The Gaming Den

D&D has wargaming roots so I imagine before the grid there came measuring, right? Did Dave and Gary suggest using percise measurements? In my copy of the AD&D PHB, most spells have a unit of measurement in inches, which I assume is for use on tabletop miniatures. Looking through a list of s...

My copy of Creation and Control just arrived. And Im in love with "Kit", the transhuman-bioroid-mystic-otaku-like girl. Any recommended strategies for playing her ? What would sinergize better with her inate ability ? Dinosaurus and Yog.0 . Now you're able to break through any ice of stre...

One thing I really like in Netrunner is how roleplay ish it is. There really is a ton of continuity between mechanics, art, and flavor text. A reasonable portion of it is carried over from the Android board game, which was really high on the immersion factor. The setting is really well fleshed-out ...

Do you think the "deluxe packs" (creation and control and the new one, honor and profit) are worth it ? I wonder if they really add substance to the game, of if they just water it down with lots of weak cards.. There are a bunch of very useful cards on the runner side for Creation & C...

The biggest part of the Spin cycle is that it helped out the corp in a big way, with better cheap ice, better agendas and Jackson Howard , "lord and savior of all corporations". That said, if you're having fun and are satisfied with core + Genesis, then you don't need to go on a purchasing...

Yeah, the rulebook is kind of a "gameplay lite" version of the rules. The video is much more helpful. That said, this game is one of my current obsessions. I'm lucky to be in an area where there are a decent amount of people (I play in tournaments with the guy who got 2nd at Worlds), so I ...

Arcane was one of, if not the most, parasitic keywords ever. But I still love to entertain the idea that Splice can make a return if it isn't linked to Arcane at all. "Splice on to Instant/Sorcery" would be a pretty cool mechanic. I'm also a huge fan of Rebound, and Consuming Vapors is one...

OgreBattle wrote:

erik wrote:

Lokathor wrote:the Giant Crab at CR 3 that will 100% TPK any level 3 party

unless...

What if he was riding a giant crab

What if he was a giant crab?

I figure cards like Nantuko Shade (BB 1/1 /w B:+1/+1 until end of turn) are undercosted though. Not at all. Nantuko Shade wasn't even played when it came back in Standard a few years back. It was boss when it was released in Torment, but since the Great Creature Rebalance Project, a creature that's...

Well he did say "...to get a shitty template". However you could argue that the entire template collection is pretty lame. What's the CR adjustment on them? I can't see a player wanting these (instead, what with them being temporary, you just give them one for a short story arc or somethi...

ubernoob wrote:

Kaelik wrote:Funny that you would pick the best one to call shit. You get a better Mindblank earlier at no cost, and some useless shit you don't care about.

The shit. Not shit. The shit. The shit = the bomb = dope = awesome.

This.

I'm back from out of town and ready to do some more! Frostwind Virago: Oh wow does this thing have a lot of HD. 30 just seems excessive. That's more than Dalmosh, who is a unique monster that literally houses a dimension inside of him. This, on the other hand, looks like a frostbitten cheerleader: h...

Really, the best thing to do is grab a couple of open-minded friends and offer to run a game. If you play the game a bit looser than "THIS IS A RULE AND YOU MUST FOLLOW IT REGARDLESS OF IF YOU HAVE FUN", you're more likely to attract non-gamers. If I want to get someone into the hobby, I w...

I don't understand why they didn't include a little thing at the back of the book that lists which monsters are natives to the various Eberron planes. Like ... Planar Shepherds care about that shit, and since that's the only class I'm ever going to consider playing in an Eberron game, it'd be nice ...

I might not have time for a bunch of entries, but I'll get as many done as possible before I have to go. Ember Guard: It's a fire elemental. That happens to be evil. It looks like an earth elemental. But don't be fooled, it's almost exactly like a fire elemental. However, I want to share the "T...

I seem to recall the Xorvintall dragons giving up complicated spellcasting for simple buffs to breath weapon and other dragony stuff. Yeah, they lose the ability to cast spells, gain charm monster and scrying (both targeting an exarch) as SLAs, and they start with one ability off a menu of things, ...

Well, the Superbowl party I was at ended up running longer than expected, so I got home a bit too late to post last night. So, here we go! Demons Adaru: This one is kind of weird. It's a demon that specializes in controlling other demons, since it gets to use charm monster 3/day, but only on other t...

http://i.imgur.com/PMJShKK.jpg Monster Manual V is the accumulation of several years' worth of WotC not listening to preferences of customers, figuring out that splatbooks sold like patchouli at a hippie convention when powergamers were involved, willful negligence of game mechanics, and learning t...

I'd like to see someone go over Monster Manual V at some point.

So: How many fights to level up Mike? Just one or two, if it's balls to wall stuff and you make the most of it. Or as many as you like if the system doesn't reward that. And that's the trick. XP is an incentive. Reward well the killing of small numbers of Goblins and people will kill them until it ...

The site looks great, codeGlaze, and should definitely help get standardized clean formatting up and running.

I do kind of miss the really old cards. If it were feasible, I'd want to do a friendly format based around pre-sixth edition cards. I think it's the art and nostalgia. I started playing in fourth grade when Unlimited was out. I wasn't very good, but I think it's the last time I can remember my fath...

I do kind of miss the really old cards. If it were feasible, I'd want to do a friendly format based around pre-sixth edition cards. I think it's the art and nostalgia. I started playing in fourth grade when Unlimited was out. I wasn't very good, but I think it's the last time I can remember my fath...

You know, how was Kamigawa recieved? In my experience, plenty of people had Kamigawa decks and I didn't hear much grumbling about it. I'd assumed the mechanics up and vanished mostly because they were just too intertwined and having enough Arcane/Spirit cards about to be worthwhile would seriously ...

Splice is "a 4 on the Storm Scale*" because Arcane was a one off. There was actually some interesting discussion about using "Splice onto Instant" or similar, which I think Rosewater confirmed as being a possibility. But that's just rumors running through my head from a while ag...