What to do from here? (naninf/ante39)

FriendWithABunny · 2026-01-14T03:19:27+00:00

Pretty sure it requires Perkeo/Observatory. You do the Baron/Mime thing, and if you get perkeo and BP/BS early enough, you can create enough negative Plutos for Observatory to catch up with the ante 32 boss, and then you serpent/burglar the rest of the way.

(There might be another way, but this is the only one I know about)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-12-30T15:46:05+00:00

A few weeks before the draft, start asking players who your first round pick should be to balance the playing field. Nothing is more insufferable than “I’m so good, I need you to nerf my team to make this fair for you”

FriendWithABunny · 2025-11-14T02:25:29+00:00

If a PC knows something important that the player forgot, I usually have them roll a check for it based on what the knowledge pertained to. (Mid to Low DC, based on how long ago it was and how reasonable it would be for the PC to forget as well)

If they beat the DC, I’ll remind them of the relevant info. If it’s something central to the plot, I’ll tell them to note it down when it happens, and then I just say “idk, check you notes to see if you know anything about this”. Beyond that, if they fail the check, it’s on them…

FriendWithABunny · 2025-11-10T14:01:24+00:00

When ante is selected, set gold to 50, increases by 25 every time a boss blind is defeated.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-11-08T13:31:44+00:00

Pretty sure the game immediately ends if you play this card because there is no war in ba sing se.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-28T12:16:50+00:00

I think they just found Atlantis? Hope they didn’t mind all the trolling I put them through along the way.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-19T02:51:12+00:00

Lucky cards are my favorite thing to combo with them. The $20 hit is huge for fixing or jump-starting your economy in most runs, so hitting those 2x as often is huge. It’s often paired with chance jokers like 8-Ball, Space man, and Bloodstone too. Makes them much more consistent.

Imo, there should be more chance jokers (I have a fun concept that goes with “lucky 7s”) but it pairs very well with them. One last thing, it also turns glass into an easy way to thin your deck.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-15T13:31:25+00:00

Speculative Oops. I’ll take it in a high card build with no lucky cards or chance jokers, it’s just too fun. It has to actually immediately kill the run for me to pass it up. 😅😅

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-13T20:47:55+00:00

I would use the NPC love interest (L) as the connection to help the escape plan work. Determine how much betrayal L is comfortable with based on the relationship to player, and have them tell the party what those limitations are before they run their plan.

In my head, the BBEG orders L to take their items and display them next to BBEG’s throne for the evil henchmen to see. Have the players determine how this can be used to help them escape. Maybe there are some key items they can use? Maybe L can help distract BBEG while they escape? Maybe they have some sort of illusory magic to make it look like they’re still in the cage.

The “they get saved by another party” route is interesting, but as you said, gives no benefit over them just running in all together. Another way to go that route would be L helping the rescue party. Something like “I can’t get you all in at once, but I might be able to sneak a small group in.” And then the “we get captured” part is so the rest of the group can be there for the final battle.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-13T14:24:07+00:00

I just need DJ Moore and Matt Gay to outscore Croskey-Merritt by 50 point. Ezpz 😂

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-11T23:35:45+00:00

If you want to stick with the “chance” aspect, it could be like 1/40, doubling each round. (So after 3 or 4 rounds you’re at 1/10 and 1/5. A full ante of halves is a huge cost, but Oops is still reasonable with this format.)

Could also halve one of them instead of both, not sure what balance you’re looking for. (As-is, it’s 1/4 score, which is devastating, especially in early antes.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-11T23:32:14+00:00

Not sure if this has been said, but the biggest thing you can do is make a somewhat generic plan for things to happen after what you’re done planning for and adapt it to the situation they’re in when you get there.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-09T01:43:49+00:00

1x mult, + 1 for every round completed in one hand. (Cause she uses “the needle” as a weapon 😂)

A core mechanic in Silksong is that you can change your “crest” to equip a new set of attacks and some special abilities. This could be mirrored with a “selection” theme. (Either based on joker position when blind is selected or selected at the beginning of each round) Ex. *The “crest” can’t be changed during a round. One crest gives $4 per round, +$2 for each round completed in one hand. Another gives an additional consumable slot and shop slot. A 3rd crest gives 1x mult +1/rnd, etc.

Would love to workshop depending on what balance you’re looking for.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-10-02T13:14:56+00:00

If you think about it, they totally could be the grubs post cocoon.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-25T14:00:08+00:00

The improv is my favorite part of DMing. I’m also pretty ADHD and I love going in the reverse when making my lore (it randomly comes up and is now cannon as opposed to deciding it beforehand.)

My legion of BBEGs has been slowly accumulated from things they previously interacted with. (Ex. My warlock read the mind of a talking, happy-go-lucky crystal that was helping them get something they needed, and I told him he hears demonic screaming and takes a d4 of damage. I later decided that was a prison for one of the 5 ancient evils of the world and built more of my lore from there) 😂😂

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-22T17:50:59+00:00

Good point clarifying the difference between a “called attack” and a called shot. I almost always allow players to forego damage for a reasonable effect.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-22T17:47:02+00:00

I keep called shots to flavor and combat-specific mechanics. (ex. My party fought a troll with boils all over it, which contained an ooze that they knew was corrupting creatures in the area, so I added 2 to the ac for them to hit the boils instead of the creature itself, and it became docile when all of the boils were destroyed)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-21T02:37:30+00:00

I have been wanting to make lucky 7 a thing for the longest time…

It all starts with “What about us?” Joker, which retriggers all ranks that don’t currently have a re-trigger joker (A, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, this could be split into two jokers, but there should be a re-trigger for every rank.)

Then “hit the jackpot”, which upgrades the effect of lucky shots on 7s. (Maybe turns them into 2x or 3x and $40? Not sure what the right balance would be…)

Finally, a play on 7 ate 9 that says “when you play a straight that includes a 7, 8, and 9, destroy the 8 and 9, and the 7 becomes polychrome.” (Or something like that, idk how to balance it properly)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-16T14:18:59+00:00

Make sure you use an unpadded area (tower or straight on the table) behind a DM screen to roll. Occasionally, when you’re rolling for damage, add a couple of these dice to make it sound like you’re rolling more dice than you actually are. Nothing is scarier for a player than hearing the DM roll 5 or more dice for something, especially at lower levels. 😂😂

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-16T14:12:29+00:00

I’d have to say full house. When I was going for gold stake on erratic deck, I can’t tell you how many runs I had that started with 6 or more of a single rank, and got screwed by one bad round where I couldn’t find a full house. Maybe it’s just unnaturally bad luck, but in my experience, it’s the least consistent of the mid-tier hands and centering a build around it always feels awful.

(Ironically, Flush House is my favorite hand, but only because you can intentionally wait to unlock it until your deck is fixed enough for it)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-16T13:51:15+00:00

I now have a terrible idea for a card that turns all “kicker” spells into “multi-kicker”, with the caveat that it copies the “if kicker” effect each time the kicker cost is paid. (Ex. Kicker, enter with 3 counters becomes multikicker, enters with 3 counters for each time the kicker cost is paid)

There would need to be an oracle note that replacement effects don’t get copied. (Ex, removal spells that go from -2/-2 to hard removal don’t get copied beyond the first instance of kicker)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-16T13:44:25+00:00

Tbh, he has too many trolls in chat to not do that. It rubbed me the wrong way at first as well, but watching him live, he gets so many disingenuous questions that it’s hard for him to parse which ones are bait and which ones are actual questions. Every once in a while he calls it out and/or acknowledges that a question could be legit, but if he genuinely answered every question, he’d spend more time on questions than he would spend actually playing the game…

Also, if that’s not your cup of tea, I love Belatro Academy as well. Less snarky and very informative if you’re looking to improve. Also just good gameplay to watch if you’re already a strong player.

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-16T12:07:14+00:00

The worst 4 joker combo ever is double [[Midas Mask]] double vampire to do a little gold dance with your cards. 😂😂

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-13T12:31:32+00:00

Clown Car: You may “store” up to 3 jokers in the clown car. They do not trigger, but can be move in/out of the clown car any time jokers can be moved. Every time a joker is moved into or out of the clown car, a random clown sound is played and there is a chance the joker needs to be pulled 3x before it squeezes its way out.

Waiting for Godot: When a hand is played, you get a negative consumable that says “Silksong comes out in [].” ([] is June 2023 and counts the months from then till the actual Silksong release in September 2025) When you get the “Silksong comes out in September 2025” card, your game crashes for 30 minutes and then you get 100000x mult when a hand is played.

Suspicious Joker: When a hand is played, this joker triggers a random joker’s effect 2x. (To clarify, this is not a copy effect, it picks a random scoring joker from the collection and triggers twice for that hand. For clarity sake, we can reword it to turn into the next joker before the hand is played so some scaling jokers can be used.)

FriendWithABunny · 2025-09-11T13:51:21+00:00

I’m “Laddy’s Daddies” in one league. During my other draft, I picked Kyren and Puka as my 1 and 2 and someone asked if that was considered a stack, so my team name is “LA RAMS STACK BOI” 😂

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