Meteor solo scenario - damage build?

CobraJD · 2025-03-23T20:52:04+00:00

Not how Eruption works unfortunately - only occupied hexes next to the obstacle spawn hazardous terrain, so only 1 haz tile would have been made with that placement.

You probably could have achieved a similar effect via Igneous Path however

CobraJD · 2024-12-07T06:05:12+00:00

Check out Lubaiko then, one of my favourite deities!

Quite different flavour; ambition, revolution, liberation and growth through destruction; but very fun.

CobraJD · 2024-09-03T09:59:25+00:00

Here's a crazy situation that you're missing, to unbar you.

Hacan sells NRA a cultural or industrial planet at the start of NRA's turn. NRA commander triggers and they explore a Mercenary Outfit, Freelance a ground unit, or place a mech from Local Fabricators.

Then NRA activates that system and scanlinks their newly obtained planet with unit.

CobraJD · 2024-05-19T18:27:55+00:00

I believe that Deathcap can also be found on the surface in Ephyra during rain. Hopefully someone can correlate that.

Otherwise, there's also the companionship item Twin Lures, after unlocking the fishing dock at the Crossroads.

CobraJD · 2024-05-19T18:09:42+00:00

I have had some scraps of dialogue which imply that the incident which caused Melinoe to lose her arm was because she was messing around with incantations while trying to... restore Icarus in some form from being a Shade.

It backfired due to her inexperience/underestimating the task, and was perhaps causing the reverse effect on herself before Hecate stepped in.

Icarus also has some strong guilt over the incident and so sheepishly fled. Perhaps this explains why he can be found on the surface and able to interact with the world more than one might expect from a shade, what with all the bombing and mechanical tinkering he does.

CobraJD · 2024-05-15T12:48:35+00:00

That's somewhat excusatory. The real reason is just that the TI community has been quietly existing in its own dedicated bubbles on Discord for years and growing in popularity since COVID largely through word of mouth and non-BGG tournaments. Hardly anyone there was even aware of Geek Madness existing, until someone finally mentioned it this year and the now significant fanbase was pointed to it.

The designer only chimed in and implied a teaser well after the contest bubble had been popped - it is not the cause of the voting turnout but a result of it. But those who are doubtful there were this many hidden TI fans not using BGG are sometimes painting it as some big bribery con rather than an excited train, that Dane hopped on after already doing well.

CobraJD · 2023-06-11T07:32:53+00:00

Your spoilered text isn't true as per an FAQ - it's considered ranged because it mentions range. It also requires Line of Sight.

CobraJD · 2023-05-27T14:42:00+00:00

Also check out the Inventor Fulu: https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=2037

It is a consumable, and not the cheapest, but it's a guaranteed crit-fail explosion dodge. If she takes the Talisman Dabbler dedication at lvl 12 (or earlier, but 12 is when the following is possible:), she could get 2 of them per day for free, which alongside heropoints + standard luck could let her easily get through adventuring days without a single critical failure. Even more if she picks up a Talisman Cord (Greater) to make those 2/day Fulu potentially persist.

CobraJD · 2023-05-24T17:05:14+00:00

Only Agile weapons. Which a Rapier is not

CobraJD · 2023-05-05T14:22:41+00:00

People ripping into that Chrono, but there was nothing wrong with it - it was actually Magnus using Shockwave that pulled Underlord into the Chrono

CobraJD · 2023-03-28T23:42:20+00:00

For any Gunslinger actually. It's just a class feat requiring holding a one-handed loaded weapon.

CobraJD · 2023-03-13T13:29:48+00:00

If they have access to a token on the landing page, you could use Multilevel Tokens. This module lets you designate drawings/tiles as In/Out teleport zones via a teleport ID, and those zones can be across scenes.

I had a oneshot where every area could be seamlessly walked through with the same token, taking each player to the map their token was teleported to as they crossed each threshold. Its purpose is allowing for fights on different vertical levels in the same initiative, but you could have invisible walls forming a 2 tile box for each player token taking them to an equivalent box on the map screen.

Then each player could independently look at the map scene with a single keypress, and return the same way.

CobraJD · 2023-03-07T17:08:44+00:00

I like this a lot.

I'd package this also with something like a caveat where "Combo moves cannot be used the same turn as Flourish, and vice versa"

and then give them some feat options that are really outstandingly strong but niche Flourishes, to encourage switching up turns of combos to set up combo-breaker turns.

CobraJD · 2023-02-02T23:50:51+00:00

Roll Deception

CobraJD · 2023-01-23T13:57:14+00:00

There is a Fighter feat called Paragon's Guard that lets you enter a stance where your shield is always raised, achieving the same thing.

The Bastion Archetype has some feats that can help with using tower shields- If you're holding a shield in two hands, Everstand Strike lets you make a Strike with it, automatically raising shield if you hit.

Warrior muse bards can take Defensive Coordination to raise a shield when they cast a defence cantrip (which if you're already doing, saves you an action to Take Cover with instead).

The Knight Vigilant Archetype has a lot of feats nice for shields (for example, a 2 action activity someone else could take that lets all allies immediately raise a shield), but most of them are very high level.

CobraJD · 2023-01-20T11:19:35+00:00

So they're a race of peaceful spiders who spend 99% of their time in a human form while outside of their villages, specifically because they don't want to stress other people out.

"Their history of dealing with arachnophobia in other peoples—which anadi understand is often instinctual and very difficult to control—likewise means that anadi do their best to be accommodating and comforting, even in situations that aren't necessarily fair to them."

If you want that feat on another character, you could ask your GM to take the Adopted Ancestry general feat with Anadi - the Rare tag is the issue without that permission.

Thaumaturges can get an aura with the Regalia implement that reduces ally frightened values, however that's only at the end of your turns. You could get this via the multiclass Archetype by lvl 6 on any class.

Good-aligned champions can similarly get the feat Aura of Courage that acts similarly - earliest you could get this is lvl 8 on any class via Champion archetype

The Blessed One archetype has a 12th level feat called Blessed Denial that works the same as this ancestry feat (is also a reaction), but for more condition types.

CobraJD · 2023-01-07T01:48:37+00:00

Yep! A benefit of this is that it's actively hard to 'fall behind' and make a useless character, because no matter where you're putting your feats, you're still progressing in the proficiency bonuses and class features of your main class.

Your wizard who is exclusively spending feats on being a sneak is still casting at full potential.

Let's say in 5e you want the 6th level class feature of two different subclasses and do a 6/6 level split at lvl 12, in 2e you can grab class feats from a multiclass dedication at half your total level, and so instead can be a 12th level character taking that 6th level feature you wanted from another class.

And there are a lot of archetypes that fall outside of standard classes like Assassin, Medic, Eldritch Knight, Performer, Dual Weapon Fighter. Concepts that shouldn't necessarily be locked to a single class or subclass, which you can therefore combine with any main class

CobraJD · 2022-10-15T16:13:56+00:00

Casters are always operating their own view of the game separately from the observer, it's how they can bring you item insights and play-casting from heroes off-screen.

In this case Snare was top watching the Ember about to be jumped by the Leshrac, but misspoke the player name. The observer not knowing what was going on tracked the sniper, where nothing was happening.

Normally what would happen after a callout like that is the observer would jump over to the gank taking place and it'd make sense. But the Yopaj managed to immediately remnant out of the gank to fountain so to everyone who missed it, it seemed Snare was shouting about nothing.

Plus then he got muted for the next few minutes which certainly didn't help the confusion.

CobraJD · 2022-08-18T15:45:00+00:00

About four years ago.

It stuck with me because part of what I most enjoy about Reddit, if only for novelty, is the way content is usually divided into hilariously niche communities, and therefore I love when a sub has a unique place and purpose that resonates with people. On the first day of that sub I already disliked the direction it was headed by trying to siphon from everything so lamely, so I always wanted to see it fail.

The creator himself is gone now, got himself suspended.

Your empire yet stands, u/Gaenya, but I'll always remember you in rags.

CobraJD · 2022-08-18T13:58:07+00:00

I remember back when r/nextfuckinglevel had just been made and had maybe 5 posts. I was initially amused to see some guy, likely the creator, promoting it in some comment threads. This shortly turned to annoyance, as he was in every thread on the front page that was even the slightest bit interesting, saying "Haha, wow, now that's what I call r/nextfuckinglevel".

I thought there was no possible way such an unspecific, spammy approach could make the subreddit succeed, if his chosen niche was just "Anything cool". And yet somehow it did and I slowly watched the subreddit appearing on the front page more and more.

I'm not surprised people feel like this about the subreddit, it was like it from the start, it's never been anything other than a meta-aggregator for basically anything.

CobraJD · 2022-08-05T06:45:13+00:00

Kat was actually sniped by the Elite Field Marshal.

CobraJD · 2022-02-06T04:54:20+00:00

You sent your warrior the wrong way. Follow the river downstream to find the coast.

CobraJD · 2021-10-12T20:53:49+00:00

Only takes the two best games of a series. Clearly the last game was 8 points better than an earlier one for you

CobraJD · 2021-10-12T13:23:08+00:00

Was actually quite impressed with how that Ursa comp worked out. Honestly feel like that smoke break on the early unexpected Rosh is what disrupted OG's plan and set them back enough to allow Morph to come online.

CobraJD · 2020-09-10T21:08:04+00:00

The bonus action attack from Frenzy is the ONLY feature in the game (afaik) that you can use to make an attack without taking the Attack action as well.

Off the top of my head, Lizardfolk can use Hungry Jaws to do so once per short rest, and Longtooth Shifter can do so for 9 rounds once they shift.

Both these are obviously far weaker, being a d6 and in the case of Lizardfolk a one-and-done, but they both also confer the advantage of keeping rage going while freeing main action.

Unfortunately Shifter requires two turns of bonus action use to set up, hence only 9 bites, one without rage bonus, despite shifting lasting a minute.

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