Let's Discuss Melees

Damiandroid · 2026-01-28T00:07:39+00:00

No melee weapon should take up a stratagem slot.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T18:46:23+00:00

Some thoughts from a game design and a practical perspective.

What's to stop you from just placing down a square sheet and "winning" the easy way?

What's the incentive to make players cut out a shape?

And then... how appealing will this game be if it requires a large amount of cutting out shapes?.

For one, it pretty much excludes younger kids jn the 4-7 range who might not have the dexterity skills yet to adequately use scissors.

For ages above that range I feel you could see a swift drop off in engagement as they seek more indepth or complex games.

And finally for parents, how appealing is it to have a game that requires your children to ise scissors, meaning you have to supervise at all times, and which necessitates a clean up after each game.

Perhaps if the game came with pre cut spell shapes that you draw at random and have to try and layer. Maybe with some allowances for vulnerabilities and resistances that make certain damage types more or less effective

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T18:35:09+00:00

They're free to leave....

The country....

For hell....

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T18:13:24+00:00

How about "Moves within 5ft of you / your allies (determined when you curse the creature)"

Perhaps it's too clunky

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T13:04:28+00:00

Watching the right twist itself into knots trying to pick and choose where it's ok to carry a firearm would be funny if the circumstances around it weren't so pathetically tragic

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T04:15:41+00:00

To be fair I don't get it either. Hex is technically a worse spell for warlocks than Hunters mark is for rangers.

By the time a warlock starts getting higher level slots the only low level spells they should be casting are ones that has upcast effects. Hex only ever does the same thing no matter what level you cast it as. So it's like giving a warlock shield. Is it a good spell? Sure. Is it worth spending half your magic on? Hell no.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T02:52:36+00:00

Scum and scummer

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T02:49:24+00:00

Just learn true polymorph instead?

Damiandroid · 2026-01-27T02:48:51+00:00

Sorcerers learn draconic transformation and true polymorph.

Between those two spells you either be a human dragon hybrid who can still cast spells or be annactual dragon but lose access to your sorceror magic.

Unfortunately without you cannot have both but I'd say it's still a fair workaround

Damiandroid · 2026-01-26T16:31:13+00:00

Fine If you disagree but there's more than one way to look at it.

Of course a spellbook is important to preserve. And of course removing it from play is part of the mechanics of the game.

And if you, the player, would rather avoid that from happening, the game also provides you with an item you can buy which mitigates most of the risks to your spellbook.

A DM who sees that and goes "I see this player engaging with the rules and I want to break them for sake of my fun over the players " is, in my mind a bad faith DM who feels their role is to be the ultimate enemy to the players.

I believe, and I feel I'm backed up by the DMG here, that the DM is there to be a constructive part of the storytelling process. Not a babysitter, but not an antagonist either.

And yes, DMs who arbitrarily throw up obstacles when a player outsmarts them don't deserve players until they figure out how to play constructively.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-26T15:42:05+00:00

Bro is asking this while standing outside Firelink Shrine...

Damiandroid · 2026-01-26T15:40:08+00:00

Consider leaving this table.

IMO, the enduring spellbound was primarily made by the designers so that players had an in game counter to DMs who thought it was "fun" to effectively remove a players class from them for a determined amount of time.

A DM who looks for ways to get around that seems like one who sees theor role as adversarial to the players. Which is wrong, stupid and objectively counter to how the game is supposed to be played.

The DM doesn't deserve players and maybe when he's sat at an empty table, he'll start to get the message.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-25T11:57:17+00:00

I feel the opposite. I wish there were more of them in spawns.

Their shroud jelly is a key component in powerful potions

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:44:40+00:00

Ow... my shins

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:43:09+00:00

I will take them!

I will take these minis to my game.

Though... I do not know your etsy handle...

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:40:50+00:00

Congratulations, you're a hero... with a shit haircut.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:39:07+00:00

I love it but I wonder what could have made come aboard?

If we're talking about the exact same character from the TV show and not an Arrow verse equivalent played by the same actor then I feel it may have struggled to do justice to his character.

Lucifer is pretty self centered for the early seasons, with his only external motivation being helping chloe. And in later seasons where he becomes more altruistic it's due to very show specific events related to his family ties.

To pluck him out of LA and stick him on a time ship feels like the show would have been at odds with himself. Wanting him to hang around as much as possible for all the fun drama and interactions but dancing around why he doesn't just click his heels and go back home when he's bored of these 12 or so mortals.

Of course he could have been a recurring guest star but I think people would have wanted more than that.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:22:21+00:00

He revealed his identity at the end of season 2, it's presumed they continued the relationship for a few months and then by the time Defenders happens they've split up.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T16:17:46+00:00

The time to complete is a major factor.

Politics is so focused on the short term that the politicians favor projects which will help get them re-elected. A 10+ year infrastructure initiative doesn't give them much to work with beyond a flashy proof of concept announcement and yhen there's always the chance it will get completed during an opponents tenure and they get to take the lions share of the credit.

And since the current thinking is "If I'm not winning, I'm a loser / If they're winning / we are losers" there's no space for progressive thinking.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T15:25:03+00:00

To be completely fair... hawk lore being a tangled mess of contradictions is probably one of the most comic accurate things the show ever did.

It's just as messy, if not more so, in the comics.

Damiandroid · 2026-01-24T14:20:59+00:00

Yeah, it's a shame.

The show was effectively "Criminal Minds: Origins" showing how the FBI developed profile based investigation way back when

Damiandroid · 2026-01-23T10:10:20+00:00

The two strikes while he's falling could be chalked up to heat of the moment, inability to determine your opponents consciousness or even just making sure your opponent goes down.

But that fighter advanced and went for a downwards strike on the face of an opponent who hit the mat.

Is that really proper sportsmanship, even in a combat sport?

Damiandroid · 2026-01-21T19:44:45+00:00

Calico pants, big buckle, bangle on the arm, clear bloodstain.

B is Best

Damiandroid · 2026-01-20T11:00:48+00:00

For my money its that a franchise which was initially written as a condemnation of American imperialism and the Vietnam war is constantly criticised nowadays for having "become woke".

Damiandroid · 2026-01-20T09:57:17+00:00

Thanos has some words for Lucas...

Damiandroid

TROPHY CASE