The Gaming Den

A fair number of people care in my experience, particularly since the system also supports people making low level halfling fighters that power attack with a two handed weapon while calling twice their own weight a medium load. Halflings were markedly unpopular in my gaming group given that frankly ...

It's a tough thing to buy into though considering that an ordinary adult that keeps their wits about them can totally school a pit bull terrier.

Prak: Like I said, I don't mind the direction the art style has taken over the years and in any case the appropriateness of competing styles is completely subjective, when it comes right down to it. But that doesn't change that the shift has been made and I certainly don't find it surprising that pe...

When the hell have they looked like superheroes? It's all relative; 2nd ed and earlier had a surprising number of every man types wandering around in the art as well as skinny and/or old wizards, particularly if you're talking about martial splat books-- those often featured bandits, pirates and ba...

I'd say ogrebattle is correct insofar that you can stack feces pretty high when you're as motivated as GWS.

I realized it pretty damn fast because one of my first "campaigns"--scare quotes because it was rather brief-- featured a DM who wanted to run an all-elves campaign.* We ended up with a group that featured ranger/rogue, a druid and three fucking wizards . The party's low hitpoint total int...

It's a precarious situation because a big part of what makes Blizzard successful is that they have a degree of leverage with the hardcore gaming community. They've been able to make concessions to accessibility and crossover appeal that many hardcore gamers wouldn't accept (albeit grudgingly, in man...

And of course it also has an effect on how people post in the first place. Gentle cajoling--well, barring serious leverage of some sort, at any rate-- is often the only really viable path to convincing an entrenched opponent to willingly taking up your position. It's tricky and often a longshot, but...

Sounds reasonable. I'll be keeping any more li'l thematic questions to the other thread in the future as per your earlier request. I just had a few wires crossed in my brain the other day and kinda forgot about the thread split, apparently.

Another bias to keep in mind is that a lot of forum arguments are effectively a couple of parties trying to convince a third party that their position is the correct one. In such a case you often can accomplish something even if the person you are most directly arguing with never admits to defeat. Y...

It helps a lot if you're right.

How much do you want to emphasize the assumptions of the base setting you have in mind versus keeping things setting agnostic? Because if you intend for people to mostly flesh out their own schoolyard hierarchies you may be better off just calling Magical Girls "Sentai" and Noble Lords/Lad...

The actual mechanics of this game are almost wholly divorced from its fluff. The only piece of fluff that's made it into the mechanics so far is "murder school." The details of what kind of school (swap out "house" for "major" and we've got a college, swap out "ho...

Anyway, how about an Inhibited negative trait where you have social penalties when dealing with characters of sufficient attractiveness? Best comboed with Grumpy for maximum tsundere.

You say that as if getting into table top gaming for the peer regard isn't a completely stupid idea on first principles.

The tweaks Koumei has made to the inhuman house concept seem like a good start since it helps define the house based on what they do as opposed to what they physically are , but I'm still a tiny bit leery of the title. For example, I could easily see a vampire character whose power set falls more un...

So, Possessed but good? I'd play that. Hell, I want to play a game of Possessed, damnit... Yeah, thematically I was thinking along those lines although from a purely visual perspective Persona was the more immediate inspiration given the genre. The nice thing is that it appears Koumei already has e...

How about you ditch the Magical Girl familiars and instead build a house/skillset around people that have a symbiotic relationship with a spirit of some sort as its main shtick? Fluff it out right and it could work for both the wet blanket shinto priestess types as well as the angsty dude that got s...

I'd play After Sundown.

Unless you're limiting this thing to just super urban areas (and even then, what about the transfer kids?) it sounds to me like you need an Ecology and Agriculture category to cover some of the nature and survival skills. It could be a grab bag category to pump for both the stereotypical hick kids w...

That, and many maxims and life lessons are basically bullshit but can still be highly functional to believe in anyway. For example, the whole notion that anyone can make it in America via hard work can be an advantage if it inspires you to try and maximize every opportunity that comes your way. It's...

Heart was in the right place. Very touch-and-go in terms of quality. In order: Adapt: Way too weak, and the designer considers them to be the most powerful. Yeah, that sank his credibility with me almost immediately. I had planned on reading and commenting upon the whole thing but upon reading the ...

That only fortifies my belief that MMOs and TTRPGs don't fill the same need for people. I'd agree, except your characterization is too harsh and binary since a lot of people play WoW just because they like collecting things or exploring game mechanics before moving on to the next title or yes, beca...

There's still storylines baked into WoW but after you "complete" it all the dead NPCs go back to what they were doing, which is pretty disassociative for obvious reasons. It's one of those areas where running a game world for thousands of people is clearly running at cross purposes to ente...

It's a novelty issue and frankly a lot of ttrpg gameplay is just as thankless, when it comes right down to it. In MMORPGs, killing instance bosses is as common place as an adventurer killing some grizzly pulled off the random encounter table. You're expected to be able to do it, just about everyone ...