The Gaming Den

Why not play Scum And Villainy instead? Because people never get tired of hitting nails with the butt of a screwdriver. The concept of using hammers is not only alien to them, it's inimical. Also, I don't know the first thing about Scum and Villainy, but I can't think of many games worse than SF so...

For the last time: d&d is not meant to be balanced. It's meant to mix Hawkeye with Thor in the same party (for some reason), and Hawkeye is meant to be even more useless each passing level as the Avengers move from "hit a Hydra nest" to "force peace between the Kree and the Shi A...

Wizard dicks and fighter tiny tears. Jokes apart, back in 3E, the basic weapon to enchant had to be masterwork, so there's your answer. It's the enchanting process that makes it immune to damage from everything but other magic weapons. It's not some unobtanium or anything (otherwise any muggle could...

Because neckbeards make no sense. At all.

The same neckbeards that cry if fighters get nice things are the ones that also cry when the spellcasters run circles around them.

Also, individual XP tracks only result in players continually trying to upstage each other rather than working as a team.

Recently WotC announced they were going to try to deal with some of the racial determinism by introducing an upcoming product that would let people swap out stat arrays. Ruse /ro?oz,ro?os/ noun an action intended to deceive someone; a trick. Funny how far they'll go to make people look the other wa...

The use of brainlets and the obsession with left vs right is rather telling of this pic's target demo (which I doubt is the Den). I'm actually surprised Libertad of all people would share this.

The first thing to do upon joining any game is: Always ask for the house rules.

Always.

While I fail to grasp why the PCs would want to be in there... How about, instead of giving them helping McGuffins, you design each obstacle so they can only be overcome by using the PCs specific talents... but in ways they don't commonly use. They themselves are the pieces, and the solution to the ...

Looks awesome, kudos.

“As a long time fan of Exalted, I’m thrilled to be working on a project that will help spread the joy of playing Exalted to all players — from newcomers to dedicated fans,” All I need is this piece of Mearls-speak to see this is going to be Exalted: Mearls Edition - The Search For Critical Role Mon...

That article is such an incoherent mess... that it is evident it is written by a 5E fan.

Seemingly, Mearls is back at the dnd division (hopefully not at the lead, even if that'd be just par for the course for 2020)

https://twitter.com/CHofferCBus/status/ ... 7583656962

If you ask me, I'm not sure moving the campaign for later will help. If anything, tomorrow will be worse.

Mistborn wrote:Did someone say "fighter thread"?

'cause I think I just heard someone say "fighter thread".

P.S: I'm totally stealing this bingo idea for a comic.

Eh, you can still have useful fighters in that situation, you just fight totally alien monsters Oh, so just because you don't understand it then it's okay to kill it, got it... hmm where did I hear that before? I'm sure I heard the Catholic church say something like that about a specific group of p...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: If you need any rage material, just check out some of his videos. He relishes in it.

The world is already a nightmare, I see no reason to go out of my way to seek even more reasons to be angry.

Whoever the neckbeard who wrote this, they found a way to make 5E objectively worse. If anything, that's a merit in itself.

All I have to say is that there's a specific level of hell for GMs who allow their players to roll a sword dude only to troll them with post-modern Friendship Is Magic morality in the mud middle ages, thus making the only thing their character was built for useless. Everything is "problematic.&...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I think it's pretty clear at this point that Trump is going to go down in history as one of the greatest butchers we've seen

How optimist! You're assuming there's still going to be written, recorded history 20 years from now!

So the trade off of entering one's magical persona is that they risk being seen, and increasing that capacity through their actions. So you want to run The Esoterrorists: Weeb Edition? Because thay may require a level of buy-in the average dnd player may not possess (they don't care for the world. ...

What would be a reasonable way to handle the transformation? Like, "Spend a full-round action to transform?" There must be tradeoffs. first and foremost. What do they lose when non transformed? Proficiencies? Hit points? Class features? Also, how often are they expected to be caught vulne...

Y'know, it feels good to read stuff like DenizenKane's rant. It's reassuring. People that stupid can't be a serious threat. An Argentinian singer-philosopher once answered when asked about his fears: "I fear dipshits. They're many, you can't cover such a large front, and because they're majori...

saithorthepyro wrote:Mike Mearls has apparently no longer been working on DnD since 2014

Fixed that for you.

RobbyPants wrote:It doesn't help that half the country has bought into beliefs about capitalism and poor people that prevent them from being outraged by these things.

The devil's greatest trick was convincing the poor they deserve to suffer for being poor.