The Gaming Den

Crissa at [unixtime wrote:1200957154[/unixtime]]The leader of the Democratic Party is Dean.

For now. If Clinton wins the primary, Dean's gone, and the Dems will be back to the DLC inanity that screwed the party for a couple decades.

1200946240[/unixtime]][br][br]You do realize that voting in the primary has no meaningful effect on the actual election, right? The real one where you choose Red or Blue? Just don't bother voting for Edwards. He's just wandering around hoping the winner will pick him for the VP slot in an effort to...

1200635569[/unixtime]]My point is that gaming is essentially a frivolous pursuit. [br][br]You could have spent those hours of your life getting the "phat lewtz" doing any number of things, of varying usefulness. Instead, you decided to spend your time in an imaginary world getting imagina...

1200632100[/unixtime]]I feel bad for people whose best moments in life revolve around gaming in some way. [br][br]Um...Why?[br][br]The closest friends I have I either met gaming or as a direct result of gaming. The only woman I've ever loved, I met through gaming (Settlers of Catan. She won. It's t...

1200571519[/unixtime]][br][br]So much for "states rights" and all that shit. They withdrew from the Union because the free states were exercising their "states rights" to ignore the Fugitive Slave Law.[br][br]Full Text: Here. [br][br]-Username17 [br][br]It's so much worse than y...

As much as I hope Huckabee is not the next President, I'm pulling for him to win the GOP primary.

If he wins, the GOP is dead. Their coalition will fracture. Plus, he's a cakewalk to beat in the general. Though that is true of the entire GOP field other than McCain.

1200527389[/unixtime]]It's awesome to put that down on my job applications. Yea, not happening. [br][br]A friend of mine (who was also an engineer) wrote/drew a comic while in college. In one strip, he was at the career development office, and the counselor asked him why he put "sexually activ...

1200533666[/unixtime]]This is so bringing back nightmares of my honors US History class in high school... I had this teacher who gave a different lecture every day for a week as to the "real" cause of the civil war. Slavery only took up one day. [br][br]From what I gather, the emphasis on...

I think if I'm going to be in publicly viewable porn, I ought to get paid for it.

1200336100[/unixtime]]"Fear him because he wants to replace the federal income tax with a federal sales tax"[br][br]First of all, Federal Tax is bad for all involved. Essentially, it is like a giant pile of inefficiency. [br][br]Not really. The IRS is arguably the most efficient governmen...

1200268872[/unixtime]][br] Losing the game makes it no fun, which is why DnD doesn't work without Raise Dead .[br] [br][br]Meh. Raise dead creates story problems.[br][br]I'd prefer making it harder to die. The D&D -10 hp standard is just plain bad. At high levels, 10 extra damage is an aftertho...

1200270634[/unixtime]][br][br]Now the Wii is sort of a "party games" thing. It's socially acceptable to have one there and switched on for a party, so people (drunk or otherwise) can have a few laughs. It taught me that baseball is a bullshit sport where the only place to hit the ball tha...

Is there any particular reason that I'm missing that you couldn't do both min and max strength? Or min strength for armor, max strength for weapons (possibly min and max strength for some heavier weapons)?[br][br]Also, I do like Crissa's "shatter point" idea. Hitting someone so hard you br...

1199739911[/unixtime]][br][br]and is related deeper to the problem of: "this is a PC toy not a DM toy, the PCs don't have access to Gape of the Serpent because that is a DM toy... oh wait". [br][br]I'm actually okay with the rule being this:[br][br]"PCs, and only PCs, crit on a 20. A...

1199585514[/unixtime]] 1199585167[/unixtime]]Are there actually cases where making the monster less accurate will raise its average damage? [br][br]No. Making the monster less accurate raises its damage per hit, but not its damage per phase. So getting into situations where attacking more times at ...

1199509653[/unixtime]]I'd prefer hilarily got up over obama, she seems to have policies whereas obama seems to have just said 'I am for CHANGE yo!' and then forgotten the policies part. I am willing to stand corrected on this, I am too busy worrying that a republican will win to really look at the ...

Voss at [unixtime wrote:1199505788[/unixtime]]Not anymore. Thats the stupid 3.5 version. The 4e version is stupid in brand new ways!

Oh. I guess there's so much stupid I just can't keep up.

1199429637[/unixtime]]So, Iowa. A red state.[br][br]Hillary, who came in third place of the democratic runners, got more votes than any two GOP contenders combined. [br][br]Iowa isn't that red.[br][br][br]That said, there are any number of possible VP candidates for Obama (should he get the nom), m...

Voss at [unixtime wrote:1199499916[/unixtime]]Except they *did* give them breasts. Despite being specifically egg-laying reptiles.

Dragonborn? I didn't think they could reproduce at all. They are individually created from other creatures.

I just re-read the Gestalt rules. Wow, are they incredibly vague on how leveling up works. As in there is no information whatsoever.

So what the Fort save of a Fighter 2/(Ranger 1 + Paladin 1)happens to be is entirely unclear.

I was just about to ask about it myself.

1198246193[/unixtime]]No because that is a figure of speech. As there is no "supernatural" effect involved this is all "free will" on the part of the lady (lad). Now if we are talking about a charm person effect as might be the case of a dryad, then this is indeed a true case of...

I seem to recall 7th Sea having fire arm reloading rules that worked something like "reloading takes X actions, -2 for each point of the Reload skill the character has". IIRC, the hard limit for speed reloading on the low end was around one and a half rounds. This would essentially be some...

Crissa at [unixtime wrote:1197794347[/unixtime]]Jefferson had great ideas, but he's the one who brought mob rule and the Republican Party into our lives...

Uh...Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican party, which became the Democratic party.

K at [unixtime wrote:1197771227[/unixtime]]
CB,

Not Fallout, but close.

I initially thought Hero Quest, but since Fallout was close, I'll go with X-Com.