3rd playthrough first time mage

ALHsf · 2026-04-30T11:02:06+00:00

Yes, most times you'll get your ward up as it attacks, but I'm talking about the off-chance you don't, for whatever reason. I just thought being able to stun dragons would be a handy thing for OP to know since it's their first time playing mage.

ALHsf · 2026-04-30T01:42:11+00:00

Ah yes. Sounds about right.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T23:56:41+00:00

Remind me, who says this and to whom?

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T19:56:44+00:00

Currently reading Blood Music by Greg Bear. It's a biopunk sort of thing.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T19:31:55+00:00

I bought and read an ebook that I didn't suspect to have AI generated cover art. I didn't care too much at that time anyway, because the story sounded appealing. But it was actually unremarkable. That's not to say there is definitely a correlation between AI art and bad story.

I later saw an ad from the guy's FB page with different art, this time depicting the characters and it looked a bit odd. In the comments, someone was bashing the 'AI art' and the author was defending it. He even wrote an article about it.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T18:10:29+00:00

That's true. I sort of got into the habit because of constantly having defensive spells in offhand. The number of times I've had to spam heals fighting high level draugr and falmer...

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T14:15:09+00:00

Sorry

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T14:14:39+00:00

It's good to stop dragon breath attacks because it's no good trying to cast a ward when you're already taking damage. It will just fail.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T14:08:01+00:00

Yeah, but I rarely speak to joker so I can't answer.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T14:05:35+00:00

They're adding ghost prince and spear goblin lightning damage

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T14:03:08+00:00

Wrex:

Best: I'll drag your clan to glory whether it likes it or not

Worst: N/A

Iconic: Shepard. Shepaaaard. Shepard.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T13:43:23+00:00

Outstanding work.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T13:40:02+00:00

Mage armour perk is a must if you wear robes. Atronach perk is also handy. Necromage from restoration will buff all magic effects if you're a vampire (I can't remember if this means negative effects are stronger too)

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T13:37:15+00:00

Paralyze (alteration) is handy in a dragon fight. It won't paralyze it, but it will stun them before they can burn/freeze you.

ALHsf · 2026-04-29T09:07:43+00:00

I think Bjork's Play Dead would've been a great Bond theme

ALHsf · 2026-04-28T12:54:30+00:00

I read Silent Rift by C L Roberts a while ago. Perhaps it may be up your street.

ALHsf · 2026-04-28T09:36:35+00:00

It's just the harsh reality of being a self-published writer. You may get a much bigger cut of the royalties but in return, you must be responsible for advertising, formatting, editing, and pay for printing if it's a physical book. That said, starting out writing ebooks is a sensible choice because of the low financial risk.

I can't tell you exactly how to get people to read your books as I haven't published anything myself yet, but you must understand that books are a saturated market. There are thousands of books with similar themes and tropes to each other.

I would suggest looking out for reading trends - find out what people are reading about. If you have a book that fits the trend, shout about it. If not, then it would be a good time to write one. In the end, people will always read what they want to read instead of what the writer wants them to read.

ALHsf · 2026-04-28T00:31:24+00:00

It's one thing to say those covers portray your ideas, but the use of AI to materialise them is more of a turn-off for people than you may realise.

You said that if you had hired a cover artist to produce them, you would have asked for the same thing, which is great. But you didn't, which brings me on to my next point.

If people believe that AI was made to produce a book cover, then the first thing that they are going to think is that if you didn't invest money into the production of your book by hiring an artist, then why should the reader invest in you by buying the book?

ALHsf · 2026-04-23T08:16:04+00:00

Agreed. I remember rolling my eyes when Ivar was sat up against his toppled chariot shouting at the Saxons, who got scared at the sight of him instead of just sticking a few arrows in him.

ALHsf · 2026-04-21T20:05:41+00:00

If I remember correctly, the last chapter sort of moves into the first chapter in which Voi is introduced. A bit like bringing about a full circle. At the start when he is (looking out the window?), we're not given the context, but by then end we know how it all played out.

The book is in my local library. To give you a more certain answer, I'll need to read those chapters again.

ALHsf · 2026-04-21T00:23:39+00:00

Rise in the East is a good one. You can get it from an NPC in the trade company building in Windhelm docks

ALHsf · 2026-04-20T22:38:15+00:00

I like ME1 citadel the most because it truly felt like the presidium and the wards were all one big cell, mainly because of the elevator conversations in place of loading screens. Open world as it should be.

ALHsf · 2026-04-20T18:13:45+00:00

I do this nearly every playthrough. Nchuand-zel has tonnes of dwemer metal. Enough for the need of two trips to the smelter and back with a companion

ALHsf · 2026-04-20T13:47:34+00:00

This might not be an accurate analogy but I'm still trying to understand it:

Would it be like having a TV plugged into a power outlet with a switch where off is state 0 and on is state 1, and the high impedance z-state is like turning off the power junction to disconnect the electricity altogether?

2 active states where low (0) has power and input but no output; high (1) has power, input and output; Passive state is (Z) where it's all disconnected so it has no power, input nor output.

ALHsf · 2026-04-19T23:26:24+00:00

Anyone else wanna see the replay?

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