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Has anyone heard any murmurs from other publishers who might want to take up either the Shadowrun or Battletech lines? I've always respected how Battletech was handled. You could start playing with just the box set, you could play 90%+ of scenarios with just one book and a computer program to print ...

The moment you start thinking that everyone other than you is stupid and uninteresting is the moment when you should stop, step back, and start wondering if perhaps the problem is in yourself. Ladies and gentlemen, the tone of my original post was SARCASM . Clearly I think there are good, interesti...

mean_liar wrote: Unless you're living in a hamlet you need to go out and meet more people to replace the people that have moved.

Taking a step back, the town I'm in is pretty small. Since I'm stuck here until I finish my degree I think I may just be screwed.

Common interests and making friends through friends is exactly the type of advice I'd expect from my Mom. Not wrong necessarily, but not exactly enlightening. I have my interests, philosophy, politics/economics and PnP gaming. Those interests aren't too fucking common but there are people out there ...

What I'm about to say may be shocking: The world is filled with stupid people. I know, I know there is so proof to the contrary. :sarcasm: Normally it's not a big deal, because in the sea of idiocy you can usually find a few decent, intelligent, rational people. My problem is, even though I live in ...

There's also cryosleep, as seen in the movie Aliens. As mentioned above we'll start to see colonization once we have the power needed to go between planets/solar systems and do it for only a few billion dollars. Then you can get a few (very rich) fringe loons who want to live away from 'the man'.

Quiverfull is a fundamentalist Christian movement that believes children are a gift from god, so they don't use birth control and they they actually try to have as many children as possible. The Duggar family is the most famous of its advocates www.duggarfamily.com/ Honestly I don't think if they wh...

Kaelik wrote:Pretty clearly they used to be involved in Shadowrun and CGL in some sense or another.

There used to be a Clutch that ran Fanpro's convention demo teams, at least for Battletech. For those not in the know Fanpro used to run Catalyst's properties before their was a Catalyst.

Last campaign I played I specifically engineered my character to only have to roll one die for damage, even up to level 20. It just saves so much time not having to collect the dice you need, rolling all of them, finding the ones that fell of the table etcetera. It doesn't make d20 combat any less f...

Welcome aboard Panzerfaust, thanks for the link. I'm curious what Catalyst's current strategy is. I think it's a good idea for them to placate their freelancers, because if they want to work with them in the future they kind of need to. But why not hit the magic button and start a new company or all...

I'm actually writing a paper revolving around some of this brain/computer stuff. Long story short, neurons are either on or off (digital) the activation they send out isn't one set value, they don't send 0 or 1 in other words. So they aren't analogue, they may have a bit more computational leeway th...

No one is accepted at the Gaming Den. I admit it bummed me out for a long while, but really that's the whole deal. If the most respected people here said things that were stupid, everyone would converge and jump their shit for it. I admit it's painful at times and the last time it happened to me I ...

Of course they're so incompetent that the enemies are high level in name only and can actually be easily killed right? I remember the write-up for the end-boss of a 3.5 adventure called the Age of Worms . It was a good 2 pages long, and I think it would be a TPK for 80% of D&D groups out there ...

People only get one attack of opportunity per round . The attack of opportunity that you get when a tripped foe stands up happens before they get to their feet, so it comes with +4 to-hit. Getting an attack of opportunity in response to an enemy falling down is therefore not even an advantage (unle...

Smeelbo wrote: People are playing PathFinder, more than they're playing 4E.

As much as Pathfinder roils my blood 4e infuriates me more, so I'd really love to believe this is true. Does anyone have anything other than anecdotal evidence that this is the case?

These Pathfinder better/worse debates make my head hurt. Pathfinder failed, but miss how it really fails. Casters got stronger: Wizards and Sorcerers got stronger, Clerics and Druids get ugly little nerfs. For low levels we can debate whether Wizards actually got better, they get more HP and higher ...

Instead of displaying even a modicum of transparency everyone seems to be treating their sales and finances as state secrets. Is there a logical reason for this? Despite wanting to steal money from your company that is. WotC, Paizo, everyone does this. As part of this they also don't release sales ...

Mandatory classes aren't the solution. How many people do you know that can't do math or write at the level of a high school student? They all (or most) had to take those courses, but if you don't want to learn something you don't. I really believe nearly everyone at the university level should lear...

The first posts on crashtheteaparty.org are from April 9th. Jason Levin's personal information has now shown up on a bunch of right wing blogs, all over the course of the weekend. 3 days isn't enough time for someone to make a site, have it found out, and have the teabaggers lock ranks, unless this ...

That's pretty much 4e for ya.

I think their are primarily two types of Tea-Partiers; the primarily rascist and the conspiracy theorist. The conspiracy type I could definitely see using false-flags to further their agenda. That site could as easily be the work of Hipster desperate to stick it to 'the man', since they support the ...

Here is some of the first media to come out and discredit this:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/g ... truth.html

I don't know if this blogger is professionally disingenuous or just dangerously retarded.

By RAW it may work, Oversized TWF mentions if you wield a one-handed weapon in your off hand you reduce your penalty. You are holding it in your off hand(s), since it doesn't specify you can just have one off hand I think you get a pass.

If you support the troops then you should hate seeing this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbISTJsi2M

Hi, I'm Daisy! I used to deal out crack for Canadian Tire money. Now I operate the Tire Swing Casino at Steels and Highway 7. Welcome to the Den! You're from Brampton, I can tell. :shocked: I mean... Where in Brampton does Steels and Highway 7 meet? They used to call Airport rd. highway 7 way back,...