The Gaming Den

The system was relatively simple to get into-- setting aside the bias of over a decade of 3rd edition making that nearly second nature, anyway. A shame the best the core material can come up with is the Necromancer pitting everyone s/he controls against each other for the lulz, as it requires a bit ...

Humbly chiming in with a circumstantial "yay." Risks are part of what makes the adventure meaningful and exciting, especially the kinds of adventures classic RPGs tend to involve. The risk does not necessarily need to be death, true, but the PC's life is one of the more common and realisti...

In the very beginning I was creating ramps out of construction paper and dropping marbles onto them. Since then, I have done a whole lot of DMing, I have built a lot of rooms, NPCs, and spells for MUDs and MUSHes and the like, I have made some completely awful attempts at making games using IRC scri...

I'll also link Digital: A Love Story, which is also a stylish little adventure.

Eversion is a short but sweet retro style platformer.

Good ideas that are getting complicated very quickly. It adds yet another classification to monsters, in addition to all the other stuff that's already there. It would be of great help knowing that a krenshar even exists, how powerful it would be, and what fashion it might attack in if I'd never hea...

I like the Blackscale and Poison Dusk lizardfolk in MM3. They were both good as encounters and I once created a Poison Dusk Lizardfolk PC for a one-shot. I'll throw in another vote for Hill Giants being pretty good too. Come to think of it, I think my parties tend to have the most fun with large bee...

I'm not sure it matters a whole lot whether they get the greater or reduced spellcasting, considering they either have access to the the spells that make everyone at the table sad like Divine Insight and Shivering Touch, or they don't. I'm tempted to lean towards having more spells mostly because wh...

Not a bad start. More skill points is a nice touch, plus one of my thoughts when I first experienced D&D 3e was touched upon. "Why are all the clerics wearing more armor than the actual fighters?" It looks like domains are going to be a problem, but probably a decent number of the orig...

Most DMs cheat in some form, and whether it bothers me or not has everything to do with the motive. Parties are not going to be very sympathetic of overpowered attention-whoring DMPCs that follow them around bothering them, or a ridiculously large number of high level guards that immediately pop up ...

The long and short of it seems to be a good gaming story is a good story in general; something with an interesting hook, dynamic narrative movement, interesting characters and a connection between them, the players, and the world. So ladies and gents, how do you propose we bake that into a system? ...

Is this a setting where celestials and fiends existed before human civilization built up?

I have to restate that I rather enjoyed the twist, especially considering that it came in true to the JRPG. Things are straightforward for a good while with a few mysteries that reveal and hide themselves again freely, then at the end the plot whips out something that brings it all together. Well do...

I MC'd a game where some of the Tome classes were permitted. One of the players was a Tome Samurai and it did well, but the Samurai ultimately died from being played recklessly. Another was a Tome Monk, he was pretty powerful and the player had a lot of fun with it, I think. Briefly there was a Tome...

The Exotic Weapons Master PrC. Yeah, I know its a CWar PrC, I know it did way, way too little, but the concept of a short PrC that gives a character amazing tricks with an unusual weapon is nice. Unfortunately for a PrC like that to truly shine it would most likely need a version tailored to every t...

With the Aardvark and Marmot bonuses it's like we're getting six Wishes each every ding. We'll be fine without it.

Also, the Overlord's sheet is updated; the MC will know where to find it.

Old (pre-WOTC) D&D was predicated on the idea that characters were - in some senses - disposable and easily replaceable. Level 1 as gauntlet run/hazing rite, death at 0hp, wall-to-wall save-or-die effects, 5 minute chargen: all these things were *intentional* on the parts of the game designers ...

- Open SRD - Nice hardcover prints but also inexpensive digital copies - Less aggressiveness with splatbooks. That is, the $30 book a month thing would not be happening under my watch. - Fighters forced into supernatural territory when supernatural is required to survive (this can be making the figh...

We don't really need bards. Let people be the class they want to be and invest the skillpoints/feats/money in becoming extraordinary artists. For the little stuff like Inspire Courage or Competence I'd be all for that being given to anyone with a lot of Perform ranks (and thus letting it be in-class...

I propose we make mana alchemist the ship's cook. Even if the crew won't be fed such strong HP restoring desserts, they'd still be getting food not normally found on pirate ships.

Oh heck yeah. I had many odd numbered ability scores so this is quite a substantial boost.

Looks like a lot happened. I'm disappointed nobody tried to dominate or kill the EvilCorp nurse. Before this last session came around I meant to post asking about a copy of the first Kuniko surgery video. Since that nurse's still alive, Barzini would like to purchase a copy of both the tail adding/r...

[22:57] <Iori> For the money we just got I guess it will go 12,500 each way, and maybe 25k for Hobbes and Barz since we haven't taken any magic items? [22:58] <Prak> yeah, probably. [22:58] <Iori> 'k. Totals to 100k that way. [22:58] <Iori> 12500 for four party members, 25,000 for the other two. Go...

Also: how are people with the idea of another player joining as a sort of temp/reserve, to help the numbers when people don't show up? I don't want to bring it to 7 full-time players plus like 5 cohorts, but given a few people tend to be missing from any given session... I figure that could work, b...

So today I got into an argument with a friend. It was about whether or not racial penalties were really needed. His argument was that the -2 orc intelligence penalty (on a wizard) was important for the sake of the story so that people could triumph over adversity, whereas I argued that it was a stu...