they'd done. I learned, through threads on dumpshock, paizo, RPGNet, and probably a few more, that no matter how obvious and correct and obviously correct you are, someone on the internet will try to tell you you are wrong, and they will do so like passive aggressive twats, concealing their insults only enough that they can claim whatever the socially required level of deniability is while still obviously insulting you. Whether or not you're allowed to respond in kind without getting banned depends entirely on whether or not you're willing to pretend you're not being an asshole while obviously being an asshole (like they are) and whether or not you've spent enough time sucking community cock for the mods to play along with your make believe.

TGD has the best mods.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:39 am

i found the den in the bills/coleman gate

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:27 am

I Googled for D&D rules in the summer of '08, and somehow found Tome instead, and finally drifted to the source forum of Tome.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:24 pm

We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:40 pm

Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

Sigged.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:49 pm

Pretty sure I stumbled on this place from the GITP forums.

And I picture Frank like Dr. Hook from Riget- living in a weird basement full of RPG books and contraband.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:58 pm

@AH
i think i remember reading that somewhere before O.o

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:29 pm

If I recall right, Frank put a picture of himself on the Gaming Den Face Thread.

He's the guy wearing orange.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:41 pm

Based on prior photos, prior comments from his sister, that Deadlands card, and the After Sundown cover my mental image of Frank is a Snorlax dressed all in saftey orange and brandishing a revolver while making a ghoul face.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:49 pm

This is what appears in my head when i think about Frank:
http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Baron_Klaus_Wulfenbach

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:59 pm

Somewhar up in hyah if'n anyone wants t' know the True Face of Frank.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:36 pm

The easiest thing is to just google his name. The image search gives you quite a few of his images. Have I mentioned that google is god damned creepy.

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:49 pm

Maxus wrote:Somewhar up in hyah if'n anyone wants t' know the True Face of Frank.

Oh man, why did you do that? If I wanted to see ugly RPG players I could always use a mirror.

In other news, Orion kind of looks like the other DM from our group.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:51 pm

I think we should update that thread with new pictures to see what has become of everyone in those 4 years.

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:45 pm

Googling Frank also resulted in this hilarity:

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/forum/show ... k-Trollman

Guyr Adamantine · Post by **Guyr Adamantine** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:52 pm

Ikeren wrote:Googling Frank also resulted in this hilarity:

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/forum/show ... k-Trollman

The butthurt is strong in these ones.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:05 am

Guyr Adamantine wrote:
Ikeren wrote:Googling Frank also resulted in this hilarity:

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/forum/show ... k-Trollman
The butthurt is strong in these ones.

Only in like 3 of them of what, 10 posters, one of which is now banned. That's a pretty good ratio actually. The signal to butthurt ratio on that thread was fairly decent compared to most places I reckon.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:09 am

JigokuBosatsu wrote:I think we should update that thread with new pictures to see what has become of everyone in those 4 years.

I've got some gray hairs now. I've lost a little weight. I'll see about managing one, unless I can find a decent facebook picture.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:02 am

Ikeren wrote:Googling Frank also resulted in this hilarity:

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/forum/show ... k-Trollman

Sometimes when I have extra time I sit and read threads about Frank/Tomes/TGD. There's one on therpgsite that says we consist mostly of people going "Rainman" over the rules, that we only think from 0 or infinity, that we've had math-related brain damage, and that we don't understand friendship. I just love the internet.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:13 pm

I thought it was pretty funny how completely uniformed they were.

Frank has been banned from all the forums, like TGD...

Dogbert · Post by **Dogbert** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 3:42 pm

I was told about the Den by someone I met at OpenRPG's lobbies. The first post I was pointed at was Frank's AoaBS for nWoD, I've kept an eye on it ever since.

I can't say I care much about about faces.