The Gaming Den

Here are three prior discussions. http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=55391 http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=52620 http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=53855 In general if you want to avoid planar binding and wish shenanigans, necromancy is the master of industrial revolution. You could probably duplicate ...

FYI, as potentially interesting background, there are a whole bunch of tech companies owned by Alaskan tribes. There was some thing in the past few decades where various tribal bodies were getting huge investment portfolios (see: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act), and some of them sunk that into ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisinart My parents had a Robot-Coupe instead, so despite knowing what a food processor was, I grew up thinking of cuisinarts as some highly exotic piece of kitchenware. Incidentally, my limited grasp of French suggests this means there was a kitchen appliance named th...

Mystic theurge has always been worthwhile. Just enter via Ur-Priest, and you'll have no problems.

"Products on spec", because it's kickstarter. I posted a handful of others a year or two back. This project is noteworthy in that it's hard to distinguish from a parody. Aside from the "perfected over 30 years", there's positive references to the '80s, the claim that it's a unive...

Those sound like a pitch where I would be willing to toss a small number of dollars at in return for the schadenfreudisch entertainment of a terrible system, and a potential quick review, and the offhand possibility of an interesting narrative conceit.

The Order of the Link's Rule Set has been perfected over more than 30 years - it was started in the early 1980's! From "Order of the Link", which claims to be a universal setting/system combo, and which, absent that description, I might have been willing to toss a couple bucks at. https:/...

"Hasn't beaten anyone to death with a crowbar"?

I'd be interested in HPL's racism. Largely because some of his writing seems pretty damn racist, but anyone who talks about either brushes it off entirely or starts hyperventilating whenever (and only whenever) dark skin is mentioned. So a sane, in-context look at it would actually be pretty neat.

There's also a plausible argument that Taiwan is the "China" who has a permanent seat on the UN security council, which ups the ante that much more. Not an issue if they're part of PRC; very much an issue if they're independent.

A trick you can use is that when the god of magic gets stabbed, it fucks up magic for a while, and leaves scars all over the magic-scape where it doesn't work right for longer than you care. So if anyone hears you're gunning for Mystra, it's not just Mystra you'll have to worry about, but every Lic...

FrankTrollman wrote:Ghoul Gauntlet stopped being actively disadvantageous to cast by resetting your control limit to a stupidly tiny number.

-Username17

It still does. It just resets it to the normal value. So, fine if you haven't found any control limit shenanigans, but still crap if you have.

You're way underselling Charms if you don't even put them on the list. Also you're underselling the value of Conjuration's dumpster diving. Could you expand on those? I haven't gone through 5E, so I only know what's been said here, but I haven't seen either of those things come up here yet. Also, d...

MSG, maybe?

Probably NSFW. Mostly WTF.

If you have a huge stack of resumes, your first pass is looking for reasons to throw 90% of them away. That can even be stupid things like spelling or formatting errors. If you send in the character sheet one, make absolutely certain it's well-typeset and crystal clear. Within that, I don't think it...

e) use your words, like an adult.

Numenara got 4,658 backers.

Minor Point: I have never played 1e Exalted, so maybe it is different. I haven't either. I assume it's substantially different and worse, based on how Kablack talks about the resolution system. Sorcery goes terrestrial->celestial->solar. Demon of the Second Circle is really about as exotic as a wiz...

But you also haven't talked about playing Exalted, haven't posted logs from running Exalted, and don't usually get involved with Exalted discussions. In fact, based on you picking this to quibble over, I suspect you've never looked at actual Exalted play at all: Anyone who can get to Celestial circl...

This actually seems like a reasonable place for the roll-under system. In most cases it's dumb, but so far it sounds like there are literally no complex situations.

While you are technically correct, you could safely assume that I meant my statement in the non-trivial sense.

Longes wrote:Writeup of Octavian, a high level demon unlikely to appear in most games

Really? I don't think I've ever heard of an Exalted game that didn't either end early or have Octavian show up.

But, but, but, aren't monks still marginally better when you get railroaded into losing all your equipment in an antimagic field and all the other characters are tied up?

The cool thing with granite counters is that you can put very hot things on it with no trouble - like a pot you just pulled off the stove.