The Gaming Den

But if I murder a member of my family, then that has absolutely nothing to do with you. You are not harmed or oppressed in any way. It's a private family matter. It might also be a public police matter, depending on the society. No, no, it's a moral matter. You are doing Wrong Things and it's the r...

What the fucking fuck is a 'professional' game master? Someone that game masters as a profession, as in for money. I've seen mentions of such things on messageboards occasionally for like 10 years, so I figured I'd do some surveys on it. Word of mouth has been really positive, I've found. Professio...

I had to adjust my price estimate when I realized that the payment wasn't only for the session (5 hours in the survey, IIRC) but for whatever else went into it. So, like, Krusk, you're offering $13-$17/hr, which is at least over minimum wage, but that's only if you ignore prep work and arrangements...

I had to adjust my price estimate when I realized that the payment wasn't only for the session (5 hours in the survey, IIRC) but for whatever else went into it. So, like, Krusk, you're offering $13-$17/hr, which is at least over minimum wage, but that's only if you ignore prep work and arrangements ...

I feel like there's room for "use d6s and cancel numbers that match, 1 and 2 are environmental, 3 and 4 are zombies, 5 and 6 are equipment" as base while also letting you potentially make fancy dice with, like, a raindrop, a lightning bolt, a clawed hand, some teeth, a flashlight, and a gu...

I'm not thrilled with how derivative that is, but I've trawled a couple of places for ideas and they've pretty consistently delivered me either the exact same thing or they've pointed me to Dinotopia, so this is what I've got. I understand and respect the desire for originality, but also after I re...

Josh, even without the profanity and explicit snark, and even with my sole experience with Codex coming from this thread, I found this box review hilarious.

Good job.

I assume something more like this:

(They're Assyrians)

Yeah, I was sort of thinking about the houses in that way, too. I'm a bit hindered in the university stuff in the fact that all of my college experience is in for-profit vocationals and community college. Same here, but, like, you've never been to an English boarding school either, right? Take ever...

Prak, you've already admitted to Magicians influence, and it was near the beginning of the thread that you emphasized you wanted universities rather than boarding schools. So why not just go with that and make the PCs the only members of their year in whatever Greek House they're in? They can have w...

Please provide the your only d6 System which can provide the following possible results for a test: scalable Failure with additional scalable negative Effects scalable Failure with additional scalable positive Effects scalable Success with additional scalable negative Effects scalable Success with ...

I'm honestly surprised it beat 3.5 even alone. Is that because of PDFs or what? I don't know specifics, but I would guess that the 3.0 PHB outsold the 3.5. What I'm guessing is that "lifetime sales"is weaselwords that means 3.0 PHBs sold after 3.5 was written don't count, and that they ar...

For the record, dearly beloved Mearls clarified later on https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/764279387520851968 That when he said "3+3.5+4e < 5e" what he really meant was "ignore all those plus signs, that's me lying my fucking ass off knowing that no one will ever see my correctio...

I just got up and can't provide a lot of useful feedback, much less give this the overall analysis it needs, but I'm excited to see where it goes.

So the original concern of whether the complicated shapes are too much for some people should just be an acceptable sacrifice? While I'm all for accessibility, I'm admittedly a little surprised to see it as a concern at all on this board, given the comparative opacity of, for instance, Dungeons and...

I think there's a spectrum there. Role-playing games are definitely still games, and as much as I love to wax pretentious about collaborative storytelling and so on, if all I wanted was an improv framework, I wouldn't be playing D&D. The game aspects of D&D are admittedly most apparent in co...

The interchangeable nature of Attributes and Skills seems like it'd be problematic there, at least if you had Attributes/Skills remotely resembling D&D or many fantasy heartbreakers. If one is cheaper than the other/easier to get higher/whatever, but it doesn't matter which one is higher, then t...

Yes, and that section goes on to give the example of multiple polymorph effects overriding each other, because if you get turned into an elephant and then into a frog, you're not an elephant-frog, you're just a frog. Of note, Cause Fear and Cause Fear do not, in fact, have varying effects, differing...

This is true, but it notes how you couldn't just cast the same spell twice, because the effects don't stack from the same spell. Now, maybe I'm missing something about stacking, but reading those spells and looking at fear , I can't find any of that. Are they actually right, here? When I was making...

So... are there versions of these cards that don't have the keywords explained out? If not, why are there keywords at all?

Can Priests build Orthanc?

So if you are hitting a dude with 47 hp with a thing that does 40+2d6, you have a ~50% chance of dropping him and a ~50% chance of not (obviously those percentages aren't exactly because normal distribution, but you get the idea). That is valuable IMO. FWIW 1d2*1,000,000,000-1,000,000,000 gets you ...

...So now we have a random weakling who you cart around with you doing piddly damage so that, in the less than 20% of the time that you care about the roll instead of the static number in the first place , you have someone else to help! So now we have a 20% chance that your enemy has HP in the range...

...Because presumably you want it to ever matter that you added in a shitty die roll? Look, I'm talking about 40+2d6 because that's what you asked about in the first place . I initially claimed that it was useless unless you, for some reason, specifically wanted major power tier differences and guar...

If three rounds is too few, then tweak the numbers until you like it. Personally I think N-level fighters being able to stab each other to death in three to five hits is entirely reasonable; any less, it's too much like rocket tag, any more and it feels like padded sumo. ??? ?????? Where are we fai...