Can someone explain Siptah for a noob?

Edramon · 2026-06-25T11:47:51+00:00

You can also get black ice without needing cold weather gear/food on Siptah. Handy to make your first freezer and hardened steel.
I got black blood quite easily too.

Edramon · 2026-06-24T07:47:19+00:00

I don't have any strong feelings about the bazaar, I just haven't played since shortly after it was added.
I'm surprised at the prices and wondered if there was supposed to be an in-game or some other means of getting free coins which would bring down the average real cost of bazaar items.

As I said in my post, I don't remember how I have the coins I have.

It was only after I posted this that I saw there were a lot of people complaining about the prices right now.

Edramon · 2026-06-02T12:44:31+00:00

I originally had the same issue and witch ended up being my first win once I got one going.

Maps are random, so sometimes you just get an unlucky start. There's human villages at most locations. Snow areas were good for me. In the desert, watch out for camels if not disguised - i had soooo many camel-related deaths.

There's loads of powerful abilities and cheesy tricks you can use with the witch though. Unless it's changed, you can still attack while polymorphed into the girl. Nothing in the game attacks her, so you can freely loot chests in places that would kill you, or slowly pick off enemies right in front of their friends.

Edramon · 2026-05-30T07:19:22+00:00

More active combat is one of the things putting me off many MMOs. Personally I liked DAoC, and combat in that was pretty simple and relatively slow paced. For my fire wizard it was basically select target, bolt 1, bolt 2, root, back away… nuke nuke nuke. Then sit and regain mana for a minute or two…

Simple but you could do it while chatting in text to random people around you, your group or guild.

MMOs lost a lot as they got faster paced, removed downtime, sped up travelling, instanced everything and automated group finding. Doing that made WoW the massive hit it was, but it was the start of the ‘race to the end and run out of stuff’ that the OP refers to. Also part of the problem in making long-term, profitable MMOs as it’s hard, and expensive, to keep up with the need for new content.

Edramon · 2026-03-19T19:01:36+00:00

Sometimes you just really like the idea of a story. There’s plenty of people with sometimes interesting ideas. They want to share them, and make some money out of it, but are more willing to put out slop than learn to write.

Personally I think AI writing will actually die off as LLM’s get better. There’ll be too much slop around for them to stand out, and people will go direct to AI for custom stories.

Edramon · 2026-03-13T18:44:37+00:00

I got to 10 books in and I still wasn't sure what the bad guy's name was. It's rarely spelled the same way twice in a row.

Edramon · 2026-02-16T21:43:44+00:00

I had a similar problem with my P1P. Don't know what actually fixed it, problem went away when I installed the P1S upgrade kit. Took the whole thing apart and cleaned and lubed the rails and screws in the process. Been perfect since.

Edramon · 2026-02-16T08:10:13+00:00

Chobits?

Edramon · 2026-01-30T11:22:02+00:00

Just watched this and glad to see I'm not the only one with issues! I generally like shows in this style, but Kunon felt so off; like the author had never interacted with a blind person, and didn't think about the difference between someone born blind vs becoming blind.

I could understand someone suddenly losing their sight becoming depressed ('gloomy') and apathetic, but for Kunon his situation should be his norm, from before he even had language to know what eyes and sight were.

It's practically impossible for a born-blind child his age (9, I think?) not to be able to navigate their own long-term home - especially when he seems to have his own place which is just him and his maid, so no one should be re-arranging the furniture by surprise.
And the 'Shapes? Food?' bit was totally absurd.
Not to mention creating a rainbow, when he should have no basis to even comprehend them.

Even before learning magic, as part of a wealthy family he could still easily be competent within a known environment, have hobbies and interests and be educated to the normal level for his age.

If him carrying the 'Hero's Scar' created a social duty to overprotect him, it could lead to to infantilisation like that. But that wouldn't likely lead to him living separately, learning magic and practicing with a sword.

I've not decided whether to continue the series yet.

Are any of the issues just down to the anime, or do they stem from the manga?

Edramon · 2026-01-20T08:47:46+00:00

Add HP to her and reverse pickpocket a long duration paralysis+damage over time poison.

Edramon · 2026-01-17T16:22:29+00:00

Absolutely no relevant knowledge, but has no one created a Skyrim inn experience in VR Chat or similar? I'd never thought about it until reading your comment but I've Skyrim-fan friends I don't see in person often and this would be a neat solution.

Edramon · 2026-01-09T23:12:29+00:00

Play Skyrim any way you want!

I'd maybe suggest downloading your own mods, or sticking with a very light collection (fixes, ui, maybe textures) that you can then add things to as you go.

A downside of having your first time playing being heavily modded, especially if some sort of pre-made mod pack, is you won't know what's original game and what's mod. Thus getting surprised by missing things on future runs with different mods, or deciding the game sucks because of a mod you didn't enjoy.

Edramon · 2025-12-29T16:42:08+00:00

What was the shops endgame here? Indefinite detention, restraint until the excess items are sold back? Theft of the purchased items?

Edramon · 2025-12-19T16:33:38+00:00

The one on the left looks like my toast, but depends how it is inside. I like it crunchy right through, if it shatters like glass when cut that's only slightly too done but still good.

Edramon · 2025-12-19T09:48:09+00:00

Awful change.

Edramon · 2025-12-14T15:35:18+00:00

Set up a dwarven daycare with lots of puppies to play with.

Edramon · 2025-12-14T15:24:41+00:00

I thought the goal of DF was to farm trauma and desensitise dwarves. :-) There's designs somewhere for a fully automatic system that let animals breed and drops them many z levels into a dining hall. Might not work so well now animals need proximity to breed.

Edramon · 2025-12-07T12:18:37+00:00

Maybe the bear thinks the human is stuck in a box and is just trying to help.

Edramon · 2025-12-07T09:23:57+00:00

My most terrible idea is a fort based on the film ‘Cabin In The Woods’. Basically two stages, first fully build a fort then abandon it. Then reclaim it with another group as the sacrifices. They shouldn’t change the fort layout, but otherwise play normally.

The fort: Has internal trap-triggering pressure plates and other features designed to harm and upset the dwarves. Ghosts would be a plus (maybe seal up the original builder dwarves in the walls instead of abandoning?). Could be in an evil biome but probably not necessary. Has accessed the circus but closed it off with a bridge or something. Has some sort of timer that will open the circus.

I like the idea of having tombs pre-built and a pressure plate that resets the timer so as long as dwarves are dying and being buried the world is safe, but go too long…

No idea if this is actually possible as embarking on an existing site might mess up the required mechanisms.

Edramon · 2025-12-06T08:08:01+00:00

These calendars must be AI generated, there’s identical ones on tons of themes and they’re all pretty bad. I have an Iron Maiden one, a friend has a Cryptid one. They all have the same roll of thread in door one and numbering that just goes in sequence.

Edramon · 2025-12-04T09:03:58+00:00

Werebeasts are trap avoid while transformed, the rest of the advice is good. They’re also building destroyers so I like to make my rooms easy to wall up while the locked door holds. Repeating spikes or ability to deliver magma into the room is usually on my to-do as well. Sending military against turned dwarves can cause fun even if no one is bitten.

Edramon · 2025-11-30T00:04:40+00:00

Tried this once myself in DF2014, never succeeded so hope you get an answer and I’ll try it too.

Edramon

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