The Gaming Den

If your definition of nerd includes Cam Newton, perhaps you should attempt to redefine nerd to something that does not include Cam Newton. No offense to Cam Newton, he's a great guy, he's also not a nerd. No, my definition does not include Cam Newton, but my definition does include the millions of ...

TheFlatline wrote:Find some smoking hot N scale model railroad floozies who want to get laid on a traintrack. The more likely you can get laid doing a hobby, the more popular it will be.

Copper stains, electrical shocks, and the worst rugburn ever. Probably won't catch on.

I thought we were talking about tabletop RPGs, in which case you need to add a couple of decades to that range. How many of those people are starting the hobby after that range? The Call of Duty audience is not "nerd roots", not at all nerd roots. If you're going to break out "Those ...

Honestly, the changes necessary to bring the game out of geekdom and into mass popularity is beyond what most geeks would be willing to accept to the game. Yeah, I know, I hate the romantic comedy subplot in Die Hard and the touchscreen minigame in Call of Duty. Oh, wait, you mean we can have diffe...

blahblahblahholocaustzionismblah See? Gx is a worse person than tzor. Black men were still being lynched with impunity in the '60s, and black women were still being raped. Sure, they weren't slaves, but it's asinine to argue that no one alive today has ever experienced dehumanizing racism in the am...

wordswordswords about comics More people are thinking about superheroes than they have in decades, and the "fight" to legitimize comics as a medium of literature is had and done. It hasn't helped comics as an industry, though. I don't understand what your objective is, here. I'm totally h...

But from the angle of good intentions paving the road to hell... the South, it's citizens, and it's army recruits are actually WORSE than Nazis their intentions were worse, their knowledge of their intentions was superior. And in a similar light modern people like Tzor making excuses for the South ...

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FYI I am not Christian. So if I have a fucked up interpretation of your orgy of consumerism and gluttony, blame it on ignorance. FYI my way of playing is so much better than your way of playing because of my [religion/gender/nationality/race/preferred football team/hometown/handedness/eye color/num...

Koumei wrote:Given how utterly pointless this thread has become was from the start, I may as well go off topic here. Man In Black, where is your sig from? One of the topics created by that spambot?

My sig is always spambot gibberish, links and any other promotional nonsense extracted.

Internet forums are kind of like internet pornography, you go on to jerk off. In the former, it is to jerk off to your own ideas and at the end of the day you really haven't accomplished much. What makes the Den stand out... The Den is about the equivalent of an S&M fetish. The Den's favorite w...

I'm not sure what you mean by script then. I assumed you meant just a very short 1-2 sentence description, of which charm or dominate could be: "Int vs Will, Hit: target gains the Charmed status condition for X amount of time" Commanding the creatures goes in the description of those stat...

Not really. Charmed and dominated can just be status conditions and those spells give you that status condition. Figments can largely be defined by keyword and the actual spell text can just be "creates a single figment of large size with visual components only." But the script can't usef...

This thread is about people "wanting" things that will in fact make them less happy. Oh. Fuck me, now I get it. These are just intractable ways of implementing the goals of "Give people shinies to keep them involved in the game". Wishlists suck the fun and excitement out of loot...

PhoneLobster wrote:So.

You've only just started counting NOW?

I was referring to you and Swordslinger, not Episode #3245 in How The Fuck Are We Going To Fix Loot? and Randomness Is Totally Aw[esome/ful].

Wow, this was such a great argument that it totally needed a second thread!

Who says you can't buy anything worthwhile? Nobody does. Here's the whole paragraph. Try again. That doesn't solve the problem at all. If you can't buy anything worthwhile with money, then money is just shiny rocks. If cool items are cheap enough to be worth buying but crap items sell for nothing, ...

Re: Swordslinger's kind of dumb argument: Basically all figments and all enchantments are too complex for a simple script, as are most summoning spells. Why are we arguing about this? The points were that 4e combat doesn't require much in the way of situational variation and that the powers are supe...

This is why treasure consists of items and coins. If someone is getting shafted by the RNG and not getting many picks of the treasure they want, they get greater picks of the money, so they can buy stuff they want later. At least, that's how it's always worked in games I've played. As for items tha...

I assume your PCs were heavily into character builds and had some specific existing character they wanted to precisely replicate? No. Stop this shit right here. There are reasons other than "I didn't get a katana" to dislike the slot machine so stop beating up that strawman. Here is a lis...

Of course I refused, because they are intrinsically linked. No they are not. It would be perfectly reasonable to have a game that does not have slot machine loot but does not go to any effort whatsoever to humor people who want signature weapons because both ideas are retarded. I totally agree that...

The DM will just cheat It does not matter if a DM refuses to use random magic items, because no number of DMs refusing to use random treasure actually makes random treasure worse, it just means that there are less games of [insert TTRPG name here] that actually have random treasure. But it moots an...

I think that this is, at least in part, because other people frequently use signature weapons as a counter-argument against random loot. But they're hardly the only counter-argument, or even the best counter-argument. Here, from a dozen pages ago: Frank's and Lago's random drop argument isn't convi...

hogarth wrote:Indeed; I made a similar point thirty pages ago.

And I made it ten pages ago. What do we have to do to get this shit thread locked?

Actually it does. Random games don't show favoritism and more specifically, items aren't placed for certain characters. Whoever gets the +2 mace of impact the party found is up to the party itself to distribute, not the DM. This is just going to lead to the exact same resentment, just aimed intra-p...