The Gaming Den

If anyone cares (and I'm not expecting), this is the current working draft of the basic rules. I need to clean up the language to avoid misinterpretation, obviously. Any suggestions for now? Wilderness (Tentative title) The world is a dangerous place, full of things that want to kill you; with wicke...

Good point; I liked having it there as a general resolution engine, but if all it'd do is get in the way I am more than willing to nix it. What then do you think would be a good way to have the cards or abilities interact with each other? I think it could be that the encounter cards have a number of...

What would you say is a good baseline or standard for dice pools? I've been investigating the probabilities of a set of target numbers and dice pools, and I feel like 7d6 with TN 3 gives me the percentage I'm looking for, around 43% chance of success for the players. (Is that right? I've never been ...

I was just working on some of those ideas myself a couple days ago. I have firmly decided that the victory condition is to have one site in all of the zones, and I've been going through some variations of endgame scenarios. One that I was thinking of would be that players can form alliances where th...

That's a good point. I had been considering how players interact with each other, but I hadn't come up with anything that seemed to work in a way that I liked. I think the problem is that I really have no idea exactly how competitive I want the game to get. On one hand, I'd like to see players being...

Yeah, Runebound sounds more similar to the overall style of play I had in mind. I'll have to see what I can do to keep them from becoming too like each other. I'll spend some time coming up with more drafts of the basic rules, and maybe some actual samples of the card layout/design.

I haven't posted in a long time, though I assume my earlier posts were forgettable enough anyway. Regardless, I'd like to enlist the Den in a little project, if I may. A quick forward: I want part of my Senior Thesis as an Illustrator to be a fully realized, illustrated and modeled board game. I pla...

Correction: 4th Edition is a poor combat simulator.

Yeah, I had made a doodle of some Jin-Roh looking character to represent a human in a para-military group, and decided players could also be humans.[br][br]Initially I wanted them to play as one of the disenfranchised divine, so the game would be emphasizing in-game choices, but then I decided that ...

Although much of my self-generated content is inspired by a real-world source, I try to at least make that inspiration a little hard to guess.[br][br]Ripped directly from my gaming blog, this example may be obvious in a roundabout way, but the setting is so far different from its source material, I ...

1189811771[/unixtime]]Sp you want us to talk about our homebrew or altered settings and house rules and why they are good and/or unique? If that's the case I'll join in soon, I'm busy digesting right now; if that's not the case please correct me. [br][br]Yeah, that is the focus of my inquiry. For a...

I know a lot of us are upset or, at least in some cases, fed up with what publishers have to offer for our games.[br][br]What I'd like to ask of the Den is, what is it that you have in your rules, setting, or playstyle that truly makes the game your own?[br][br]Are there certain games that you run t...

I've always run my D&D governments like overblown representations of the Mafia.

There are some organizational benefits, but I do it mostly because I like being able to play Opera music when a high-level adventurer is assassinated by a rival government's hitmen.

Regardless of the notion that dragons are supposed to represent hordes of people shoved into one colossal pile of shit, that still bogs down the fluidity of the encounter when you have to resolve 6 different actions for one character. It isn't absurd to say that dragons get actions if they feel like...

Anyway. Let's just hope that, by the time 4th comes out, the designers will have had the good sense to realize their design goals are counter-intuitive and just take out the clause "dragons can give themselves actions if they feel like it," from the stat block for dragons.

Text doesn't have a gender. All of these women could be dudes, and all the dudes could be women for all I care. They're all posting the same stupid crap.

Illustrator studying at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and design, seconding that with Animation courses. Hoping to be a concept artist for film and games.

It was either a design career, or something in Physics. I wanted something where I could be visually creative.

Does this mean that Dungeons are getting actions too?

Every time I hear or read the word Wyvern, I think of Monster Hunter and the pretty awesome creature designs that game has. I've always wanted to have wyverns play a much, much larger role in my games but I don't run them often enough to get the opportunity.[br][br]Come to think of it... I really ju...

There's nothing stopping someone who isn't as familiar with all the silly expanded universe content from enjoying the game. Ignoring the Jensaarai and Dathomiri crap actually makes the setting taste a little better to me, personally.

virgileso at [unixtime wrote:1187125328[/unixtime]]having rerolls on your UtF checks

He's probably talking about the Dathomiri Witch talent Adept Spellcaster. Make the power a full-round action to reroll the check.

It's nice that nobody ever reads chapter 10.

I need to come up with a witty saying that pertains to that.

Champloo is definitely worth checking out. It's funny, it has a great style and is a thoroughly enjoyable watch, even when it's boring. (It rarely is.)[br][br]Bleach is something that, for me at least, you really have to kind of play it by ear. Most of the time, its a typical Shonen show where the b...

Wow... I hadn't checked in on the WoTC boards in months. But that... that thread just made me wonder something very critical to my understanding of the situation over there.[br][br]How can reasonable people not have concurrent aneurysms when engaged in an argument on those boards? It... unnerves me ...

I was trying to find an appropriate [facepalm] picture to respond to that thread with.

I couldn't one heavy enough. Post no. 4 is worth it's weight in [facepalm] pictures.