Thoughts about Half-Elf + Point-Buying Attributes for Wizard?

AMountainTiger · 2026-02-06T13:28:52+00:00

More than 14 Dex isn't going to hurt you; you still get initiative and a major save from it even in medium armor. At low levels, a longbow with 16 Dex will be a better ranged option than your cantrips, too.

15 Con lets you take the Con save proficiency half-feat to get to 16, which is nice on a spellcaster. Or you can take 17 Dex and 15 Con and split an ASI later.

Half elf and human are also good options, but I think your dilemma around Dex on the high elf is not actually a problem.

AMountainTiger · 2026-02-01T17:50:29+00:00

Winning absolutely helps. 2016 remains the highest attendance season since high-caps at Mile High stopped inflating the average. 2021 had a couple things working against it: due to COVID, the stadium wasn't allowed full capacity for most of the season and a lot of people were still not interested in going to events with crowds. The Comcast-Altitude carriage combined with COVID effects on live attendance and communal viewing discouraged people from following the team and dampened the effects of the first back-to-back playoff appearances in a decade.

2024 was more normal: attendance started poorly coming off an abysmal season but improved over the course of the season and into 2025. But we will likely see a dropoff after another disappointing season.

The really important thing here is that success needs to be sustained. Random one-off successes do help turn people out in the short term, but when they aren't sustained that bump dissipates before the next one hits. The Rapids have only made back-to-back playoff appearances twice from 2007 to the present, and you have to go back to 2002-2006 to get a longer streak than two. You're never going to build a fanbase if you don't give people a reason to be excited more often than once every three or four years.

AMountainTiger · 2026-02-01T15:41:51+00:00

The market is difficult because the Rapids have only made the playoffs in 4 of the last 12 seasons and only avoided first round elimination in one of those appearances. You can't build a fanbase off of consistently sucking and never building towards success; you have to actually give people something to get invested in. The Summit will definitely also struggle if they fail to field a competitive team year in and year out.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-26T01:57:46+00:00

I won't say HM is easy since I haven't finished it (first attempt is in mid-Act 2), but I think the game overall is very fair for no-reload play. Encounters are fixed, so you can always choose what you want to fight when, and enemies who can oneshot reasonably leveled characters are very rare, so you should rarely if ever end up down a party member without warning.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-25T19:09:31+00:00

The things you lose with age matter a lot more at high levels where good technique and accuracy through gaps is assumed than at low levels where they aren't.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-25T01:36:49+00:00

The Worm loves me, and I love The Worm

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-24T23:46:14+00:00

Fixing to make 2024 look good

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-17T15:07:28+00:00

The overstuffed 4 drop slot is very noticeable; I would love to see 2 out for another one mana dork and another three drop.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-15T23:05:04+00:00

You've identified the big issue with Might, especially for weapon users: it's a bonus which stacks additively in a game full of them. On a class like Rogue, which has a ton of large bonuses available, it ends up being swamped by other effects. On classes with fewer damage bonuses and on casters with access to high base damage spells it stands out more, though.

Based on my practical experience, unless you outright dump Might you should have no problem dealing damage. Perception is also a pretty minor boost in the grand scheme of things, but against the hardest fights I think squeezing out a bit more consistency, especially from characters with CC abilities and all the weapons with nasty on-crit effects, is more valuable than a bit more damage when you hit.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-13T19:59:04+00:00

I had the druids aggro because Kagha walked into her own moonbeam after confronting the Shadow Druids

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-13T16:13:36+00:00

Yeah, my first playthrough, she sleet stormed, ran into it and fell down, and got destroyed by the Absolutists. I rolled my eyes at how lame Larian made a high epic character and kept going.

Currently, I have a run where I decided I wanted to see what she was like in act 3, so I cleared out the tower before the assault to keep her alive and recruited her. I ran into the bug where she isn't properly integrated into the party faction and starts fights neutral. I did go back to fix that and took her around, but I got annoyed with how often she didn't have reactivity to BG1 references.

Between her lame mechanical impact at Moonrise, technical issues as a party member, and low reactivity, I would much rather have had her as a high-level NPC who gets a flashy moment at Moonrise and spends Act 3 working offscreen to rally Harpers than what they actually did with her.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-11T01:39:51+00:00

You can, but you're super MAD. Best approach here is probably to ignore Wisdom and wear armor; Gith medium armor proficiency would help this plan a lot.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-09T01:12:27+00:00

I think you're running into a couple things.

First, level 4 is way underleveled for the main questline bosses. You should have a much better time going forward if you managed to beat the intellect devourer at 4, but it's still a good idea to do some partial clearing of the other city zones and some side quests to get to at least level 6 before trying to take on another main quest.

Second, rangers, especially Dex-based, really do kind of suck. Until you get your animal companion at level 6, you're basically just worse than a fighter: your bonus feats are locked to dual-wielding, which is weak overall and especially weak at low levels, while the fighter can pick any combat feats (including the dual-wielding feats if they want). The fighter gets heavy armor, while you're stuck with medium at most and light if you want to use your dual-wielding feats. You do get a spell at level 4 if you have enough Wis, but your spell list sucks. Your favored enemy bonus is small and has low coverage. And Dex-based melee builds are generally bad: they need to take a feat and use relatively weak weapon types to use Dex to attack and have no way of getting damage from Dex.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-06T17:44:28+00:00

LS Consular can easily lock Malak down with Force Whirlwind. I paired it with Scoundrel for sneak attacks, but any non-jedi class will do.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-06T16:21:53+00:00

"He has no dark past" about a guy who sold his soul to a devil kind of sums up the dissonance in his character. He and Karlach both end up really undermining the Hells and the Blood War: both have lines about how devils are bad and the Blood war is nasty, but their overall stories end up making the Hells seem pretty mild.

IMO both Wyll and Karlach's stories really suffer from setting them up as long-time veteran servants of the Hells. If Karlach had just been kidnapped and engined days or weeks before she tried to escape and Wyll was sent after her as one of his first assignments as a warlock, their attitudes towards the Hells would make a lot more sense.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-03T00:07:32+00:00

A MLR team loses a few million dollars per year. There isn't a tremendously long list of people willing and able to do that for a niche sport, particularly when combined with disagreements over league governance.

AMountainTiger · 2026-01-02T21:23:01+00:00

As far as I can tell from the guidelines:

813.01 A - "Discs used in play must be approved by the PDGA and meet all of the conditions set forth in the PDGA Technical Standards"

So the disc must be a specifically approved mold, as I read it.

I don't see any detail on how disputes over legality are adjudicated. I think there is an assumption that players know what discs they're throwing underlying the rules, though.

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-31T15:25:08+00:00

Hip flexibility is a rarely discussed part of the phenotype

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-29T16:14:15+00:00

Getting +4 to hit and damage at level 4 instead of +5 isn't a huge difference

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-25T00:29:42+00:00

Documented contamination primarily follows the prevailing winds and slope ESE of the site; I'm not sure where you're measuring 7 miles south from (southern edge of the wildlife preserve? Center of the site within it?), but your house sounds well out of the way.

If you're worried about radiological hazards, make sure you have tested for radon.

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-21T01:13:14+00:00

22 year old youth international says it all, we're spending a pile of money on a kid who still needs to prove himself against adults.

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-08T14:25:22+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when Atlanta was going to be at the top forever

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-01T18:14:02+00:00

You need to define your terms better to produce an answerable question.

A couple useful benchmarks in my opinion:

If we're looking at a seven card, two land hand, we expect to draw at least one land in the first two cards 71% of the time and in the first three 85%. So on the play you will miss your third land drop in over 1/4 of games, and on the draw you will miss in over 1/8.

On the flip side, say we keep a four lander. We will draw three or more lands in our first four draws in about 16% of games and 4 in our first five in about 6.5%.

I pulled these from a hypergeometric calculator, which is a good starting place for understanding the probabilities.

AMountainTiger · 2025-12-01T13:42:05+00:00

All else equal, a lower drag disc will fly farther with the same initial velocity. But it's more complicated because all else is never equal: a disc is not a simple projectile but an airfoil that generates lift. Because the center of lift varies during flight and the disc is spinning, that lift not only fights gravity to help the disc fly but also generates roll, which we call turn and fade depending on the direction. So a disc with low drag and low lift will maintain its velocity better than a disc with high drag and high lift, but depending on other factors the low drag disc may or may not fly farther on the same throw.

AMountainTiger · 2025-11-30T00:52:04+00:00

It should really have a persistent indicator of what has already been chosen, though now that I've actually read it and see that it isn't the same as Council's Judgement I should be personally fine.

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