The Gaming Den

Me being a Finn, I obviously look at the Sámi people, who live in the Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Russian Lappland and are in fact the only indigenous people within the EU. We've (well, the Scandinavians and Finns) made great strides in the last 20 years to stop outright discrimination and cultu...

Why is it important to protect indigenous peoples from assimilation to the cultures of the invaders? As in, I understand assimilating immigrants, but don't follow the logic of not doing that with peoples whose homelands have been occupied. And I'm not talking about forced assimilation, I'm talking a...

Do we want 'widespread terms everyone knows' though?

Hi. I'm again working on a system, a project which will obviously evaporate sooner or later like my dozen other ones. That aside, I'm running into a linguistics problem to which every RPG system writer can relate: using the right words for concepts. Because D&D 3.5 is the best comparison, what d...

You're mistaking halflings with hobbits. Except nobody want to play a hobbit (except in LotR), what people want to play is this: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dnd4/images/9/9c/Halfling_PHB.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130519022627 with +2 Dex and +2 Cha (fast and pretty) (as in D&D4 or Pathfi...

Could you summarise what the fuck this Disgaea thing is, keeping in mind that some of us don't watch cartoons or speak a single word of Japanese? I read the Wikipedia page for Disgaea, and it didn't help me understand what's going on. Is it like a anime meme hodgepodge? What are you trying to achieve?

What I was thinking. Figured there might've been some obscure errata or somesuch hidden somewhere.

D&D 3.5: Does Transdimensional Spell work from the Ethereal to the Material by RAW?

Age Your age does what you'd expect, dropping physical basic attributes and increasing mental ones. It also affects your BP and Starting Capital (which will be determined later.) However, the attribute changes and the BP/Gold alterations are not in the same table – the former are in an age category...

Chapter Two: Characters or, this is going to take a while Chapter Two begins how these things really should always begin: with an explanation of what everything you're about to read means. There are of course races, which they kindly tell us we'll learn more about in the campaign setting section an...

They might have taken on the RuneQuest ruleset explicitly because of the goddamn duck people.

Foreword or, before we get to the meat of it The DoD (not D&D, because Swedish) team is impressively concise. The credits are in fact so short, that they had plentiful room to add a foreword and a “By the way” on the same page. The entire credited team has seven artists, translator (who did the...

The Chronopia models were so sweet I regularly bought them just to assemble, paint and admire. In a similar sense, I just bought and downloaded Chronopia stuff without ever sporting the idea of playing it - I just wanted to look at the pictures. Paul Bonner (who, for example, did that Sadist Serpent...

Drakar och Demoner, Fifth Edition [/b] or, It's not like Swedes couldn't play D&D – they just have something else in mind http://www.runan.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chronopia.jpg Way back in 1981, a Swedish fellow called Fredrik Malmberg and a few friends of his bought a little shop calle...

I started reading the fifth edition, and the first page is already fucking fantastic. It not only has a very concise and cute Foreword from the developer, it also boasts a very tight team roster with a singular tyrant developer who was there from the first edition, which probably means the whole boo...

I'm considering trying my hand at Drakar och Demoner, the Swedish household name. The original game from about 1982 was almost a strict translation of D&D, but the game took on a life of its own briefly thereafter. It's at its sixth edition today and still totally dominates the Swedish RPG cultu...

This thread is a total wreck.

As a Finn: it's a huge embarrassment. And it's only going to get worse before we get rid of our pseudo-Libertarian government and start actually fixing the economy. Mark my words, there's going to be corpses.

Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn declares the project a failure. How ever will we get over this shock?

icyshadowlord is presenting his case in a very collected way, which is uncommon for contemporary Finnish internet conversations, so thanks for that. Our largest news outlets already published what was going on with the food and the asylum seekers: in this facility, the occupants couldn't cook their ...

Sorry about that one.

Frank, you didn't address the real accusation, though: You seem to chronically get your estimates of what is important in a rpg wrong. Obviously, the first stop is semantics: "importance" is a word that could mean a bunch of things, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess the guy mea...

I haven't invested the requisite time to really talk about this book in great detail, so you can just go ahead and ignore my notions, but what I'm seeing and reading tells something about the zeitgeist. Specifically, concerning sexuality. See, the book's illustrations have nearly zero amount of T&am...

It's not particularly fair and is in fact irritatingly complicit with things I ostensibly disagree with, but there are a few taboos where I start to question people's judgement for breaking them even if I don't think the taboo itself is in any way practical on its own merits. For example, face tatt...

Related to the "threat" of Russia. Would Finland joining NATO provoke hostilities from Russia?