The Gaming Den

I still can't believe WH40K is considered anything but a stupid excuse sell overprized minatures or computer games. Each and every single thing I read about it makes me go "WTF? What were the authors smoking, and what kind of therapy are they getting now?" I think it would be less weird t...

For that, I would go with Gumshoe, which can be pared down or expanded to accommodate different genres and play-styles. Gumshoe is really only suited to mysteries. The Investigative Skills system is designed around making sure players automatically succeed at finding clues, which is kind of weird i...

I mean, for fuck's sake you have to re-do character generation for everyone if one player fails to show up next session or one extra player wants to join. That is a level of campaign failure that D&D openly and justifiably scoffs at. Gumshoe does quasi-open ended one shots pretty well. It's fas...

Possibly to the point that people don't argue - 5th might actually be so bad that we don't get people saying "No, the classes all work, you're just playing wrong." Has anything concrete been revealed about 5th's mechanics? So far I've just seen a lot of speculation and playtesting hearsay.

Yeh, just take a look at Eclipse Phase for a game that fails so hard in making a skill-based system that it's like a parody of a skill-based system. Even the best skill-based system on the market, Shadowrun, is still pretty bad. I've been reading the Eclipse Phase core book and agree that the mecha...

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The first rule of Gaming Den is you do not talk to Shadzar. The second rule of Gaming Den is you do not talk to Shadzar.

lol, my bad. I figured everyone here was kosher.

So how bad is this edition in comparison to 4e ? I have no fucking idea where D&D Next is at the moment. take every sentence ever made for D&D, cut them apart and randomly draw a sentence out and put it into a paragraph until you fill the page, and continue the process with the next page. T...