The Gaming Den

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Grumsh felt his turn to evil gave him the power to reach his full strength so he’s “gifted” his race with great access to that energy source. Even Abyssal sand and all that still works. Abyssal sand is “evil” for the same reason Californian sand is “American” sand. Th...

Most of the deities in any fantasy setting actually don't make the rules for that setting. In many iterations they can be killed. They are just really fucking powerful entities that can break and bend the normal physics of the setting. There's nothing gained by saying that evilon radiation "na...

It's pretty easy to marry moral philosophy with any D&D alignment rules given. The answer to any question is "Those are the rules". Animals are neutral no matter what because those are the rules. All Orcs ping as killable to any Paladin because those are the rules. There's a polytheist...

Universally on the side of this lady, though I don't know what the creator program is. What is she being prevented or directed away from doing? Streaming MtG or something?

The more grounded something is in the "real world" the easier something is to understand and the more broad the appeal can be. If your newest project needs me to understand the "rules" of alternate universes like the Marvel universe or an Anime universe then, the less familiar I ...

I have found, in the modern day, one of the more exciting ideas to players is the ability to fix problems of a place and then come back to it later and see the place being different now. My 40k game is entirely about that. With the players investigating a planet, doing anything they can to fix it's ...

It occurred to me today that tube worms, the kind that live on hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, could probably live in the underdark and would be a good answer to the "what do they eat in the underdark?" question. A being that lives without sunlight through access to water and lava s...

It's just a meme. Couple spots are funny. Steve's very funny.

What do you guys think the life expectancy would be like for the people of a generic D&D world? I imagine their incredible access to healing would mean infant mortality and death to disease would be massively lower than in our world, but the D&D world also seems to have a truly extravagant n...

How about "Fun for the dungeon master"? Now rolling on random charts for random happenings can be done, but that can also go wrong. If you want fun you can't also have control. Total control can make you feel a lot of pleasant things, but fun isn't one of them. To have fun as the DM you w...

I wanna know how many re-rolls equals a straight bonus. Lets say I'm using a d12 and want to get high rolls. Getting two dice and choosing the highest or adding +1 to one roll looks basically even. How many rolls are roughly equal to +2 or +3 to the roll? Obviously a +1 has the advantage that it all...

Probably the most anticlimactic ending possible happened with the entire production being suspended due to coronavirus. I'm in contact but who knows how long things will be in hiatus for.

If we want to make an RPG that's actually good as a game I think we need to try and make it fun to play at the lowest level possible This is certainly true and probably the greatest point of mismatch between an average designer and the people playing RPG's. Light games have seen a lot of success en...

Human shaped targets wouldn't solve it unless you made them believe their were actual humans inside. It's not a matter of the person not having the capability to make the shot, it's a statement that even after all the bootcamp and letting real enemies come at people with real guns an enormous majori...

Basically 10-20% of the infantry or fighter pilots or tankers do 90+% of the killing, and the rest dive for cover. Go further and the effects get even more dramatic. It's been measured that only about 1% of soldiers shoot to kill. They've faked combat conditions, telling soldiers targets of exactly...

Why are they the "good" society!? The existence of caste societies is not offensive in any fucking way. My wife and (thus) family are South Asian, they have a familial "caste". It's a part of their history. There's literally billions of people on the real earth who still have con...

question- were the people who were forced by the Nazis to work in factories fascists because they were exploited by a fascist system? Participants is a pretty clear word choice, anything further is playing at Loki's Wager. Also keep in mind: We did bomb Nazi factories. It's not like a hypothetical ...

I'm particularly curious as to where the hell the ideal of Goblins as "Fascist Capitalists" comes from... I mean, even if we're going full intellectually bankrupt tolkien fanboy, here... goblins are not fascist or capitalist in Tolkien's work. They are exploited by a fascist industrialist...

So while writing societal write-ups about creature types I did a writeup of each type amongst the Capitalist/Fuedal/Wild/Socialist factions and doing so has led me to this weird little conspiracy theory about Giants. I was writing the different racial capitalist factions and basically if you ask wha...

Then it is necessarily not true that when you meet a goblin in the wilderness you don't want him traveling with your party . He could be a perfectly regular dude from a multi-racial city, you don't know until you talk to him. No you are defensive until you learn he is the uncommonly not fascist gob...

Yeah motherfucker. It's like the main job of DMing. It's a fucking crazy game conceit that you want to stab multiple different people every single gaming session and still be absolutely assured by the game that you are the good guy. But here we are so let's do the legwork.

The good guys should be a multi-racial coalition with representatives from lots of weird races already in it. There should be goblins living in good guy cities There WILL be Goblins living in cities of Humans. That's how D&D Human cities are represented, with some elves and some halflings and s...

You can separate almost all creatures by their Capitalist, Feudal, Wild, and Socialist cultural subtypes. When you roll up a new region or faction you can just randomize it based on their leanings. Goblins Goblins lean capitalist so have no socialist faction. Capitalist: Racial hatred, expansionist,...

Your screed here is literally the actual first time I have heard of eating elf as a core part of goblin identity Is it? It's in a billion dollar movie and book franchise and it's also a popular meme. All tolkein baddies talk mad game about eating sentients. https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2015/...

Not sure why fat people/goblins have to be evil. And I don't like the idea of being able to kill goblins on sight because "most" of them are Nazis/what the Nazis said their victims were. Claiming a group is a greedy, dishonest, diseased blight on society so we should kill them all...yeah,...