The Gaming Den

O, no. Like, hell no. WTF, Pathfinder? Seriously, WTF?

Because that puts almost the same number in each alignment. Then, in your home game, you're supposed to make vampires either NE or LE and liches the other one.

I looked up hill fighter because I didn't believe there would be an archtype that was that stupid. Turns out there isn't, but there is a trait named "Hill Fighter" that lets you charge down hills (but not up them, you fucking munchkin) without making an acrobatics check. Fuck that. It's a...

That quote I used in the cooking example for -6 or -7? It's part of a list of examples for +10 to -10. Unless it's some sort of cake worth televising, wedding cakes are comparatively easy. People make them on a regular basis for a career, though it is somewhat of a specialty. That puts it somewhere...

The skills issue in GURPS is even bigger than this. Many skills, although they exist, have no guidelines as to their use. While there's a skill for cooking, for instance, it says, "A successful skill roll allows you to prepare a pleasing meal." And that's all. That's fine, actually, becaus...

Whenever they interact with someone for the first time, there's a 20% chance that they must make a will save or punch that person in the face. Sort of! Book of Vile Darkness[/i]'s Alternative Curses (28) for the spell bestow curse ][*]The next person introduced to the target for the first time will...

Further down the page he reveals that he's using standard (if fancy-looking) playing cards, but he doesn't say how--that is, if there's a look-up chart or anything. Multiple numeric randomizers a la Deadlands is usually a sign of a disunified resolution system, so that's a strike. I'm actually more ...

Ashardalon Generator wrote:It's a Weasel with a rectum made from a living Wolverine.

That's beautiful.

The sane reading of the spell is that it negates effects that make it difficult to move, but has no effect on effects that take away your actions. So Stunning, Dazing, and Nauseated would all apply normally. You can't even make a terribly convincing argument otherwise. So although freedom of moveme...

There's some debate on the exact effects of the spell freedom of movement, even, unsurprisingly, in Pathfinder.

How does the Den parse this spell? For example, at your table does the spell make the affected creature immune to dazing and stunning?

Plot devices where Batman won't kill the joker "because" just don't work in RPGs. No, the villains won't keep getting sent to prison where they can escape at a time that the GM feel is convenient. They will simply be turned into dog food by the PCs once they see how it works. Bat-man's pl...

So I'm trying to write a dystopian future for a game where the corporations grown so powerful as to take over the government. Is it subtle and just sort of understood or is it the White House Sponsored by Pepsi? There are vast gulfs between the rich and the poor, with the wealthy never aging and li...

One weirdstone stops a shitload of teleportation.

The 3rd-level Drd spell coral growth . Enough castings could create complex, possibly evn enclosed coral mazes. Combine with the 6th-level Sor/Wiz spell hardening --which I know is beyond the listed limits--or the 3rd-level Drd spell augment object --which would require a whole mess of merfolk Drds ...

How does the information for bidding get organized on-page? In most gamebooks I've seen, combats look like "The wolf attacks you. You fight it. [stat block.] If you win, turn to, if you lose, turn to". Since bidding depends on hiding some information from the player, though, we'd have to ...

The spell mystic aegis is from Player's Handbook 2 120, and presented below. Mystic Aegis Abjuration Level: Cleric 4 Components: V, DF Casting Time: 1 immediate action Range: Personal Target: You Duration: Instantaneous A mantle of scintillating, multicolored light appears around you to block the sp...

I think there is some amount of mental gymnastics that allows for (some) supers. While it's sort of easy to justify pre-existing costumed do-gooders, justifying their genesis is a great deal harder. There is seriously no good goddam reason why Batman wears a bat costume and fights crime when A) he ...

Supers settings are for children and can't be adapted to the real world regardless of the changes you make. I don't understand this. By "can't be adapted to the real world," do you mean that published supers settings don't work for tabletop role-playing games regardless of the changes the...

I knew by asking that eventually the magic chalice would rear its ugly head. Fuck that example. Good God, that shit creates way more problems than it solves. Though it does clear up activating a knowstone . Activation: A knowstone provides its bearer with knowledge of the inscribed spell, which he c...

So rules as written, you have two choices with the Knowstone as a Bard. The first is that you can emulate the first level of a class that has the class feature to add spells to your Bard Class List. There are many, and the DC would be 21. Having done that, you'd then expend one of your Bard spell s...

Alternatively, he emulating the class feature "have a spell list which includes Plane Shift" So he's emulating a nonexistent class feature. Got it. But then wouldn't that merely add plane shift to that emulated spell list and not his actual, for-reals bard spell list? Further, if the know...

So lets say a bard finds a knowstone of plane shift . What and how many Use Magic Device checks does he have to succeed on to gain its benefits? Knowstones ( Dragon #333 93) A knowstone is a semiprecious stone containing the formula for casting a spell within. Physical Description: A typical knowst...

So lets say a bard finds a knowstone of plane shift . What and how many Use Magic Device checks does he have to succeed on to gain its benefits? Knowstones ( Dragon #333 93) A knowstone is a semiprecious stone containing the formula for casting a spell within. Physical Description: A typical knowsto...

The way I read it, you trade some powers for the ability to refill your fiddly resource points with a bag of rats between fights. Does that really work? Even if you do that, is it any good? The good part is then taking 2 levels of rogue, selecting the ninja trick rogue talent and then the forgotten...

I had to look that up, and there it is. First edition Dungeon Master's Guide , page 182. "If you opt to include psionic powers... then certain random encounters will be with psionically-empowered creatures." Then it goes on to say that if the party's used psionics or psionic-like spells or...