The Gaming Den

It's a pity we have such a big company behind Vampire, seemingly doing nothing with it. As I recall this is because the Tabletop RPG division is the same people before Paradox even bought it? Wish they'd just bring in the actual Paradox designers, and give us our Crusader Vampire Kings 3 RPG.

1.)How much is too much? How many abilities should a race have? 2.) Is it okay to have level 1 thri-kreens running around with 4 attacks at level 1? 3.) Is it okay to have things with wings that can fly at first level? 4.) Should a race modify stats? Should you pick your stat bonuses? Should there ...

There are no in-book examples of difficulties, and the GM is free to decide. I think just creating a difficulty on the fly (be it 35, 36, or whatever) is easier on the GM than looking through the book searching for a "TN per skill" or "TN per level" table. A dif 36 Challenge wil...

Karl Wu clearly had a vision of future sourcebooks building off the different systems of the body to make it do strange and wonderful things. That is not what happened. I think this sounds like a good summary of the book, and my disappointment with Shadowrun's Cyber/Bio Ware. Felt like lot of Ware ...

I got into RPG's around 12-14, my first exposure was with the 3rd edition D&D Starter set or " Adventure Game " from a friend showing it to me and later introduced me to his D&D Group. I really got more into it around 2003 when D&D forums were rich with info on Quadratic Wizard...

- Different dice probabilities and how they affect the feel of the game. The difference between 3d6, counting hits, or mechanics that add extra dice to your pool. And how they differ from rolling one die plus modifiers. I remember there was a post here that explained for example, why dice pools wer...

Combining this with Skeleton Armies for 14th lv Necromancers who took over parts of a City ( Game of Bones style ). Does this mean you could have a Bag of Holding (maybe Demi-Plane would be easier for space) to spring out a huge army of skeleton Archers, beyond what you could control after the Time ...

Off-hand, I would think letting people pick their +2/+2 stats to any two, opposed to limiting them for other non-human races would be better. That way people be their Ogre Wizards or whatever. Also having Races in "Feat" Packages makes it harder for me to know what they can do at a glance....

I am definitely interested in RPG Innovations, and I do like the Character sheets themselves in Apocalpyse World Games, though the game itself is bad. Guts does seem to have increasingly been coming off as a Fan of Bear World games, leaving his criticisms to be quite suspect, especially here ("...

Honestly, I Love this idea, I like everyone's suggestions so far, and I think we could put in categories like Frank is suggesting AND Koumei's ideas for one. After all, the Ennies have a bunch of categories anyway, so no reason we can't as well. I'm definitely interested in the discussion, and am al...

5E. There's no absolute guarantee until forcecage comes online. Makes sense, then it would be come a bit more obvious that he's cheating. Though the "cage" part he might say he can squeeze through despite the rules, but the box version could suffocate him to death ideally. Otherwise, I wa...

The Final Sentence pleased me, and pretty much what I or anyone in my group would've done the moment he "loudly taunted" after stealthing past. Seriously, once he said "naw" to leaving, why didn't you, or the Party simply just KO this guy, and/or Party vote for the DM to get rid ...

For Trolls not living long, I'm guessing they're basing it in part on reality where some of tallest humans in the world die of heart failure. Least the movies about them anyway, so it's the idea Humans are not meant to be big like a Troll is, therefore stretching beyond what is possible, destroying ...

On the subject of Group Initiative, and different Initiative Methods: Shadow of the Demon Lord , has Fast Turns/Slow Turns, that favors the player. On Fast you only have a Move or Action (plus Trigger =Immediate/Swift action equiv), and on Slow you have Both a Move and Action (plus Trigger =Immediat...

Or maybe the game is not to your liking. In that case simply drop and don't sweat it. This is also likely where you got less responses initially, as coming off as someone simply desiring to advertise for Bear-World games. More to the flawed nature of this game than just preference, as you even admi...

These kind of threads tend to not get much replies if any, part of it may stem that some people don't play much RPG's, or the ones they do aren't really going to be other games than the major ones talked about. Course by all means correct where I'm wrong, this is all niche obviously. Additionally, I...

Despite it being in "Beta", is there anything that can be done to save this game's Resolution System? Sounds like if they lower the TN's, increase "dice kept", clean up the fiat & silly crap (being big =hit ceiling) replaced with examples adding to what ability can do, and ma...

Never played Numenera/Cypher System, but I recently back-log read about its problems on here. Seems like instead of XP, could use some kind of Narrative Currency in its place like Edge, problem is I'm not sure how much of this "Edge" should PC's have at a time, refreshing it and so on. Sec...

On the Mutant rules, I also don't find them great, but they seem to convey the themes of the game reasonably well, which is good enough for me. One thing I like in Mutant is how each class plays a role in the exploration aspect, instead of combat which is common in most games. The Stalker finds dan...

To also give an idea of how out of whack the difficulty is: Weird, I totally thought it was Frank posting about 5E, but instead I get to welcome Lago PARANOIA back (strange, no profile pic, especially of a video game or other). Your Higher level party sounds pretty awesome, and probably the best ex...

Ah yes, I've been aware of that quite a few months back, as I understood it's also the "Enclave Wars" going on deep underground in the Mutant: Year Zero setting. Though I'm not aware of any new information of it coming out in English yet, I've already read bits of it that I could Google Tr...

I actually am a Fan of Mutant: Year Zero , and Coriolis, so I might be interested in least backing and reading this. However yeah, I do kinda wonder if they truly understand how deadly their system is, and stories it can promote. It's a Dicepool system, where only 6 = Success, but isn't any Threshol...

No doubt you'll get better answers, but I asked awhile back how to fix Mystic Adepts, and Here were the suggestions (Both Frank & Ancient History's Post)

I'm also curious how one might adapt this idea to a current Shadowrun context? Really cool to see this topic, pity I missed it first time around. Not I had much to say, but it sounds like some of the ideas here I think Spycraft has done, like Cash on hand?

I don't really get why it would get hacked in the first place. What domains were tied to it that were worth the trouble of some hacking to be done?