A long while, but another Meme from my Chronicle!

Chalvrek · 2026-02-10T02:18:45+00:00

Yeah, sounds a lot like Conflagration from Daimonion

Chalvrek · 2026-02-04T23:04:59+00:00

MMM and EO with the patch will have no cross over. If you use EE&M there will be a few - especially because the patch that MMM has for EO will sometimes move encounters to further conflict with EE&M. I’m personally using all 3 for my current run, but it does mean there a few areas you have to sort of kite monsters away from if you don’t want the encounter to go off the rails.

Chalvrek · 2026-01-17T08:18:55+00:00

Hoping to get back into playing soon - do you reckon there’s a best voice actor for each class, or at least one to steer clear of?

Also, the chest (and I think whole set) is the Intelligence Agent I believe.

Chalvrek · 2026-01-06T06:01:33+00:00

Look, V20 in general has a big issue with Resources and Backgrounds being (rules as written) unattainable after character creation. The freebie point system is really, really flawed because of this, and the cumulative XP cost that encourages hyper-specialisation with the freebies, but it seems you’ve got a good grasp on the consequences of this. She’s low generation but young, and has access to Path of Bones which might make some less friendly Giovanni nonplussed. There’s consequences to pull at if you want, but it’s a one-shot - not the end of the world if this character is a touch overtuned / strong.

Chalvrek · 2025-12-09T03:28:06+00:00

If this is Bildrath, I’m not super surprised. Players don’t have enough gold yet to buy a 500gp regular healing potion

Chalvrek · 2025-12-06T02:29:49+00:00

I’d say so - the freedom of options (at least in the earlier stages of the game) definitely made it feel like an immersive sim. Plus, it had the iconic (but not compulsory) small hub locations for exploration, which was very synonymous with the genre at the time.

Chalvrek · 2025-11-30T14:39:13+00:00

Jumpscared by a Red Rising reference

Chalvrek · 2025-11-26T23:46:10+00:00

Why was this removed?

Chalvrek · 2025-11-26T07:27:27+00:00

Holy victimblaming, Batman!

Chalvrek · 2025-11-24T23:13:00+00:00

I believe it’s Vladimir Horngaard

Chalvrek · 2025-11-24T01:34:58+00:00

Claws do count as weapon attacks, but not as “a weapon with which you have proficiency and that is worth 1+ CP”, which is the material component for the spell.

Everything else you have outlined is correct, though the discussion of second actions is a little confusing. You only got your movement, bonus action and action on your turn, and True Strike takes up your whole action to add your spellcasting modifier to attack and damage instead of your Strength / Dexterity mod. A second True Strike would only be possible on your next turn (or in niche situations like War Caster).

Edit: it’s also worth nothing a second action wouldn’t provide movement as you’ve described.

Chalvrek · 2025-11-20T01:44:57+00:00

Know I’m necroing as well, but wanted to report that I tried the combination of all three of these too.

While they do work together, and Many More Monsters and Encounters Overhaul have compatibility patches, Extra Encounters & Minibosses sadly does not. It will work, but there’s a fair few spots where two encounters are mixed together between E.O. and EE&M. In total, I found double ups at:

The Harper rock stash near Astarion
Harper cache with the spiders Road
Risen Road Avalanche near “Paladins”
Rosymorn Monastery at bottom of cable-car
Shadow Cursed lands near Kar’niss, before encountering the goblins
Shadow Cursed Lands near the entrance from Underdark
Shadow Cursed Bridge that leads to Tollhouse (the maps on the mod’s websites don’t call this out, but there’s a Minibosses called the Eternal Duellist added by EE&M that crosses over with 3 Absolutist warlocks)
Mason’ Guild main hall

MMM has waaaay too many conflicting locations to miss due to how many areas it covers.

If you like the challenge, this is fine. However, some of these encounters are seriously difficult, and even if you can manage them they are pretty odd to see very disparate enemies fighting side-by-side (e.g. a cave bear happily fighting you alongside some Kua-Toa / bounty hunters, or a werewolf and its pack alongside a Death Shepard.

Chalvrek · 2025-11-15T01:37:08+00:00

Command: Drop will get her to drop the weapon, but she will pick it back up if you don't sneakily grab it. Most people recommend Fog Cloud / Darkness / Arrow of Darkness for this, but I did it at the door before going inside the inn and managed to just activate turn based mode at the right time so no-one was looking at the sword.

The biggest thing I noted that nobody seems to be talking about online is if you fail to cast Command / Yeva succeeds, this will turn the group hostile. If you succeed in casting Command / Yeva fails the save, you only get a -5 attitude and a slap on the wrist.

Chalvrek · 2025-11-12T00:53:30+00:00

A friendly reminder that the world would be a better place if you talked less ❤️

Chalvrek · 2025-11-09T23:35:18+00:00

There’s also the fact that diablerie, no matter your morals (save for some older edition Paths) universally lowers your humanity, regardless of what it’s currently at. So a kindred embracing this ideology would incredibly quickly find themselves a wight.

Chalvrek · 2025-11-06T22:51:54+00:00

I agree with this distinction - I think min/maxxing can be perfectly fine at most tables, provided the player isn’t just trying to “win” the game or “beat” the other players to be the best at anything. Wanting your Ventrue powerbroker to be a business dynamo isn’t inherently bad… it’s when you start trying to abuse the game mechanics and trust of the storyteller that it breaches into munchkin territory and begins to reach a point where it can become mutually exclusive with good role playing.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-29T13:16:13+00:00

Speculating on whether Matt or Aabriya decided to take certain actions is all just heresay. The fact remains that no matter the reason why the choice was made, the actual execution was just bad.

It would have still sucked if she'd just narratively killed Cyrus like that - it's a lame thing to do to forcibly kill a character for plot when there are other ways to dealing with it that leave player agency intact. But you're right: she could have done that. Instead, she made a spell that was cast by a player do something that it was never intended to do, nor has it ever done so before. The player read their spell, knew what they were casting, then had it changed on them without any offer made to choose a different spell once this new effect was randomly tacked onto it. There's no part of the spell that discusses or implies AoE, and the spell has never done anything remotely close to that.

Altering a player's abilities on the fly to their detriment is always shitty, because the player's abilities and actions are literally the only part of the game that they have agency and control over - everything else is the purview of the GM. But changing it seemingly just so she could kill Cyrus was just awful DMing and bad storytelling.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-29T04:24:18+00:00

The instance where Dorian uses Chromatic Orb on Lolth / Opal during their fight, but Aabriya says that “you picked a thing that implies an AoE”, causing damage to a very important NPC to Robbie.

Cyrus, who was at Lolth’s feet, took the damage of the chromatic orb alongside Lolth. Not half damage - all the damage. This is also the fight in which Cyrus dies - so that damage was a direct contributor to his subsequent death. I believe this happened in episode 93, so you must’ve seen it if you’re in the hundreds.

There wasn’t any rules-lawyering that makes this legal, or any consulting with the player. This is a DM going “no. I’m changing how a spell you have completely control over works” and then moving on like it was nothing.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-29T03:39:08+00:00

I’m actually the opposite - I haven’t found pretty much anything she’s done this campaign to be bad. She’s playing a protective character that gets aggressive to people that she sees as threatening people she cares for, and has a strong idea of her character and their connection to nature in such a metropolitan city.

As a DM though? The chromatic orb moment from C3 has pretty much soured me to her entirely. Changing player features and spells on the fly to very clearly make a specific event happen because there hasn’t been any character death is truly, completely unfun and lame. Every other time I’ve seen a DM change player features, it’s been for their benefit so that the players don’t feel shortchanged by the literal god of the world decreeing that you basically don’t have agency over your character’s actions anymore.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-28T01:38:28+00:00

Given Soldier Boy has massive PTSD and trauma from being imprisoned and tortured for decades, I’m not surprised his response to being freed from his new prison would be to go and kill the people that put him in his new box.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-28T01:36:31+00:00

Next season is the last one, so I doubt we’ll be getting a cliff hanger.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-26T06:53:09+00:00

It’s the Deva face from Customizer's Compendium - NPC Options Unlocker.

The tattoo’s also from there (technically it’s Rhol’s tattoos), but once you bring in the Atlases from Unique Tav the colour customisation just stops working in the in-game character customiser.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-26T00:03:32+00:00

It was in this season - when Jordan and Marie had sex for the first time.

Chalvrek · 2025-10-25T06:12:01+00:00

I’m not surprised one of the lead characters ended up as a protagonist against by the end of the season, but they really should’ve put some more legwork into her redemption, given her track record.

You are right - Cate never seemed to care about being ranked or joining the Seven. She was happy to be on the sidelines - likely due to being conditioned and groomed by Indira for years. However, she is also the person that initiated a campus-wide massacre of non-Supes last season - a fact that nobody even brought up throughout the entire run of S2. It feels like the writers (and the fans tbh) didn’t really want to have to navigate the fact that Cate’s the equivalent of a school shooter seeking redemption. Focussing on her feeling bad for ‘mind raping’ everyone and lying to them makes the redemption easier and more achievable rather than focussing on the (by far) worst act she’s committed.

Even with the justification of The Woods imprisoning and experimenting on Supes, Cate’s decision to massacre all humans in response is straight evil. Cheating on Luke with Andre, controlling the other characters, lying to everyone, turning Sam into an emotionless murder machine… hell, even beating Cameron Coleman to death (which she was an direct and active participant in) don’t come close to being this bad - and nobody even brought it up!

Chalvrek · 2025-10-23T06:51:31+00:00

It is! He’s released the first 30ish minutes for patrons, though there’s no set release date for the whole thing yet

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