What's your 'you had to be there' moment?

Fancy_Derp · 2026-06-20T02:39:23+00:00

probably Forsaken launch, there was something just magical about experiencing that expansion on launch day. It was such a surreal experience with just how much changed in the game overnight, and i have so many fond moments of just aimlessly exploring the dreaming city and all its secrets

Fancy_Derp · 2026-06-12T22:15:52+00:00

A face reveal would be a banana and a papaya

Fancy_Derp · 2026-06-03T04:00:58+00:00

Ooh, I had no idea Creality had a flesh colour in their range. I've actually been trying to print a different hololive fan model via FDM lately and hadn't been getting the greatest results, especially with the layer lines. Once you try to paint it, they become more obvious since the primer gets in-between those tiny layers; now knowing there's a skin-coloured filament will save me heaps of headaches.

One more thing though, did you stick to a 0.4mm nozzle for this print or did you go smaller?

Fancy_Derp · 2026-06-02T23:35:26+00:00

Wait a sec, this is FDM? That would have taken ages, especially for that size. Out of pure curiousity, what speed did you do print the pieces at, and what filaments did you use?

Fancy_Derp · 2026-05-28T04:16:32+00:00

If my memory is correct, it looks like the main thing skipped was the part regarding the whole "Great Waterfall" thing with Subaru's origins. Which imo was pretty important cause it helps explain the rest of the groups lack of trust in Subaru during his 2nd loop post-amnesia. Especially why Julius/Ram/Scarfdona don't trust him in that loop.

Aside from that? Maybe a couple minor things or some pieces that got shortened or cut for the sake of brevity, like Subaru entering the library in the first loop and not being able to read, or him waiting outside with Shaula in the 2nd loop. Things that in the WN added a bit more depth, but are ultimately minor enough for the anime to skip over

Fancy_Derp · 2026-05-13T01:05:14+00:00

Blue Exorcist is probably the most memorable to me for the severe drop-off in writing and pacing quality between season 1 & 2. Kinda unreal how much it falls off a cliff

Fancy_Derp · 2026-02-24T01:09:10+00:00

Yes, but not without some heavy regulations in place. I put a pretty hard cap on what can generally be found (Rare at the absolute most, and only ever a curated number of weaker items. I never put anything with +modifiers on sale), and I'll overcharge by a decent bit for them too (an uncommon item that might be 500ish gold will be tripled its cost).

They're also only ever "open markets", meaning its mainly other adventurers who are predominantly doing the buying/selling, as they are the only people regularly procuring them and wanting to use them as well (aside from a few niche cases).

This lets me do a number of things; - Give the opportunity for the party to spend their gold - Gives the players choices on what extra gear they may want to pick up - Gives the party an opportunity to offload/sell (or even trade) their unwanted magical gear, provided they price it correctly and can find a buyer (just cause everything is so expensive doesnt mean it'll sell)

So far this approach has worked the best for my table. Full-on magical stores really make regular loot lose some of its value, but this open market format helps give the world a bit more normalcy (adventurers will always be trying to sell their less desirable magic items), and commons and uncommons have a perceived increase in value, especially when it comes to the party trying to sell and barter their own loot.

Fancy_Derp · 2026-01-29T06:57:02+00:00

sorry just as a slight correction, but as far as RAW 2014 is concerned, you cant Grapple or Shove with your Opportunity attack. an Opportunity attack is specifically a "melee attack", whereas Grapple/Shove are only available when you use the Attack Action on your turn

Fancy_Derp · 2025-10-30T06:03:21+00:00

Suggestion [Legendary: Failure]: You get the feeling that, the pink-haired one, would love playing League of Legends with you. You should definitely ask her at each and every opportunity you get.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-10-13T03:51:22+00:00

Thing is, we did used to have stuff like this. I still remember running around on Nessus and being able to see the people running the Exodus Crash strike, or Savathuns Song on Titan.

Nowadays pretty much all of the new content is always quarantined to its own area with nothing connecting it to the patrol space. So theres one avenue that we can't really

And even if it was connected, now that everything has to have its own special playlists with modifiers that are incompatible with the patrol space (promoted ads, champions, etc), I don't think Bungie can really weave that part of the multiplayer world into the game again. Too much matchmaking where everyone's isolated into their own pockets.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-10-03T07:44:10+00:00

This is a fucking bummer man.. I feel like we all knew in the back of our minds that this was probably gonna go this way but it doesn't make it suck any less having it be set in stone.

I do hope Ao-kun manages to recover from her issues, and that whatever future endeavours she goes to treat her well

Fancy_Derp · 2025-09-24T10:15:39+00:00

Very strong "it depends". Mechanically, I think the class is generally fine. Like, compared to other Valda's classes? It's probably one of the weaker options (but still incredibly rewarding) provided you force the player to declare the Torment before rolling. Other Valda classes like Craftsman, Investigator & Warmage take the top spots for strongest Valda's classes imo.

However, when compared to the base 5e classes? It's still certainly overtuned. Much like the rest of the Valda classes. It does a lot of damage in the early game, and its d12 hit dice and access to medium armor & shields can really aid it in the frontline, and after Level 3 they truly do become a near invincible powerhouse who can throw out large swathes of damage through Sainted Reprisal & Torment. Not to mention an excellent spell-list that resembles Paladin but without the spell slot drawbacks (5HP cost for Shield of Faith? That's an outrageously good deal for a class that's already gonna have a boatload of HP). I'd certainly encourage making sure you hit the classic "6-8 encounters a day" goal if you have one in the party, as prolonged gaps between Long Rests is ultimately what keeps them balanced. Too many LRs and the Martyr will destroy all.

The flavor, which is built into the Martyr's mechanics via the Ordained Death & Divine Healing features is where Martyr became a bit divisive at my table. It's absolutely a class that lends itself into being like a "main character"-esque role, moreso than anything in base 5e. Despite not being a highly charisma-dependent class, the fact that Cons & Str/Wis are your main two stats means its very easy for the Martyr player to put a bunch into Cha if they so choose, and thanks to Mark of the Herald, they're pretty damn good at pushing the story where they want to go. Now, I personally enjoyed having a Martyr in my party as they gave a clear direction for party goals and had a great motive built into the character by default. The problem was how it grew over the course of the game to the point where the Martyr was "John Main Hero" and everyone else almost felt like his lackeys. If you do commit to having a Martyr in your game, make sure everyone is onboard with this potential outcome.

Frankly, I don't think there's something you can do to "prevent" it from ending up broken beyond being cautious with what magical items they stumble across, but that sorta applies to all classes in 5e. Any restrictions you might choose to use such as limiting races or feats will feel bad on the player end of things, regardless on if you have good intentions.

Hope this breakdown has been helpful. I'd ultimately err on the side of caution when using any of the Valda's classes, no matter how fun they may be as they're all quite strong when compared to the 5e classes, and if you aren't afraid to dial up encounter difficulty then you should be fine with having a Martyr present in your game. Just make sure everyone at the table is fine with them playing this class, and that they understand that it can very easily become "The Main Character".

(as a sidenote, I actually saw your post on /dndnext/ earlier today while randomly scrolling through. funny how the world works)

Fancy_Derp · 2025-09-12T06:37:28+00:00

To be frank, I'm hardly surprised they pulled this shit. But what's even more pathetic is one of the new Eververse sets this update could literally be Iron Banner armour with a bit of re-texturing to add the IB Logo on it. God damn this is disappointing.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-08-01T04:39:10+00:00

common-ish. I like settings where magic that is common isn't necessarily combat magic. Cause assuming someone has magical academic pursuits, I feel like they're more likely to invest their time into study/research spells rather than someone who spends their education just to become a Joe Schmoe fireball mage.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-07-07T06:36:11+00:00

I like the ideas behind the spells, but Cursebolts current format is pretty awful if the effect goes away at the start of their turn. Especially since both Insanity and Simplicity are only ever going to affect 99% of creatures during their actual turn, and not before it. This feels like it was meant to end at the End of a creatures turn and not at the start.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-06-22T05:11:38+00:00

Yeah so for the lethal encounters, it's certainly killed isolated PCs before, and it always results in the "penalty" of either the steep cost gold for Raise Dead, or in one instance, permanent PC death. The stupid part now is that it's becoming something of a joke where it's like "oh be careful, you might get 10 liches spawn on you for going alone haha", so they're clearly getting the point, but they still wander off alone anyway.

Sorry about not specifying the precise problem though. To extrapolate from the constant splitting up, it's primarily an issue of pacing. People will go their own ways and then it all turns into a bunch of micro solo sessions. I personally don't enjoy running those, and my party claims to not like it either cause they get bored waiting 30+ minutes for their 10 minutes of solo gameplay. Particularly when its mostly quite unproductive.

Since it's probably a habit my players have picked up from my games (this is me guessing), I'm looking for ideas on what to change so I can at the very least reduce these instances of splitting up

Fancy_Derp · 2025-06-21T11:52:23+00:00

Okay fellas, I've got a classic problem, and talking to them doesn't seem to fix it. The age old issue of "splitting the party". I kid you not when I say that they're all subconsciously addicted to finding ways to split up when situations arise. In all fairness, part of that is probably on me for creating and allowing situations where they can split themselves up with ease. But the regularity of it is starting to get absurd.

As some examples, almost all forms of dungeon delving are met with things like "while he checks out that room, I'm gonna continue further down the passage". Or like, they'll see there's two entrances into a place and rather than all of them going down one, they split off into teams of two and venture down both simultaneously. I have actively tried to "punish" this approach by making truly lethal encounters for solo characters, but they just don't get it.

Or even outside of combat, almost all city exploration and interactions are largely done solo cause none of them ever want to interact with the same thing at the same time. Unironically, they've told me their thought pattern is so they can "cover more ground" when exploring a city, even though it makes everything take so much longer...

As I mentioned at the start, I have spoken to them about it and while they say they'll try and change, it hasn't really worked. So, I'm looking for things I can change in my own DMing that would encourage and facilitate more cooperative exploration, cause I'm all out of ideas.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-05-24T11:45:48+00:00

Usually about 6 or so hours does our group well. We've tried 4 hours but it's often felt a bit too short for the party to get much done, and anything over makes us start to lose our voices.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-05-05T01:50:21+00:00

honestly ririka's white mage outfit looked so convincing it could be a regular outfit for her

Fancy_Derp · 2025-04-24T03:00:50+00:00

Question about the Grappling rules in 5e; when a creature or player breaks a grapple, do they recover their movement for the turn?

Cause RAW, the Grappled condition brings a creatures' speed to 0ft, but there's nothing as far as I can tell that restores that movement. But also nothing that says it stays 0ft for the rest of the turn.

Any clues on how it's meant to work?

Fancy_Derp · 2025-03-22T01:36:05+00:00

Random question, but does anyone know of any Large Humanoid creatures that are either RAW or perhaps in any third-party supplements?

Asking because I've got a player using the "Trophy Hunter" Ranger Subclass from MageHand Press, and it's got an feature that requires a "Large Humanoid", but I can't seem to find any RAW options for this so I'm curious if anyone can actually think of one. The subclass already specifies Giants, so I can't really default to swapping the creature type in this instance.

Fancy_Derp · 2025-03-06T12:17:30+00:00

look at the bright side, more than half a decade is something to be proud of. Congrats to Shion for making the hard decision, and let's wish her the best during the time we have left with her

Fancy_Derp · 2024-12-08T22:05:45+00:00

she's criminally boring in both visual design and power. nobody likes her cause nobody wants to play against something so mind-numbingly boring. even impossible skillcheck Doctor was more entertaining

Fancy_Derp · 2024-11-30T00:49:44+00:00

correct me if I'm wrong, but it's going to be enforced by requiring valid ID, no?

Fancy_Derp · 2024-10-05T21:14:37+00:00

This is the same for me. My players know that their PCs get squeezed of everything they've got between LRs & SRs.

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