The Gaming Den

I really don't like the way this website is formatted, but it looks like there IS some actual material available for free. https://www.emberwindgame.com/bestiary/ The monsters are all on their own PDFs, with bosses having more complicated AI routines. https://www.emberwindgame.com/wp-content/uploads...

Oh, you might actually be where I first heard about it! Sorry, I usually just skim the Den when I’m on break.

It sounds like I should probably wait until they have a real example of play before I shell out for any fancy hardcovers. I’ll keep an eye out for any podcasts or YouTube features, then.

https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/17/17921.phtml This review gave it 5 stars, but I see a few red flags such as the insistence that broken rules are fine because the customer can fix them. Still, looking at the substance of the review, a picture of how things are supposed to go in play becomes cle...

https://www.emberwindgame.com/ I heard this system mentioned in passing a month or two ago, and it looks like it has the potential to be something worth checking out. A fantasy heartbreaker with deep tactical combat, designed to be more viable to run without a DM. That means enemies have combat scri...

I had a lot of fun with the free trial, but I stopped at the first raid. It's not that it looked hard or anything, I just didn't want to feel like I was letting the other players down splitting my attention with a podcast.

I thought Bloodstained was pretty fun! I'm glad it didn't take itself too seriously, the demon barber was definitely worth a few laughs. Even playing it on a keyboard exclusively, the controls were decent. I'm not a HUGE fan of the move to 3D graphics, but they did some really cool stuff with it and...

https://feats.podbean.com/e/the-spire/ I think this is the podcast I listened to. You can give it a listen yourself if you want. The big thing that gave me red flags here is that the creator of the game is MCing for this podcast. And it still felt seriously clunky in a few areas. The box searching s...

They were in a big warehouse, with a ominous hole/tunnel into King Teeth's lair. All they knew at that point was that there was something creepy going on, and the hole had something to do with the district's weirdness. One of the players wanted to search the boxes for something flammable, so they co...

I backed the kickstarter for the Strata expansion, and that plus the core book showed up in the mail a month ago. There's some really cool stuff there, and they don't hesitate to give players really nice powers. However, I have some concerns about the amount of railroading that goes into many of the...

The last campaign I ran involved the players being librarians of Oghma who recovered lost and overdue books in wild and exotic locales, gradually uncovering clues to a greater meta-plot about an alien god of knowledge who was trying to usurp both Oghma and Shar, and a lot of the material came from ...

While I agree that's what happened , I'm not sure that was what necessarily SHOULD have happened. Knowing that there are a lot of monsters, can you think of a 'broken' combination if: 1) Polymorph was straight replacement 2) The polymorphed character gained (EX) but not (SU) abilities 3) You could ...

Honestly, the current state of the CRPG industry is a pretty great mirror of the current state of the TTRPG industry. Instead of "hey, what do people want? We should do that," it's "hey, what were people doing before most of our players were even born? We should do that." Divini...

Apparently, Larian Studios are working on Baldur's Gate 3. Loosely based on the D&D 5E ruleset, set directly subsequent to an official hell-focused adventure path/module ("Descent to Avernus"), and focused on mind flayers. There's apparently one of those weird illithid spaceships in th...

I'm sorry for your loss. It's awful when someone you've been close to for a long time disappears, and Ess was a great guy.

I really hope things improve for your family!

I saw a Kickstarter for some Spire splatbooks that looked seriously fun, though my order won’t show up for a while. https://rowanrookanddecard.com/spire-rpg/ I like the idea of a campaign specifically oriented around revolution in an oppressed city, and the published adventures look seriously fun. S...

I read about Overlight sometime last year on Adrian Tchaikovsky's blog. He seemed pretty hyped, but I didn't see anything that really caught my imagination. I was looking for a compelling "this is what you do", or even "here is what your crazy powers can do". I'm afraid I didn't ...

Looks pretty neat! Judging by the posts in that Twitter, it's still in active development. Are there any public demos? The last Touhou sidescroller I saw was Koumajou Densetsu , which apparently got a premium rerelease in 2012. Not sure where you can get it these days, but there's some fun LPs for &...

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showt ... t488743972

There ya go. I hope it gets you some more pledges! Last I checked the public paywall was down, so hopefully you’ll at least be able to SEE the thread.

Oh, cool! Sure, I’ll back this. Have you plugged it on Something Awful yet?

There's plugins for instant-cast skills, if you'd prefer to do it that way. Also cool down mechanics, if the instant is something that'd get spammed otherwise.

http://yanfly.moe/2015/10/30/yep-22-instant-cast-2/

Some quick notes on bugs. http://i.imgur.com/gwI06aU.png Some terrain is walkable when it shouldn't. The moss layer, for instance, lets you go through walls when placed on them. http://i.imgur.com/XdZLuSG.png Most bandit attacks trigger audio call crashes. I did manage to fight some gnomes, though. ...

Huh, I figured it'd be easier to send in scraps of files to add to the database. Too bad. https://steamcommunity.com/app/220700/discussions/2/648814844397174789/ https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/18792/ These threads go into some of the issues of group development. Short story, Koumei's right, and...

There ARE free trial editions of some versions of RPG Maker. They have limited capabilities, though. http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/download/free-trials/trial-rpg-maker-mv I tried 20 minutes of ToFIE before work, and it seems decent so far. Picked a kensei because I didn't want to bring in a physically ...

Definitely cool to see this project is still going! You mentioned you might want to customize / replace the base MV graphics you are using for the Yuan-Ti right now. Hiddenone on rpgmakerweb made some lamia sprites you might find useful. https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/hiddenones-mv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9cPK2_qKU
This might be interesting.