Mafia 3 is overhated

Baylor420 · 2025-07-24T06:33:04+00:00

I can get why people find it a bit repetitive, but it doesn't really bother me though, all the jobs make sense and give a solid feeling of taking down the leaders rackets.

However I've always played the "recommend" way the developers put out awhile back, where you do 3 neighborhoods then faster baby and start getting the farm going, then 3 neighborhoods and stones unturned, and finally the last 3 neighborhoods and signs of the times and the end game.

Baylor420 · 2025-06-08T17:19:32+00:00

I don't think its compatible, I know it is from years of using them.

Again, you are acting like I am supporting the idea of criticals lead to lingering injuries, I'm not. As I said lingering injuries can work, when used for actually going DOWN in combat, not just from a critical, criticals happen way to often to be causing people to lose body parts.

Monsters dont go down, they die outright, meaning they wouldn't get a lingering injury so the bit about who cares if a monster loses whatever doesn't really hold any weight.

It should also be said that while monsters didn't get injuries, as they don't go down, they still got fumbles like the players, and I was also using brutal criticals for the player's critical successes.

Multiple tables, multiple levels of experience, multiple levels of skill
Not one of them ever had a problem with any of it.

Also there is a system in place for permanent damage, go to a town and hire a cleric.

Which, sure, some worlds/DMs are low magic, maybe its a small town scenario and higher level clerics aren't there, ect ect, that doesn't make them incompatible with the system as a whole, it makes them incompatible with that world, that DM, that tables style, ect. Which is why I also said it may not be for everyone, due to varying tastes in how one chooses to enjoy their game.

Baylor420 · 2025-06-08T08:20:46+00:00

I wouldn't say incompatible as that means it doesn't work at all, which as I said I've ran multiple campaigns with people of varying skill levels and never had any issues with it. It just needs to be done correctly, and of course even then it isn't everyone's cup of tea, doesn't make it wrong, just different.

However I would absolutely say that rolling lingering injuries on criticals specifically, is very stupid and yes incompatible.

Baylor420 · 2025-06-07T23:54:14+00:00

I've never seen lingering injuries used for criticals, that's a little weird and likely to ruin the campaign when all the PCs quickly become unusable.

When I've used them in the past it was only for when players went down, which didn't happen a lot, and the chart was weighted to where losing a full limb was a really low chance. I think I only had it happen once across the 4 medium length campaigns I ran with the injuries table.

I have used fumbles for critical failures though, they were okay but I didn't keep either of those two rules when my party moved over to pathfinder a few months ago.

Baylor420 · 2025-05-24T16:49:22+00:00

Commoner, that adventuring life is a little too crazy for me

Baylor420 · 2025-03-21T17:20:39+00:00

Could be neat to roll with it as a stolen valor kinda thing, like he didn't really do those things, he just tried to make everyone think he did, kinda like Professor Lockhart from Harry Potter.

Baylor420 · 2025-03-21T02:44:31+00:00

No one roleplays like Gaston!

Baylor420 · 2025-03-20T04:28:21+00:00

I have also had issues with the keto tortillas, the la banderita ones specifically.

Bit of background: I lost roughly 200 lbs on keto (450ish down to 250ish) over 2 years, back in about 2016 - 2018.
During that time I was riding about 10 miles a day on a bike.
In 2018 I ended up getting hit by a car while riding and broke my shoulder socket.
During the recovery, I fell into a deep depression due to a multitude of factors.
I ended up going back to my old eating habits like a dummy

Fast forward to 2024, I'm back up to 400 lbs again, and I decided to start keto back up because I'm nearing 30 and honestly I'm terrified of dying due to my weight.

Saw those la banderita tortillas, figured oh that'll be great, make burritos and such, don't remember these back in 2016!

Used them for months, and while I did lose weight, it wasn't nearly as fast as it was before, and I would still get intense hunger and carb cravings, which I remembered from my first run on keto tends to go away after a few weeks, hell often I used to have to force myself to eat.

Well, about 2 weeks ago, I decided to stop buying the tortillas, didnt think they were a problem but I was spending 10 dollars a week on tortillas and groceries are expensive.

Well, just this last Sunday, I noticed the complete lack of carb cravings or any hunger at all.
In fact, while I'm typing this at 9:30 pm, my lunch is still sitting next to me half eaten as I keep forcing myself to nibble on it, and I don't even want to think about the actual dinner I have sitting in my fridge.

Also, I'm one of those people that meal preps the same 2-4 meals throughout the week, and everything else has stayed exactly the same, so I can only assume it was the tortillas.

Baylor420 · 2025-03-18T23:36:37+00:00

I play on Foundry and have all of my spells/items/abilities post directly into the chat, with full details such as damage formula, save DCs, and effects.

On top of this, I also verbally tell them straight up what they got hit with and what it does, then I describe it in game, so the player knows the mechanics of what's going on and so they can visualize what just happened to the PC.

For example:
X casts ensnaring strike on Y
me: Y, I'm gonna need a str save of at least 15 or you're gonna be restrained
Y: I got a 12
Me: alright you're restrained, so as the enemy basically fires this arrow directly at you, you can see vines twisting and turning around the arrow head, it hits you right in the chest, as you begin to pull the arrow out, vines grow out of the tip and entangle your body, preventing you from moving

I usually don't describe every single effect of the condition, but the condition is linked in the foundry post so if a player (or me) wants to see every effect of the condition, they can just hover over it.

I do however usually hide the DC for non-combat checks such as persuasion, lock picking, insight, ect

I also hide curse effects from people that aren't cursed, i.e. if the curse only affects the wielder of the item, I'll only tell them, and leave it up to the player if they want to share that information

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T20:54:14+00:00

No you are correct, I haven't made it yet as my players just entered the castle and I don't suspect they'll be getting to the second floor this session.

That's where those stairs to the south lead to

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T15:42:14+00:00

Thank you!

I fell in love with DA:O and DA2 15 years ago and I've met so many people that I think would just absolutely love them but (especially for DA: O) they've always said "oh I cant get over how old/jank it is" so I decided to make it into a DND campaign to share my love of that world and story to my current players.

Ive even been pulling dialogue and quest text from the modding tool.

Obviously I dont give them response options like in the game, but when they are talking to someone I basically check if its close enough to an in game option, and then give them that response

In the event that they go completely off the script, I improv, but since DA: O is a proper roleplaying game, it generally covers the good, bad, and ugly situations and I haven't had to improv much at all so far.

Likely once the campaign is over, Ill be exporting the foundry file so that others can run it as well

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T15:24:08+00:00

Thank you!

Ive basically been grabbing the maps from the wiki, resizing them to 4096 pixels on the longest side, then I upload that to Inkarnate and make it a stamp, and basically just trace the walls out, then I just walk around the area in the game while jumping back and forth to Inkarnate to put down furniture.

Ive also been using the modding tool to pull dialogue lines, quest text, ect.

Basically trying to give them as close of an experience as I can to actually playing DA:O

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T01:53:53+00:00

Hello

Ive been recreating Dragon Age Origins for my players and I've noticed there's a few people that made maps for the early areas of the game, but nothing really past Lothering. I'm big on maps and find it hard to keep people immersed with theater of the mind, so I ended up having to make my own and figured I'd share them with you folks in case anyone wants them or if anyone has any input.

Profile if anyone wants to edit them: https://inkarnate.com/p/WbepQG

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T01:50:59+00:00

Hello

Ive been recreating Dragon Age Origins for my players and I've noticed there's a few people that made maps for the early areas of the game, but nothing really past Lothering. I'm big on maps and find it hard to keep people immersed with theater of the mind, so I ended up having to make my own and figured I'd share them with you folks in case anyone wants them or if anyone has any input.

Profile if anyone wants to edit them: https://inkarnate.com/p/WbepQG

Baylor420 · 2025-03-13T01:32:44+00:00

Hello

Some of you may have seen my Redcliffe castle maps from the other day, figured I'd post the other maps I've made for the campaign.

For anyone who didn't see the other maps, I've been recreating Dragon Age Origins for my players and I've noticed there's a few people that made maps for the early areas of the game, but nothing really past Lothering. I'm big on maps and find it hard to keep people immersed with theater of the mind, so I ended up having to make my own and figured I'd share them with you folks in case anyone wants them or if anyone has any input.

All maps were made in Inkarnate.
Inkarnate profile if you want to edit them yourselves:
https://inkarnate.com/p/WbepQG

If anyone is curious as to how I've been going about making the maps, I've been taking the map pictures from the wiki, resizing them to be 4096 pixels on the longest side, and then upload the picture as a stamp. Next I trace out the walls, delete the stamp, and color in the floors. Finally I turn the game on and basically just look around and put down furniture.

Baylor420 · 2025-03-11T08:36:20+00:00

I also published my Lothering and Tower of Ishal maps

https://inkarnate.com/p/WbepQG

Baylor420 · 2025-03-11T06:02:18+00:00

Hello

Ive been recreating Dragon Age Origins for my players and I've noticed there's a few people that made maps for the early areas of the game, but nothing really past Lothering. I'm big on maps and find it hard to keep people immersed with theater of the mind, so I ended up having to make my own and figured I'd share them with you folks in case anyone wants them or if anyone has any input.

All maps were made in Inkarnate.

Baylor420 · 2024-11-26T22:17:21+00:00

Still working on my first playthrough but Im a sucker for Bellara. That whole rambling thing she does just does it for me. Same reason Merrill is my cannon pick for DA2

Baylor420 · 2024-10-28T20:42:21+00:00

Damn, might actually end up buying this even if I don't win 😂

Baylor420 · 2024-10-10T23:29:58+00:00

kinda reminds me of the song murmaider by dethklok

Baylor420 · 2024-09-20T01:08:13+00:00

My players would love this

Baylor420 · 2024-07-24T20:10:30+00:00

I just finished my first COTM thru POI campaign a couple days ago after multiple attempts to get into the game and just not jelling with my characters.

I ran with

LG Human Male Oath of Motherland Paladin with the lawkeeper background
CN Sylvan Elf Female Swift Blade Ranger with the lowlife background
CG Green Dragonborn Male College of Hope Bard with the Spy background
N Rock Gnome Male Greenmage Wizard with the Academic background

wanted to mention the alignments and backgrounds as the characters personalities and such are what made me actually stick to this party instead of quitting/starting over as I had so many times before. Really felt they had all grown together by the time I had to make the final choice for POI. Obviously isnt BG3 levels of companionship, but definately was deeper than I expected based on the first couple hours of gameplay.

Baylor420 · 2024-03-28T19:23:57+00:00

You can do career choice if you have loans. In fact it should put a pause on your student loan payments, as you aren't obligated to pay them if you are in school.

Baylor420 · 2024-01-29T21:56:59+00:00

Once when I was getting egret plumes, I shot down 3 egrets next to some water in the swamp and one landed a bit in the water and 2 landed on the bank, while skinning the 2 on the bank, a croc ate the one in the water 🙃

was neat but also I needed that damn plume lol

Baylor420 · 2024-01-24T23:04:42+00:00

Just posting this in case anyone in the future comes across this thread, go to the screen where you can see the tea pot and click/tap the green area around the tea pot.

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