The Gaming Den

Worst I have had is sometimes the entire forum doesn't load or loads slow, and usually a retry or a wait does it fine. I mean. Search probably still doesn't work but that's pretty standard. Oh and in the process of nearly losing a password a while back I found myself thinking it must be nearly impos...

Well. The main thing I ever actually use discord for does. I have used discord in a purely text based stuff as well. And not liked it. As I said already possibly the microphone association.

But then again. I hated IRC too. I don't know, these chat apps and communities just feel bad.

I hate always disliked discord. Perhaps because of all of the interactions with microphones it has made far worse than interactions with microphones should be. I bought a new computer in January, I still haven't got around to installing discord on it largely because of my dislike of it, despite the ...

In context, saying that every class in your game can be used to play a soul knife, and then saying that the classes in your game are tightly controlled, is pretty funny. Look, there isn't a DeadDM post that goes by that he doesn't do some or all of the following. 1) DIsagree with a strawman 2) Disa...

You contend You don't address or understand what I contend. You produce "examples" which mishmash a tightly controlled rigid class system with an excessive number of classes, and compare it to a disciplined small number of classes with massive freedom of option selection bordering on (but...

I probably shouldn't post from my phone - it does lead me to make minor errors when throwing out example numbers but pointing out a calculation error isn't a refutation of the argument. You making a very significant error of multiplying the wrong numbers indicates a lack of understanding consistent...

A class based system with 20 classes is only better than a class based system with 100 classes if it provides the options expected in the play space. No. A class based system with anything is only better if a lot of things. But you don't get to bring in those lot of things, because we are talking a...

The 'big' war crimes news are the uncovered mass graves Yeah but that doesn't count for my prediction because it wasn't effectively planned for media launch shortly before a weekend. It is instead an example of how much the media is still towing the Israeli line even without excuses like the weeken...

But a small number of classes with a large number of selectable abilities is not meaningfully different than a large number of classes with a large number of pre-selected abilities that can be freely multi-classed. Well. First all your claim that those two things are not different is based on funda...

It actually does matter if your extra dice come from flanking or raging. Except it doesn't. Because all of the conditionals for the damage dice are always easy ones to meet. The explicit intention being that these classes almost always get their damage dice if they want to. Because the entire set o...

"Descriptive failure". What. So you want the GM to just name the class on sight for you? Or if they for some reason do not do that say "your description did not allow me to identify the class from their action, please add more fluff description until I can identify the game mechanical...

So anyway. My prediction of a big Israeli war crime event was based on an observed pattern/media cycle theory that says its probably some time in the next 12 hours or so or they wait another week. And while they are talking up how they are definitely right now ready to storm Raffa in the next five m...

I'd take classes that blend together to be a repudiation of PL's contention that classes must be distinct . If that blending is more than the minimal amount, I'll just point at it as an example of failure in class system design. Kaeliks mentioning all the D&D classes that mostly just do extra d...

Did I miss this? I don't know what you're referring to. And there are four base classes with Necromancer in their names on the den. I think maybe you overestimate my interest in any Tomes++ material, and ESPECIALLY additional stand alone classes, even if written bv Frank or K. And that tome of necr...

The benefit of a class system is that characters invest in the ability that they want No it isn't. But lets change that to "players" so it isn't total insanity. Then I can say, no it isn't. The enforcement of options clustered together in a class isn't the end goal. It's the methodology. ...

I think you failed to understand the point of the thread. The point was not to hypothesize about writing a completely new RPG set from scratch. It was to talk about the existing games being played and what to do about them. But then my advice is something you REALLY don't want to hear. Because with...

I, am talking about our ongoing Tomish games I rarely consider a specific individual user when discussing a rules concept and honestly find it weird and difficult to do so. Much less how their specific rebranded version of the Gentleman's Contract with the serial numbers filed off definitely effect...

If your plan with "Prestige Classes" requires GMs to make custom prestige classes at all it is bad enough. Classes should really be fixed at either game selection or at least setting selection in order to do the things they need/want to do. But if the end point gets to making a unique clas...

What calls for violence? The idiots in power think they can just say that enough and then they can start imprisoning peace activists and using them as pretexts for their own bad actions and excuses for their own failures. They already have been using them as pretexts, and they are very clearly psyc...

Well you see the USA asked Iran, begged really for them to do exactly that. Iran did as asked so they are rewarded with MORE SANCTIONS. Israel did not do as asked in Iran AND Raffa, so they are punished with MORE MONEY AND WEAPONS. The US foreign policy in the middle east for the last 30 years in a ...

I have a new prediction. Israel's next act of war crime will occur in almost exactly 7 days. edit: Actually better specify, their next major, planned, intended, very public one. There will be genocidal soldier tick tocks and under reported gruesome discoveries from Gaza and the West Bank all week.

Actually the latest leaks have been in response to white house press briefings claiming that Israel is a perfect and sinless nation that has committed no war crimes in the last six months, not even 1! Leak says fuck you higher ups you are secretly sitting on a bunch of recent official reports about ...

I had words. But really at this point speculating on who and how Israel is going to warcrime next and then again after that is basically like trying to guess Roberto the Robot's next shivving targets. They have gone full fanatic fascist genocidal rogue state in a truly psychotic way, and I sure as h...

People not liking one of my favorite movies of last year? This is what I was talking about for low fucking bars though. Being better than other movies from 2023 is the standard for liking something harder? Then I guess there isn't any other choice, after all 2023 is the year that "everyone&quo...

Sounds like the D&D movie captured the spirit of the game well, with fun nods for longtime players. I should go and check it out. Am yet to watch it. You know, I've been holding back a bit on my opinion of this movie. In part because I couldn't figure it out. But that triggered it. I think I un...