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by Username17
Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:19 am
Forum: About the Gaming Den
Topic: Where do we go from here?
Replies: 245
Views: 82451

It's been over three months since I quit the message boards and stopped posting on social media. And I suppose some of you deserve an explanation for why I've revoked my name from endorsing this board as well as why I've canceled myself. This wasn't easy to write. It starts of course with the fact t...
by Username17
Tue May 12, 2020 9:08 pm
Forum: About the Gaming Den
Topic: I'm Done
Replies: 1
Views: 6199

I'm Done

First of all: the "Dirtbag Left" is not "the left" it is a vile group based on cruelty and stolen valor. Their way of doing things is to stake out completely unreasonable positions and give unforgivable insults to anyone who disagrees even mildly with them. The purpose is not to ...
by Username17
Fri May 08, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 5e: HARDCORE MODE
Replies: 39
Views: 12528

I honestly think that if you want the bad old days of the DM trying to kill you, Dungeon Crawl Classics-style is great. You just have to get used to the fact that stats are 3d6 with no choosing which number goes into which stat, the only character customization is the one time you choose a class, a...
by Username17
Fri May 08, 2020 7:33 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR] Realm of Chaos - the Lost and the Damned
Replies: 32
Views: 11357

Camp followers and baggage trains are really important in many historical battles but don't make much of an appearance in most epic fantasy literature . As such, when Warhammer was young and more heavily influenced by historical wargaming, they tried to make camp followers and baggage trains be an i...
by Username17
Fri May 08, 2020 7:04 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 5e: HARDCORE MODE
Replies: 39
Views: 12528

On the topic of what they are calling verisimilitude : the great unspoken assumption of RPGing is that the DM will not try to kill your characters. The problem with this being an unspoken assumption is that there are hordes of people who are full Dunning Krueger about permadeath and long-lasting an...
by Username17
Fri May 08, 2020 5:10 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

What exactly is going on with our case count that we have a local peak of new cases every Friday (save for Good Friday when the local peak was Thursday) and a valley every Monday? Some testing centers aren't open on the weekend and a lot of tests aren't reported the same day. So lots of tests are p...
by Username17
Thu May 07, 2020 8:33 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

In case people actually want to know about the tests, I can go into a bit more detail. The earliest tests are based on polymerase chain reaction. That is, there is a process that will multiply copies of a strand of nucleic acid an arbitrarily large number of times - but only if the strand in questio...
by Username17
Thu May 07, 2020 12:09 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 3rd Party Class Sourcebooks
Replies: 32
Views: 12559

wait a second, how is this any different than a Druid or Ranger? The Warden exists because of 4th edition ideas about role protection. In that game, every group was supposed to want a tank character, a DPS character, a crowd control character, and a healer. The Ranger in 4th edition was defined as ...
by Username17
Thu May 07, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Tried to read Ars Magica for some reason
Replies: 13
Views: 4706

Am I just stupid, or is the book just… not written in a way that a player new to the system is supposed to figure out except by intense fucking study? I did an in-depth review of this particular book Here . And my conclusions are much the same as yours. 5th edition Ars Magica reads like a web post ...
by Username17
Wed May 06, 2020 9:32 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Most Complete After Sundown 2E?
Replies: 26
Views: 9106

Not a rules rewrite, but me and radthemad4 did work together on a set of After Sundown icons for lokathor's gitbook that anyone is free to use if they want to put together an AS project. That's cool. Are there places and artifacts of spiritual power in After Sundown 2e? Like leylines, stonehenge, a...
by Username17
Tue May 05, 2020 8:48 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: High 5e: Review Resource & Request Thread
Replies: 54
Views: 16191

I guess they weren't allowed to actually say "D&D supplement"? Since 2008, WotC has really clamped down on letting people use D&D brand identity. Of course, most of what you'd consider to be "Dungeons & Dragons" is not owned or even ownable by WotC or anyone else. Yo...
by Username17
Tue May 05, 2020 5:14 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

Why is SWEDEN so bad? O.o Never mind, i was provided an answer: https://satwcomic.com/balancing-act At the beginning of the pandemic, there were a lot of unknowns about how many people had the infection versus how many people were sick. If you used the most generous assumptions, it was possible tha...
by Username17
Mon May 04, 2020 9:29 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

I think it's pretty clear at this point that Trump is going to go down in history as one of the greatest butchers we've seen -- and if you don't count the lives of non-Americans, comfortably in 1st-place. If you do, he'll probably be a bit behind Truman, Nixon, and/or Reagan. The thing is, our inst...
by Username17
Mon May 04, 2020 8:31 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Most Complete After Sundown 2E?
Replies: 26
Views: 9106

I agree that "combat" against big nasty monsters expects and rewards a different tool set from "combat" performed in any area where normies could plausibly be nearby. Bringing down a warform Lycanthrope is a non-trivial task and benefits severely from the kinds of powers and weap...
by Username17
Mon May 04, 2020 12:55 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

Yeah, I'm so dumb for thinking the virus is fake. Prove to yourself it's real. Just try. Find the virus, find the statistics. They look like they are there, but they're not. It's all fake. But, you're all sucking on Satan's teet to hard to see it. I'm literally a doctor and we've had to move our wa...
by Username17
Mon May 04, 2020 12:07 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

OgreBattle wrote:Do any other countries have gun militia-types arming themselves to demand an end to quarantine
Venezuela. Although the armed militias have somewhat more complex demands.

-Username17
by Username17
Sun May 03, 2020 9:11 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

Trump knows, he just wont play into their hand, they want him to go to war with China over a fairy tale. I can't wait to hear how this is compatible with Trump publicly affirming he has a high degree of confidence in the "It came from a Chinese lab" theory. The sheer incompatibility of th...
by Username17
Sun May 03, 2020 12:17 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Replies: 6000
Views: 1030720

Say you've got a ship in a fantasy setting (be it a ordinary sailing ship in a fantasy setting, a magic flying ship or a spaceship which usually is magic even if creators pretend otherwise), should you keep modern naval terminology? Should you say "port" and "starboard" cause it...
by Username17
Sun May 03, 2020 10:56 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Most Complete After Sundown 2E?
Replies: 26
Views: 9106

One of the things I definitely want to work with at least one other person on is the roles. Syndicates and Realms having troubleshooter teams allows and encourages the roles to be explicit and in-character. But there's a problem that the rolls in the source material are significantly different from ...
by Username17
Sun May 03, 2020 8:03 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 3rd Party Class Sourcebooks
Replies: 32
Views: 12559

I'll be honest, even the condensed version of the Taninim just sounds like someone telling me about their self-insert MLP fanfic. I just genuinely cannot bring myself to give a shit. Subduing dragons and using them as mounts was in D&D from the beginning. Literally from the beginning because it'...
by Username17
Sat May 02, 2020 9:30 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 3rd Party Class Sourcebooks
Replies: 32
Views: 12559

The Warlord is deeply tied up with the numerical undercarriage of the game. The character contributes primarily through boosting the actions of the other characters. The 4e Warlord was badly designed because the underlying math of 4e was bad. I don't know how a 5e Warlord could avoid falling into a ...
by Username17
Sat May 02, 2020 9:45 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 187120

I'm calling May 10th as the day when the US surpasses the number of deaths of the rest of the world. No way. You're forgetting that the UK is also criminally negligent and the reported deaths are going to exceed Italy within the week. The US death toll is growing faster than the UK's but not by as ...
by Username17
Sat May 02, 2020 7:36 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [High 5e] 3rd Party Class Sourcebooks
Replies: 32
Views: 12559

Robert Schwalb was working for WotC in the days of 3.5 and 4th edition. Back in 3.5 days, he did hack work with the proto-4e material like Tome of Magic. He is best known as the guy who wrote all the late period 4e DDI articles when everyone else couldn't be fucked to do their content creation jobs....
by Username17
Fri May 01, 2020 10:23 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Most Complete After Sundown 2E?
Replies: 26
Views: 9106

My own Technomancy for AS2 is: Technomancy Know Device Panopticon Wrath of the Gremlins - Advanced Craftsman Without Tools Physical Message Redline Rise of the Machines Which is the standard structure because elder powers are scooped off into a different chapter as players only really access them th...
by Username17
Fri May 01, 2020 5:15 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR] Cyberpunk 2020
Replies: 83
Views: 28928

Howard Hughes was the inspiration for the movie Citizen Kane. He was a megalomaniac who at one time had a grip on the American news comparable to like Rupert Murdock in 2003. Also he built himself a castle on California's Central Coast and is personally responsible for California's wild boar proble...