The Gaming Den

CatharzGodfoot wrote:I've pretty much come to the conclusion that XP have no place in a modern RPG, period.

External rewards have no place in a modern RPG. Players should never "grind" for anything ever.

TheWorid wrote:Besides Doc Savage, who would you call a generalist?

Hector. Theseus. Superman.

Make it so that people can't stack two kinds of crit boosts on the same weapon and the system should be fine. Allowing increased crit range AND multiplier on the same weapon is crazy--each one doubles or triples in value because you've got the other, which is why everyone's example broken weapons ar...

Psychic Robot wrote:Democrats are being so arrogant

Psychic Robot wrote:Obamacare monstrosity

Psychic Robot wrote:a meme that has been perpetuated by leftists as a talking point.

Psychic Robot wrote:In general, the entire debate over health care is obfuscated by name-calling that sidelines actual discourse in favor of playground pettiness.

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You know, feel free to make your own spells as needed. There's no reason to make a weird or crappy spell list because the SRD doesn't have what you need. Actually, I kinda like the weird spell lists. I only tried to make a spider mage in the first place because most of the spells I hadn't used yet,...

Yeah, I'm sticking to the SRD because it's all some of the people have access to. Dominate Animal would require sending a whole bunch of spiders at them. I could do that, but it would feel weird. I think I'll just bump up the Summon Spider to 3rd level/large spiders, and put in something else on 2nd...

Black Tentacles was the one I was worried about, and that's a good point about Ray of Exhaustion.

Any suggestions for a couple of spells I could put in there instead?

edit: strongly tempted to give them Foresight. That's a fair 9th level spell for 5th level characters, right?

I'm going to be running a small campaign soon, and I worked up a few small spell lists for spontaneous casters to use. They're like the Beguiler list, but more limited (I'm trying to stick to no more than 7 spells in a level, because that's what people can remember). Spell slots will be as a Sorcere...

So "Time Mage" is a concept because I can use those two words and imply that the character has the power to speed things up, slow things down, possibly stop things or instantly hop from one place to another. That's intellectually complicated, but it's distillable into just two words. For ...

For christmas presents, you could throw in consumable items. Potions of healing or invisibility or whatever, combs that turn into forests when you throw them, that kind of thing. Plus, you can give players actual treasure. Like, piles of gold and castles and all that fun stuff. And like Sinbad, they...

I've had times when the site won't load, but today I finally got an error message: phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User phpbb_tgdmb has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in G:\Domains\tgdmb.com\...

Why do we need a whole bunch of magic items at all ? We can give players the numeric boosts they need as they level. We have the technology! Even better, we can cut out a lot of the number inflation to begin with. I'd rather have a game where your character could function on zero magic items. That m...

I'll give you some examples of characters I could play in 3e with just the Core books that I can't play in 4e with the PHB, DMG, and MM: Necromancer, summoner, enchanter. A guy with an animal companion. A druid, bard, barbarian, sorcerer, and monk. A guy with a familiar. A ranged fighter. A ranged ...

I think there is an Eberron feat that also grants immunity to the condition.

Pseudo-edit: A quick check on Google confirms that "Mark of the Dauntless" makes you immune to being Dazed or Stunned. You need something called a "true dragonmark" to qualify for the feat, though.

I think that catholics say they aren't breaking the idolatry restriction because they claim to worship what the idols represent rather than the idols themselves. I thought the idea was that they pray for a saint to intercede on their behalf with G-d, but with the understanding that G-d is still the...

I think that catholics say they aren't breaking the idolatry restriction because they claim to worship what the idols represent rather than the idols themselves. I thought the idea was that they pray for a saint to intercede on their behalf with G-d, but with the understanding that G-d is still the...

Yeah, some of the old fairies tales were nasty. The original versions of the sleeping Beauty has the prince get her pregnant and wait for the birth before delivery. Sometime it's twins. When it's not twins, he gets her pregnant again and waits for THAT birth. Then he wakes her up. Which inspired th...

You only need the note if you're doing a petition to change name and gender, though. If she just wants a name change, that's much simpler to do.

I can't afford to change my legal name, and I don't meet the government's qualifications for being legally considered female. I only really know how things work over here in CA, but here if you can't afford to pay the filing fee for the name change paperwork, you can apply for a fee waiver and not ...

I am actually scared for my physical safety now. Consider a restraining order. Seriously, that's what they're *for*. Laws will vary from state to state, though. If you're in California, check with your local Family Law Facilitator's office--they can either help you directly or point you in the righ...

Even if I can look attractive to other people, I don't think I'll ever feel anything but pathetic. Because there's always going to be something I can't do, and if I fail at even one thing it will brand my entire existence as a failure. No one in the history of the entire world has ever, ever, ever ...

Oh yeah, I wouldn't post my phone # or home address to begin with, but a lot of people do, so it's still a problem. There's no good reason to give every app developer full access to all that information either. It's a bizarre choice on facebook's part, and one that they don't draw a lot of attention...

All of the Facebook apps, like Farmville and Fishville and Mafia Wars and all that junk, are at best an amusing diversion, and at worst a waste of time. There's nothing inherently good or bad about them, no more so than Tetris, Solitaire, or Minesweeper, the timewasters of old. If only. Using any f...

I like the grid system for setting up stats: http://invisiblecastle.com/stats/grid/ Basically, you get a 3 by 3 grid, with str/dex/con along the top and int/wis/cha along the side. Then you pick which numbers will go to which stats, but each stat can only use numbers from its own row/column, and you...

Not really, I mean it always upset me that in one of the books (God Emperor I think), there's a massive time jump, of like 10,000 years or some shit... And yet the technology stays exactly the same. They're still using lasguns and shield belts and still haven't found a way to navigate without the s...