The Gaming Den

I went to Dragon Con this weekend, and at the Steve Jackson Booth I ran across the Atlas guy. He had a bunch of cool stuff (some new Ars Magica stuff) but one of the things that stood out was Shadowrun 5. He had taken 60 copies off the Catalyst guys going to PAX. When I talked to him on Monday, he o...

Except that the Summoner spell list is the best of the best of the buff summon spells, and a lot of times they get those spells at the same time as their wizard counter part, even with the weird spell progression. They also get access to haste, and stoneskin and some others at lower spell levels tha...

I still don't get why people like Wheel of Time and Song of Fire and Ice.
They're both just not that enjoyable to read.

I'm currently reading Hemlock Grove and it's really quite good.

My son has high functioning autism and all of the self diagnosing assholes are very frustrating, because they don't really have autism. They're just using it as an excuse to act like assholes, and they make it harder for people who really do have autism, and aren't assholes. Most of the kids I have ...

Paris is in Occupied France. This is REALLY different from Vichy France in innumerable ways. The Germans don't even pretend, and they have to deal with La Resistance all the time. German soldiers who walk alone in the streets often end up found dead. Which then causes the Germans to retaliate agains...

Well, then we obviously need a better multiclassing dynamic that isn't shit. The crudest, and simplest; and possibly most effective is as follows: Every time you take a level in a class; you take the level of the class that is the next in your Challenge Rating progression; and only gain what that c...

Is there a PDF of the AfterSundown rules somewhere?
And if so, can someone point me to them

Your psychiatrist is a hack
Asperberger's is no longer a valid medical diagnosis.

I all fall unders the Autistic Disorder umbrella.

There should be an essay on how to get more blowjobs. That seems important for a GM guide.

We mean, Mile high Tsunami wave rolling across the pacific traveling at 500 mph ish. And then Washing over LA, San Francisco, Tokyo. All sorts of awesome. It might not be a mile high. But the Largest Tsunami we know about was 1750 feet high. So, 10,000 cubic feet of land smacking into the ocean with...

What's really important in taking Africa, India, China as a basis for your fantasy heartbreaker is doing genuine research. If you're basing it on Africa.. then do so. Research on the Pre colonial empires of the time. Do some extrapolation. Don't do what Shadowrun did, which was basically to point at...

Yes, if you picked up hawaii somehow and dropped it back into the sea, the Tsunami would wipe out most of Japan, coastal california, most of Vietnam, burma, etc.. Korea might only survive because Japan stopped it.

It would be impressive.. but just sinking? No shits would be given.

If the island of Hawaii (not the entire state, just the actual island) sank into the Pacific, how much would sea levels rise in Japan and California? a millimeter, tops. The island is 5000 square miles, with the highest elevation point being 3 miles. But, most of the island is less than 1/2 a mile ...

I'm not rich, and I'm a French Migrant in America :) Now, I also just laugh at the blantant francophobia and hatred coming out of the American Right wing. Freedom fries didn't make me feel discriminated against, it made me laugh at stupid people. When my 8th grade teacher blamed ME personally for th...

Time for some necromancy... Would chalk instead of dry ease be okay? I mean, you can make chalkboards with paint these days. Some plywood or something could lower the cost down from what a whiteboard would be. That depends entirely on the effect of rolling dice on a piece of plywood that's been pai...

You read wikipedia? And I don't play with any one whose Indian in anyway.. so I don't really worry about being offensive?

Oh and the Cast System is rife for making fun of/horrifying players.

I like setting my Fantasy Heartbreakers in Post Alexander the Great, Pre-Ghenghis Khan India.

More people than you can shake a stick at.
Lots of wilderness, political machinations out the Ganges.

Big cities AND Big Wilderness in one spot.

Fantasy Heartbreakers really want to be during the height of Viking Era, and into the Crusades.. so 800AD-1200 AD. That's a good 400 year gap to have yourself a Fantasy Heartbreaker. Although, realistically with the magic available, you should be more looking at a magical early Ren.. so 1400-1600 ro...

Government contractors tend to be a) Underpaid b) Non-Union c) Pressured to garner more billable hours, instead of doing a good job. d) The high paid ones are ex-government/military wonks who are hired not to do work, but to keep the contract and to schmooze, and to talk to the current Government in...

That link is.. so over the top lying it's hillarious. It's obviously a hatchet piece

That being said, it's definitely good fodder for a shadowrun game.

http://politicalblindspot.com/yes-monsa ... ary-group/

This has some pretty big "Shadowrun future" "Distopia" tags written all over it. All they need to do now is buy Detroit, and they're all set.

Just freaking use Ars Magica and modify the character creation for modern day.

You can tweak the skill system and combat system.

Here is the other question. Have any scientists survived? is there the level of knowledge we have now? Yes, a wall of fire and a wall of ice is a huge heat difference engine. But is there anone alive who even knows about heat difference, and can use it for anything useful?

To quote George himself: I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustratin...