The Gaming Den

Checks are so complicated. While using obsolete tools for financial transactions, the US should go all the way and have someone on horseback deliver gold coins between parties.

sigma999 wrote: Imagine if you could don a belt that makes you half dragon or half fiend, or stranger.

What's the LA for strangers?

I'm not actually requesting threats, but a favor, yes. Having watched a lot of thriller films and crime dramas like The Sopranos, The Shield, Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy, The Wire and so on, I'm interested if someone knows about some game, card, board or roleplaying based that's based around t...

I'm not making an argument as to what part of the world is the best, mind you, I'm just asking if regular Americans realize that most of the world don't think very highly of the US. As in, I know the folks over there often believe for whatever reason that they live in The Greatest Nation on Earth, b...

Quiet you. Don't let on about the cheap and effective public health care. They're Americans, they don't believe it exists. Remember, keep the international anti-American communist atheist muslim conspiracy to all be vindictively healthy a secret . This SHOULD have been covered at your French homose...

Damn. I miss his sick ass already.

Oh thank God, finally a thread about how Fighters in D&D suck. This was a long time coming. That was hilarious, thank you. It's actually even better than save-or-die in places because a) nothing is flat-out immune to DAMAGE even if things are immune to death, domination, etcetera and b) they do...

Guns are low-level play anyway. What difference does it make that they become obsolete as magic power increases? As if swords and bows didn't as well. At notable levels, the cleric doesn't give a shit wheter it's a warhammer or a barstool in his hand, or if he's shooting with a pulsar rifle or a sho...

Depends on what you mean. Are you suggesting that the species will evolve into something else or that the society will?

edited for error.

So I was having an argument with a friend, who has an optimistic flair, about the next one thousand years or so. The premise was that we do not encounter alien species during that time. I asserted that the social cataclysm following the mass migration of people from the equatorial areas due to clima...

I need a calendar to remember to eat daily. Some neurological bullshit means I don't feel hunger. I'm not even sure I'm better off than you are.

If you guys are still open for business, I'd like to ask to join as well. I've just lost my job and will be available nearly all the time, the next pause I have is around 12.-15.9. If there are roles you'd really need someone to take up, I can play pretty much anything. Right now a bullshit anima ma...

Protection is key. At those power levels, everything will fall in a round. The villain has to be able to survive several auto-kill attempts. But blanket immunities make it too easy. So, protect the villain from extremely powerful attacks, but make the protective measures strippable. The Abrupt Jaunt...

Typically, fade to black and you figure it out, perhaps an after-sex chat or a description of how it went on a general level. But there have been two hugely awkward one-on-one game situations, both with male players. Those experiences have taught me to simply not go there. My advice and plead to the...

Make a party-friendly explosion and avoid death by being transported to some appropriate location, like a safe spot in the Abyss. If done that way, the damage could be considered level-appropriate. Of course, you'd have to be able to come back from the Abyss, too, but shit, avoiding death is actuall...

Either something commander-like in response to the balor's status of General or even Blasphemy.

Super stomping.

Picture please!

The class sucked anyway.

Fuck Jesus and fuck this debate. Please start arguing over some other meaningless triviality. This one's done.

The important thing not that he soaked 112 damage, it's that he survived a massive archery barrage. One way to do this is to have mad AC. Another way to have DR. In this case, the DR is what you get from a 2nd level spell. This is a level 3 ability. 'Cause there's like two minutes until the movie s...

First sequence: the spears. I counted about 25 spears going through him. Because they're thrown well, I suppose the spears are Large Javelins (same thing) which equals 25d8=112 base damage on average. The character does not indicate damage reduction or fast healing, but seems quite unfazed by the da...

Good assessment otherwise, but absolutely nothing indicates that Slan is epic level.

Guts is an archetypal frenzied berserker build - the class most likely is based on Guts in the first place.

First off, thanks everyone for the replies. Answers: A) No. Technically you have talking items as the "group," but they do not have combat actions. B) The setting is highish fantasy, power levels stretching from the D&D equivalents of level 1 rogue to level 11 druid. C) Not entirely su...

Hey there. My friend is starting to work on a single player CRPG, which he and a couple of his programming student buddies are going to put together. I'm largely responsible for the writing and rules engineering, and I'm now looking for a good pre-existing system to draw inspiration or straight-up r...