The Gaming Den

I would be shocked if SomethingAwful didn't convert to Dom5 quicker than other communities, rather than slower. To a first approximation, the main feature that distinguishes the Goons from other Dom5 communities is that they're willing to pay out $10 for something as ephemeral and useless as member...

I want a game about playing fantasy adventuring foodies. The PCs go out and hunt monsters, pick fictional flora, and then cook it all up. The setting has a social structure that involves cooking competitions I think you need to be very clear as to whether you want your Cooking system to bear some r...

Sure, having 'objectives' that help their army do better is good design. Determining 'how much better' should include elements of chance (ie die rolls). There has to be an underlying system for those die rolls to mean anything. The issue here - and this probably answers Dimmy's tangent and bewilder...

Zinegata, in acknowledging that players and GMs are likely to have little to no tactical understanding of how combats go down how would you suggest any given encounter generation engine would even work? Most people I've run games for are bad at negotiating, making logical decisions in general, and ...

Zinegata, I would add that two armies against each other isn't like back and forth up and down a ladder. In the ladder scenario, one side is at its best when the other side is about to lose. The actual case is that both sides can be beaten down to their worst at the same time. That's true in terms ...

However, within the context of fantasy adventure storytelling, big battles of uncertain outcome are a major thing. Whether it's the Battle of the Five Armies in The Hobbit or some Wheel of Time clash or fucking whatever. Armies have big clashes, and the players need to be able to take actions that ...

What. No one gives a damn about any of this. People want MASS COMBAT. i.e. "a group of guys with pointy sticks that fights battles". And that's why there are also things called "Wargames" where you can just play mass combat all day long without trying to balance it around storie...

What games have a board where you gradually improve your production ability like Scythe? I mainly like the tactice sensation of moving blocks around for upgrades As Rob mentioned there's Terra Mystica, plus a newly released sequel called Gaia Project which is basically the same game but in space. E...

Oh, and having played Charterstone - I have to say that it may be the first competitive (and Euro) legacy game to be actually worth its price tag. I'm interested in hearing more about this. My IRL group and I got burned pretty bad with Seafall , but we're still big on the legacy concept. First let ...

Dungeons and Dragons has always wanted to have men with spears marching around, and that in turn has always been very difficult to do. I've been thinking about the constraints that such a subsystem operates on. When military campaigns become expected, every character needs to have abilities that ar...

Oh, and having played Charterstone - I have to say that it may be the first competitive (and Euro) legacy game to be actually worth its price tag.

I mean, does the game actually need to get bigger? There is a large enough player pool at the moment that I can pick up almost any game style I want on the inside of a week? The 1100 province game with 75 to all magic sites and crazy mods didn't get the 23 players it shot for, but is going decently...

fbmf wrote:Anybody played Organ Attack, the Awkward Yeti game?

If so, thoughts?

Game On,
fbmf

It's basically Exploding Kittens but rethemed. It can be stupid fun in a casual gaming environment but not much else.

It is selling pretty well though precisely due to its light nature.

In my opinion Dominions Diplomacy is really for people who are willing to put up with the backstabbing and high level of social interaction. If you want multiple players involved but absolute certainty with regard to alliances then I feel that team games - particularly with Disciples - are a superio...

I can only hope your animosity towards so-called "antifa" is kneejerking from flashbacks of the old authoritarian left (since the alternative would be you being a complete monster), but even if that was the case, the authoritarian left right now is the LEAST of our problems, I'm pretty su...

I mean, it's clear that trying to uphold said consensus through soft power and brute transactional politics is failing, so if you value the liberal-conservative consensus as much as I believe Frank does, Operation Zero Tolerance is suddenly on the table. Any stick to beat a dog, after all. It's not...

No, the real trouble is the glorious royal police of Spain curbstomping hundreds of unarmed people whose biggest "crime" was voicing their opinion while most other european governments go "this is fine". No the real trouble is you're a moron who can't separate what you feel vers...

So Trollman and Zinegata actually do think the Catalonia kerfuffle constitutes rebellion Rejecting the Supreme Court to hold a rigged election to justify a unilateral declaration of independence opposed by a large segment of Catalonians themselves is very much rebellion. It's just that nobody wants...

So, every single person who condemned the actions of the Spanish national government: why do you think it's a good idea for relatively wealthy Catalonia to stop sending federal transfers to pay for social programs in poorer Extremadura? That's what this revolt is about. Why do you support that goal...

Well if in voting day I looked out of the window and saw her majesty's cops forming phalanxes around the boots while curbstomping anybody and everybody holding a piece of paper or pen, I would stay at home too. The vote may not be all that matters, but is still a key part of democracy, and the glor...

Not talking about, is it legal, where they in their right, etc. Only talking about, is this contra productive or not. Beating up voters (who even might be voting for you!), sounds really, really contaproductiv. Unless you want to escalate the problem for some reason. --> which might be As I've note...

Without taking sides, I think people is mistaking what is legal with what is right. Saying Spain didn't extend basic human rights to non-citizens (I don't know, I only know my own constitution, so AFAIK Mexico might be the only country who extends protection to anyone within its borders, we're chum...

And voting that you do not belong to your country anymore is not rebellion? They where voting, where they all voting to get out of spain? No, only most... So attacking voters without making shure to only attack on side. Sounds like an bad plan...? The vote was already declared to be illegal and unc...

You're nuts. The way international politics actually works IS nuts.... to spoiled brats who don't realize that their whining is based on relatively recent codification of "the rights of man" (US and French revolutions) and "self-determination" (World War 1). Nation states relati...

It has some organs of government (police) but not others (courts, though they have their own civil law). The point is you need to have all the organs when you start talking independence, not declare independence and act shocked when relatively lightly armed police (rather than actual military units...