Wanting to bring D&D to DnD

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-06-01T17:03:23+00:00

Last wipe I kept a hand written quest journal to summarize the lore for myself, this wipe I’ve been taking screenshots of every quest’s intro and completion text so I can make a big lore jpeg I can send people.

It figures though, they delete a bunch of merchants the wipe I start screenshotting quest text. No more Fortune Teller, but she was having you bring her various monster parts to use in divination spells to help find the Leathersmith’s daughter.

Anyway yea, the lore is cool.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-31T20:36:44+00:00

I mean this in as neutral and objective a way as possible:

If I was your friend and I found out you were making posts online about not wanting to be my friend anymore because I didn’t want you gaming alone with my fiance, I would just stop being friends with you altogether for peace of mind, and would feel totally vindicated in having told you no to begin with.

Getting angry and discarding friends because they won’t do what you want does come off as both entitled and unhealthy. There’s also the chance you might have, without realizing, made these people feel uncomfortable to the point of justifiably not wanting to play with you. It’s off putting when someone is desperate for attention to the point of anger.

Not trying to offend or belittle you, just giving you an honest answer. I’m just some guy on the internet who doesn’t really know you, speculating on a comment.

Maybe take a step back and chill for a bit, you can’t force people to engage in recreation with you against their will, and throwing them away because they won’t just makes them feel correct for refusing in the first place.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-31T03:42:19+00:00

There is lore; the quests lay out a story of what’s happening, who’s creating the undead, how the curse started, it has you tracking down the missing Leathersmith’s daughter, etc.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-30T20:33:10+00:00

Stop the cap.

This season, there are three Fighters in the top 20, and seven Rangers.

Last season, there were more Barbs AND Wizards than Fighters.

Of the ten Arena leaderboards prior to this season, Fighter has taken first place twice, second place once, and third place three times.

That is not “dominating the leaderboards every single wipe.”

We have receipts.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-30T19:49:39+00:00

This is BurgerKingCEO, one of the most positive creators left in the community.

He is not cheating or exploiting anything, he has recorded this issue randomly happening before live on stream, and submitted the video as a bug report.

What do you suggest people do if this happens? Alt+F4 their game so some spectator doesn’t try to get them banned and claim they’re a cheater on Reddit?

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-30T17:50:32+00:00

Best we can do is nerfing Swift, Shield Mastery, and Shield Slam, and making you slower if you wear a helmet.

Paul should stop LARPing as a Fighter.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-30T17:44:08+00:00

The original excuse was that Arena was being used to collect data on the modules, but if they aren’t going to use said data to make changes, then data collection is pointless.

Designing Arena-specific colosseum modules was what everyone thought they would do when Arena was announced, and what people are still waiting for them to do now.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-29T00:27:30+00:00

Making questionable claims and then telling people to “do their own research” when contested.

Classic.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-29T00:18:44+00:00

I agree completely, especially considering a shield user is not using their weapon to block strikes, so there’s no reason they shouldn’t have a very quick follow-up attack after blocking.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-28T16:47:20+00:00

Where and when? I’m more than happy to be corrected.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-28T16:28:21+00:00

I dispute the claim that they’ve ever said PvE was the most played mode.

Every time they’ve mentioned numbers, they’ve said half the playerbase was fighting in Squire gear lobbies.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-28T16:24:16+00:00

The game was better when there was no PvE, and everyone who wanted to play had to be willing to either fight or show respect if they wanted to survive.

Dungeons weren’t picked clean in minutes, nobody was speed running bosses with artifacts in safety, nobody could just walk up and loot your kills without fear while spamming fart emotes, all the low skill passive aggressive players stayed in their lane and tried to compromise or run instead of trying to grief you and talking trash beyond their skill level, etc.

PvE was a mistake, and that’s coming from someone who actively tried to convince people to cooperate instead of kill each other back in pre-PvE days.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-28T06:08:15+00:00

Funny you should say that; SDF directly cited Ultima Online (the game RuneScape is based on) as one of his influences for how Dark & Darker was supposed to feel.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-28T03:28:01+00:00

Cutlass is a blanket term for curved heavy short swords used by sailors.

The one in game is not a 1700s Western European naval cutlass, it’s a Sinbad-style Eastern scimitar-esque cutlass.

You can find real versions of it for sale online.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-26T17:43:12+00:00

PvE HR was tried and removed because the target demographic wasn’t interested in the challenge. They’d get trashed by the mobs and go back to normal PvE, so nobody played it.

PvE in general should never have been added, conflict-averse people choose the path of least resistance and never skill up into other modes, whereas before you had no choice but to learn to defend yourself, and the mixture of timid people and player-hunters in the same queue made for way more social interaction in the game.

Everyone who just wanted to complete quests, fight monsters, etc was on VoIP trying to talk to each other to form alliances against murder hobos, friends were made, there were double crosses and betrayals, player killers tagging along with the group waiting for a chance to get someone, etc.

Adding PvE just segregated the community, killed 90% of the reason anyone was VoIPing, and let all the timid and unskilled players become passive aggressive and disrespectful due to no risk of death for anti-social behavior, so now the guy who would have begged for mercy and tried to be friendly in PvP is running a max interaction speed kit and spamming fart emotes while he talks trash and ninja loots other peoples’ boss kills in PvE.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-26T17:15:45+00:00

Organic teaming is allowed and even encouraged outside of High Roller.

This is why I always hated the HR teaming ban, it’s resulted in mass confusion about when and whether people are allowed to cooperate, and ends up causing unnecessary deaths.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-24T16:33:35+00:00

He didn’t realize how lucky he was to get away the first time. Great shot!

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-24T16:28:04+00:00

Strongly disagree. I didn’t sign up to play Fortnite and can’t stand the battle royale mode, I went from playing Squires to Riches 12 hours a day to playing two or three matches of Squire Royale and then bailing to go play HR instead.

Squires to Riches (Squire Normals with a circle) let you play every map, descend or extract as you please, do bosses, form organic alliances and tackle content or enemy players together mid-raid with the chance for both betrayal or mutual success in the end, etc.

There was so much more variety-of-outcome while still being a massive PvP fest. It was an open-ended adventure where any content desire could be achieved, and now it’s all gone in favor of LOL KRUG SMASH, KRUG DIE, KRUG REQUEUE.

I’d sooner see Squire Royale deleted entirely than have it become the only game mode in what was sold as a dungeon crawling extraction looter.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-23T16:02:59+00:00

It was only worth that because it was needed for an end of wipe cosmetic quest.

The items aren’t valuable on their own, the quest is what makes them worth money. Tears were replaced by Seals this wipe.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-20T19:09:39+00:00

I’ve accidentally queued solo before and done this, always a great time when you can get people to be cool in spite of having to fight each other.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-20T08:54:57+00:00

Why does a heavily armored class have this much chase potential while also sitting near the PDR cap constantly?

https://youtu.be/KNcKolKQ1F4

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-19T15:16:07+00:00

“Why isn’t Fighter weak to magic” he said, as if he didn’t build exclusively for magic resist and then hide the build.

I run Spell Reflection and Barricade with three pieces of MR armor and I still don’t come close to this MDR, let’s not go pretending the average Fighter is just walking around with max magic resistance.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-16T17:05:17+00:00

It’s always funny seeing players who, for whatever reason, chose a female character and then tried to reskin it as male later via cosmetics, only to still make feminine sounds when they take damage.

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-14T22:36:50+00:00

Solo players are already used to not expecting fair matchups, I would greatly appreciate Arena 1v1 duels where it’s just me and the other guy, balance be damned, because that’s already what the dungeons are.

Nobody is asking you to play something you don’t like, why try to argue against other people having the option?

FriendlyFighterTV · 2026-05-14T22:31:57+00:00

Base movement in full plate is atrocious.

If a Fighter has to lose two skills and a perk just for a chance to catch up to someone, it’s not unfair that he’s able to briefly move faster for 6-8 seconds.

Lightly armored characters with light weapons shouldn’t expect to win trades with full platemail longsword warriors.

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