The Gaming Den

Racial ability modifiers are just not the greatest. Note that we also know that from an evolutionary perspective, the big brained hominid has a major competitive advantage (thus homo sapiens and not homo neanderthalus) As I get older, I sort of feel like non-human character options should be distinc...

But also, yes, the primary source of disagreement here is that every time, in any group, that getting either a boat or a castle has been an option, it has immediately become a high priority. For the Kingmaker group, that's not surprising, the group is probably self selecting for the kind of person ...

Ok Chamomile; I read your posts again and I think that there is probably more we agree on than disagree. I will try and not be a jerk just because I am responding on the den. Here are some things I don't see a disagreement with: A. By level 3-4 most non plate armor wearing characters can/will own ev...

I will admit that in my mind buying land/property is bound up in the logistic and dragons shift. However, what you are proposing is the absolute worst most bullshit thing possible. Players should just spend their game earned currency on NOTHING bullshit they could have for free. Again, telling the p...

Yay! Nested quote discussion, this will start taking up whole pages really fast. Magic-Mart contains every item with a listed price in arbitrarily large quantities. That is what Magic-Mart means. The players are going to want swap the magic shit they have but either can't use or don't want for magic...

Magic Marts are the worst. I am glad 5e discourages them. Not giving price tags to magic items is bad and also very obviously born from the same laziness that led to having an outline of a skill system with no actual rules attached, but the particular side effect that Magic-Mart has gone out of bus...

So its now 2019 and Shadow of the Demon Lord has been out since march 2015 and 5e D&D has been out since August (PHB) of 2014. So the games are separated by about 6 months. Both are in their 5th production year. However, in that time SotDL has managed to produce a signifcant amount of additional...

As the Warlock class demonstrated, there are a lot of spells on the Wizard list that I genuinely don't give a shit if people cast them an unlimited number of times. And there are also a bunch of spells on the Wizard list that cause the game to collapse in on itself if cast more than about three tim...

New 5E related topic: The problem of money in 5e. Money is useless in 5e D&D after about level 3 for most characters. Characters who want plate armor and then want to ride a creature wearing plate armor have to wait till level 4-5 but after that money is pointless. There is just nothing relevant...

Keeping track of individual spell recharge times is the worst of all worlds. In general, having buffs end at different times than spell slots refresh is terrible, and having spells end or spell slots come back in a staggered manner is also terrible. The fact that it might be importantly true that y...

I own D:OS 1 and 2 and the first POE as well of Torment:TON. I will say that D:OS 1 is a more fun game to play than than POE but the story feels a lot less serious. POE has the same problem as the late 90s games it is mimiking in that you don't actually feel like your playing any of the guys in the ...

I am playing in a pathfinder Strange Aeons game. The DM is familiar with the system but new to DMing. She also has a strong preference for the storytelling/role-playing part over strictly mechanical parts but honestly the table play is pretty typical. After explaining why consecutive dice rolls hose...

There's a lot of fiction that would provide really good settings for RPGs as long as you don't actually set them during the fiction. Is there? I mean, if you're not playing during the actual Wheel of Time books, what is actually in the setting that you'd care about? Honestly, I'm pretty much over S...

I agree that the Central Asian stuff is really interesting and deserves to get a lot more interest than it gets. One of the things that I think holds it back is that Central Asia is also adjacent to Europe and the Middle East, so it contains a lot of elements that strike people as being "out o...

You lost me at "if a secret era.... left no artifacts in the historical record". THAT is an instant and total erasure of WSoD. Vampires only get to be secret in WoD because they've been continuously active and continuously covering up - and even then they regularly have to co-opt or kill ...

Except, I don't see it as obviously correct. In reality there is no space within the accepted chronology, both of the human and prehuman era, hell not even in geologic time to fit a rise and fall of human civilization to early renaissance levels. However, if you are going to suspend your disbelief f...

Wow, first we had a thread on Exalted and now one of Earthdawn. One on Howard's Hybroria and we would have all the "secret histories of the world" this spring. This is directed more at Frank but to anybody who shares his opinion of "alternate pasts" or "deep history" se...

So, I like some of the underlying themes and concepts of exalted such as 1) A world defined by epics like paradise lost, Norse Sagas, Greco-Roman myth, the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh, 1001 nights, and Journey to the West, and the tale of Hieke - the problem is that the authors claimed these sources bu...

The only advantage of linear chargen/exponetial advancement is if you want to guide advancement to certain facets of character design. So, for say white wolf RPGs, if they had not beend designed badly would have done something like: A) Attributes are linear at chargen and exponential to advance B) A...

So nobody is going to point out that all the information in the premise post is jibberish? The Forgotten Realms setting doesn't advance in real time. The main setting book for 2e, 4e, and 5e uses catastrophe as the means to explain rules changes. 3e doesn't even bother to do that. The published adve...

However, the games faults were NOT the primary driver of the overhaul. IP ownership is. Out of interest, do you know why they also came up with new made up names for everything, instead of the old names they'd made up beforehand and were already part of the lore? As others have said, after GW lost ...

I got into kill team cause you don’t need many models and the new kits are great for conversions With AoS shadespire seems kinda similar but they don’t have many new models of fantasy warriors in realistic ish armor. Sigmarines fee too blizzard to me and there’s only one new high elf armored dude. ...

I was talking about the specific ability with that name which was 100% copy-paste'd between games, not the general Nurgle concept. I get what you meant. What I meant is that for the 24 years I have followed GW they have often used special rules (and especially rules for Chaos) with the same name, o...

Honestly, the bigger issue than changing the setting was changing the nature of the game. Classic Warhammer at least tried to be about moving units that fought in formation and had a resolution that was about winning the engagement and breaking your foes. The new game is just about inflicting morta...

I dunno, I'm way more likely to buy some Sea Elves or Snake Elves than half the old factions of FB. To field a whole army? Fuck no, but I wasn't going to do that anyway. But Sea Elves basically make for pretty good aquatic humanoids (even particularly human/elf looking Sahuagin really) for D&D,...