The Gaming Den

I'm not sure I understand the question. It's trivially easy to write a TTRPG where magic sucks, so I don't believe magic is always overpowered. But if you're defining "magic" as "the ability to do overpowered stuff", then the statement is tautologically true. Sure, good point. I...

Punching your way through time and space seems like magic to me, so it's not exactly what I meant. However, I can get behind the idea of punching the intervening space between two points so hard that it stops existing, based on comedic value alone.

I think a common theme in TTRPGs is that magic is really, really powerful. The basic ideas I keep seeing are that - 1)Mages have multiple options which can do things that surpass whole character concepts. The invisible teleporting mage who sees through walls is a better rogue than a rogue. A druid w...

(P.S. - I'm now posting under the name "Unity", because I decided to start posting instead of just browsing OSSRs) Right, so the original Tolkien orcs were some kind of Turkish/Mongol/general Asian inspired thing. Although their emphasis on industrialism seems distinctly Western to me , so...

Right, so the original Tolkien orcs were some kind of Turkish/Mongol/general Asian inspired thing. Although their emphasis on industrialism seems distinctly Western to me, so I don't think it's a perfect match. My uninformed impression is that they got "Africanized" when they became popula...

(P.S. - I'm now posting under the name "Unity", because I decided to start posting instead of just browsing OSSRs) You can't draw on things like orcs or gnomes without bringing racist baggage into the mix. Even if the orcs in your game aren't dumb violent brutes with customs and clothing t...

That being said, Mitsoda hasn't really done much since (I've never gotten around to playing Dead State, but it didn't seem to make a huge splash). Dead State was... pretty good. It won't change your life but it might change your next few weeks. It had some pretty interesting characters and mechanic...

Ahh, I see. Thanks for all the Masquerade info. I once played a... well, let's call it a fake D&D game as a D&D vampire, and it was quite a different experience. Good to know a better idea of what the level of similarity between D&D, Masquerade, Bloodlines, and other types of vampires is.

Bloodlines is definitely in the top ten of my favorite games of all time, and I love the atmosphere and chunks of lore of an interesting game universe. Something struck me about it recently, though. Mechanically, it barely feels like I'm playing a vampire at all . I'm wondering if that's a gameplay ...