The Gaming Den

> If you can change sex at will, having a gender identity as a man or a woman makes even less sense than usual. What does this have to do with anything? We are arguing semantics here. As in "is Gender Identity a subset of Gender or not". I.e. could it be used as an example of difference b...

> Gender Identity and Gender are only different in that the former is the individualized form of the latter, not a some radically other thing. If Gender is what society thinks and Gender Identity is what an individual thinks, then - yes. They are different things and using Gender Identity as an exa...

Prak, I think you misspelled Morat.

tussock:
> You can replace most stuff in D&D by just being a human full caster and handwaving the fluff.
Did anyone play as a wizard, but said to other players it's a homebrewed monk class?

Morat: > Perhaps they don't think of themselves as men or women, perhaps they ID as men when they're biologically male and women when they're biologically female, That's called "gender identity". "Gender" (as a social behaviour/expectations) is a different thing. Please, either ...

Huh. I must've blanked out on that changeling gender change paragraph and assumed they can't actually change their gender.

> sheep-centaurs I thought it was deer, but I was also wrong. Goat-centaurs. Prak: > they shat all over every chance to be even creative with the sex and gender politics of the races. Also green economy and gun control. Yes, that was next two flame debate topics in alphabet order. Seriously, why wo...

DSMatticus: > But at this point it wouldn't be a bad bet to say that Greece is on the path towards being ran indefinitely by fascist nazis courtesy of the German government. Germans have nothing to do with it. Once you hit crisis you go radical. Current politics give a choice between nationalist an...

> unless they're willing to go down in history as Neville Chamberlain 2.0 by way of Golden Dawn and not even getting a cushy Very Serious Person job to show for it.
I wouldn't bet against it. Neither former, nor latter.

Just a nitpick: unless your rule-lawyering skills are top-notch, it's unlikely GM will let you take both Domain Wizard and Elf Generalist. Wizard hardly needs a boost and those two options are obviously designed to be Specialization alternatives. Focused Specialist is the only reliable way to get 5 ...

Wiseman: > Any suggestions? Unless you are going Touhou-god route (PC class) don't use mortal XP or stats to determine power of god template. If you want quantifiable differences between gods, make template power dependant not on previously acquired XP, but on power of portfolios god controls. Some...

Well, people here mostly said everything already. The first thing you need to do is decide what levels PCs will have. You can make rules/fluff for face-stabbing gods at E6, but you need to know gods are supposed to be face-stabbable at E6, rather then at level 30. The second thing you need to decide...

Prak : > I'm going to guess those newbies just cast damage spells 90% of the time, and only had to actually think about what they were doing when sneaks came up and suddenly they needed to know a spell that wasn't just an arcane firearm. Different games. And not ambushed by sneaks, but tried playin...

People are so sure you can't do that, I'm trying to be considerate of their feelings.

In my experience it was sneaks (Rogue/Factotum/Assassin) that caused most problems for the unexperienced (and everyone else).

Red_Rob: > You want to give a class with an option space of over 30 individual spells every turn at level 1 to a newbie ? Done it twice (one started at level 6). IMO - worked good enough. The best part about Thaumaturge was that it is more forgiving than druid. >I guess you've never seen a new play...

> being nothing like this class? Only because you utterly fail at "simple" part in the "simple workable spellcaster" this wizard of yours is supposed to be. Thaumaturge is actually simple (you can give this class to a complete newbie or make a 10+ level character yourself in les...

What's wrong with Thaumaturge?

Somewhat interested. Need to brush up on my cWoD (and commit myself to checking forum every day). Koumei: > we probably do want to either all be part of the government It's not Barrow (2 month long day, IIRC), but summer nights will be pretty short. It would be really hard to explain why you work fr...

Prak: > norse terms for musical tempos There are none, but you could use Norse poetry instead (drapa/stef/visa - long poem, refrain, and single stanza, for example). However, those terms are even less known than Adagio/Andante/Allegro (i.e. ergonomics goes down the drain). Using Saga/Tale/Visa (or ...

OgreBattle: > I'm mostly interested in tRPG's for combat though. I strongly suspect that's because only combat system is somewhat developed. If RPGs could tackle trading/travel adventures a-la Marco Polo, feudal intrigues, or Genghis Khan campaigns of uniting tribes and taking over the known world ...

Josh_Kablack: > The bigger issues with my suggestion would come with transitioning between out-of-combat and in-combat stealth Yes. Out-of-combat and in-combat actions need to be clearly separated and transition carefully handled. Even if "balance" angle could be ignored, some actions wou...

>Sneaky is a Stance. Nice. But needs to be elaborated further. Being/becoming hidden during combat with multiple participants can get annoying quickly: 4x4 battle means 32 variables that had to be kept in mind - it would be somewhat strange for character to attempt to detect Sneaky character he is ...

Come on. That was hardly warranted.

Challenging the "moral high ground" of the West is practically a form of art nowadays.

I suspect that train left 3.5 years ago.

Lord Mistborn:
> Lars Andersen's crazy arrow shenanigans

My RSS feeder recently spat out an article about this guy and his shenanigans.

Author was not impressed.