The Gaming Den

There's a lot of implementation work still to do, but this something that I think about a lot. As a broad framework for a range of challenges - trek across the desert, play cat and mouse with the hobgoblin patrol in the woods, etc. - I have a success meter system and an advantages/disadvantages syst...

Is this with Dorkly / College Humor? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuKg-WhduhklthTX9cY4b4VENMVPhdJyK or is this, YHWH preserve us, a copycat show where we will also watch people play D&D? As a genre, I find it about as weird as those ASMR videos, but to each his own. Because you know th...

Stealth can be game-mechanically equivalent to "has a bow" - you strike enemies who can't strike you - but as with "has a bow", it also creates problems. Is the party strictly better if everyone has a bow and kites the same enemy? If so, the tank is a liability because you have t...

Yeah, Molly Millions is a better template for someone who is "just badass" than is Groo; but she has a clear competency that Groo doesn't, since Groo gets no respect. So if you had: Class Is Mighty Is Clever Sneaks or ...? Por ejemplo Assassin YES Sneaks Fitz Champion YES Is a badass Molly...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Mammaries on things that aren't mammals is one of my fetishes. Lizard boobs, bird boobs, bug boobs, robo-boobs, it's all good.

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Kobolds are culturally and politically dominated by hominins, right? So Kobolds associate mammalian traits with urbane sophistication - like French food in the US, Kobolds eroticize mammaries and mammalian reproductive organs as a status symbol. Likewise, Kobolds want the attention of high level, so...

I'm coming back to this since I think the sibling hearbreaker-magic thread makes the conceptual issue clearer. DDM makes a valid point (although I disagree), and he's talking in the space I want to work in. A roleplaying game is a joint optimization problem - the shared story will have challenges in...

Adjusting math in the nuclear forces is a good enough piece of psychobabble for why you shout words and draw diagrams to make magic fire happen, but the subatomic space doesn't inherently have any emotional resonance. It's sub atomic, it doesn't even have color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_...

Nebuchadnezzar wrote:or at least do so more strongly than, say, Die Farbe.

How did I not know this existed?

I should watch it in Germany, though, for maximum effect.

Leto I Atreides was betrayed by his physician and killed himself in an effort to take Baron Harkonen with him.

I don't remember any slow-moving bullets in Dune but I haven't many of the prequels and sequels and such so such things could certainly show up.

"I come from a fantasy land where the only weapons are sticks and stones, so I'll use magic to protect my minions from everything but STICKS AND STONES!" To expand on the "those spells don't exist" suggestion from RadiantPhoenix, "I come from a fantasy land where magic make...

I do recommend Color out of Space.

Fair warning, it's my favorite Lovecraft story, and it's quite faithful to the original premise. The family drama, I thought, worked well - it has Nicholas Cage in the role he was born to play: a corny dad driven insane by an alien meteor.

Are they not compatible with the Demons in V:tM? I'm not an expert in White-Wolf-ology, but I don't remember anything that conflicted with the Baali backstory from my brief perusal of Demon? I suppose there was some effort to have dark thaumaturgy come from banes? That never made sense: the banes in...

To be clear, Bob Bledsaw I was himself just some rando who has the foresight to publish his home D&D setting, while his son is (some rando)^2 who was licensing the old material and also wants us to know that Santa owned slaves? Anyhoo, if you do have fuzzy feelings for Bledsaw's 70s stuff, there...

I totally forgot about:
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Huh. Scrolling through the reviews above fairly quickly - is all that art from the books themselves, or are you pulling it from the internet for illustration purposes? Because that's great production values, if it's all art from the book. More grist for the mill: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...

Now why didn't this thread show up when I searched for it on google? I had to find it on my user's page.

If Ability X might come online at Level 5 and might come online at Level 8, it's definitely not going to be a balanced offering. Maybe it will be OP at level 5, maybe it will be underpowered at level 8. Maybe both, but it's literally impossible to thread the needle where it is neither because 8 > 5...

I suppose I should answer the direct original question. For reasons related to Isaac Newton and linguistic mumbo jumbo about bible translations, my personal heartbreaker divides magic into SEVEN flavors, which is theme first and heavily inspired by magic the gathering, as well as a lot of similar &q...

https://youtu.be/jXAcA_y3l6M?t=1576 his second law is actually a much bigger challenge in cooperative storytelling, and relates deeply to the need to divide magic into pie slices in order to protect some ability of the fighter to contribute. So - flaws are more interesting than powers. It tells you ...

Rule #0 - RPGs are not fantasy novels . So in LOTR, when Gandalf does magic that you don't understand, it might provoke wonder in the right context, but in a cooperative storytelling game, especially where the players are driving the story, this is a non-starter. In stories, it is often better to ha...

Note: I said "hot dark matter", I meant "warm dark matter" and even then I might be using the terms wrong. The *simplest* explanation is still that there are WIMPs buzzing around. This has problems - mainly, that we have neither detected nor made any such particles. But "the...

I think that's word salad, but I'm not a physicist. https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ I usually dislike science-flavoring in my fantasy, but that's extremely subjective. There was another thread about "realistic" mutant superpowers; as a geneticist, that stuff is pure cringe . I suspect if y...

There's a lot to not understand :). The evidence for dark matter comes from two sources - one of which is angular momentum (things are spinning too fast, for how much they appear to weigh), but the other - which is harder to explain away - is from gravitational lensing. Well, also the cosmic microwa...

I assume you're importing D&D here? Shadowrun has both phantasms and control manipulations, and both are powerful, but they're not that hard to adjudicate, and lots of things in Shadowrun are powerful. Enchantments in D&D are easier to adjudicate but obviously broken. I mean, Charm Person is...