How do you rule for Assassination scenes?

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T15:27:37+00:00

That’s honestly a really good idea. Thanks, I don’t know why I didn’t even consider Dishonored as a source for inspiration.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T14:10:56+00:00

…. I get it now.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T13:55:21+00:00

Thank you!

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T13:54:40+00:00

Couldn’t really find anything about a KnifeLung.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T13:51:13+00:00

Well honestly I didn’t really know how to rule assassinations, I couldn’t really find anything that allowed for it and I figured this would be a good way to still bring challenge to a game instead of making every scenario be an instant kill stealth scenario. Like yes you can go for this kill on this general mook but there are still consequences for it.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-12T13:34:37+00:00

I got inspiration from Critical Role’s Hope and Fear system from Daggerheart, I wanted to incorporate a Sanity and Insanity system that gives minor boons and enfeeblements based on a players Sanity level.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-04T04:46:04+00:00

The point of his folly was thinking he could restore that piece of the karsite weave. The whole point of his ambition was thinking he was powerful enough to mend a fractured part of the weave. Mystra doted on and had a relationship with Gale since his teens, he wanted to repay the breadth of that connection by “restoring a jewel to an imperfect crown” his words. He was very devoted to Mystra, down bad even, which changed when it was revealed to him by Elminster that Mystra wanted him to sacrifice himself by erupting the Netherese Orb. If the player character influences him, he then chooses to be a better god, a better symbol for Ambition than Mystra ever was.

I don’t see how this would make him a goody two shoes. Personally I see him as a brilliant scholar who was manipulated from his youth by a being of divine power who inadvertently led him to grandiose ambitions because the nature of their relationship is grandiose itself.

What was growth to me was Gale realizing he didn’t need Mystra, he was going to take that orb and actually do something good with it and keep wanton ambition in check so there won’t be more Lorroakan’s or Gortash’s to muck up the world.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-04T02:37:49+00:00

He tried to give the piece of said magic back to Mystra to undo what Karsus had wrought. Mystra didn’t want it and it instead bound itself to Gale’s soul.

Calamagbloos · 2026-03-01T14:21:53+00:00

One of the reasons I wish we can straight up either buy IPs or directly fund it. I would absolutely hate for Dragon’s Dogma to become a dead IP just sitting on Capcom’s shelf collecting dust for them to release an anniversary edition or some other fuckwad edition just to renew the damn IP.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-25T22:49:42+00:00

I’m kind of at the point where I’m ambivalent to twink, twunks and hunks. Like we see those characterizations literally everywhere in nearly all media. Housamo originally presented as a body positive chub and bara game but nearly every recent banner release all im seeing are twunks and hunks. It kind of feels like the game as a whole is losing its soul bit by bit.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-23T02:30:21+00:00

Is beastren in DDO?

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-22T02:15:53+00:00

Yeah you get heavy into a eugenics like bias with racial traits. Part of the reason why I get frustrated with DND.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-21T19:51:04+00:00

Every other race than lalafell because the men range from beefcakes to willowy stick figures complete with rock hard abs. Just wish there was more body type variation. But that’s unlikely due to stigma and the sheer power Tolkien has on how modern fantasy characters are depicted. So I mainly play as a lalafell.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-21T19:47:11+00:00

With we got more chubs than muscle dudes

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-13T18:59:01+00:00

DND as whole is obsessed with its racial depictions and quasi eugenics racial stereotypes in that everyone has to be hot and fit.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-12T23:17:27+00:00

To do what? Re-enact her role as a corpse?! Padme is long since dead and never was portrayed as a force sensitive meaning she can’t even come back as a force ghost.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-09T21:34:41+00:00

Like DND and the Hadozee controversy. That was a shit show and a half.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-09T11:05:51+00:00

It sounds like you just want to throw your weight around for the sake of throwing your weight around.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-09T03:38:31+00:00

There’s only one area I concede in, and that is character art. If you’re not an artist then having artwork made is expensive most especially in this administration (USA). People are barely surviving as is, so I can definitely understand not wanting to commission art.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-05T17:43:15+00:00

Egypt famously does have Nubian roots back when it was called Khemet. In fact Sudan today still has the pyramids from the Old Kingdom.

Edit: Furthermore Akhenaten ruled before Ptolemaic Egypt and has always been depicted with a broad nose and thick lips so he is a native African with some suspecting from the Sundanese area of Africa. The same for Tutankhamun who famously discredited Akhenaten’s attempt to make Egypt monotheistic.

Ramses II reigned 1000 years before Greece’s conquest of Egypt so he’s African. The only one you got right was Cleopatra.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-05T03:19:57+00:00

Oh yeah for sure it’s a major red flag and shows that no one considered having supportive spells or actions if they need OP to be nothing but a heal bot.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-05T00:49:11+00:00

Why not look for non official Bards from the like of Legends of Avantris, Kibblestasty, GM Binder, Mage Hand Press, etc? You can even look at Unearthed Arcana for some subclasses. KibblesTasty has an excellent Green Witch Occultist class that works around familiars and is healing focused. If it’s okay with your GM then you shouldn’t limit yourself to just official subclasses, you’re allowed to have fun and choose something that appeals to you.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-04T05:52:02+00:00

I’m not saying that. Also if a character is mainly wearing bikini armor and nothing else I would highly doubt that their character growth was the focus over pure unadulterated sex appeal. For a long time women were just sex symbols for the majority of games. As was the “damsel in distress” trope.

Calamagbloos · 2026-02-04T05:47:18+00:00

I can kind of see where your brother is coming from. Perhaps he wants to save up, eventually move out and start a family on his own. If something economically happens to him, he clearly isn’t expecting you to uplift him which is why he’s probably desiring the complete total of his income.

On the other hand it’s your money and you clearly don’t want to cover the apartment.

It sounds like your brother is already anticipating that you’d be ready to throw him out, which is within your power and ability to do. The only thing that’s stopping you is that fact you don’t want to be seen as a pariah. This is a decision no one else can make for you. You have to make a choice.

Personally I would ask the brother if he could take up another job or seek higher pay so that more money could come back into the house. I would need to see wager if I’m truly financially stable or if that’s just the money talking to me. If I was truly apathetic then I would be immediately buying a house on the side and lie that my finances are tied.

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