The Gaming Den

I used to read digger, back when the current updates were free but you had to pay for access to the archives. I would check every few days to stay current. Then I went on vacation and lost my place. Nice to see that it's completely free now.

Is Ashbound the one that auto-extends your summons and gives them a +3 Luck bonus to everything for no reason? Greenbound Summoning is easily the best feat in the game. Combining that with Planar Shepard is beyond overkill. Edit: just for reference, Greenbound Summoning is a feat that adds the Green...

As far as being a wizard with less than an 18 in intelligence? Well, non-human wizards couldn't make 18th level anyway, so such an issue doesn't concern them. In any event, the experience point rules were written in such a way that, realistically, a player couldn't possibly accrue enough experience...

His point is that obi wan's statement is itself an absolute. You know, the kind "only sith deal in".

Still better than midichlorians.

How is this even an economic paradox? On average, marginal utility goes down for goods as you get more of them (only a few goods have increasing marginal utility). Dollars are basically the same thing as an "average good" because you can buy whatever you want with them. Thus, the more doll...

If you decide (for whatever reason) to prioritize game balance over profit, you can sell non -randomized cards, give everyone exactly the cards they want (or at least predictable packages) in unlimited supply for a consistent price, and balance the cards so that different people will buy different ...

RPGs are not a competitive sport. Tennis is "balanced" even though plenty of people could never win a game against a pro player, but using Tennis as a component of an RPG (as your resolution mechanic, for example) would be awful. Ditto for Magic, Chess, Fencing, or whatever else. Don't try...

What's up with that? Did people just fib a lot about their rolls/stats back then? Or did DMs just do something completely different for die rolling other than what the PHB suggested? Most people "rolled" their stats at home, when they made their character sheets. For some reason, instead ...

The real challenge here seems to be setting up the collusion without making it obvious. Like Catharz said, a very game-theory style problem. First, see if you can convince your own team to throw Monday's games. It'll be easier to do, since you can probably get some time to huddle up and discuss stra...

Why blame a country when you can blame the specific people responsible?

Is Jabba seriously the wealthiest character in Star Wars ? I guess it's possible, but that's a poor universe if so.

This whole list should be full of far-future SF characters, incidentally. Leto Atreides II, for example.

Jules Verne is the only reasonable suggestion so far, of the books I'm familiar with. Specifically, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, Around the World in 80 Days, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Those should work for pretty young child, I think, although I can't think of much else that would.

Does it make people feel bad if there is a lady in the caves of the Snowy Mountains, beyond the Endless Desert, who will weave you a magical flying carpet if you can bring her a skein of golden silk, the ink from a Great Sea Snail, and a flask of water from the Fountain of Youth? Probably not. Does ...

I gave up on that comic part of the way through the Hob storyline. Nice to see that some of the old charm is back.

Both results give the same answer, btw.

(1) 84600 / 0.94 = 90,000
(2) 36000 * 2.5 = 90,000

I saw a good use for psionic focus once. The trick was, you didn't have to burn it for a feat or psi-ability. You can just spend it to "take 15" on a concentration check. And with a Tome of Battle maneuver, that concentration check replaces a save. Getting a power point is easy enough, and...

The MMII is full of crazy broken monsters too. Check out the CR 9 one that casts Disjunction and a variety of other high level spells. Actually, basically anything in that book that cast spells is unreal.

Magic isn't all that tough to learn. They're actually introducing a second wave of radical simplifications to make the game more intuitive (it's been a good 10 years since the last time they did that), so now more (all?) of the corner case rules will just work the way you'd expect them to. I wouldn'...

How does that do? -Username17 That is great. Before, were I to play this, I could easily imagine forgetting the 7th power off the list and having a hard time remembering it. But with that setup, I could at least figure out which of the three groups it was from and then have a pretty good chance of ...

Subheadings are a really good idea. Keep all the information on the same single list (so you'd repeat some subheadings on different lists), but the extra labels would help immensely. As someone who has played neither WoD nor Shadowrun, the lists of 7 without subheadings really do hit that "wall...

Oh, the feat is meaningless gibberish. When you happen to have a wall of ice between you and the target, there's a cover bonus to the guy's AC. When he's got a Magic Vestment cast on his armor there's an Enhancement Bonus to the Armor Bonus of the armor to his AC. I mean seriously, what the fuck? I...

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I hope he declares Johnson as the defense minister and Fanny as the environment minister.

Dr Kevin De Cock starts as the New HIV/AIDS Director at WHO

CatharzGodfoot wrote:The real question is, what is turtle GIANT FROG?

http://www.westernwildlife.com.au/frogs/turtle.htm

Edit: broken tag fix fixed.

Broken tags are no fun.

Being an unspecialized fighter is the equivalent to being a Warrior in 3e--it's basically an NPC class. Weapon Specialization and the various improved versions were what made Fighters stand out at all.