The Gaming Den

Yes, making sure the players are neither ignorant nor stubborn is an alternative solution. Well, sure, but that is a way higher level issue than just deciding who to play games with. Like I try to do that outside of my gaming group (sidenote: I don't have friends outside of my gaming group). If the...

Well, essentially, the big thing you have to do in order to improve CR and help uninformed players is get rid of character optimization . Nothing messes with predicting difficulty more consistently than letting people play characters you hadn't thought of. Optimization itself isn't a problem as lon...

The Core Mechanic.

Foxwarrior wrote:Objective challenges are better when they're not too fair.

I don't understand what this is supposed to mean.

It sucked so very much that the story of Robb Stark's grinding war against the Iron Throne was cut short by treachery, and in no way improved the tone of the whole piece as well as laying the groundwork for different stories. It's late enough up here that I have an excuse not to be more coherent ab...

In summary, when I see a PC optimized to be as effective as possible, I generally assume they want to go through the adventure on easy mode. Especially if it's pretty established that their opposition has mostly been determined in advance. But I seem to be missing something in their motivation, sin...

I'd like to bring up Game Of Thrones again and note that that story doesn't really take off until one of the PC's gets his head chopped off. And it only gets more exciting when Ned's Player's grabbed Rob as his next character and managed to get him killed too. With that said, I've never seen a game ...

What ended up happening is that team basketweaver is like always committed to trolling this thread into oblivion, along with any thread that might produce consensus different form their assumed party line. That's every person in every thread in this board. And even Frank mentions that while measuri...

We've already established that that doesn't matter. Because regardless of which group you decided to play with, the other group is playing the game wrong and Fuck Those Mother Fuckers.

Phone Lobster wrote:D&D has a very real issue with people perceiving the players themselves as being nerdy, antisocial assholes. And probably smelly unhygienic ones at that.

I wish that this was just a perception.

Also, ISP isn't defending the table flipper as much as insulting everyone at the table.

Most of our evil campaigns quickly turn into the Sociopathic Power Trips so I've got some pretty silly stories: * Using the corpses of party members for Trap Detection or Clothing * Agreed to give a man a "priceless artifact", convinced him to give us the reward outside of the city gates, ...

TheTruth wrote:Here's one more thing to be s/mad about: You guys are the laughing stocks of multiple forums.

I like this guy.

No, Blizzard actually took the best path here. adding a flag for, "has attempted this level before," Casual Player enters the dungeon having never completed it before. Is queued with 4 other casual players who have never completed it before. They WILL fail. Some of them will probably never...

Come on, LM. Really? Do I really have to spell it out? Yes, you probably do. -e- Also, I've never met the Unicorn Man, so I honestly can't say that K is wrong. In fact, it's tempting to say that the only reason it's being so badly received is because it may be hitting way too close to home for some.

So apparently the Paizo team have all agreed and stated that the SynthSummoner is broken and they're going to fix it at a later date. I was trying to look this up but after reading through a few threads on the PF forums, I started to get depressed and angry, so do you have a link to where you found...

Juton wrote:At higher levels monster HPs, ACs and damage don't actually matter.

Hold on... okay, I got it.

RobbyPants wrote:

Your avatar is perfect.

Personally, I'd start with Banning Fighters, Monks, Wizards, Clerics, and Druids. Lemme break out the wikipedia... Knight, Samurai, Swashbuckler, Artificer, Soulknife, Healer, Shadowcaster, and Truenamer. Yep. -e- In this hypothetical situation, what's the word on nerfing encounters/creatures to all...

So it should matter, that they're unable to take on level appropriate threats, diminishes how heroic and cool, they think their characters are. I've been thinking about it and this is the same exact shit that came up when Mass Effect 3 revealed Narrative Mode. Narrative Mode put the game on super-e...

Cell Phone Guy - Are you using like a D&D Helper App? No, then put the god damn thing away and pay attention. No one actually enjoys having to retread exposition or explain what happened in the Entire last round of combat. IF YOU CAN TROLL REDDIT FOR IMAGE MACROS YOU CAN FUCKING TAKE NOTES YOUR ...

If so why would anyone want to be under the power range of the game, and thus level inappropriate in pretty much all fronts. It's a combination of things. 1) Player A wants to play a certain type of concept 2) That Concept happens to be implemented poorly in 3E D&D. 3) Player A doesn't have the...

how, in this setup, I can have badass heroes rolling around the battlefield kicking extensive ass - without relying too much on gear. If "highly-skilled" is the only force multiplier heroes are allowed to have distinguishing them, then they need crazy magical kung fu techniques that let t...

Please don't discount the idea that you were Lied to.
(protip: you were)

As it happens, Lago, the world is packed full of stories where the good guys do not die. Ever. No matter how many clearly lethal situations they find themselves in, they never, ever actually die and in fact are never ever under any real threat of death. And most of those stories are, in fact, in th...

Fuchs, you're missing the Time Element of the problem. Making a bunch of houserules prior to a game and then sticking with those houserules is fine. We're cool with that. Changing a bunch of rules DURING the game is the problem. That's what people are trying to avoid because it Does set a dangerous ...

Not really.