The Gaming Den

You can absolutely find WoD games on Roll20. Pretty sure the entire country of the company that bought the IP also went bankrupt, and while you could place the blame for that on the shoulders of the global economic crisis and Germany's approach to bail-outs, I think we should at least consider the p...

Eclipse's Charm stealing is honestly kind of nonsensical. The charmset in Exalted is explicitly not a final set and you are encouraged to make your own. So there's no actual in-game reason to buy foreign charms at a markup instead of saying you invent a new charm that is also better because you are ...

My first takeaway is that it looks like the entire film is a middle finger to Rian Johnson. That is the marketing angle they need to hit if they want me to see this in theaters. However this preview does not hit that angle hard enough or literal enough to sell me. They can't take that marketing ang...

Adam Driver is the last Skywalker. Unless Rey is a double secret Skywalker too. And yeah, agreed on overall feeling apathetic towards Star Wars. The most baffling thing I've seen said about this trailer was someone saying that "Rey is a Skywalker" would be a boring predictable reveal a la...

I thought they killed all the Skywalkers. Like, literally all of them. Calling the last one "The Rise of Skywalker" seems kind of dumb. But the bottom line I think is that despite the fact that I thought Rogue One was a really great movie, I haven't even watched Solo or Last Jedi. I just ...

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It's treason, then.

If you want a society of patchwork technology that basically ends up being "Lord of the Rings with iPads" that's totally doable, but you need to extend the timescale to multiple thousands of years. What about a yawning abyss of a social divide? Lots of fancy toys around nowdays, lots of p...

So I've read the L5R 5e, aka the FFG L5R RPG recently. It is not good. In fact it is amazingly bad, managing to combine the worst of all worlds. It's a roll-and-keep game with FFG patented Special Dice. The game still doesn't address the issues of gathering a party, and in fact makes them much, much...

Fighting Genichiro is roughly midgame. Absolutely don't fret about it. Well, past the midgame now that you've been to the later areas and can just teleport to the end.

Shichimen Warrior in the Abandoned Dungeon is not a Headless.

Unrelated: I found the thread where Holden defends keeping linear chargen geometric progression by claiming that "We have a policy not to give people bad rules just because they think they want them."

Exalted is worse than Vampire because every single one of its mechanics is dysfunctional. Literally, anything you can bring Exalted mechanics in for makes your session worse than just MTPing it. Unlike Vampire where it's only mostly the case. At least in Vampire you can make a social check without ...

Exalted is worse than Vampire because every single one of its mechanics is dysfunctional. Literally, anything you can bring Exalted mechanics in for makes your session worse than just MTPing it. Unlike Vampire where it's only mostly the case. At least in Vampire you can make a social check without t...

More seriously/unfortunately, many things about Japanese culture in general, and anime in particular, are just vile. Anytime you "anime-influence" any shared work of fiction, there is vapor pressure along the spectrum of makes-women-players-uncomfortable cheesecake to child-rape that need...

TIL: Holden has produced this abomination: https://holdenshearer.files.wordpress.c ... rkness.pdf

A potential issue here is that the megacorporations making all of our technology are specifically proofing against that. Apple spends a crapton of time making sure you don't reverse engineer or even repair iPhones without using Apple's proprietary technology wielded by Apple's proprietary technician...

Shazam is the purest thing and I love it. It is my favorite superhero movie, followed by Dark Knight and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. My main criticisms of the movie: The fighting is padded sumo until the final battle where there are hostages at stake. Captain Marvel is invincible and the only win condit...

I've beaten Owl (Father) yesterday. That man is a one insanely tough bastard. Probably took me 3 hours.

It takes only one person wishing everyone would just go to hell for the barren rock scenario, and they don't even need to be from [evil demographic of choice].

I'm pretty sure that 100% of the discussion about the Infernals was being spearheaded by Something Awful, and everywhere else was an echo of that.

GYOBU MASATAKA ONIWA! is a great boss. As far as I'm aware yes, charged stab does a lot of damage, though not as much as Mortal Draw or Ashina Cross. Combat Arts are... not great, generally. I mostly found them redundant and/or overly niche, with Senpou Temple skill tree being my favorite: * High Mo...

Ah. I see that as a part of gitting gud, rather than cheese.

I strongly disagree. While yes, it is possible to cheese out most bosses (de-aggroing Chained Ogre and abusing the Corrupted Monk spring to mind), you absolutely can git gud and figure out deflection and patterns. The bosses don't even take all that long. An entire Headless fight lasts like a minute...

Koumei wrote:Admittedly I can't off the top of my head tell you how to play a crab-mummy but it's probably doable.

The exact same way it works in Exalted - his crab arm and his mummy wraps are just artefacts. The actual Fiend caste powers are sorcery, crafting and Elfen Lied invisible murderhands.

-As far as I'm aware, resurrection still affects Dragonrot. -Minibosses' posse can generally be sneak attacked before engaging the miniboss. -Don't get too hung up on the fish - you'll learn to dive underwater later on. -If a samurai keeps on parrying you, deflect their attack. Overall, the biggest ...

The final comic of the chapter is about our Bondage Nun getting shown a cowboy exalted hero who is locked in a crystal in a tomb in the desert. Why is there are cowboy with two six guns? Why fucking not? His name is The Nameless Solar, because of course it is. He is a recurring name in Exalted lore...