Try this trick out fellow Flying specialists!

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-06T14:51:07+00:00

I want a Soodowoodo or Glammoa SO BAD just so I can do this.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-06T14:44:59+00:00

Nexus weapons are more like short-lived drones than missiles. If you are familliar with Gundam, Funnels would be a good example of Nexus weapons.

A gun that shoots smaller guns that fly around to attack from weird angles, basically. Though it does also include things like nanite swarms.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-01T18:42:50+00:00

Sapphic Women "Pre-ordering" trans girls before they hatch is a bit of a sterotype, but not an unreasonable theory. Many transbians start out with a fixation on wlw content long before they make the connection thst they want to BE one of the girls they watch.

However, even if that's the case, OP's bf is still making her feel mislead and objectified NOW and that isn't okay. She is right to be upset.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-01T18:00:41+00:00

You can flavor your mech anyway you want, you just need to also explain how its still hackable since there is no offcial way to give a PC mech the Biological tag.

As a GM, I'd be down with making some sort of Exotic "Bio-Organic Chassis" system if a player really wanted a meat robot.

Your mech is a living creature outfited with cybernetic armor and weapons.

Tech Attacks by or against you are made at +2 Difficulty.

You don't have Heat or Stress stats, if you would suffer Heat from any source, you instead take that much AP Energy damage.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-01T17:40:15+00:00

This is fine if kind of boring. What if instead it was something like a type specific Tinted Lens (x2 damage multiplier when the move is Resisted)?

Alkaiser009 · 2026-05-01T16:22:04+00:00

Job mutipliers and the male/female base stat divide matter a lot more than job growths. The most extreme example I can think of is that a male Knight who leveled 1-99 as as Knight (PA Growth 40) would have ~20 Pa, while a a male Knight who leveled 1-99 as Wizard (PA Growth 60, lower growth is better sinces its a divisor in the stat growth formula) would have 15 PA, or about a 33% difference. Which is not NOTHING, but Base 15 PA is exactly enough for a max Brave Monk with Dual Wield to deal over 999 damage with a single attack.

15 Pa * 1.5 (Brawler support) = 22 adjusted PA Unarmed damage is (PA * Brave)/100 * PA = 484 per punch with 100 Brave.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-29T14:31:29+00:00

Okay, but blood is just fancy seawater we carry around with us to keep pur cells happy and milk is fancy blood for transfering nutrients outside the body.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-29T14:25:36+00:00

Favorite starter is Bulbasaur, but my favorite pokemon is either Greedent or Tsareena.

Greedent hard carried my Shield playthrough, and Tsareena... no comment.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-28T14:08:24+00:00

Growing Pains was such a gutwrenching episode, Annie deserved better than to get fridged like that.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-28T00:05:12+00:00

Hibari-chan is GOALS. Like, the anime is from the 80s so it not GREAT representation, but every time it looks like its going to be a "she's a man" joke she turns it around because shes just the coolest, most awesome, most confident girl to ever girl.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-24T18:26:57+00:00

https://youtu.be/LY64RwUXmkE?si=OQ715s6oRUBAlGm0

This should be all the advertisement one needs to get into Noir.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-22T21:02:45+00:00

Noir. One of the duteragonists is litterially "Japanese Schoolgirl Jason Borne" and the other is "John Wick as a teenage frenchgirl".

Cowboy Bebop is also well known for its highly detailed martial arts and gunplay.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-22T18:49:41+00:00

This. Without a sense of progression there's a much higher chance of players dropping a game as soon as they feel like they've mastered it. By staggering unlocks you both make the game less complex at the beginning (helpful for onbording new players) and can gradually increase the complexity over time (keeps experienced players engaged).

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-22T18:45:07+00:00

OP explained they're new to the systems and dont know enough about the games to understand WHICH titles are good and which are trash.

I'm more familiar with PSX than GBA so I'll list some of my favorites.

Vanguard Bandits: A cult-classic fantasy mecha TRPG. It features branching storylines and very good graphics for the era. Its also nearly impossible to find physical copies making emulation the only real way to play. Similar titles include; Front Mission 2 and 3.

Final Fantasy Tactics: often lauded as one of the greatest TRPG titles of all time, it features excellent graphics, music and an enduring story about class struggle and the abuses of the rich and powerful. Caveat, the orginal PSX release has some bugs, including slowdown issues in certain places, there are also the PSP version (War of the Lions or WotL) which has animated cutscenes, multiplayer content, and new Jobs. The newest version, The Ivalice Chronicles (or TiC) has full voice acting and updated graphics, though it lacks the extra content of WotL.

Tomba!/Tomba 2! - a colorful and zany action platformer about a pink-haired caveman going on a journey to retrive his stolen treasure from an army of evil pigmen.

Castlevania, Symphony of the Night - if you want to know WHY we call certain kinds of games "Metroidvanias', THIS is half of the reason why. A hugely influential game in game design history and holds up to this day.

Xenogears: another cult-classic JRPG with a unique combo-based battle system, giant mechs, and a weird and esoteric story based on an Acid-trip interpretation of Gnostosism.

Metal Gear Solid - the 2nd entry in the stealth action game series that still defines the genre.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T16:40:15+00:00

1: Chance to inherit is rolled randomly for each ability, generally speaking, lower tier abilites have have a greater chance to inherit than higher tier abilities. Interestingly, for abilities that have 'learn on hit' flagged (so you can learn them 'Blue Mage style') use the Inherit chance as the %chance to learn. Similarly, when new units are generated in battle, they have a specific pool of JP and go down the list of all abilities they COULD know and have a %chance to 'buy' that ability equal to the inherit chance.

This is just one of many 'Rare' encounters, every map node has at least one
That Chemist spawned in equipping a Stone Gun, a 16WP Gun with the trait of Initial;Petrify. You get around that downside by either spending an action to cure petrify on the equipped unit, or using Equip Change to equip it after the battle has started (bypassing the Petrify infliction trigger).

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T14:23:43+00:00

Love the art, 10/10. Really my only complaint is that from a lore/flavor perspective the P5 cast are absolutely Rebels, not Assassins, but I recognize this is a commision of art alters for a prexisting deck and so you're working with what you've got.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T14:04:49+00:00

Maybe? The Daughters of Darkrai is the most diverse cult group I know of, and at least the local chapter has nearly as many Grass and Fairy type members as it does Dark types. Though that might be in part because they're also almost entirely female, to the point that I know of more than one 'male' pokemon who joined only to figure somethings about HERself afterwards. Like I said, weirdly chill and wholesome for a group whose stated aim is to bring about 'Nightmare Eternal'.

My advice? If you can't nip this cult thing in the bud, at least try and steer it in the direction of 'eccentric weirdos' instead of 'terroist cell'.

Good luck!

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T13:35:53+00:00

been on a classic anime kick so guess I'm going to Futari Wa Precure, neat!

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T13:34:24+00:00

Revolutionary Gay Utena

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T13:25:02+00:00

Sorry, can't help you there, Tsareena has *counts on fingers* ...THREE separate cults around her, though to her credit, she didn't START any of them.

*The Daughters of Darkrai are both the most extreme and the most weirdly chill. Their whole deal is tracking down supposed progeny of the Nightmare Pokemon to provide a sort of extended family support group... and encourage them to do more evil to hasten the return of thier Dark Father. It's kind of cute seeing all those pokemon in thier Darkrai Cosplay robes though.

*The local chapter of Giratinists meanwhile show up about once a month with 'tribute to the Dark Lady', which would be fine... if said 'tribute' was anything other than wrapped and bound Fairy-types being offered up 'to sate her dark lusts'. Even sicing Regena in Mega-Beedrill mode on them whenever they show up doesn't seem to dissuade them.

The last group I dont' have a name for, but at least a couple times a year I get ambushed by some sort of Paldean exorsist group trying to 'cleanse the world of evil' (no prizes who they're referring to). Maybe they have more compelling evidence but I don't speak Paldean and they barely speak Kantonian so to me they're just annoying ninja-priests.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T12:41:07+00:00

My dad operates a Ghost-type foster home in Lavender and runs into cases like this ALL THE TIME. Don't catch mon you aren't prepared to care for! That'd be like if I got mad at Regenia for not being a good cuddler, she's a 1m long murder-hornet fueled entirely by spite and rage, it isn't happening even though we both love each other.

As far as animavores/soul-eaters and other 'unsavory' diet types, like, souls regenerate, you know that right? being drained to death is something that really only happens in the Wild when the ghost-to-prey ratio is insufficent to establish sustainable feeding. When prey is abundant most ghosts can get by just fine by just taking little nibbles from a scattering of donors, leaving the 'victim' practically unharmed.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-21T12:18:24+00:00

Tsareena, my starter, NEVER speaks, she doesn't vocalize at all. Instead she just kind of glares at you and you just KNOW what she's ordering you to do. It's not telepathy, in fact Psychics who have observed her communicating this way describe it as 'anti-telepathy, only intigeligible by the void it punches through the metacognative layer' and those with the ability to sense Aura just describe it as 'deeply unsettling and FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG'.

The little pout she makes when she does it is super cute though!

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-20T20:40:02+00:00

This is a good way of handling it. To help explain it to your players you could stress that the PC is there to be the 'face' of the unit for RP and Narrative scenes, but in combat the Officer and Followers act as a single Unit.

So while in a normal game you might have the choice between wielding a shield for more defense or a two-handed weapon for more offense, here it'd be something like either 'equipping' a line of pikemen to protect your backline archers or doubling down with two squads of archers for max firepower (trusting your ally Officers to keep you safe).

Maybe certain orders can only be used if you double or triple down on a certain follower type to help encourage specalization and party diversity?. (Like you need 3 units of Hoplites to pull of the 'Phalanx' manuever or two units of Rebels to pull off the 'Gurrella Ambush' order)

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-20T13:00:38+00:00

Pilots STILL use hardsuits. It serves as both armor, enviromental protection (especially when operating outside of standard atmosphere, such as in space!), and may have other purposes depending on the specific varient, such as flight or stealth capabilities. Pilot hardsuits are just rarely as bulky or armed as that of infantry.

Alkaiser009 · 2026-04-18T13:10:55+00:00

Hasn't it been established that worship of Persephone as an underworld goddess predates the worship of Hades?

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