The Gaming Den

Right, so, I've been sitting on the entire manuscript for the Book of Elements for a few months, and it hasn't been improving except when I sit down to post it. So I've started to post it to the Wiki . If people are interested in anything from it, let me know, because it's already bbcode formatted; ...

If getting effective underwater writing tools is impossible for the Sahuagin (since they've also got to solve their lighting problem with magic, which is, admittedly, already done), then there is another solution: they set up their bureaucratic posts in air bubbles, or even deliberately build air bu...

Text trumps table, and I wouldn't have put the "an nth-level" sentence in there for 1st level. Will fix.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Is it possible to have Star-Trek like forcefields or will that always remain a science-fictiony thing?

AFAIK, not possible with present data. There's no theoretical reason why they couldn't work, but we'd need to know of some phenomenon that acts at all like they do so that we can manipulate it.

In a pure cyber-punk you need the same thing. Designer plagues, wild nanite blooms, corporate wars.... whatever..... needs to keep civilization from ever truly getting its act together and installing camera and radar into the slums and distributing People Kibble and basic education to the poor. I t...

Calibron, CeilingCat, you'll be missed. Enjoy your respective breaks, and I hope to run into you elsewhere or when you return.

Taharqa wrote:The torrent of anger that was unleashed by several posters in response to my initial post around page 7 or so is very telling

I went and looked at page 7, and I don't see anyone else doing more than ignoring you there.

So, pics or it didn't happen.

This is DnD. No one has great Strength, even Fighters and giants, so your question is nonsense. Any heroic myth you can name has no equal in DnD. DnD characters have at best above-average human, but not superhuman, strength. This is DnD, and fighting characters don't get nice things. Don't be a dic...

Well, first you have to define how strength works. If strength is a stat, then it works one way. If strength is a passive ability you can buy, that's another. You can do a series of abilities: Strength 0: Free. You can carry anything an ordinary human soldier might be expected to carry. Strength 1: ...

The idea I'm bouncing around is that every object's weight is one word and one small number. The word is just a size category. This might be different (one up or down, usually) from the object's actual size category, but it usually isn't. The number, within a size category, is linear. One Small 2 ob...

If I remember right, TNE ate SAME toward the end.

Calibron wrote:Personally I'm kind of looking forward to the death of D&D, it'll open up the Heroic High Fantasy genre to some new blood.

D&D won't die for as long as someone thinks they can make money off the name.

FrankTrollman wrote:There really isn't a fighting style that I can think of that people haven't put on a horse. Successfully even.

-Username17

Boxing?

...unless they decide to claim that CMB is a "trademark" because they have not defined that term. Paizo's problem is not that they would have to withdraw from the license - their problem is that they don't have a snowball's chance in hell in court because they failed to live up to section...

Evasion: Not the intention, but it can work that way. It shouldn't really matter unless the Paladin is Fireballed just after getting up or something, or oddly multiclassed. Mortal Smite: I believe I was half-considering moving the thing where the Paladin gets the ability to finish enemies with Smite...

Thats two votes in the way I was already leaning. Changing now.

It's meant to work in heavy armor, although maybe it should require a shield. I'll fix that as soon as I'm sure about the shield part one way or another.

During the first battle of mogadishu the time of the intial combat operation to "snatch and grab" Habar Gadir lasted 17 minutes. That should include flight times. This is a really good example because it sort of encompasses how long an entire run might take with good planning. Going with ...

"Asshole" isn't. "Shit-for-brains" isn't. "Dumbfuck" isn't. "Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad" isn't. "You're too stupid to breathe" isn't. Um... huh. The ones that aren't generally have to do with shit and intelligence. That's about it. R...

Hey people who are bitching about the word bitch: NEWSFLASH Almost every insult that we have is gendered. "Asshole" isn't. "Shit-for-brains" isn't. "Dumbfuck" isn't. "Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad" isn't. "You're too stupid to breathe" ...

I'm keeping up just fine. The burden of proof is on you to prove that you're a feminist, just like the burden of proof is on everyone else to prove you're a misogynist. Calling Crissa a bitch after she says that it comes across as sexist. That's the point under contention here. You're arguing that i...

A belief means nothing unless it's turned into action. Unless you have some action, something to point to where you took time out of your day or money out of your wallet to promote feminism, you have no credibility to say that complaining about being called a bitch makes someone a worse feminist tha...

A feminist isn't someone who holds "the belief that men and women are [should be treated] equal[ly]". A feminist is an activist who works to oppose cases where women are being mistreated for being women, and often when men are being mistreated for being men, too. Being a feminist is not so...

I don't think you get it. I am so for equal rights for women that I don't even use gender specific insults. Like, ever. That's why I'm pissed. You're calling me sexist when I'm actually a better example of a feminist than Crissa. The fact that Crissa does feminism wrong is the real problem here, no...

Anecdotally, I've heard the gendered sense out of the mouths of twelve-year-olds, one of whom I know didn't pick it up at home. It's not like it's gone from the younger generation. It has a gendered meaning to me, and I'm only barely old enough to legally drink. So there is a counterexample to the i...