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I also share Zinegata's opinion that the waterline for commercial products is rising. The huge number of releases doesn't inherently prove anything since they could all be drek, but in fact I've seen a lot of new games I consider pretty good coming out in the past few years. Just a rejoinder - my &...

I don't understand at all the desire to collapse social interaction into one roll instead of several, but then have potentially huge consequences to that one roll like selling drugs to an undercover cop. This is precisely because of what's been missing in Social Action discussion - there are basica...

I've seen a bunch of discussion about social mechanics recently both on the Den and on various discords, and the conversations I've seen have focused mostly on systems for convincing people to do things or changing their opinions and attitudes. I think some people are hoping to get by with nothing ...

I'd rather choke on a thousand barrels of cocks before even looking at that subreddit, to say nothing of actually posting on it. :laser: Wow, you're terrified of a subreddit that "Basically talks mostly about the same stuff as the Den does, except with less circling over the same damn things o...

So....Has anyone played Starfinder yet? As a general rule - skip the "big name" reviews like Polygon since those tend to be closer to paid ads rather than genuine reviews. Instead the usual thing people do nowadays is to look at multiple sources - including negative reviews - and try to s...

Since this is something you commonly do, would you have some examples of websites, and resources outside of the den that are particularly good? I am also interested in these forums you speak of as well. RPG.net: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?forums/tabletop-roleplaying-game-design.11/ Or Reddit R...

As for the Roman Empire, the portrayal is a bit ambivalent. It's both seen as a "civilized/advanced culture" and as the bad people who beat the Gauls (French school teaches you about "Our ancestors: the Gauls"). Yep. By contrast the British largely attempt to trace their lineage...

I'm going to try it out for a couple weeks and report back. A playtesting suggestion: Take note of how many times each "move" was actually used in the encounter. It'll tell you which of the moves you created are actually more understandable / compelling. Very often in testing, you'll find...

Giving this its own reply as it deserves more nuance than simple acknowledgement: Favor Trading Quite a lot of social interactions can really be boiled down to some kind of bargaining ... but that's why random tables were invented: if it turns out that the party actually wants to seduce the shopkeep...

I think the risk in formalizing, or increasingly formalizing, social 'combat', is that humans are incredibly social creatures, our social structure and social interaction is as about as complex as possible, any formalized rules will result in situations where people will want different inputs or ou...

by frequently yelling into the threads here about how we are all garbage people Yes, because no one else here is yelling. I imagined all of those posters who wrote multiple paragraphs of how apparently awful I am. If I'm gone, you will totally transform into nice people and won't find someone else ...

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...

What I said is that Kaelik had a clique who tends to echo what he says in a bad parody of reddit brigade tactics. That is not the same as saying Kaelik is the emotional center of the site. And I say you're wrong. Sometimes people agree with Kaelik and sometimes people disagree with Kaelik. But nobo...

How are the French dismissive of british narratives? Because British world history tends to depict the late 1700s and early 1800s as the beginning of British naval dominance, and that the single central defining character of the period is Nelson. The thing is, Nelson is an admiral who died nearly a...

Lets say a dragon has a middling desire to eat the party, the party doesn't want to fight, so the party tries diplomacy. Some outcomes can be - Party distracts dragon to flee - Party negotiates providing a service better than being a meal - Party convinces dragon to let them leave - Party lulls dra...

Good gods Zinegata at this point it dosent matter if what your saying is right or not since your coming across as something from a comedy skit trying to have the last word. Yes, I hear that line from Trump supporters all the time too when they try to defend their lord and master for the Covid disas...

That being said I agree that a simple dice roll isn't enough. That's what most of what I typed up was saying. The thing is if you'd read all of what I actually posted my conclusion is the exact reverse. That's the main reason why I responded to begin with. Rather than trying to simulate the complex...

I'm commenting fully expecting Mguy to ban me from this thread, but what the hell - He pretty much stole this bit from me: One of the big issues for me isn't setting a place where you can fail. That's the easy part and is as obvious as saying if X beats Y then social combat is won. It's the things t...

Kaelik is not and has not been the emotional center of this site, and it certainly would have been better if he had left. But that has nothing to do with game design and entirely about 'sniping from the left'. I wish Frank had just put Kaelik on a permanent ignore. What I said is that Kaelik had a ...

Great Discussion Guys! Lots to think on here, and adding the realism from HEMA is super cool. Updates: 1. Successfully critical hits, or exceed an opponents damage threshold moves them back 1 square. If the attacker has remaining attacks, they can follow and hit again. 2. Ending a turn next to an o...

Apparently it's increasingly a thing in Left Discourse -- I'm not sure whether it's because of the rise of liberalism intersectionality or the revival of Marxism, including New Left Marxism -- to challenge some precepts we used to have on this very board about Dark Ages Europe. Basically: A) The pr...

So, to review: 1) Nobody has been able to articulate what value they actually bring to newbies. Instead they all attack the guy who says you have no value to bring. This is funny because I wrote that post primarily not because of Kaelik. Instead I wrote that bit primarily because one poster here dec...

Yes in real combat, but actually forcing players to make decisions about that in every combat round introduces a whole bunch of complications. For instance - who declares first: An attacker's charge, or a defensive side-step? Or do you reveal actions simultaneously via facedown cards that are revea...

Thaluikhain wrote:You need to calm down

(Ok, so some of it is about LGBT persecution, and some of it is about hating on celebs, but I think some of it is about online rantings and would seem to apply. Still think 1989 was her best album, though.)

Great song pick! Thanks for making me aware of it.

Ah yes, the person spewing invective days after he spelled out why he was permanently gone is on very stable ground to accuse others of being "garbage people who are easily triggered". Says the guy who is part of a 7 person lynch mob and counting. Even though I literally named none of the...