The Gaming Den

So, AngryDM did a little interview with the guys from Dungeonscape/Codename:Morningstar. All I can do is shake my face-palmed head at WotC.
There's a little "reading between the lines" to do; but it is apparent to me that WotC is pant-shittingly afraid of losing their thorns and bushes.

This thread might be relevant . With some heavy searching, I also found this thread . When a weapon is larger than you it should just stop doing more damage and get a bullrush effect for free. If a player is wielding some gargantuan greatsword through some means it makes no more sense that the huma...

(sorry for turning this into a giant omni-post) Wait, "raelizm" is your objection? Not, "This is nowhere near as cool and epic as it should be!"? (adding to what Lago and Drolyt said) If "raelizm" was what I was going for, I would insist that the halfling's sword could...

Can you be more specific about what problem you are having? Why is your immersion shattered? Well, TarkisFlux hit the highlights for me (thanks, btw). But more specifically ... some examples are needed: So you've got a halfling (small) waltzing up to a Mountain Giant (colossal), and commences to ha...

Don't, don't, don't break up monsters by body part and treat each body part as a separate monster. That has worked in exactly one place ever and that place was the first seven Final Fantasy games. In a tabletop RPG it goes straight to sillytown. I don't mean to be dense; but could you detail that a...

As the title suggests, I'm trying to figure out how to go about hacking 3.x to make fighting much larger creatures actually "feel" like you're fighting something really big. The Problem : D&D does a passable job of simulating combat between creatures that are approximately the same siz...

Longes wrote:If the penalties reduce your dicepool to zero, then you are rolling hail mary, instead of a normal die. Which means you only succeed on 10 and critfail on 1.

... and, IIRC, doesn't explode.

Nagas are in tons of fantasy settings, but still rare enough that they make a great filler monster. No one complains when you don't include them, but if you've got time, no one is shocked. 5e gives us 3. I think we could have gotten by with 1 or 2, and 3 seems a little excessive. Under pre-5e, 3 is...

Schleiermacher wrote:I don't know what's difference between FATE Accelerated and FATE core, but FATE core has the advantage of having an SRD: http://fate-srd.com/fate-core

You can actually download them both from the actual FATE website. (they only ask for a "donation")

Keep in mind that in one of the playtests, there was text actually telling you that it was fine for the player to make a roll, and for the DM to then decide if it passed or failed after they rolled without ever setting a DC. http://new1.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/4748835+_f64911d674ae69ddd979e2b...

In 3e at least, D also has Dire animals and Dinosaurs for another decent chunk. In 3.5 celestials were no longer a unified entry, but they all ended up before G anyways. True. And Celestials were broken up in to Angels, Archons, and Guardinals - all still early in the alphabet. And Eladrin. Oh yeah...

FYI: Okay, with Maj's help, I figured out what it was: Frank's assumption was indeed correct - for whatever reason, new messages was indeed the cause of my blocked pop-up message (I don't know if this happens with anyone else or not). Further tests: I was ready to accept Frank's assumption and move ...

I figured out what I was blocking. It's the really annoying mouse pointer image in Wiseman's sig. :D Good to know. (that thing always messes with my eyes ... I think that's an intended feature, though) :cool: I'm getting the blocked pop-up on the main page; so I don't think that's what's happening ...

And, of course, celestials are in C and elementals in E, so those letters are also oversized. Not to mentions "G" for giants. In 3e at least, D also has Dire animals and Dinosaurs for another decent chunk. In 3.5 celestials were no longer a unified entry, but they all ended up before G an...

I've given this a little more thought ... @ACOS - No, you're not. I do not currently have any new messages, am signed in, and have one request blocked for this page. But when I take my pop-up blocker off, I don't see anything different. Have you sent any PMs lately? I've got a theory I'd like to tes...

As for front loading the early letters, its mostly just weird and I wanted to point out that while I'm on M, I'm also nearing the end of the book. It does give the impression that they just had to stop making entries towards the back of the book though. You could seriously pad out the R, S, T's of ...

Am I the only one whose popup blocker gets activated @ signin? I've run every scan that software compatibility will allow, and I've got nothing. The only thing I can think of is if it is something with the site itself. Have you checked your messages? -Username17 Huh; I have been trading some PMs th...

Am I the only one whose popup blocker gets activated @ signin?
I've run every scan that software compatibility will allow, and I've got nothing. The only thing I can think of is if it is something with the site itself.

Well, unless I miss my guess, it looks like the guys that were supposed to be doing D&D's digital thingamajig - and then promptly canceled - are going to be telling their side of the story in a way that doesn't technically breach their NDA: http://www.trapdoortechnologies.com/morningstar/ This m...

@fearsomepirate: Frank's actually right on this one. What you propose is actually all fine and good with a game that doesn't require you to buy 1000 friggin' pages just to start playing . The offensive part about that is that the majority of those pages are filled with shovelware fluff - they could ...

So, system bloat is inevitable - otherwise this thing will have sunk by Labor Day '15. However, "system bloat" for 5e is going to come in 2 varieties: (1) rules that should have been there from the beginning, (2) turning advantage/disadvantage from "huh?" to "batshit lunacy&...

No, they did go up to 11; just not in a way that anyone should be happy about ... So 4e took the "playable" range that had previously existed from about levels 3-15, and stretched that over 30 levels, and chopped off the ends. It appears that 5e is not only based around a much narrower ran...

I just found it a bit odd that they're willing to spend page space on a Jules Verne style legacy robotcrab that is interesting to fiddle around with exactly once ; but can't be bothered with giving us more actually useful stuff ... you know, like stealth rules and meaningful reasons for clerics to e...

Okay, we've got a look at some of the magic item pages: Apparently, we needed something that could produce 2 gallons of mayonnaise at a time . Also, has anyone ever actually even seen an Apparatus of Kwalish in a game? Why the hell does this deserve page space? Also, I guess stuff like Sovereign Glu...

@Frank:
Okay, fair enough. My only experience with WoD is of the "new" variety; so this is good to understand.

Of course, looking at your response to BoxCrayonTales, it doesn't seem like you would be too opposed to using something akin to Nicomachean Ethics.
Just an observation.