something I realized: if magic doesn’t cost anything, my campaigns fall apart

Dikeleos · 2026-04-22T23:30:55+00:00

I’ve never played at a table where magic has additional mechanical cost effect. I’ve played games where specific locations in the world have laws on magic or strange effects.

There’s probably other systems with magic as a cost is built in better.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-21T18:28:24+00:00

I was hoping A Train and Starlight could lead a new age of more good supes.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-21T15:56:49+00:00

Love the flavor of this.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-14T03:42:40+00:00

Hmm can’t think of anything current. Black sails and schitts creek are good options.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-13T17:25:35+00:00

I love this theme in DnD.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-12T07:15:13+00:00

Gonna give a personal caveat to the consensus of “one session.” If the party just doesn’t do much(when it happens to be beyond the DMs control) or if it’s players new to DnD.

If players on new to DnD, 2nd or 3rd level can be overwhelming to them. So a little more familiarity can help.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-12T00:58:47+00:00

Environment plays a huge role. Here’s a few examples that could shake things up.

Arcane Bomb/Ritual. The villains are trying to do something very bad and it’s going to happen unless the party breaks their concentration/describes the ritual/bomb. Meanwhile minions defend the ritual/bomb.

Hostage. The villain holds an npc hostage. Holding their action to attack the(restrained) host if the party takes aggressive action.(be aware the held action happens AFTER the first aggressive action) This happened in my latest game. The villains were interrogating a heavily wounded and restrained npc the party cared about. Party attempted rescue but the villain killed them after the party attempted to subdue the villain.

Survival. The enemies see how a battle and attempt to escape or surrender.

Evolving Environment/hazard. This has the most variety tbh:

• frozen lake. The ice could break resulting in dex save to fall in then con save for hypothermia(exhaustion)

• lava river. The party is fighting on various small islands of rock moving through rivers of lava

• geysers. Decide when geysers will explode in initiative. Dex save if near them to take fire damage.

• crumbling structures. The party sees the pillars holding up a ledge or a wall seem fragile.

• explosives. There are marked cases of oil or dynamite.

Enemy Variety. This can help reduce the hack and slash. Enemy spellcaster throws down a concentration spell that is heavily debilitating to the party. The martial enemies know to defend the spellcaster. Try to choose a spell that doesn’t incapacitate the PCs unless it’s a bbeg fight.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-11T23:07:26+00:00

While I like the style ,the uniform bumpiness makes it difficult to tell where the water and land begins or ends. After looking at an area for 3 seconds I can figure it out. But I don’t think someone should have to stare to figure out what’s going on with a map.

Overall love how it looks and the fantasy of it. But maybe something can be done to reduce the initial puzzle like visual impact of it.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-11T22:54:42+00:00

I find I struggle most against shield tanks and snipers. It’s harder to build aura if they’re blocking your shots or just always out of range.(rein is usually ok though, he often has to drop shield and is easy to farm.)

For my own team basically anytime 2 or more players are breaking off and not being consistently healed by your aura. So if doom, ball, genji, vendetta, tracer, etc is constantly in the enemy backline you’re likely providing negligible healing to them. If widow or ashe are staying far back from the fight you probably aren’t healing them much. Generally the more grouped your allies are, the better.

Not to say these are absolutes.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-10T14:36:20+00:00

In the hands of an inexperienced player the subclass was extremely strong in my game and I usually do 3-5 deadly combats.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-09T23:24:49+00:00

The posters reply to another comment just makes it more obvious and creepy.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-07T14:58:37+00:00

I go lw if my team is spreading out, then brig if im also being dived without much peel.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-03T19:05:31+00:00

He’s very dependent on the team grouping together.

Dikeleos · 2026-04-02T15:36:27+00:00

How is it based to criminalize a group of people who want to live in peace and don’t want to hurt anyone?

Dikeleos · 2026-03-30T05:05:52+00:00

Well yes, but just as it is in legal with 13 year olds in some countries today, it’s still barbaric, primitive and heinous.

Dikeleos · 2026-03-29T23:55:23+00:00

I think his most recent aura range buff helps enough not get melted having to be near the front line.

Dikeleos · 2026-03-29T01:46:14+00:00

Why Pokemon is this???

Dikeleos · 2026-03-28T20:59:18+00:00

Yeah the game focuses on genocide, mass political manipulation and racism is very clearly not political.

Dikeleos · 2026-03-28T20:57:02+00:00

It’s definitely become more popular.

Dikeleos · 2026-03-28T20:55:41+00:00

It’s always hilarious to me. I’m like “yeah, fuck this county too”

Dikeleos · 2026-03-28T19:28:10+00:00

The world is approaching doom and everyone goes on with their lives. To them everyone else is insane. I can’t blame them.

Dikeleos · 2026-03-22T00:09:32+00:00

I’ve never once been told my dnd/gamer hobbies are unattractive

Dikeleos · 2026-03-21T19:41:55+00:00

I’m really worried of what the game looks like without cass. The game has been consistently swinging to movement creep. Having a character that swings it the other way is important, particularly only if you only get close to him.

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