The Gaming Den

Huh, that's the first time I've seen Blade III espoused over Blade II. I saw both in theatres, and I would say Blade II is better than III, while first is still the best. Your major complaint about #2 is that the monster killing weapon could be used by my Grandma, That's true. The heroes don't know ...

Three things: First in a disaster people are going to try and get food. They go to the super market, I doubt any cashiers are on duty so they take what they can. If you have a family to provide for and a broken supermarket is the only place to get food, you're going to 'loot', scavenge is probably a...

Good lists Kobajagrande & Josh_Kablack, I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers Darklands, Quest for Glory and some of the earlier Ultimas. I'd be remise if I didn't chime in with these though: Ultima Underworld I & II - Despite being some of the first 3D RPGs these still managed to have...

The whole unlimited corporate contributions ruling opens up an interesting possibility. Would it be possible for a group of citizens from say Europe to band together, form a 'corporation' and strong arm environmental reform through? What if Iran took a big chunk of its oil money and lobbied for the ...

I haven't seen anything, but you can use 'Code' to make your text uniform in spacing and you can use preview to make sure everything is where it's supposed to be. When in doubt make it look like the SRD or something we're familiar with.

A much better number is GDP per capita for each country, not it's particular population. United States, $45,800 Canada, $38,600 (2007 Est.) Denmark, $37,200 (2007 Est.) France, $32,600 (2007 Est.) And some states in particular Massachusetts, $50,735 New York, $48,076 California, $42,696 Massachusett...

The obvious ones are:

Archivist - Learns any divine spell
Artificer - Can make any magic item
Favoured Soul - Spontaneous Cleric
Psion - Best psionic class

There are others, depending on how broadly you define 'make the grade'.

That's total bullshit, tzor. The Republican leadership would pull the funding rug out from anyone voting for any form of socialized medicine. They beat on Specter and they'd do the same to anyone else willing to compromise. Here's a big difference between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans enfo...

There are four parties in the Senate. Democratic-Socialists. Blue Dogs (who pretend to be Democrats). And Conservatives (who pretend to be Republicans). Oh, right, there aren't any Republicans. And there's one Socialist, who always votes left of the Democrats. I'm interested in how you divide Conse...

I hate to say it but you weren't going to get healthcare regardless. You couldn't even get all the democrats you had (I'm Canadian BTW) to vote for anything meaningful. What got shit out of the senate was so watered down it didn't have the public option. If Obama had conviction he'd insist on the pu...

There are Republican supporters of every color, religion and orientation. It's just that the party isn't as inclusive as the Democrats.

So now we have that out of the way lets get back to the topic at hand.

As mentioned above, this fix makes the Fighter better at fightan, but it doesn't make it that much more of a valuable party member. It should dominate any stupid monster without any meaningful SLAs, but a cunning enemy can still rock this Fighter because it doesn't do anything different. Everybody k...

The question is why can Christians hate gays because levitcus commands them to, but they can eat pork, even though it commands them not to. And the answer is: Because they are Republicans, and think they make the rules for everyone, rather than letting everyone live their own lives? Before flat out...

P.S. You do know that the Kosher laws aren't Scriptural. :tongue: I was born and raised Athiest, so I don't really know what 'Scriptural' means. I know that some Kosher rules are in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, along with the chest nut of not wearing clothing of two different fabrics and gay sex is b...

Jesus probably lifted the graven images restriction along with kosher restrictions and killing. I've never understood why the more conservative Christians I've met haven't kept kosher. One explained it to me as Jesus rewriting the rules, so some are no longer applicable. But he never explained how ...

Take good legible notes. My last character was a buff Cleric, so I had his attack progression written out for the most obvious buff spell combinations. Limit the number of dice you roll, another character in our group rolled 8d6 on every attack, plus he had Robilar's Gambit. Seriously it took minute...

A good DM can keep his ego in check. He can also acknowledge that not players are created equal and give or take accordingly. He will also acknowledge rule dumb-fuckery and adapt on the fly if it's really ridiculous. Besides all that nit-picky stuff, what separates the good from the great is the abi...

I did the maths for this a while a go over at BG. If you stack modifiers a PF character can more reliably trip then a 3.5 character. Granted they can't get the feat to get that important second attack on a tripped opponent until level 6. I've had the opportunity to play a campaign using the CMB rule...

It's actually a good idea. Besides thematic concerns a DM needs to work to keep metagaming in check.

You can have fun in a mechwarrior campaign, well at least the second edition seemed to work all right. You just have to agree before hand how you're going to reign in the characters, because it's nearly trivial to break the game at chargen. If you want to spend most of your time in your mechs then j...

Hicks wrote: The more I read, the sadder I get. I gotta rewrite this shit.

Just walk away. Its fail is too great. If you absolutely have to play a Battletech RPG get GURPS or Savage Worlds and adapt them.

I got the Beta out of morbid curiosity. Most RPGs keep it simple with just addition and subtraction, but a time of war uses a good bit of multiplication and division in its combat resolution. I foresee almost zero adoption because of how clunky the combat works. Skills in general and character gener...

I've had similar problems as you Prak Anima, I've also considered combining D&D and M&M, the short answer is don't do it. You could maybe make a system that straddles the two but it would be long and arduous, your house rules would be as long as the PHB, because you'd be making a whole new s...