The Gaming Den

Maybe in resin, but have you factored in the cost of the printer into every model you've printed so far

Beautiful stuff. I have to say, there's something highly appealing about those square bases of yours. I typically use raised round ones so I can glue washers to the bottom and weigh them down, but I dunno... square looks good. Warhammer Fantasy used square bases because your were supposed to line u...

I've recently gotten back into painting miniatures after something like a 15 year hiatus, and I figured there's probably enough hobby overlap here that some of the other people here probably also do miniature painting. So, I figured a thread for us to share and talk about minis might be fun. After a...

She appears to be throwing a golden butterfly or something, so perhaps this gif was a representation of Loren Coleman in combat.

Clearly statues just become actual people

I'd honestly been waiting to comment to not break up the thread, but I just wanted to mention how much I love that these all exist.

There should be a whole series of spell based jokes with golems. Flesh to Stone should obviously turn a flesh golem into a stone golem, Ironbody should turn a golem into an iron golem for the duration, etc.

This thread is the best proof I've seen that political discussion is not and never was the root of the problem with the Den. In any other place I've ever been online shitposting for the explicit purpose of trying to prevent new members from joining (read, actively trying to destroy the forum) would ...

It's by Lairan and aside from the ruleset presumably being 5E, the underlying mechanics of the game (as in the physics engine and stuff) are basically going to be "modified D:OS2". I was initially pretty annoyed that Larian would be making Baldur's Gate 3, not because I thought they'd do ...

Believe me, whenever I find a new system that qualifies for inclusion I'm filled with both excitement and dread.

I think the line I have to draw is whether the game explicitly includes the OGL license or not. Caves of Qud for example uses a d20 under the hood and has some mechanics clearly inspired by d20, but isn't close enough to need to actually need to be OGL compliant and include the license.

It's also a long standing tradition on this forum to hate every game that comes out and constantly talk about how you could make better rules. That's almost all of what this forum is.

I've come to the frightening and amazing realization that some videogames qualify for inclusion into COREFAILURE. To that end Knights of the Old Republic 2 will be integrated (KOTOR 1 will be ignored as KOTOR 2 is, presumably, the newest version of this 3.5 branch). If anyone has any more non-D&...

This is the most incoherent piece of game design theory I've read on this entire board. I think the reason you haven't liked any TTRPG you've played is that you don't seem to like them for the TT or RP or wargaming aspects of TTRPGs, leaving literally nothing left except "games". No wonde...

I'm also gonna push back on the idea that the resolution mechanic is a meaningful game system in an RPG. Look at the CRPGs that ape D&D/d20 almost entirely: early FF games, KOTOR, DDO, etc. The mechanic is deciding what to do in context, in those cases from a menu or mouse/keystroke, and how pr...

I disagree with the premise. You can use 'playing Jenga' as a resolution system, and it certainly has an element of risk/tension/reward and can be fun all by itself. But pulling Jenga blocks, while it might be fun, is DISASSOCIATED from the mechanic it is supposed to represent. This is a really wei...

I think it's a bit bullshit. As you wrote, most people play RPG to have fun telling stories together. That's actually what set tabletop RPG apart from other games. There are board games where you go into dungeons to kill monsters and loot treasures, but if you decide to do this in a RPG rather than...

Sometimes I joke that I don't think I've ever played a good RPG, but I'm only half joking when I say it. I've sort of come to terms with the fact that most people that play RPGs don't seem to want the same things from an RPG that I (or I think the Gaming Den at large) does. Most people seem to be th...

I am now separated far enough in time from the mania that produced the initial draft of C.O.R.E.F.A.I.L.U.R.E. to work on it again in a healthy way and have resumed progress, though this is not yet reflected in the body of the text. Work is primarily being done on reading systems and integrating the...

As long as you write it fresh rather than copypasta, you can basically publish an entire reasonably straight regurgitation of any edition of D&D. I mean, that's basically the story of Pathfinder, right? Well, only kind of. Pathfinder still uses and adheres to the OGL, which prevents them from d...

Not a rules rewrite, but me and radthemad4 did work together on a set of After Sundown icons for lokathor's gitbook that anyone is free to use if they want to put together an AS project. Larger color logo https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/560075794068799499/707226929018961970/ASsCC0merge.png Sm...

You see interesting discrepancies in firearm technology sometimes, even relatively modern examples. Generally in the context of a group with many more resources invading or occupying a territory that they're technologically superior to, or from individuals and small organizations home crafting weapo...

You can get pretty abstract with combat zones, especially if the scope of your rpg is fairly narrow. The public test of the Hyper Light Drifter RPG has a 3x3 battle grid with different attacks and moves that shift you around the grid or require you to be in certain locations: https://pbs.twimg.com/m...

Also, if you run out of toilet paper, you presumably still have a shower.

Oh hey, yeah, it looks like it does, I'd just never heard of it. Etherscope really fits in to what COREFAILURE is all about too, its got new subsystems and even gives every character new features, like a Social Template.

Good find Roog.