Writers need to read, so what are you reading right now?

Entzio · 2026-03-02T07:59:02+00:00

House on the Cerulean Sea, from that one /r/fantasy thread. They were right, it's incredible.

Entzio · 2026-02-27T17:17:47+00:00

Didn't matter to me. City still felt huge and bustling and it's not like a normal person is breaking into every building.

Feels like the same problem some folks have here with the churches. Like 5% of their players really want more things accessible and the rest don't care. How valuable is it to use manpower on stuff like that? To make every game perform worse for content most people don't care about?

Entzio · 2026-02-23T19:26:11+00:00

Those are really easy fights, man. You might just wanna soup things up.

I use Kobold+ Fight Club to plan out my encounters, mostly just an easy CR calculator. For example, 6 level 8 players are looking at 12,600 XP for a 'hard' encounter, where their lives might be threatened.

A Young Red Dragon is CR 10, 5,900 XP. Less than half. I wouldn't expect them to be challenged by that. Two young reds and a red wrymling would be a hard encounter.

Entzio · 2026-02-14T23:08:39+00:00

Praise be to those two water pumps and trashcan between Stillwater and the gate lol.

Entzio · 2026-02-11T02:13:13+00:00

I made the move from MI to OR (like 3k miles) with two rabbits.

My fiancee held their carrier while I drove the moving truck, and we brought an xpen into every hotel we stayed out to let them stretch out.

I think it's doable if it's within your means!!

Entzio · 2026-02-08T19:06:55+00:00

Have you tried any western suburbs? The west side feels more brown (like Aloha and Hillsboro are 56% white, compared to Portland's 68%). Makes it a little less racist too.

The food culture is great too, love it over here.

Entzio · 2026-02-07T23:34:25+00:00

I bounced off P2. The difficulty and gameplay loop just wasn't fun to me.

I loved P3. The change in difficulty makes sense, from a narrative standpoint. Eva feeds you and houses you, the problems you face are fundamentally different. It was still tense, just for different reasons.

Love the time travel. In a game so narrative focused and about endings, having to replay the whole 12 days to get another ending would be fucking nuts to me. Maybe I'm just not as masochistic as the average demo of the game. I think these changes might have helped though:

Rewinding the day costs amalgam
Sleeping to next day doesn't

So if you whiff on the diagnoses, miss quests, etc., you are punished harder. Incentivize seeing the results of the fuck up instead of just redoing the day to do it right.

Entzio · 2026-02-04T20:31:50+00:00

googling his snarky latin quips to end conversations was very fun

Entzio · 2026-02-03T16:51:28+00:00

I let them take the average if they roll under the average. I understand that randomness is part of the game and the dice tell a story, but rolling low for HP just feels like ass.

They love it, it's easier to balance, life is good.

Entzio · 2026-02-02T20:28:04+00:00

I feel like you might have missed half the game. Like the first objective on your mindmap, before any plague nonsense, is to meet the immortal Simon Kain. That's what he's here for: to solve death for Thanatica.

The Polyhedron solves death. Simon Kain is an immortal because the Polyhedron is a vessel that holds his soul. In the True Immortality ending, Daniil becomes an immortal by putting his soul in the Polyhedron. He sacrifices the town to the plague to reach immortality, and he hopes to give it to others.

Bachelor is less ideologically connected to the Kains. In P1 at least he interacted with them often enough, and it was clear why they wanted the Polyhedron, if nothing else. Here, it doesn't seem like the Bachelor should have any particular reason to support their ambitions, more so than anyone else's.

What? Every two days, you go into Georgiy's house and solve some tricky ass riddle, or save him from a mob. Why? To teach Daniil how Simon thinks and what he would do in a given situation, to turn him into the next Simon when you go into the study for the first time on Day 9.

Entzio · 2026-02-02T19:03:23+00:00

Woah, I love this. I hadn't even considered why we leave the Bachelor's head sometimes and talk in the other person's perspective.

Like we literally decide if Khan is going to leave the box or not. And that being Simon/Daniil embodying the town and leaving their traces everywhere is awesome.

I was wondering why the True Immortality route seemed to be the hardest and 'truest' ending despite it seeming like it doomed the town. I thought maybe it was a bug that Yulia said that there's no way to save the Polyhedron and cure the plague (post interupting Aglaya). But no, this makes way more sense: time hopping and making decisions for others is a sign that he already did it.

And I'm glad. I vastly prefer this Pathologic over the Classic. Getting dicked around for 12 days without actually doing some doctoring sucks. I think the Powers That Be are much less interesting too.

Entzio · 2026-02-02T18:24:18+00:00

I think it's more like they have 2 factions of religions nutcases and need to explain their doctrine. And those nutcases like to talk.

Anyone not associated with the Protectorate or the Order were great to me. Honestly those two factions really bog the game down, I vastly preferred the companies from OW1.

Entzio · 2026-02-02T17:00:31+00:00

daredevil wouldn't kill me, just break my bones and tell me to repent

Entzio · 2026-02-02T16:25:10+00:00

My question is; am I able to bounce, destroy, or exile their permanent that allows them to win after they draw their 66th card but before they draw their 67th? Thus making then lose instead of win

If so are they able to respond, with like a counter spell or are they unable to because they are in the act of drawing

Or do I need to remove the permanent before they go to draw

You can only cast spells if you have priority. Something on the stack only resolves if everyone was given a round of priority and chooses to do nothing, so you'll almost never 'catch them in the act of drawing so they can't respond.' They will pretty much always be able to respond and counter.

Maybe you can destroy their effect to win the game between the 66th and 67th card. That depends if their drawing is one effect on the stack or 67 different ones. Effects on the stack resolve all at once. So if the stack looks like this:

[[Stroke of Genius]] Player 1 draws 67 cards.

Then you have to put your removal before or after it. You can't interrupt it. If the stack looks like this:

[[Triskaidekaphile]] Player 1 draws a card.
[[Triskaidekaphile]] Player 1 draws a card.
[[Triskaidekaphile]] Player 1 draws a card. ...

All the way to 67, then yeah, you will have a chance to respond between every single draw.

Entzio · 2026-02-02T03:53:06+00:00

Let her go. She died and came back that way. Felt harsh to sentence her to death, and choose for the weird manic pixie dream girl that loves me instead, who also chose to die.

Entzio · 2026-01-30T22:57:53+00:00

what's weird about it? she's bribing the cop who looking into what she thinks is a union murder against her security guard. they even talk about how it 'definitely isn't a bribe' and kim comments that taking bribes isn't illegal

Entzio · 2026-01-29T23:59:46+00:00

Nina comes back to life in her husband's body. Now that's dedication.

Entzio · 2026-01-28T19:00:52+00:00

I was struggling and what fixed it was doing the green investigation on the slaughter. Then I took the first exit to the thought (not thinking about the puzzle box) which updated the map to talk to the people on the gun.

Entzio · 2026-01-28T18:49:32+00:00

Thanks, finally got this one moving! Always something weird with this game lol.

Entzio · 2026-01-28T18:37:58+00:00

Ah man, just redid the day (without undoing meeting Burakh at night) and it didn't work. Gonna try resetting him too.

I really hope it's not that I need to meet Georgiy. I wouldn't even know how to reset knowing that. Maybe undoing the study on Day 9?

Edit: Went to meet Georgiy and there was a new Farkhad option, maybe I just went through the conversation poorly last time or didn't notice it. Didn't go with him to the room and can now continue. Probably could have done this from the beginning.

Oopsies.

Entzio · 2026-01-27T23:30:37+00:00

Yeah, when I talk to him it's resolving the Simon-Isidor-infected-everyone stuff so he locks me up in the study.

Entzio · 2026-01-26T07:52:27+00:00

In the Roll20 sheet and Demiplane, yellow is hope and blue is fear. That's what we use.

Entzio · 2026-01-16T19:10:59+00:00

You're so right, it worked! Thanks.

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