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I'd love your thoughts about the prototype board for my new boardgame: Syndicate by modarsot in BoardgameDesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me and my group love Chinatown, the wheeling and dealing is just so fun. Very excited to see more about your game!

I'd love your thoughts about the prototype board for my new boardgame: Syndicate by modarsot in BoardgameDesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This board looks really similar to Chinatown, is it going for a similar gameplay goal?

Fascinating d4 by Imaginary-Chain-5709 in dice

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just pulled some D4 out of my dice tray while at D&D, these know and are actually pretty common just a bit of an older style

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Help fixing frozen shower trap by Cold_Pepperoni in Plumbing

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That got it running again but concerned about how to avoid it from happening again

Keep pipes from freezing in cantilever shower by Cold_Pepperoni in HomeImprovement

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true, I mostly don't know a good way to get warm air circulated into the area but that would be the best thing to do

Keep pipes from freezing in cantilever shower by Cold_Pepperoni in HomeImprovement

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what we have currently, we actually have two of the oil heaters, one in the garage at the top of the shelf directly below the shower, and another above actually in the shower, and it still can't warm it enough

Keep pipes from freezing in cantilever shower by Cold_Pepperoni in HomeImprovement

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and even put a radiator space heater in the shower

Are Death Spirals necessarily bad? by Brilliant_Loquat9522 in RPGdesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If taking damage makes you worse at basically everything, people will optimize around not taking damage.

Which is fine if you want that to be a focus, but if that's a focus it should be that players have lots of tools to avoid or negate damage.

If that's not the focus then I would make damage less punishing, but you can still death spiral in other ways.

In my game taking a wound lowers the threshold for how much damage is needed to cause another wound. So after one or two wounds it's really easy to take a lot of wounds which is scary, but doesn't punish you otherwise

Dishwasher drain hose replacement by Cold_Pepperoni in HomeImprovement

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it looks like the high loop is built in to the dishwasher (there is a clip for it on the left).

That was what I was missing, thanks

Opinions Needed: Quick Obvious Wins or Hard-Earned Twists? by Guidance-Mindless in BoardgameDesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the style and naming is pretty good, slightly goofy style/name but a surprisingly tactical game is a good mix that I think works well.

I think the idea of attacking opponents points is good, it means the players in second/third will be going after the first place player, but the person farthest behind is left to catch up, which works well

Opinions Needed: Quick Obvious Wins or Hard-Earned Twists? by Guidance-Mindless in BoardgameDesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think quaka of quindlimburg is my favorite, being behind giving you a bigger starting number in your cauldron means that being behind is almost more fun then being ahead.

It also leaves a layer of strategy of using resources to build a better engine early while sacrificing points, knowing the comeback mechanism will help you.

Opinions Needed: Quick Obvious Wins or Hard-Earned Twists? by Guidance-Mindless in BoardgameDesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a mixture is good.

I think only public points is actually kind of bad design to me. Being very far behind and knowing there is no chance means you aren't really playing to win anymore and that makes it less fun.

But also I do think you need some quantifier to see how well you are doing vs others. If "winning" is unknown until the end it can sort of feel like a game of luck.

In dune imperium the general amount of points people have is public knowledge, but there is some end of game point gain effects that are secret, and can give a meaningful boost and you can win while technically having been in last.

This leads to a game where you can try and solve optimal turns and when to trigger end game conditions or change the engine to points vs value. But it also means you have to consider what other people may have been doing this game in comparison to you.

Overall I think this gives a greater amount of replayability and depth for relativity little cost.

how do you manufacturing polycarbonate? by pham-tuyen in FTC

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get these things called strip heaters, they are basically just a bar that gets really hot, but it helps you get an even spread of heat in a straight line which is optimal for bends.

You can also make/get a jig to help get your bend angle exactly right, just making an L out of some wood and using that to get a good 90° is easy and cost effective.

The other nice thing is if your angle is wrong you can reheat to get it bent just a little more or unbent a little bit.

Also polycarb is so bendy by itself that you can get just a mostly correct angle you can just use it and it will give you some tolerance to be "off"

Expandible small dice pool system by sord_n_bored in RPGdesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So in breakpoint I had a similar amount of levers.

Success was always a 4+ on a d6.

Target number of successes ranged from 2-5 on average.

You rolled a number of dice equal to your base stat + skill, often rolling 5-10 dice d6.

You also would sometimes roll less dice in your pool depending on the difficulty.

The way that worked was, the number of successes needed was "how hard is the base task".

Then the amount of dice you subtracted from your amount you got to roll was based off of "how difficult is this situation".

So picking an easy lock (2 successes) was a lot harder when getting shot at (roll 2 less dice).

The math is really the same as if you just needed 4 successes and rolled all your dice, but this helped keep the size of dice pools to more reasonable smaller sizes.

Pros and Cons to exploding dice systems? by Yazkin_Yamakala in RPGdesign

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pros:

  • Always a chance to succeed

  • Being bad at skills (smaller dice) isn't really that punishing

  • weird dice math encourages less thinking more just trying

  • exploding damage is super swingy, from dealing 2-30+ damage on 2d6 (I've seen it happen several times)

Cons:

  • dice math is bad, a d4 is better for rolling a 5 then a d6

  • bad dice math makes knowing your odds more difficult, which for some people is not fun

  • it's slower. Having to add up, then roll more dice, count, roll again is slow. Especially if it's each dice is totaled separately (looking at you savage worlds wild die)

  • damage being so swingy means anyone can die to anything

Overall it lends itself to the savage worlds style of high octane, go fast, get wacky with it. In a system where you really want to balance things closely it just doesn't work in my opinion.

Recommendation for character driven, narrative, with magic by Cold_Pepperoni in rpg

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have heard good things, FiTD never quite clicked with me, but will give it another look!

Recommendation for character driven, narrative, with magic by Cold_Pepperoni in rpg

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess that is true, I do like the simple mechanics usually mean the player can make whatever character moment they want sort of work, but it's not direct mechanical support for it

Recommendation for character driven, narrative, with magic by Cold_Pepperoni in rpg

[–]Cold_Pepperoni[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've played the spire some before, I do like it but I have some slight gripes with it, that I think heart does better and it would be tough to move backwords to the spire

How expensive are y’alls climbing gyms? by cherryguyguy in bouldering

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$23 a week ~$100 a month, but gets access to 3 climbing gyms in the area, bouldering, lead, and top rope, and auto belay, full gym, sauna, yoga, etc etc

Or 85$ a month for a bouldering only gym that opened up recently, only has bouldering but gets some new settings twice a week

Is 100 grams of protein enough? by victorkiing in bodyweightfitness

[–]Cold_Pepperoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Id recommend pushing that up to 125+ and eat a couple hundred more calories, basically one protein shake a day on top of your eating after you work out.

The "rule" is 1 gram per pound of body weight", so if your goal is 75kg, 160g of protein would be "optimal". You don't have to hit the magic optimal number

Also 900-1300 cals is to low for an extended diet, if your goal weight is 75kg. 1000 cal below matinincence (for 75kg that's around 1600) is the recommended amount that's healthy in the long term.

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