The Gaming Den

If you're just here to insult people, Bigode, please leave.

Additionally, while Belkar is evil, he's working for Team Good. His methods are suspect outright evil, but his goals - enforced upon him to be sure, but still his goals - are good. It's a case of the lesser evil opposing the greater...the Good Guys ally with the lesser evil because they need to beat...

A question or three. The overwhelming majority of the tales of fighting against the Enemy have to do with Men and Elves. Should Dwarves be possible PCs at all? Yes. Dwarves are referenced in the First Age...King Azghal, who seriously wounded Glaurung the Dragon; Telchar the Smith, who wrought Narsi...

Well, two huge problems Talisman: 1) If you literally have a 10-20% chance of stopping the Princess from dieing, is it really that good an idea? And yet again, I'm not referring to situations where your chance of success is so minimal as to be near-nonexistant. Because prior to level 15, there are ...

In the latest D&D game I've participated in, we gave +4 SPs/level to the classes with 6 or 8 (rogue, ranger, bard) and +6 SPs/level to the others. A bit generous perhaps, but it did let everybody take some actual skills beyond the "take these or you will die" skills. I favor a combinat...

Even the knowledges sorta scale if you only use them to ID monsters; they just suffer from general lack of utility. My players find plenty of utility for the Knowledge skills. I'm also drawing a blank on which casters are also good at skills, by which I mean have interesting class skills and not ju...

You fail to recognize the actual irony: that you're refusing to calculate the single most important thing about being a hero. Congratulations. You fail to communicate clearly. And no one cares about something fixable with a wand and and 2 min - we were talking actual depletion. Agreed, but that's n...

D'oh!

Then you're really talking about revising the non-magic feat system, because even in a Races of War game a fighter would be best off ditching two feats for full wizard casting. So what do you recommend? One feat per spell is obviously retarded. One feat for 1/2-level casting seems worthless by itse...

*sigh* I don't think either Elennsar or I (or anyone else) ever argued in favor of a mindless berserker charge. Nor did anyone argue with the idea that, if the situation allows for it, the smart thing to do is to rest up before the Big Fight. I am saying that refusing to take risks on the chance tha...

I'd say the top skills, like UMD and Tumble, don't need any help since they auto-scale. If other skills were brought up to that level of usefullness, I'd be happy. IMO, a skill's uses should be slightly less powerful than a spell castable by an equal-level caster (8 ranks -> 3rd-level spell), since ...

Ah, Joe the Plumber. What would America do without you?

...Oh wait; there's millions of other morons out there. Never mind.

I would say that this is the single thing really holding up Fantastic! more than anything. Writig up powers is incredibly dull, and for a game to be interesting and playable it needs to have a lot of powers. I like writing up new powers/spells/feats/edges. Maybe I should take a look at Fantastic! I...

Off the top of my head, I'd say the first feat would grant access to, say, one school of magic and bard-level spellcasting. Additional feats could upgrade the casting to wizard/cleric, add more schools, etc. At that point you might as well just give everyone full spellcasting for free. Nonesense. I...

Technically, I believe that is Bigode's argument, not mine. But thank you for your answer. Hence why I said "the" argument, not "your" argument. Last I heard, however, Lord Dread the Dreadly didn't put signs around his castle saying "you have a 60% chance of dying if you fi...

Eenteresting...sort of like bards and Perform, but for all skills and everybody (or at least, most skills and most people). I'm up for it as long as the overtly supernatural stuff is reserved for higher levels, where everyone has to be overtly supernatural. Like Tarkis, I don't mind a 15tj-level rog...

Is there any reason, why we still have country music? Because...it sounds good and people enjoy listening to it? I'll be the first to admit that there's a lot of crap in country, but show me a music genre where that isn't true. As for the article, my feelings are mixed. On the one hand, "Engli...

You could strap katanas to their hooves and have the ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE!

Maxus wrote:I e-mailed this to the person who writes the Eragon sporkings.

The reaction?

That's BRILLIANT!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! That should about max out my ego for the day.

I love the sporkings. I'm currently re-reading the whole shebang.

AFAIK, your side's trying to push "saving people" as the hero's profession. The self-insertion part of gaining sex slaves in the process isn't something that I care for, but seemingly there most definitely is some amount of people of some kind left unsaved by a heroic death. And I hope yo...

If we're doing a feat-based magic system, I'd say there are two ways to do the mage/wizard/whatchamahoozie class: 1) Scrap it. Replace it with the "Loremaster" for smart people, or just kill it. "Wizard" now means "class who has taken a bunch of magic feats." 2) Give it...

A character who has achieved a sufficient lead in chase tests is "gone" and can't be caught without some sort of tracking. Thus, they are essentially uncatchable within the confines of this encounter. 7th Sea does something like this. Any chase - foot, horse, ship, whatever - is resolved ...

Brilliant! I disgree wih Elennsar here, but I think he is making part of a good point. That is: metagaming is inescapable. Anyone who has played RPGs for any length of time, and who knows anything about the system, is going to be metagaming, if only subconsciously. A skeleton isn't a threat at all p...

Yeah, the British (and later Americans) had no right to steal all that land from the Native American peoples, but the American have been there for generations now, and...

Whoops. My bad. That's something totally different.

sigma999 wrote:Lesson learned: never report on 4chan. NEVER. REPORT.

Lesson learned: Stay the hell away from 4chan.
I visited that place briefly and it cost me SAN points.
No, I'm not clicking on your perfidious link, Sig. What is it with you and NSFW links lately?