The Gaming Den

I think a shared wiki for the castle is a great idea. So that players can write in that they hung the Dragonshield in the west corridor, with a picture. And if you really want to be a service GM, you can have the draconic assassins ambush a PC in the west corridor later.

Assuming that min/level means a combat scene plus a fight scene & 10 min/level+ means an adventuring day unless travel is involved, has worked for me in the past without changing the number of per-day abilities. Rounds/level: This fight Minutes/level: Next fight (an this one, if cast during com...

As I see it, there should just be magic-users. Some magic-users are hermetic hackers, and learn spells from books, academia, and so forth. Others are part of an organized religion, and learn their spells there; they have access to cool secret spells and young boys, but also have busybodies poking th...

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"Double checking the URL, because that looks a lot like marketing".

The idea that information cannot be sent backwards in time is an assumption, not a proved fact. Many of the bits of kludge math and "made up shit" in physics theories are there to bolster the idea that our timeline is in some meaningful way persistent - that we aren't already being copied...

Police beat up antifascists in Copenhagen on may 1, because of course they did. Several of them were not wearing their ID numbers, because of course they weren't. They weren't there to dissolve the demonstration - they surrounded them and registered everyone present, because of course they fucking d...

Yeah, that was offensively stupid. If it was just the Dothraki being dumbasses, that would be okay. But that was just... Ugh. Is Jon secretly working for the Night King?

Also, the movie hooked me really early, with that tender moment of grief between Rocket and Nebula. Damn.

So, to me, it feels like the Time Line alterations were inconsistent with the rules established in the movie . Most importantly, Thanos travels from a time before he had the Infinity Stones to the time after he already used them. In that future he was defeated and did not return back to his origina...

I remember floor hockey being a particularly brutal pick for gym class. And I grew up & out before the other kids in my class, so I was usually the one dishing out the brutality. Ah, memories...

The encounter with the trolls was well done. But as soon as the fighting started in Goblin Town, we entered Playstation Land, and never left again. It jarred me right out of the trilogy, and none of the action scenes after that managed even a hint of stakes , with the sole exception of Smaug's attac...

I wish I could say Game of Thrones, S8E1. Instead, I am going to go with "Raiders of the Lost Ark", which I watched afterwards. I'm going to go with "the play of light and shadow as Indy enters the idol chamber" as my moment. But seriously, it was an utter, absolute joy to rewatc...

Julian Assange Arrested In London He was arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. He went to the embassy seven years ago fleeing rape charges, and refused to leave for fear of extradition. Apparently, the rape charges have been dropped. Fleeing almost certain extradition to a count...

Okay, the hypothetical clearly needs some adjustment.

Iteration: Only wishes that can be fulfilled inside a 6-meter bubble surrounding the wisher are fulfilled.

So, what if.... magical space bats suddenly grant everyone the thing that they are wishing for right now . The first thing that comes to mind is that basically only kids would have superpowers. Adults wish for another hour of sleep, for their boss to spontaneously immolate, that sort of thing. Only ...

Archer, season 9, episode 1: When I realized that this was a whole new "timeline", not a continuation of season 8 or season 7, and when I realized that the boring "Archer is in a coma" framing device from season 8 was gone.

Ugh, this fucking brain.... I passed my Prince2 Foundation test today which is honestly not much, but it's something, and I will be passing my Practitioner certification in 3 weeks. My brain, of course, decided to spend a few hours reminding me that I'm still going to be unemployed and alone and unl...

Well, it's hardly news that Jodorowsky is a giant perv.

Also, I can't think of a single F4 movie I would rather re-watch than reading Jodorowsky's F4 fanfic.

Dredd, the 2012 movie. I had seen it before, and I was just cruising for light background entertainment. It kinda drew me in, and the moment the blast doors came down and Lena Headey was emoting at full blast, I was completely hooked and nothing else got done this evening.

Umbrella Academy is so good,I don't even mind that the shootouts look like absolute, utter shit.

I like the idea of having a spell slot that does at-will stuff, but can then be expended for a big effect that then requires rest to recharge. In the fantasy heartbreaker in my head, wizards memorize a handful of spells, then let it just a little bit off the leash to produce smaller effects. To muc...

"Do accounting to see when you can have less fun" is a common failure mode of fatigue systems.

Shrapnel wrote:Must drink a lot of water and avoid toxins.

Organic water. [/i]

Even for Paizo, this is staggeringly incompetent. Daily healing expectations is a god damn load bearing concept.

Referring to DCs in a level-based way doesn't inherently make it crap, although I have very little confidence that Paizo won't use them in the lazy treadmill way that's obvious. What does make it crap is how small the differences between difficulty types are - seriously, 8 points between trivial an...