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- Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:07 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So, there's no moderators, right?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8742
Re: So, there's no moderators, right?
Time for fbmf to make that archive available, I think.
- Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4992
Re: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
Wow, I sure would have egg on my face right about now if I had made a thread about how 5e is actually a huge step up or something crazy like that.
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:18 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Welcome Back!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 359451
Re: Welcome Back!
Kitchen
Appears to trigger the word filter... It makes it hard to talk about kitchen-sink fantasy.
Appears to trigger the word filter... It makes it hard to talk about kitchen-sink fantasy.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The slim facade of a review of TI4
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1473
Re: The slim facade of a review of TI4
TI is an hour of fun crammed into an entire goddamn day. I'll stick to Galaxy Trucker, thanks.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:59 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880291
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 34197
One problem with social combat that you'd have to resolve is that in many circumstances, even when the issue has clearly been settled in the minds of any onlookers, there's nothing that really forces anyone to stop talking. Even when you've driven your interlocutor into a full-blown narcissistic mel...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:57 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 64911
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:44 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 64911
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:14 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 64911
fbmf, if you choose to shutter the forum, can you please make a backup available for download from your Google Drive or MegaUpload or suchlike? I don't know how much more valuable content the community is going to produce going forward, but there is certainly a huge amount of valuable material here ...
- Sun May 03, 2020 3:17 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 161834
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mike Mearls is out
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6105
I thought he quit RPGs altogether like twenty years ago. He did . According to his LinkedIn he started working for Microsoft in 2001 and stayed there for 10 years before doing product development work for a string of tech companies (including and most recently Amazon) until August 2018 when he came...
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The concept of 'organic' growth in D&D
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10824
There's a bit of a double standard here in that casters expect to have full access to the spell list and to be able to pick and choose, whereas if a fighter brings the same expectation it's frowned on. I know people regularly bitch about the idea that you can walk into a town and trade a bunch of du...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]The One Ring
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11796
Re: [OSSR]The One Ring
If you're weary, the extra d6s have their 1, 2, and 3 converted to zero , which means that being tired makes a bigger difference for highly skilled characters and relatively easy tasks. For a character with one skill dot against a “moderate” difficulty (target number 14), the chances of success do ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:15 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 630120
Apparently, this is not how it works. The blessing cannot be transmitted via streaming, because there is something integral to the ritual in the priest physically being there. Apparently the blessing of the eucharist has an area of effect and cannot work over video. But now I want to test this. Lik...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:45 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: From the Depths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 2956
- Views: 417861
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 1:11 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 161834
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:13 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 161834
The mayor of Chicago refused to close public schools, but the governor forced the issue by ordering all schools in the state be closed for the next 3 weeks at least. It's long past time from a social distancing strategic perspective, but this is really going to hit poor people even harder since scho...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing Cyberlimbs
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10216
Didn't Molly do the hand razors thing because firearms were heavily restricted in the Sprawl? I seem to recall that Johnny Mnemonic opens with him making his own shells for a sketchy black market shotgun because it wasn't a world where you could easily get your hands on crazy military cybernetic fir...
- Sat Feb 22, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Current owner of Judges Guild is a Neo-Nazi
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24407
The moment the surgeon general said that circumcision has no medical benefit should probably have been the last time anyone in America talked about continuing the practice seriously. Times change: There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV in...
- Thu Dec 19, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: So... Star Wars [Spoilers]
- Replies: 415
- Views: 107601
To have any discussion about the prequels sucking one has to assume the Redlettermedia material has already been consumed by all parties present and move forward with those points accepted. With that put forward a few additional details are relevant. It is inarguable that in the 70's a filmmaking g...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59854
The issue is that what should be happening with the arid plains is the farmers should be fencing off larger areas. Making up for poorer yields per acre by just running goats and pigs on larger areas. The farms still make 20 Koku, they are just physically larger farms. Unlike the Hills or the Jungle...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59854
Once you've devoted time to giving players the ability to build irrigation improvements, you might want to obviate that ability entirely at the next tier (in the same sense that lockpicking is basically irrelevant at some point.) You might not! Yeah, that's pretty much the page that I'm on: current...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59854
Could something like an advanced background help with the sages/specialist question? What I’m thinking is that a creature can trade out their ability to gain levels for a Profession that gives them a bunch of skills and abilities related to that profession. In successive tiers there are better prof...
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953396
Some people like it, but Civ V didn't do it for me. Doing something else while other players are on a bathroom break seems to me to be a bit antisocial but not really disruptive. I don't know how it can be anything other than rude and disruptive to play Civ while other people are taking their turns,...
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953396
It's certainly more alarming when it's the GM, but Whiysper's advice still applies. You have to talk about it and actually ask the problem player why they're doing what they're doing. I don't know your table dynamic; was the GM shanghaied into running the campaign?The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:What about when it's the GM?