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Prak wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:13 am

I only differ in believing that it is possible for entities with divine ranks to learn to be better.

That only proves you're not the target demographic (it also proves you're good, and that I'd probably enjoy playing at your table).

Any time I see a thread like this I remain convinced that distant/non-provable Gods work best for every setting. Alas, dnd is meant to cater to Gygaxian players, and thus provides gods as the ultimate RPeen NPCs. In dnd-land there is no "Problem of Evil" because everyone knows their world...

Heaven's Thunder Hammer wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:57 pm

Apparently they have a bigger staff than Wizard's, but not the sales of 5e.

"A bigger staff than WotC" is not a tall bar when the dnd division is barely a skeleton crew.

Being my gaming preferences of the luciferan persuasion, deities rarely have an important role in my games. They're more often than not world-building details that are made up on a need basis. Currently, I'm running a game in what is less and less Dragonstar by the session but I'm increasingly more ...

Mearls has specifically said that 5e PHB has outsold any other edition's PHB, ...and here I thought no one could beat Sean Spicer at pathetic, bald-faced lies. The thing about 5E is that it is The Edition That Everyone Plays AND NO ONE BUYS . If it had outsold 4E, WotC wouldn't have turned the dnd ...

Magic and knowledge makes you MORE susceptible to malign influence, not less. Power doesn't corrupt, it only reveals character. Saruman always was a little shit. All he got from Sauron's backing and an orc army was freedom to be himself. While you can validly argue that "they who seek power sh...

I don't handle attributes, no. My game's bonuses are handled by class (fixed, not growing) and Enhancements you have a small percentage to win each encounter (and mostly replace treasure as a road to power).

Foxwarrior wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:30 am

I dunno, if they started charging licensing fees the YouTubers might all just move to Call of Cthulhu...

Yes, but this way Wizards makes more money. I have a sneaking suspicion Hasbro is getting tired of their shit and is telling them "either monetize DnD or fire everybody who's not working on MtG." They don't even have to write anything, all they have to do is start charging licensing fees ...

The only "get extra re-rolls" method I've ever cared for is M&M's Luck advantage where rolls under 10 on the die get a +10, because otherwise it's not even worth bothering as far as I'm concerned. Fuck swinginess. Also your proposal would need either a full rebalancing of every single ...

Prak wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:52 pm

I think in Buhlman's case it's mostly a matter of "did not adequately learn social cues and socialization at low level"

Power does not corrupt, it only reveals character.

Is anyone surprised in the least that the elevated nerds would grow into the most despicable people as soon as they got power, perpetuating the cycle of abuse?

Feng Shui is a no-brainer considering Matrix was, first and foremost, a love letter to John Woo. Everybody needs to be kung fu fighting, and Feng Shui is the game for that. Just build archetypes around the Matrix' characters, and add additional "chosen one" superpowers available post chara...

On related news, all of my country's dictator's worshippers are paising the taliban over here... wichs leads me to believe dictator-would-be's all over may take it as a Go signal.

Funny how, in all of the Den's history, I only remember two threads on Erotically Charged Sexventures.
If you're talking 5E, why not just giving your PCs a free, sex-related Path/Specialization/whatever the name?

Haiti's US backed dictator was assassinated. Are you positive he was US' backed? Because if so, that's a most grim portent for my country (not like I expected do-nothing Biden to step up before our tinpot dictator turns us into a banana republic, but seriously, it's not in the US' best interest to ...

Consider also good old Doomsday Devices. Both sides have doomsday weapons to ensure M.A.D in case they lose. Currently the Russians have Poseidon, and before Poseidon (if I remember right, can't remember where I read this) they had a group of submarines ready to poison the oceans with nuclear crap t...

but if normal humans can get away with actual crimes including murder ...here's the thing, all that crime and murder people get away with? It happens on camera too, the system just doesn't care and files it under "statistics and lunchtime news" unless either the victim is high profile or ...

There was a world before 9/11, and there is a world after 9/11. Our transition into a global surveillance state made of pretty much all Urban Fantasy an impossibility so you have one of two choices: 1) Defacto abolish the genre: Revisionists and puriteens haven't stopped in trying to remove from the...

This may be a bit off-topic, but what does everyone think the odds are of 5e eventually getting a cool, ambitious project like this one for it? You can write a flavor/distro of 3.X without rewriting the whole of 3.X. You can't even so much as rewrite 5E because there's nothing to rewrite in there ....

I still get a kick out of people declaring the death of 5E D&D back in 2014. Well it did. For all practical purposes it's a stillbirth. The lesson to be learned from 5e is that people wanted cleaner rules I guess a single sheet saying "suck the DM's cock" is as clean and concise as it...

Your friend's wishlist only tells me she has no idea of what she wants: She wants options, yet she quotes a system infamous for its cookie-cutter characters. She doesn't want "gamey," yet she wants something that's "just d&d-ish enough" This is the only statement that can be ...

It also goes into more talk about the conversion system, and... I think it fails at a metaphor. It uses the analogy of translation vs localization, and says that it aims for localization, not translation. Sweet Madokami. He fails harder at game design each time. The easiest thing would be to really...

When I read "system agnostic," for a moment my hopes went up and thought: "Finally! Finally Monte came to terms with himself. Finally he won't waste any more time and energy doing things he hates (i.e anything related to system mechanics) in favor of doing what he actually loves (fluf...

I'd love to think that Achilli has grown in these twenty years and is no longer the irredeemable edgelord with a love for religious overtones and a habit of taking himself all too seriously... but then I remember Garth Ennis and Snyder are still a thing and then I don't get any hopes about it... htt...