The Gaming Den

So, popular demand determines a human right. That's hilariously fucked up. I'll let your imagination extrapolate. As you are very kindly taking it into your hands to answer for the crazy people, is it possible for you to explain, then, how a brand of anarchism could protect those rights? Let's take ...

You're letting ISP off the hook, guys. Man, I've had that thing he's having now. Not gonna lie. It's a special moment in a young man's life. It's when you've lost your argument on all fronts and it's a little bit scary, and you just scoff and back off and think "those guys are so stupid, they j...

It's honestly pretty terribly written stuff overall, and the atrocious translation doesn't help. I wouldn't read Varley's stuff were it not for the ideas of the society of tomorrow. The short stories do the trick best, I find, because they essentially just give glimpses to the world from different p...

I'm re-reading some 1986 John Varley short stories. As a kid, I found this stuff really icky, what with all the sexual content, but now I see it in a completely different light. Some of this shit, especially concerning sexuality and gender, is really visionary. A lot of what Varley envisioned to tak...

My Russian is shitty and I'm having a lot of trouble writing Cyrillic with this keyboard, so I'm struggling to find any good sources as to how much of Ukraine is actually seceding? Crimea is a given, but is there a credible approximation as to how many oblasts might be joining it?

I just feel the need to underline how very correct the above post is. If you want a very simplistic view to take home, it's this: The East Ukraine is pro-Russia and has a lot of Russians in it, and when their wish to move closer to Russia was fucked with, Russia stepped up to say that their friends ...

Balhannoth (MMIV p.15) has blindsense that sees magic, it's surrounded in Dimensional Lock and has Antimagic Grapple, which does pretty much what it says.

Mageripper Swarm (MMIV p. 98) dispels and drains spell slots.

Heroes of Might and Magic is an excellent series up until III, as far as my limited experience with the latter games indicate. 1&2 (and their prdecessor, King's Bounty) are great curiosities, but of course limited and imbalanced to the point of unplayability. So, you won't lose anything by start...

My problem is with these seemingly smart people, especially in their late twenties, who are in no executive positions and for example study or have graduated in economics, law or so on. It's a surprisingly large group. I can't just ask these fuckwits, because I'm not usually in the best of terms wit...

About libertarians. This is something I can't wrap my head around: what are they trying to accomplish right now? I mean, the heir ideology is obviously evil and/or explicitly wrong when starting from scratch, like if there was no economic infrastructure in place at all, they would like to create an ...

Lago: the problems with immigration really touch only some of the already fucked countries, like Greece and Spain, but there's a very powerful right wing racist/nationalist movement rearing all around Europe. It seems that every country by now has their own Sweden Democrats or similar bunch of looni...

Because "caster level" or commonly CL is such a high-use term and "level in spellcasting class" seems to only occur in PrC level-ups, it's not entirely surprising that this is very confusing. The moment I read the statement that those two phrases are equal, I, too, was like "...

Only PL could muster the spite required to disagree with Frank on this point. And you can bet your pantaloons he will.

No, Phonelobster is right. Druid + Animal Companion + Summon Nature's Ally = "And now, for my third turn of the round". It's pretty much unendurable if the Druid player isn't really good and pre-rolling his turns, and it's the intended function of the druid, not some accidental side effec...

I think you misunderstand, PhoneLobster . I haven't seen anyone arguing against Bigby's or Spiritual Weapon; they are completely reasonable things to have, but they are different from Summon Monster and they should be. In fact, the whole argument that having complex monsters is somehow terribly harm...

Where are the legions of people complaining about 3e's Spiritual Weapon? Guess what? There aren't any. It's a perfectly functioning mechanic that people are happy with and it's used with Bigby spells and dozens of other spells in 3e. Do people complain that phantom steeds don't have a entry in the ...

I hope this won't turn into "The Kids Say the Darndest Things," but my only brush was when I simply couldn't make my then five-year-old nephew to understand that when playing the same game, the wizard and the warrior have to be equally powerful. And his reaction was a sincere: "But th...

There's no chance in hell isp is going to have a coherent answer. Nor a short one. What we will witness, at best, is a meandering and wordy collection of paradoxal, intellectually dishonest and completely incomprehensible statements and conclusions that won't even address the very question, which I ...

Red_Archon: Can you explain what you mean by the nerve-wrackingly difficult part? I live in Finland, and my bank doesn't seem to be able to communicate with these fancy web-based payment methods, and I am not eligible for credit. I appreciate folks' wishes to help me, but what with our countries' b...

I have no idea what kind of a state of mental instability caused me to a) read a shad post and b) respond to one. I think I may do too much drugs.

1. the game was made about adventures rather than single combats. these combats together for a campaign that give adventure more than just one battle then move to the next. From what I can glean from that, are you suggesting that post 3.0 games do not have campaigns? If so, where the fuck would you...

I've always had trouble understanding shadzar, not only because I put him on Ignore or the fact that he couldn't write a legible paragraph to save his life, but what I've scavenged from this thread has helped me comprehend his infuriatingly retarded point: When he used to play, they didn't have rule...

It's nerve-wreckingly difficult to order your book from here with the means at my disposal, but I'll keep trying. Technically, I could send the money directly to your bank account, but that shit is not exactly user friendly, what with requiring, for example, the fucking street address of your bank. ...

I apologize for not providing actual recipes, but I just wanted to write about TVP or "soy crumbs." It's fairly healthy, has very high nutritional qualities with no fats whatsoever, diverse enough to be made in to loaves, meatballs, all sorts of sauces, chilis and whatever minced meat is u...

I liked BoVD. The experience was overshadowed by the fact that we missed our actual D&D session and settled for the movie, but it was clearly the funnest D&D or D&D-style movie yet. And it's so ridiculous you can be pretty damn drunk while watching and still get pretty much everything ou...