The Gaming Den

How do I fake a blood iron test? Long story short, I'm anemic, I failed a blood iron test and was rejected by a prospective employer. First of all, much sympathy that you're being excluded for this sort of bullshit. We will be counting on you when we prepare the guillotines. May we surmise that you...

Yes, very well, I stand corrected.

I suppose it's the result of a cognitive block. Intuitively, it doesn't seem like you'd be spitting sick at a guy who is literally old enough to be your father.

There was a huge international long wave radio culture going back to the 50's, I had an old teacher in my high school show us, called up some dude in Russia and had a quick chat, which, yeah, hi to Russia, but was pretty damn cool in the late 80's. Jesus Christ, you're in your late thirties? All th...

Yes, Tussock, you shambling husk of a sentience. A game of area-denial is what we in the biz call a fucking game at all in the first place . If somebody can do it so well that they achieve victory then victory is allowed to be a thing that you get from doing well and not from open-palm slamming one ...

The existence of the Atonement spell is pretty fucked up because the Christian concept of Atonement on which it is based is all fucked up Well. Okay, so lots of Protestants could give a fuck about Good Works, but the Catholics recognize them as necessary for Salvation. The rite of Confession is act...

Detect Pandemonium would be a super fucking lame power and you need to broaden that shit. Does the "Detect Evil" spell particularly do anything we want to be done? As far as I can recall, it's main use is ... so that it's tougher to write satisfying mysteries and whodunnits in D&D, an...

I'm in agreement with the idea that people only really want alignments as a reason to have Planescape. Was it a trash fire? Sure, but it was a trash fire with interesting ideas, worldbuilding, and art. If you're going to build a new alignment system, do the Planescape thing but better. Come up with...

The five MtG colors aren't ideal, because Black is bad and White is good as a pretty strong first intention, which puts a lot of it on pretty boring moral ground, It's not really about taking a moral ground in the first place, it's all just aesthetics. But that's all you want, because the only work...

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Eikre wrote: Tangential anecdote: That reason is because Virgil, a resident of the medieval ages, started reading Roman letters and was distraught at how comparatively shitty his own era was by contrast.

You mean Petrarch. Virgil is the one from Devil May Cry.

I stand corrected.

Why was it even a mistake? It seemed like a pretty good trade, some crappy ships for a super capital ship. Oh, and this. I think that having The Last Jedi on Netflix is really dangerous. I keep finding fuck-ups in the narrative. For example, after Ghost-Yoda's whole fucking speech on how the Jedi t...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhH3NgAVQAAVI3j.jpg A despondent Colonel Aureliano asks his physician where, on the human body, a man would perish most quickly if wounded. The physician shows him by smearing a dot on his chest with iodine and leaves his tent. Shortly afterwards, the camp is roused by a...

Body armor, chain-fed firearms, incendiaries, artificial hearts, literally any vehicle with a redline.

What the Hell happened to it, though? I remember reading that rant, so it wasn't a thing where the forum swallowed it up upon hitting the "submit" button. Not sure. It's possible the original author thought better of it on the grounds that there were a lot of passages that would be pretty...

Maintaining your legitimacy may involve more or less direct involvement in the lives of any particular ethnic group, but putting together a social safety net or a hideously punishing judicial system will nether put you in disfavor of a primary enfranchised group that actually expects those things no...

"The Wilderness" is also predicated on a civilization model where towns and farms and shit are things you aim for. Which is not, historically speaking, every civilization. The Mongols didn't need to know the dark arts of carrot farming, the Norse peoples did know the dark arts of carrot f...

One difficulty is that stamina is a time-based mechanism and the time you have to work with on a tabletop is not very granular. A videogame can give every player its unbroken focus at once, measure in frames per second realtime, and go on for hours of turns or make five minute an eternity. Tabletop ...

"you know, in hindsight, that was actually pretty nice. I kind of miss it." That's how it starts, 100% of the time. Nothing more and nothing less. It's the most insidious and cataclysmic sensation in the entire world. Like, kids, seriously, Say "Perhaps" to Drugs. But don't do t...

Is anyone trying to solve this problem technologically? Rolling physical dice is really too integral to D&D to go away quietly, so entirely electronic dice rollers are probably out, but if there was a die with simple LED displays that you could program to just directly show totals for rolls it ...

The short of it is that certs will get you actual jobs and you can complete them faster than a degree if you are motivated and intelligent and maybe even know a lot of the shit beforehand (not that it necessarily correlates to what you actually need to know for the test, though). Once you are qualif...

soap is basic and we use it precisely because it'll melt nasty bacterias and other organic dirt in our hands. Strong alkalines are used to turn fatty acids into soap, but the cleansing mechanism of soap itself is not significantly predicated on pH. Soap is a polar hyrophile attached to a long, lipo...

5E has like a few hundred pages of usable content; in contrast to the dim view that most DMs took with Dragon content when there were scores of 3E manuals to dredge, I suspect a lot of them will take a fairly maximalist stance on incorporating material from anything resembling official providence.

I'd appreciate if you could cite some evidence because my data indicates that plenty of humans are actually really fucking good at having absolutely no savings whatsoever.

Well, this is a clever conceit because it outputs D&D Italians Elves, but is that really something you want? Well, yes, actually. Elves, in their general mythological extraction, have a touch of fae about them and I'd like their psychology to come through with a hint of disassociation. The D&am...

Also I have no idea what this says about Drow, but my first instinct is to draw them more into the unhinged mindset that comes from doing lots of phenylethylamines and never coming out of a basement that is lit principally, if at all, with dying glow-sticks.

I'm thinking it's more like a frustration that people aren't as dialed in on the same obsessive perpetual second wind they're running, plus unshakable discomfort with how noisy and distracting everything is away from home, all while they've got that weird cranial pressure you get from a Dymaxion sle...