The Gaming Den

You (foolishly, disgustingly) assume a lot. I've learned a great deal here--but nobody asked what I've learned so I haven't talked about it. Well, firstly, it's not particularly an assumption that you aren't learning, it's an observation. Your patterned repetition of looping the same argument over ...

I disagree. If you're on the internet talking games there's only 2 real reasons I can see: ... 2-You see the activity as an end in itself ... If (2) you're a terminal loser. You have chosen a life path which trades time you could be spending having real fun trying to derive it from making innocent ...

Posting in an [Epic Thread] . This is priceless comedy, and what really makes it is the occasional derail into discussing drugs. Zak S, do keep it up. Eventually you'll prove wrong those people who are saying mean things on the internet about you. Probably right before a Doctor Who Christmas Special .

Nantuko Shade is the new standard. Sorry, but Fallen Empires shit won't cut it, and only barely did when it was released. The only reason those clerics would possibly be good is you can turn on first strike. But then I could drop a Black Knight and not have them be swept by Electrickery or similar &...

Do games where you can customize your character count? 'Cause if so, then you can add every TES game, Fallout 3 and NV, Soul Caliber, Dragon Quest IX... I wouldn't really say so. For various reasons, but the stand-out one is whether it actually lets you look like a Black person. There are games whe...

To answer the gaming company part of this, a lot of people have talked about how Kickstarter can be used to sell premium-priced RPGs at a high rate of return. Monte Cook in particular was . . . given a reception that amounted to stunned disbelief on this forum. http://www.deadlyfredly.com/2013/11/co...

Either no one reads OgreBattle's posts or thinks it is intended to be more than OgreBattle posted it as. Here's some of the writings from The Den that I've found useful in designing games. "I've." I. Implying personally. OgreBattle. As in, "what I like." The resource management s...

The funny thing is that "prying into the Lady's affairs" is probably the biggest waste of time. She's a boring plot device that floats around all day. Occasionally she mazes someone or pushes a dabus around.

I only have access to the basic SRD PDF, so none of that fancy shit like Quarantine, so I gotta ask: What's the deal behind Sex Moves in this game? How important is it in most games and for hypothetical character advancement? Can I just mostly ignore it because casual sex in an apocalyptic wastelan...

In this situation, the really synergistic choice is not buying a ship and then buying crew, it is taking the ability to summon a Ghost Crew which can pilot ships not by humans but by disembodied forces, and then buying two empty battleships. Usually when people discuss trap options they do not assum...

But SR4 has a decent social system. Ehn. . . That it can also, for some edge cases, serve as a rape mechanic, doesn't change that the social mechanics work pretty well. I'm not entirely sold on your first statement here, so I'm not entirely sold on the rest either. Trying to condemn PL's system sol...

Frank claimed Blade was wrong. I simply showed that no, Blade was correct. And then I asked if SR4 was fucked up according to his own standards. It's not picking at the game - I love SR4 - it's picking at Frank's claim. It's not even that - as Frank stated, it doesn't even matter if SR4/A is Wrong ...

SR4A: Seduction is a specialization of con Con checks are opposed by the target's con or negotiation and Intuition. Note, it's an opposed test, not a resistance rest. Wound modifiers apply therefore. So, SR4A is fucked up? People who pick at (Blank)'s Favorite Game like it means anything on TGD alw...

Do you ever write for the Shadzar collective? Oddsok mangrove shrooms creep blisteringly below drunkenness. So that's a yes then. If shadzar paid me 5c a word to troll these forums with inane rants and a fairly open-ended word count, I would do it in a heartbeat. The rant I posted just there would ...

Perhaps I am simply an idiot, yes? You just wrote 869 words which consisted largely of complaining about people daring to disagree with people who aren't even you on an internet forum. The high points were personal attacks and strong evidence of your very own strange obsession with Frank. But I lik...

So in summary Almaz. You don't seem to know what the Oberoni fallacy is, what rule zero is, what a vendetta is, what a counter argument is, or what an incentive is. Now, to go through your main issue slowly for you. It is not "Oberoni" to outline an alternative rule and then point out tha...

Did you just Oberoni yourself ? ...No? In what imaginable way is "the people using this criticism aren't satisfied with anything" suddenly "Oberoni"? "I could edit this out, but I will instead leave it in the text because the audience can easily do so to their own tastes.&q...

There is a simple solution. Don't include romantic social actions. At all. Just remove the related skill sets and the default Seductive social flavor option. Does that make the critics shut up about the terrors of daring to have social actions in combat? No. It won't. They'll continue to run around...

On the bright side(?) I got an idea for a system wherein making people feel better about themselves makes them more inclined to do stuff for you. Which is probably more accurate than beating people into agreeing to fuck you.

With resolutions like A. Issue fake and mandatory apology (often accompanied with a promise to get help / and or money for indulgences granted by the almighty Press) B. Tell them to fuck right off. I wish more people to tell them to fuck right off. I respect the people a little bit more who tell th...

You shouldn't have reactive attacks be conditional on whether the person decides to use them because they come out of a limited resource, unless that resource also does other things. Every time you add a new game currency to determine one and exactly one thing that serves no purpose but to hold up t...

Now will you say that this rule is stupid? Yes. If you're well-behaved, you'll say that you don't like it, that it doesn't fit your playstyle, that it's not something you're interested in. If you're an egocentric asshole, you'll probably say it's stupid (and insult whoever is talking about it). I'm...

I'm not a true denner: when I don't like a rule, I don't necessarily think it's stupid. Which probably means you don't think, as if you didn't like a rule you would have some reason to dislike it, which most commonly is a flaw (perceived or real) in the rule you disagree with. Since you fail to sta...

I generally assume that deities are effectively supernaturally bound by their own oaths to not break faith with their high priests and such, but may intrigue against their own priests (via above means) and may also punish random worshippers (and it is the priest's job to intercede to stop such puni...

Unless you have a Very Specific Level of divine covenancy in which covenants are literally designed in order to maximize the amount of omission bias for dramatic effect, I find the unbreakable suicide pact explanation as to why Pelor doesn't excommunicate his vampire priests when he discovers them ...