The Gaming Den

So, getting back to the original topic 2E still seems like a DOA game. I see people discussing have played it. However, much like I said earlier, the game appears to be ridding on the adventure paths much as Pathfinder has for more than half its lifetime. I know that some folks think the idea that y...

I legitimately do not understand who PF2E is supposed to appeal to at all. The big appeal of Pathfinder - such as it was - was to cash in on 3.5 fans who rightfully thought 4e was garbage and didn't want to play it. This worked extremely well because 4e was bad and poorly marketed. Now to compete w...

So I expected Pathfinder 2 to sell well out the gate, even it turns out to be a failure. It does not appear to be selling well at all. Several people were tracking the sales position on Amazon and there were moments where it was #1 in RPGs, but normally it has NOT been. And it looks like it has fal...

From those, the only one I read thoroughly is AGE... and for all I usually like Green Ronin products, AGE is simply boring. It was made with 4E design philosophy in mind, which is to say the gaming equivalent of a Bowdlerized edit of a play or a Fox Kids Show: Safe, sanitized, safe, samey, safe, co...

I've played all the Silhouette system stuff, and it all has the same problems: The tactical stuff is too fiddly, the skill system is vaporware, and nobody involved knew what any element of your character was worth relative to any other element. As a wargame it's passable, as an RPG it's not a thing...

0) it is a little odd that you think hide and move silently only exist in 3.0. 1) the difference between "sneaking from X to Y takes 1 roll per PC and 1 roll per enemy" and "sneaking from X to Y takes 14 rolls per person and 14 rolls per enemy" is not primarily one of "diff...

Has anybody got any experience with any of the following RPGs and what was interesting about them. This is the Den so I already know that each of these games is garbage, but then again so is everything else. Dreampod 9: Silcore or the Jovian Chronicles or Heavy Gear RPGs I have played the Heavy Gear...

Guys; This is not about the results of passing stealth checks. You can argue all day about if the results 3.x gives are good or bad, or simply indeterminate. However, you can actually perform the steps without hitting fail points. You roll your stealth check (or to make sure Kaelik is happy hide and...

Guys; We have a whole thread on why "writing stealth minigames are hard". However, 3.0, 3.5, 4e, pathfinder, 5e all have basically the same stealth rules and while not great, they do let you do a basic stealth thing. 1-2 guards is patrolling a back entrance. The party makes 4 rolls, the gu...

Yeah was something I noticed as well for 2E there was hardly any activity about it on any websites I go to either praising or bashing was at best big old load of meh. Also if there relying on the AP's to keep them afloat then there in trouble cause the new one as said is really kinda shit (and I sa...

So based on the activity on various forums and reddit, I can't see any real edition waring going on between PF2E and 5E. There are no "my whole group is changing! threads on any of the 5E sites. There are not even any real PF 1E vs. 2E edition arguments going on. It's just like the PF 1E player...

Souran, have you played bloodbowl? It’s all about positionals with movement halting auras, blocking, dodging: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~chz/bloodbowl/mp/game.shtml#Sequence I was looking at the rules and it seems like a really solid base for a grid battle rpg. A lot of ‘real’ and ‘fiction’ sword ...

As for the adventure paths... I haven't read all of the APs for first edition, but I've read all of Rise of the Runelords anniversary, Kingmaker and Iron Gods (and DMed over 3/4 of each) and about 20 other single episodes from assorted APs and ALL OF THEM are better and more engaging than Age of As...

I am not down for an RPG where I spend 3 hours on any given 6 vs 6 combat, even if it's just some random guards or something. Something that lenghty should either have epic scale to match or else be a climactic confrontation, and option B requires that you have smaller, faster confrontations that c...

This problem was even worse in D&D3, at least for martial characters: either you can full attack (with sometime 7 attacks and special bonus...), either you have a single attack because you had to move. pf2 is an improvement over that: if need to move, you still have two attacks. Anyway, you don...

I've never heard Sherlock Holmes described that way. There are some stories where Holmes is factualy incorrect because the science is outdated (i.e.-Conan Doyle didn't/couldn't know what we know now), but I wouldn't call that "plot fiat". If you mean "the crime was committed in such ...

terested in trying out a new character. There are ways around that. [*] A close second with how the classplosion failed is because 4E D&D characters are BORING. The powers are small-scale '[3W] + a slide 1' shit, classes get their powers and big upgrades at the same schedule, soforth. Now, 4E D...

Didn't need the Knights, no (don't have a problem with them, though). Grey Knights and Custodes...instead of a new chapter of marines that are different to the existing one, new marines that are flat out better? No thanks. They have the "Lost and the Damned" for chaos, but they'd not alwa...

Disagree there. Ok, yeah, it's to sell minis, and always has been, but most players are human, and most armies IRL are made of humans. Not too surprising to see a zillion versions of humans there. Space marines are what people want, for a long time they didn't update the DE codex because far less p...

Also, while I am complaining about 40k, would it freaking kill one of their paper-trash writers to actually read a military history book? The "incredible strategies" of the supposed brilliant military minds of 40k make Cobra Commander look like Napoleon Bonaparte. So you want an old-schoo...

It's super easy to make something with less interesting factions. Here we go: real world, where all factions are humans with different coloured hats and basically the same weaponry. There we go, do I get a prize? This is just not true to put it politely. Have you seen Team Yankee? It turns out that...

So, lets say you wanted to make a sci-fi wargame. Lets say you already have a nominally functional set of rules. Now it is time to put together faction lists. You have to competing perogatives. First, you have chrome - how do the factions look, what is their backstory etc. Second you have gears - ho...

It's a difficult needle to thread and since different real people are going to have different thresholds of offense, nothing you can do (or not do) is going to satisfy everyone. The important thing is to try your best and try to reach out to real people and get feedback. If you find out that you've...

Regardless of anybodies thoughts on the quality of 5e, Hasbro seems pretty happy with the the ROI that they are currently getting out of D&D. I also think that Mearls has probably argued that 3 editions in 14 years was too many too quick. People played AD&D and 2E for 10 years each before pe...

Anybody got any playtime on Dropzone commander? I love the look of the minis and the concept seems like a good tactical hook. Like all wargames that are not 40k its probably going to require building two forces if you ever want to play it, but rules seem pretty good. Initial factions seem varried, b...