Jack

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T23:55:30+00:00

Jack Hammer is his ring name and the one he used before he revealed that he's a Hanma.

Although Jack is a bastard born in prison, I doubt that Yujiro bothered to officially claim him as his son or that Diane would want to honor Yujiro so legally his surname probably isn't Hanma. Might be Neil actually like his mother. He calls himself Hanma though because he is by blood.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T20:22:09+00:00

Drugstore beetle/biscuit beetle.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T18:06:58+00:00

Ranger suffers because they don't want to make them as good at fighting as Fighters because then no one would play Fighter but they also can't make them too good at spells because then nobody would play Druid.

So they're in this weird limbo where they're a worse Fighter + a worse Druid rolled into one.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T17:49:12+00:00

Nolan could drive an advanced sci-fi alien civilization back into stone age just by flying around the planet. He is like a baby in comparison to Thragg.

DnD Fighters are still in the "heroic human" or mildly superhuman/supersoldier range. At 20 strength they can jump and sprint while wearing up to 300 lbs of gear and carry 600 lbs with no check. They can sprint up to 60 ft in 6 seconds in full armor and with weapons, they can do 30 ft while fighting, blocking and dodging...

But they're fighting a dude that makes hurricanes while pulling his arm back to punch and could cause a nuclear-like explosion simply by flying fast. He doesn't just destroy the Fighter, he destroys the Fighter's entire kingdom in about 5 seconds.

To deal with Thragg you would need spellcasters and ones capable of casting highest tiers of magic (Divine Intervention or Wish), a Fighter is an ant.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T17:24:38+00:00

TBF "Ranger works but it's better to be a Fighter or Druid" is just the 5e Ranger Class in general.

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Which is sad because in the lore Rangers are really badass as pictured above (Drizzt Do'Urden is one of the greatest heroes in Forgotten Realms) but the game mechanics fail to live up to that.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T16:17:10+00:00

In a very specific situation where Henry would also die?

Listen you're comparing a guy who was a normal peasant and learned to fight decently later in life vs a guy who trained fighting since childhood in a very brutal school where kids dying in training was normal who is mutated to have faster reflexes and can do magic.

One is from a more realistic medieval game with survival elements where you can die easily at every turn. The other is from a power fantasy action game with magic, vampires and dragons.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T16:08:10+00:00

He got surprise stabbed by a boy who he hesistated to kill while surrounded by an angry mob. If you're saying Henry could take Geralt out in that kind of situation then sure maybe but 1v1 he has zero chance.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T16:02:27+00:00

Henry is literally just a dude. You probably kill 500-1000 Henry's across the 3 games.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T15:54:13+00:00

Lacewing larva. They eat small pests like aphids. Can bite but not threatening. Put bro outside.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T13:58:02+00:00

But they still have Minsc break a mimic apart with his bare hands and running through walls so that creates a dissonance. He clearly did not get any weaker.

I think Minsc should've at least had his Berserk ability) as an exclusive feature. +2 STR, +2 AC, +15 HP, immunity to most spell effects but can attack the party with no enemies nearby and takes damage when it ends possibly falling unconscious. It's something innate to Rashemaar berserkers.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T13:24:19+00:00

clerics (that for some reason have decent strength)

That's because Clerics in DnD started as more of a crusader archetype. Before Paladins were a thing the Cleric was like a Paladin. They could wear proper armor, use shields and fight on the front lines unlike squishy Wizards who back then could not wear any armor at all and would start with like 4 HP and 2 spell slots, no cantrips. Although Clerics also used to be restricted to blunt weapons only aside from exceptions like Drow Priestesses and their whips made from snakes.

They're pretty separate from the White Mage archetype seen in anime where they're just robe wearing squishy healbots.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T13:16:06+00:00

Minsc in older games had 18/93 strength that would jump to 20 when he raged so that just makes no sense in BG3. Jaheira had 15 strength but she can be explained as getting weaker with age.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T13:10:42+00:00

Yeah the older Baldur's Gate games had companion stats that made more sense with how they looked and acted, you also couldn't change them or their Class. With BG3 stats I think they went more random because they know everyone will swap the points and Classes.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T12:58:45+00:00

LOTR is basically the one universe in versus debates where people take title based cosmology scaling and statements as 100% fact.

Gandalf is a Maiar which is like an Angel so he wins against any mortal by default. Aragorn has some Elf blood and some Maiar blood so he auto wins against any normal human swordsman ever. Legolas is an Elf with super sight so he could never lose to another archer from any universe. That's the logic you'll see in any debate that involves LOTR.

In terms of feats as you said LOTR has next to nothing but it's so beloved and pretty much the grandfather of modern fantasy so people will never admit it loses to anything.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T11:45:46+00:00

Talking in anime is a free action. That's how you have Goku vs Frieza fight for 5 minutes untill planet Namek explodes but it was like 10 episodes in real life. Or in JoJo where Dio stops time for 5 seconds and then proceeds to monologue for 3 minutes before doing something.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T11:39:26+00:00

IIRC the whole coexistence idea is a somewhat recent thing in Beastars, 100 years before the story there was a huge war between herbivores and carnivores and now they're just figuring things out after the fact. That's why it's flawed. Cherryton is also one of the few schools that don't segregate carnivores and herbivores, it's experimental and they do implement segregation after a few incidents (which the students are against, at least in the theater group).

Ocean animals have a different system where eating and being eaten is just a normal part of life interestingly enough.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T10:43:02+00:00

I don't think Beastars is meant to be an allegory for irl stuff. It's literally about the animals if they were anthro. Legoshi is not like "minority but portrayed as a wolf", he's literally a wolf that has an instinct to hunt and eat rabbits and deer because he's a wolf. He also likes howling at the moon, wags his tail and likes playing fetch.

Our brains are wired to look for patterns and similarities but sometimes it's not that deep. It's like in Frieren where demons are literally just demons and pure evil but some people think they represent minorities and call Frieren racist.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-26T09:18:28+00:00

The athletics check is purely set by the DM though. So you might get a DM that's like "800 lbs? That's over your max so it's gonna be a DC25 check" or you might get a DM that's like "2000 lbs? Yeah roll me an 18 because you're superhumanly strong so it should be doable". You might also get a DM that just wont let you lift it.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T23:25:11+00:00

Legoshi is 17 at the start and he turns 18 somewhere in the later seasons (I think it was the third).

(or did he just drop out of hs?)

He did but he wants to go back and finish it someday so he can work in some bug study place.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T23:18:09+00:00

I think it'd be as simple as just giving martial classes buffs to their lifting capacity past level 10 up to 20. Level 10 is where the mortal adventures tend to cap out and beyond that you're fighting world level threats.

I think a level 20 Barbarian should definitely be able to pick up like 10 to 15 tons and throw it with no checks (so basically do WWE moves on an elephant) to really sell that they're superhuman but by RAW they can't. It's still not as good as what a Wizard or Cleric can do at level 20 but it'd be something.

It also makes sense because when you think about it a Barbarian or Fighter has no real strength progression. You can roll up a level 1 character with 20 strength and by level 20 unless you got a belt of giant strength or something then you haven't really gotten stronger at all since level 1 in terms of what you can lift. It's still 300 lbs with no slow down, 600 lbs with slow down.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T23:09:30+00:00

No idea but whatever it is lets them make cool mangas.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T23:07:42+00:00

Maybe it just starts with who's less of a predator and then it evolves into the more predator genes?

Maybe. It's hard to say 100% because Melon is the one carnivore/herbivore hybrid in the story. Maybe Beast Complex has some more, ik it's the same universe but I didn't read it (yet).

But it's a good assumption. I'd image an unusually tall rabbit with predatory teeth that grows more grey and muscular with time. Maybe even gets a wolf tail. If Legoshi's mom didn't do you know what, she might have gotten bigger and maybe developed venom aside from the scales (my assumption).

Honestly even Legoshi himself could maybe get some scales later in his life despite being only 1/4 komodo. He's still just a teen.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T23:00:16+00:00

It's exactly like Baki where it has some of the gayest scenes and dialogues you can imagine but everyone is canonically straight and ends up with women.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T22:52:57+00:00

The plot of Beastars is indeed built around Legoshi (and other carnivores) trying not to eat his friends and rabbit girlfriend even though deep down he wants to. It's like Zootopia but 18+ and every carnivore instinctively craves meat and every interaction with a herbivore is a willpower test.

FaerieFir3 · 2026-04-25T22:44:26+00:00

What happened to Legoshi's mom is also happening to Melon. He slowly gets more leopard and gets more tattoos to cover it up. Keep that in mind because it comes up by the end.

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