The Gaming Den

Stahlseele wrote:There was only one Transformers Movie.
And that one is from the 80's.

That movie was so hardcore-80s that they would drown out plot dialogue so you could hear the power-metal better.

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If you roll two d20s, the chance that one of them will roll a 20 is 1/20 + 1/20 = 0.1 Not quite. The chance is actually 100%, minus "the chance of you rolling 1-19 on the first, multiplied by the chance of you rolling 1-19 on the second". Otherwise you'd be guaranteed, rather than likely,...

Thank you very much, Ancient.

Probability was one of the areas of math that has always blurred together in my mind's eye. (Always seeming more complex than it is.

So thank you, again. Especially for running it out like that.

Just a quick question, more or less to educate myself. Each side of a d20 has a 5% chance of landing up. So if you land a 1 or 20, would a SECOND (confirmation) roll aiming for a 17-20 (or 1-4) effectively bring the chance of a "crit" to 1%? Or does that second roll skew the probability co...

If this is a 3.5 question, the text of Blood Drain is pretty unclear on whether the vampire drains automatically each round it maintains a pin, or it has to make a special grapple check just to blood drain, or what. The implication in 3.5 vampires are wrestlers instead of detached aristocrats proba...

Man, for a second I thought Squats were being written back in.
Turns out there's unofficial third-party support, but GW continues to ignore it. =/ I happened to like the Squat's background fluff.

Hero 6th Basic isnt even findable in amazon.de but the one I found in de isnt cheap on com either. http://www.amazon.com/Hero-System-6th-Character-Creation/dp/1583661204/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347087855&sr=1-8 $131.95 Ah, sorry. Apparently I wasn't paying attention; I didn't ev...

Champions. Do it. Is this even in print? Every few months I look at amazon(.de) Ah, yes... http://www.amazon.de/Hero-6th-Rpg-Character-Creation/dp/1583661204/ref=sr_1_2?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1346922629&sr=1-2 Used € 319,74 (~ $ 400,--) :shocked: Crazy. It's only $20 : http://www.a...

Champions.
Do it.

Do you have a general feel for the gaming people in your area?
Is there anything they tend toward it have special ordered in the past?

hyzmarca wrote:I expected a rules like system that used rocks and twigs instead of dice, somehow.

With how pissed off some nerds can get over in-game shenanigans... that could be deadly.

:p I recognize the similarities to GURPs... but I always walk away from GURPS unsatisfied. Well this seems like GURPS, only with a combat system worse than GURPS', and nothing that's really better than GURPS. But I can't really be damned to look that ruleset over more, so I suppose you can take wha...

I recognize the similarities to GURPs... but I always walk away from GURPS unsatisfied.

Have any of you heard of it?
If you have, have you rad through it?
Thoughts?

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Whatever wrote:That's not Captain America. It's a clever robot duplicate, with its chest plate halfway open to allow access to the internal wires. We're looking at the side with the hinges.

That explains the flat crotch.

Yeah, but he doesn't have ludicrous numbers of bandoliers and pouches. I think he's just wearing them internally. That would explain SO MUCH! :rofl: I spent the last half of June making fun of Liefeld with a friend of mine; all because she found a series of articles picking out especially bad pictu...

Try it out, see how it goes.
If it's fun enough to stick around for, try nudging them in a better homebrew direction. Doesn't have to be overt; you could just start off with suggestions and 'cool ideas' at first.

Vancian spell charges are not to be overrided by DM fiat, but they are nonetheless a fairly bad thing to include in your game design. Improved charming magic from gut stabbing is much the same. This is true, and this is also (mostly) the point I was trying to make. Every person in my sphere of inte...

I find it amazing that no one argues from the point of DM fiat. A lot of the 'problems' associated with one tracking system assume the DM is a sponge, or soap dish, as opposed to an actual human. Tell me how your charm spell making an NPC friendly to YOU and ,maybe your friends implies that NPC now ...

I find it amazing that no one argues from the point of DM fiat. A lot of the 'problems' associated with one tracking system assume the DM is a sponge, or soap dish, as opposed to an actual human. Tell me how your charm spell making an NPC friendly to YOU and ,maybe your friends implies that NPC now ...

I don't think that's what's happening here though, particularly when talking about feats and stuff that puts you demonstrably behind other choices. Aside from DM intervention you're not supposed to be opting out of bad feat choices which makes things pretty awkward if and when buyer's remorse hits-...

[*]If so, is there another option of the same type that does the exact same thing except better? Yeah, see, and I think most people would argue that a more generalized question about opportunity costs is both more useful and appropriate. Run should not be competing with Power Attack, Natural Spell,...

A few of you mentioned other RPGs that replicated DnD in a more streamlined manner... are there any good ones?

My problem with the idea of 'easy' healing is... why doesn't everyone benefit from it? What's stopping people in that world from simply abusing the ease of access to healing and magical aid? On a slightly different branch of the discussion VP/WP do seem to make for easier descriptive story telling. ...

@K : To a degree you are exceptionally on point. The Catholic Church has many failings, and recent years have just made them more apparent. It's unfortunate, because there IS a lot of good done by the church. I presume it's just going to get a lot uglier before it gets any better, if it ever does. @...