The Gaming Den

Mutants and Masterminds has "hero points" you can spend to reroll failed skill checks among other things. The reroll changes the d20 so that it goes from 10-20 (you count the 1-9 sides as having +10). This makes it so that no matter what your character gets at least a 10 on the die and pro...

What would be a good "human" range of dice for a TN 4+ system? Say you wanted to do World of Darkness with real big boy math and playtesting. What would be your range of sickly child to Olympic athlete, and what would be the range of superhuman to superman?

To be honest, I read the 'self-mutilation' thing as anti-trans rather than anti-circumcision, given that it came after he claimed to be anti-abortion and anti-gay. That was my take on it too. The Trifecta of Christian Values is being anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and anti-trans. Because God forbi...

I feel there are a lot of dog whistles in the section on anti-semitism that I’m missing. Though I suppose I should be thankful I don’t have enough of a grounding in (I’m assuming) Christian identity extremism to understand them. I can point out a few. I stand against corruption in high places and N...