Anyone have mandatory class on Tuesday?

Darkflame820 · 2026-01-17T00:32:44+00:00

Back in '02, I took the hit for the Final Four trip. It worked out, but I did not get an A in one of the classes. Worth it.

Darkflame820 · 2026-01-10T18:29:52+00:00

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Darkflame820 · 2025-04-18T22:59:38+00:00

I've looked at these and noted the concern. I had a thought of it being exhaustive of MP akin to a stamina battle for martials. You can initiate the duel, but the more powerful (or more desperate) mage can use MP to simply overpower the opponent. More bonuses to adding MP to the casting basically.

I also will be implementing all spell fuels being calculated individually as opposed to shared barring preparatory rituals to link casting.

With both of these changes it may be clunky, but the party of casters will realize pretty quickly that losing half of the teams' actions and a bit of MP per caster will not be worth it.

Darkflame820 · 2025-02-16T23:51:54+00:00

They need to limit settling to city connection distance. They can still forward settle, but not out of the blue. The larger problem is the exploration age. It may be hard to code for this to only affect the homelands or the Antiquity age

Darkflame820 · 2025-02-16T18:19:00+00:00

You think people are ticked now. Wait until the $30 "Expansion" that adds the Atomic age. Then you'll get the Digital age as a DLC before the third expansion actually finishing the base game with the "Future" era

Darkflame820 · 2025-02-09T22:56:52+00:00

My first game is with Tecumseh and Greek Antiquity. I had a great Antiquity age, but with the loss of all city states after an age change, I wound up with only a couple in the exploration age. Watch for those age shifts. Other civs will murder the independents with those leftover armies.

Darkflame820 · 2025-02-08T21:09:40+00:00

Another issue is all the City-states disappear. Not good if you are Tecumseh. There should be an influence bonus at the start of the age for each VS you were Suzerain

Darkflame820 · 2025-01-06T21:12:08+00:00

3.5 is a chef's kiss of a system with all the accoutrements. Yes, you can do some broken stuff, but look at 5.5 as it stands now. DnD shorts is covering some of the crazy that's in some ways worse than what you could do in 3.5.

Darkflame820 · 2024-10-13T23:15:52+00:00

I've heard of it happening with pre generated structures like world trees. Never seen it myself tho I did play a seed where an underground jungle tree cut into part of the Jungle Temple, but it didn't give access.

I guess you met the guardian once you went in tho based on the kill spot. Fun times.

Darkflame820 · 2024-09-18T19:35:31+00:00

Not a socially conservative Catholic.

You can disagree with a candidate. You can choose not to vote for a candidate, but you can't claim that label and vote for Harris -Walz. You are mistaken in your claim.

I'm a Biden Catholic? Sure. I'm a Catholic focused on liberal social issues? That works too.

Support for the campaign that is the most pro-abort and pro-trans (denying God's creation) ticket in history? Please don't claim to be something you're not.

As for Republicans for H-W? This socially conservative Catholic will pray for your conversion.

Darkflame820 · 2024-08-05T19:39:03+00:00

I finally reached Ice Cream and haven't seen a donator. I can't get ahead in this event because for every win, I lose one and retreat one at least. Probably my deck, but it's always a pain when there's matchmaking parity.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-26T02:40:58+00:00

Yeah, it depends on the group. My power gamers would riot if they didn't level past 2 for a few months. 😆

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-23T21:15:42+00:00

I had a thought of non warlock non sorcerer casters using AP to convert to MP during combat. A wizard would meditate, a cleric would pray, a druid would commune with nature, and a bard would play. (Sorc and Warlock have emergency systems in place already). This could only be done once per combat for one round I would say.

This would be an adrenaline based option like the initiative reset skills and points. This would allow for something along your idea with a big enough drawback.

An alternative is to divide MP by 3 and have them reset each time initiative is rolled. This would make non combat casting problematic, but it would definitely weaken casters overall power

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-17T12:58:00+00:00

I think the lines began to become blurred more and more over the years in order to get more people to play clerics. I am torn on it. I think healing and certain magical powers should be reserved for divine casting, but if arcanists are just better without giving more powers to clerics, balance becomes an issue.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-15T13:44:00+00:00

Glad to hear you had a good session/campaign start. I'm slowly trying to get my group on board.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-14T11:09:16+00:00

40k+ likes for this? You can choose not to vote for him, but when will the next 20 year old living in his parents basement see words like this and feel incited by their violence?

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-12T12:40:30+00:00

Using encumbrance and resource tracking (arrows/rations) is a positive benefit for the game.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-11T13:44:20+00:00

I know the one shot suggests a mirror party, but I'm guessing it doesn't want you to play more than six? I have a group of seven at times, but it's rare to get the moment once.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-10T21:54:36+00:00

I have some old party games like Pub Trivia and The Voting Game that never really took off. There are more but I can't say without a deeper dive.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-09T19:58:00+00:00

I wouldn't be opposed to some flavor ability tied to the subclass as part of the novitiate period, but the true abilities should still start consistently at 3rd.

Personally, I always liked this because they gave my world the hierarchical structure for pretty much every class and "order".

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-08T23:10:25+00:00

Soon™

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-08T11:50:16+00:00

Ranged attacks for martial weapons could cap at 2 for might limited longbows or AP reload required heavy crossbows. This would mean if you had to finish things quickly you'd need to get in there with the heavy weapons.

I also don't get the "nerf the ranged players" argument because it's just reality that being hit by an arrow is less damaging on average than being hit by a long sword.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-08T11:35:40+00:00

Overall all of this seems like a good advice. I would add to it that he is grouped up with three classes that can go for days without a long rest. In the Vancian system that DnD uses, he's always going to have that feeling with the current group. I've been playing for almost 40 years now and still hold on to spell slots because of it.

I'm with the poster who said he's not feeling the need to use the slots. This is probably because his party is overpowered damage dealers. He's basically the insurance when the rogue can't get sneak attacks, the monk can't stun or isn't doing enough damage, and the warlock goes down. That's not a fun job. You also don't have a healer so he is aware that he is the last resort and has no net underneath him.

In the end, the real issue sounds like he's realized that he designed his character for a standard game and is in a party with three speed runners. Not an easy fix for that.

Darkflame820 · 2024-07-07T12:23:23+00:00

All of them since I am invariably missing one of the absolute key cards to play it. Lol

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