The Gaming Den

(Except maybe not, because now not wanting rape in my games is apparently sweeping crimes against women under the rug or something? Whatever.) Yes. It is. You might still do it because you don't want to address that topic - it might be off-theme, it might be too difficult for you as a storyteller, ...

Everything i've said applies to historical racism. It does not apply to historical rape. The two are actually separate! In entertainment (which ttrpgs are), you also have to consider audience - if the audience includes, say, someone who has been sexually assaulted, you don't bring that up in the ent...

"I like to sweep racism and crimes against women under the carpet and pretend they don't happen and never happened, because this makes me feel righteous and empowered. I also get angry at anyone who says they do or did happen, including victims of those crimes, because they make me feel bad and...

An aggressive tone doesn't make a post not passive-aggressive - if you lay things out in a manner that attempts to draw connections between someone being bad and truths (rape is bad, rejakor is advocating rape, rejakor is bad) you're being passive aggressive - 'i'm not insulting you, i'm just saying...

You heard it here first, Kaelik yet again lies about what was said (not idealized medieval pastiche = rape) in order to try to come across as the shining hero of the masses, defending against the ebil mans on the interwebs. If your setting is one where everyone is either super evil or ultra goody tw...

What about a reflavoured Planescape? Tilt a bit towards the players who are more old-skool inclined but keep enough planescape fantasy transhumanism to titillate yourself and the fellow planescape-lover. Shadowrun effectively does that - transhumanist society but with authoritarian vibes and a sort ...

It depends if your DnD game is set in the 1806 american midwest. During the roman empire, for example, black people were not vilified (although they were typically in the northern regions largely as 'exotics' - slaves for the rich with different attributes than the norm). Through a lot of the mediev...

The captain of the guard portraying it as goblins are evil and have to be stopped is normal. Narrativizing someone outside the social contract as 'evil' and committing violence on them as 'good and necessary' is a feature of all human societies, including the modern one. I'm not saying the writer kn...

In medieval society, either you were not committing crimes, or you were effectively facing ostracization, horrific torture disguised as justice, or a terrible way to die. The modern system of 'punishment fits the crime', as laughable as it is, did not exist at all. This led to escalation of crime in...

And now the region map: why does all those roads go to Cauldron, as if it was the fucking center of all commercial roads ? Cauldron is at the fucking top of a mountain ! You construct a fortress at the top of a mountain, not a town ! The whole point is to make the access to your fortress as hard as...

Here is an example of high-granularity low-complexity nation simulator. That's a mythweavers game archive dump. Read each of the nation threads/the rule threads to understand the basics. It's one guy's codification and write-up of a set of emergent rules for games of this type run on 4chan's chaoti...

Okay wow that's the first time i'd seen that. And it's terrifying. Okay, so the party is: Koumei - Paladin;Our Glorious Leader the_taken - Barbarian;AhahahahAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAA - Mister_Sinister - Ranger;Name-taker and Finger-breaker Utterfail - Fighter; ... unless it's a farm! Mask_De_H - Rogue/Assa...

Nope. If you wield a one-handed weapon in two hands, it counts as a two-handed weapon. But that doesn't freaking matter, since two-weapon fighting and multiattack stack , and you only have two weapons. So your normal penalties would be -6 and -10, but you take 4 (2+2) off the first one (main hand) a...

Yep. It takes one little houserule, and you're now multiplying damage from a single die, or splitting up static bonuses into additional dice to roll.

I have never SEEN a game where lack of dice has been a problem. Rolling a handful of d4's 2 or 3 times doesn't take very long.


-rejakor

My heresy: Fuck the forgotten realms. Fuck them. They were forgotten for a reason, and they should STAY forgotten. Quite aside from the fact that elminster is a douche and their world makes NO FUCKING SENSE, politically, economically, racially, or geographically, it's just boring! It is a boring, bo...

+3 to move silently AND hide means +3 to stealth, not +6. Having it the other way around is insane. If Jess shoots a daemon or eldar at point blank range with an inferno pistol, she does 64d8+54 points of damage. Wait, scratch that, you add before you multiply. 80d8+60 points of damage. And then she...

I'd d/l that. But I vaguely thought there was a pdf already?

-Rejakor

Utterfail: Awesome ascii character sheet! I like, I like! As you are a Space Marine Psyker, you have the title of Librarian-Initiate, and would normally be toiling away in the depths of the Librarius awaiting your aquila, the first of three, signifying that you have successfully attained the rank of...

I saw Code Geass about a year ago. It continually took my expectations and overcame them, and quickly I gained a lot of respect for it. However, it was only after the ending that it became my favourite anime of all time.

-Rejakor

Let's get tactical , marines! I think that is from halo 1. Sarge was such an awesome dude. As for getting a game thread up, i've signed up at elliquing and i'm now waiting to be 'approved', dunno how long that's going to take. So I guess it's a choice between start here, start there in the PG13 (ugh...

The idea of a ranged damage dealer having a point blank range SoD or point blank range 'better attack' is actually a good one. Forces the player to make choices between stepping back and shooting, or trying a last ditch defense. Those kind of choices are what dnd lacks, and giving the player as many...

Phaedrus you clearly haven't been exposed to the 'right'* kind of fanfics.

-Rejakor

*By right I mean very, very wrong.

This probably won't work for you, but myself and a few of my compatriots sourced a skip bin filled with balsa wood. Rather than carting it off and selling it or something (shit is expensive), we instead used them as makeshift weapons in possibly the most fun i've ever had in my life. They were all c...

Depends. If it's a racial or equipment bonus (tigger legs or climbing kit) it applies to the specific use of the new skill that it would previously have given a bonus to. If it's more unspecific, like 'you are really athletic, +3 to jump checks' you divide that bonus by the number of skills conflate...

'live action minis game'

Please explain.

-rejakor