The Gaming Den

Traveller 4th edition, aka T4... Every. Single. Thing. The entire game was broken, starting on page 1, though... I have no idea, didn't bother finish reading. None of it worked, even on paper it was obviously unplayable. In a similar vein Battletech's A Time of War is atrocious from end to end. It ...

Well, they've found the two dudes who were responsible for it ; one of them is dead (YAY!), I never got rejoicing when a suspect gets killed. There are questions only a living suspect can answer. If you are feeling punitive I think life in prison is a stronger punishment then getting shot and diein...

I think it would be better for the community to have 5e fail massively as opposed to just sucking mildly or never being released. If 5e fails it won't have real defenders, people won't want to emulate it, people won't remember it with nostalgia. If 5e fails massively it wipes the slate clean and all...

So in your games, if I lost all my gold betting on centaur racing, I'd have to make a new character? Or play with a character who is far behind everyone else for the rest of the campaign, since I have so much less money? Yes. Usually we'd play an adventure paths or modules, so there where set treas...

In 3.5 the literal reading of wealth by level. With the literal reading a character is supposed to have X gp in gear. If a PC lost all their gold betting on centaur racing then the MC is supposed to give them the gold needed to bring them back in line with their peers. This allows the Flask Rogue to...

I go to a few sites every few days, in no particular order cbc.ca, reddit.com, drudgereport.com, alternet, antiwar, truthout, wsws, zerohedge. I try and get a variety of perspectives because every site has bias.

I've heard BitCoins described as the beanie babies of electronic currency. After this last week that makes a lot of sense.

So Spartacus has just ended. The last two episodes are really good, even in the climactic final battle they kept you guessing what was going to happen next. It was so good in fact I'm not sad that they'll be no more episodes. They had a story to tell and they told it, I think it may just be the best...

Would have been more topical about 8 months ago:

If minions are really a problem there is probably a way to bullrush/overrun/trample the minions to get to the real target. Also, if a Summoner could go ethereal with a ghost touch weapon they could sail through most minions and attack as normal.

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Those two pictures are awesome. Is there any story behind the Rush photoshop, or was it just a photoshop Friday?

I think back on Brilliant Gameologists we reached the conclusion that the core PHB was by far the most imbalanced, if you removed that, what was left was a lot more balanced. You'd have to leave some spells and feats that aren't replicated elsewhere of course. But you can lose a lot of it, replace i...

I've never used planar binding in a real game, isn't it possible to cast it more than once per day? If you could get 5 active castings at once you'd only need 1 wish per summon. I don't think there'd be many real MCs that would let you do that, but it could work by RAW.

Could you elaborate on why they are the best melee class? I wanna sound smart while pissing off my shitty former DM. *More primary attacks than you. A LOT more. *More reach than you. Or Pounce. *More AC than you. *Strength starts at 16, increases by +11 over 20 levels, by an additional +8 from Evol...

I remember some argument about whether or not the Summoner was actually able to compete at the Same Game Test. At the time of that argument no one built a character to run through the SGT, but since I can confidently say there is no doubt in my mind the Summoner would crush it if anyone still has t...

So I guess the question is Synthesist: The best Pathfinder character, or merely very good? It's hands down the best melee class. If you really want an argument tell a PF fan this and substantiate it, they will go ape shit. As for what is the best class, I think the 'best' class varies over differen...

Similar to that I hate the player who thinks they are breaking the game, but they really aren't. They will also regale you against your will with previous lame exploits. These are the exact same people who want to tell you about how awesome their current magic decks are and how lucky you are that yo...

One kind of cynical thing I've done in the past, is in low optimization groups I will make dex or con a dump stat. Low optimization groups tend to have softball DMs so you can get away with it. I recommend a low con over a low dex for a cleric, fort is already strong, you should have enough HP, so t...

Richard Garriots Kickstarter project Shroud of the Avatar recently signed on Tracy Hickman (of Dragonlance fame) as a Lead Story Designer. And they presented it in a way that implies they are actually proud of that: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtu...

Dragon Slayer is kind of mid level, not the main cast but Ulric and the Dragon seem mid level. As for Conan, as much as it seems like 3.5, it is even more like 1e. From what I understand in 1e clear heroes where pretty rare so you had a bunch of murder hobos running around that might kill an evil wi...

It depends on whether you want your wizards (or whatever you call the magicians) to be able to be able to do everything themselves or if they are specialized and a team of wizards is needed to adventure properly. If a character isn't expected to be able to do everything them selves a passing grade f...

EDIT: A game's SGT will depend entirely on what expectations you, the designers and the players have. Generally we expect a level appropriate character to be able to handle level appropriate challenges. It also depends a lot on the game itself, like what genre it is, does it use levels, etc.

In McFarlane's defence he doesn't write his shows anymore. Which is a useful defence because his shows haven't been good in a while.

Dungeon Crawl Classics has a simple roll for spellcasting mechanic. It really slows things down, since the tables are so large and each spell is used so infrequently no one can memorize them. It could work if a character only ever got a dozen or less spells, something like Shadowrun for instance. Yo...

So, I got like 50 pages into this thread, skipped to the end, and now I'm confused. How did CGL manage to retain control of Shadowrun after all the crazy and frankly criminal activity? They where probably the only party to make an offer to Topps for the tabletop license. Topps doesn't really care a...