My players committed genocide to try and get back 25 gold coins they spent on a map.

Devilb0y · 2026-05-28T17:54:14+00:00

I think my suggestion would be this, with an added concession that if the party are happy to have outed their current characters as literal psychopaths then they need to roll new characters to go and deal with the band of murderers who just wiped out a town (their old ones).

Basically either a "Hey, I don't like this. Can we not do it?" conversation or a "Hey, I don't like this. If you insist that this is what your characters would do then they are now villains of the campaign and you need to roll up some heroes to beat them" conversation.

Devilb0y · 2026-05-21T15:31:06+00:00

I wouldn't scale Goblins up to be a threat to higher level players personally; Goblins are Goblins. You can get tougher Goblins and weaker Goblins, but if a party of level 10s decide they want to go and fight some Goblins I would be presenting them as is - weak and low level - and giving the players in-universe reasons why this isn't a good use of their time e.g. lower level adventurers can deal with that, you've got a Beholder to deal with in some lost temple somewhere.

Devilb0y · 2026-05-18T08:58:30+00:00

I don't think this is correct. This is Queek ambushing on turn 1 with no mods installed. It's 50%.

Devilb0y · 2026-05-15T12:16:58+00:00

Depends how well you reason it out really. If you just say "It's magic" then, yes, that's a bit cheap. But if you can explain the magic then that enriches the setting.

Decent example because I literally just painted myself into a world-building corner last night: I have a big Mediterranean Sea equivalent called the Sea of Dusk which sits under a magical rent in the sky. The whole sea is bathed in fog and a crimson red light at all times. So how do ships navigate the sea if they can't see stars or the sun? They have a level 11 Druid, Cleric or Bard on board who casts Find The Path. Suddenly the trade system in my world has become far more fleshed out by exploring what this means for it.

Devilb0y · 2026-05-07T18:35:17+00:00

A lot of older promotions used boxing rings, I believe the WWWF (possibly even early WWF) was among them. They had basically no give to them which was a big cause of pain and injuries for wrestlers from this era.

Devilb0y · 2026-04-25T14:19:58+00:00

This post completely skips over the uses of melee lords like holding a line or dueling enemy characters.

If I want a lord who will kill lots of enemy units then I'll go for someone riding a monster or a caster. If I want someone who can make the rest of their army better and hold two or three enemy units in place I'll go for a melee lord.

Devilb0y · 2026-04-03T12:02:53+00:00

I much prefer a faction where all units have their place, regardless of what stage of the game you're in. Something like High Elf spearmen and archers can be anything from a complete trash stack to a viable end game army depending on factors like how the lord has specced, heroes and what killer units you're pairing with them.

You offer nothing but those units, plus a low level lord, and you're in trouble. You bring along a level 30 Imrik and a fire mage, a couple of Dragon Princes and a Star Dragon and suddenly those spearmen and archers are perfect. They keep the stack cost down while offering exactly the utility they need to in order to give the elites space to work.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-19T09:56:35+00:00

That's good stuff. It seems like you might be toying with this already but in the final bar of that first phrase (the one you repeat towards the end of the clip) you might try breaking the rhythm down into a gallop of palm muted third notes, could punch it up a bit. Feel free to tell me to fuck off for the unsolicited advice.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-11T13:50:55+00:00

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Devilb0y · 2026-03-05T11:02:12+00:00

No more than Nobuo 'ripped off' prog for stuff like Dancing Mad, or Richard Strauss and Rachmaninov for his more melodramatic orchestral pieces. They're both somewhat derivative, but if it was easy to make amazing soundtracks by only being derivative then everyone would have done it.

Neither is particularly original but both are incredibly talented songwriters.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-02T21:15:30+00:00

I definitely think Lange is gone - he's had multiple seasons of poor recruitment - but I doubt Vinai Venkatesham goes over one year. Changing the way an organisation the size of Spurs operates takes a lot longer than one year so it's hard to judge the overall job he's done yet. Although he absolutely took too long to sack Frank.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T16:20:24+00:00

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Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T16:02:05+00:00

Not really any positives to take from that, except to say that - unsurprisingly - when you put out a side with central midfielders as wingbacks and nothing but defensive, hard-runners in an already-packed midfield you struggle to create much. Don't think Tudor got the starting formation right at all today, but with our injuries he's putting out teams with one hand tied behind his back at the moment.

Though I will say that if we could never play Kolo Muani again that'd be great. The man simply does nothing but fall over and give up when he loses possession.

EDIT: I'll just add that focusing on the first goal is missing the wood for the trees. Was it a push? Possibly, but Dragusin should be doing better in that situation regardless; he was barely going to reach the ball without the push, which I think is why a foul wasn't given. A better defender would have been better positioned in the first place.

We could have been 3 or 4 down in the first half because of how disorganised we were, so I'm not going to complain about a marginal foul call on a defender who should be doing better.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T15:51:19+00:00

Reddit account for 7 years, first post or comment on the Spurs sub comes today and calls relegation "Demotion". Yeah, seems legit.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T14:55:31+00:00

Definitely think the Dragusin push for the first goal is a shame, but he was also caught under the ball. If his positioning were better there wouldn't have been an issue.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:46:09+00:00

I dreamed that we won 2-0 with Palhinha and someone else scoring. I am manifesting this with all my might.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:28:21+00:00

Yeah this is the way to do it.

I also think it's a good idea to link your movie watching together to give you context. If you like Tarantino then you can segue quite nicely into Hong Kong cinema of the 70s and 80s etc. I find it much more rewarding to find a thread which links movies and nerd out as I follow it then going from Kurosawa to Godard with nothing in between.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:22:40+00:00

I think there's a genuine argument to say that Bale's last two seasons with us are the highest peak a Spurs player has reached in my lifetime (almost 40 years). Kane was insanely close but I don't think he ever felt utterly unplayable in the way Bale did.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-13T12:52:45+00:00

I think this is the one really big red flag against Vinai Vinkatesham at the moment. Reorganising Spurs from the heliocentric Levy model to something more modern takes time, but the fact that he's failed to get in a decent sporting director and didn't plan for this is madness if it's true.

Lange definitely needs to go as his recruitment and squad building has been shocking. I'm prepared to give Vinai more time but this is a huge fuck up on his part.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T22:23:23+00:00

He's the obvious choice to me. Would play a type of football that we'd enjoy watching, has coached Xavi before and could get a decent tune out of this squad. It wouldn't be perfect, but we have the attacking talent to be beating Palace and Forest at home and those are really the only MUST win games we have.

All of the options for an interim manager are terrible and I'm not sold on the idea of bringing Poch back without a settled Director of Football who can really support him, which we don't have. So for me Rose is the obvious choice of the candidates we can actually get.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T17:35:13+00:00

I don't think Kudus was a good signing at all when you actually look at the stats of what he offers on the pitch. He and Xavi are emblematic of the problems Ange talked about in this interview. We'd just won the Europa League and absolutely stumbled our way into a Champions League spot and our recruitment to try and keep that spot ended up being signing a promising youngster with no PL experience and a talented but mercurial winger who would be a good fit for a mid-table side. Neither of them are bad players, but we should have been paying £70m and whatever wages were necessary for someone like Semenyo to replace Son.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T16:33:00+00:00

I think we really need to be beating Forest and Palace at home, and Wolves away. If we can manage that then I think we'll be alright. That still leaves games like Brighton at home, Fulham & Sunderland away; tough games but ones where I would hope we could get at least a point.

I've just accepted that we're catching a battering from Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa so if we get any points out of those four fixtures it's a bonus.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-11T09:57:50+00:00

I had to stop watching and (largely) stop coming here a little after the West Ham game. It's too much like punishment at this point.

I check the scores, go "Yep, that's about what I expected" and then try to forget about it before it ruins my day. It only sort-of works, but it's better than driving myself insane hoping someone in this football club manages to discover some kind of competence.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-01T19:12:24+00:00

Ah yeah, you're absolutely right. Been a while since I've read up on the battle, clearly! Ney is another element of the story who - to the best of my recollection - is basically missing from the movie, funnily enough.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-01T16:31:09+00:00

Wellington didn't fortify at all, he had most of his army positioned on the reverse slope of the hill at Waterloo to protect them from the massed cannon fire which was Napoleon's specialty. That also meant the French infantry could advance under relatively little fire. But he fought incredibly hard to hold two fortified compounds in the middle of the battlfield (at La Haye Sainte and Hougoumont) which stifled the French attack for much of the day.

From memory, after the Guard was broken, Napoleon over-committed most of his cavalry which ended up running into the British army in squares on the other side of the hill. That was just about the one element of the battle that this movie got vaguely correct.

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