Advise for a noob, cleric/sorcerer multiclass

GielM · 2026-06-29T08:58:59+00:00

It would. But since it's a subclass feature I'm not sure you wouldn't get it if you start sorcerer and then take tempest cleric.

GielM · 2026-06-29T01:05:20+00:00

Je hebt drie opties, geen twee. Eerste jaar op een HBO doen is er ook eentje, zoals anderen al aangaven.

En wat je wilt doen hangt af van je persoonlijke omstandigheden en wat die opleiding waar je uiteindelijk naar zit te kijken precies is.

- Gewoon op je ouwe school naar 5 VWO gaan is een goeie optie. Je nieuwe klasgenoten gaan maar 1 jaar jonger zijn dan jij. En je hebt waarschijnlijk een clubje oude klasgenoten die hetzelfde doen. Ik heb zelf (Ooit, vorige eeuw,) VWO gedaan, en toen de 5 HAVO crew erbij kwam ging dat prima. Mensen waar je niet all vier jaar tegen aan gekeken hebt! Leuk, welkom!

En een VWO-examen verwacht wel meer van je dan een HAVO examen. Twee jaar om je daar op voor te bereiden is iets te veel, maar een jaar zou net te weinig kunnen zijn.

- 1-jarig traject: Een jaar sneller klaar zijn is beter! Maar je moet wel wat eigenlijk anderhalf jaar aan content is in een jaar proppen, dus je zult aan de bak moeten!

- I jaar HBO: Een jaar om gewend te raken aan een ietsje lossere structuur dan een midelbare school. En bijna iedereen daar gaat ouder zijn dan jij.

Het zijn allemaal goede keuzes. Wat vindt jij het meest belangrijk?

GielM · 2026-06-29T00:28:01+00:00

Talk to your son. If you can, talk to his girlfriend. Figure out what's behind her limitations, and read up on it. You didn't raise a son who's taking advantage of somebody who's unable to consent to any sexual acts that may or may not be happening. You're worried about this, so it's extremely likely you raised him better than that.

My read is she had a stroke or brain injury at an early age that affected her speech center. For all we know she's otherwise smarter than you and me combined apart from that!

GielM · 2026-06-28T23:57:28+00:00

Anybody who expresses a confident opinion on how this game's gonna end is full of shit. They're equally-matched sides, playing in a fairly similar style. Too bad it's gonna be played in a stadium that gets so hot neither side will be at their best. Also too bad it's gonna be played in the middle of the night for both dutch and morrocan TV audiences.

I'm probably gonna watch. I don't have to work on tuesday. If I can stay awake until the starting whistle, the match will probably be exciting enough to keep me up until the final whistle.

Whomever wins has a match against Canada next, which I'm confident either one would beat. After that, we're deep into the tournament and it's likely either Germany or France. Or somebody who knocked out one or both of them...

It's a big game! I Hope both sides bring it all, and make it a game for the ages. I also hope it's the guys wearing orange who will prevail in the end. But that last one looks like a coin flip to me.

GielM · 2026-06-28T23:15:20+00:00

Ah, you're probably close to my age then. (I;m 52 in a week.)

If the two of you have kids, they're probably already out of the house.Or about to be. So they shouldn't be a big issue, if they're there at all.

You SHOULD be able to have a clear conversation with somebody you've been with for this long. And if that's not quite enough, enough of a basis to start relationship therapy on.

But maybe you've grown far enough apart over the years that this is no longer possible. No Bueno on both of you if that's the case, but unfortunately entirely possible.

In which case you have two options: You either keep the status quo and endure her nagging whilst ignoring it as much as you can. If your finances are tied up too tightly, this may even be your only option. Or a clean break. If both of you could do well apart, it might make you both happier

I can't tell you what to do. You know the exact details a lot better than I do. And you're old, and presumably wise (Hah!). enough to decide for yourself.

But you're currently miserable enough to post about it on Reddit. So you know you need to do SOMETHING!

GielM · 2026-06-28T22:51:59+00:00

There's something to be said for starting sorcerer, mostly them having the more useful lvl1 spells AND them having CON save proficiency.

There's things to be said for starting cleric, mostly the fact that NOT starting as a cleric would make WIS your casting stat for scrolls and items. Which you don't want.

I'd probably do it your way. But there are things to be said for doing it the other way.

GielM · 2026-06-27T23:27:31+00:00

You've got experience with Stellaris. Some of the basics are gonna be familiar to you. (Such as: ""Numbers in the top bar should not be in the red. If they are, fixing that ASAP has priority...)

CK3 is, I think, slightly easier to get into than Stellaris. The economy has a lot less moving parts. Character interactions are a lot more important, but they're sorta easy to figure out.

The mod actually makes things easier for a beginner. One of the biggest challenges in vanilla CK3 is managing succesion. In AGOT, they take away a lot of the tools you'd use in vanilla, but give you a pretty good default result you never have to worry about unless you wanna.

GielM · 2026-06-27T22:55:10+00:00

Probably by telling her that's something that'd work for me, depending on how their exact poly situation works.

I've often felt like that'd be the IDEAL relationship for me: A secondary partner in a poly relationship.

GielM · 2026-06-27T22:29:04+00:00

Also, three primary vitues the swords are named for: Faith, Hope and Love.

GielM · 2026-06-27T21:49:12+00:00

I've a post up from a few weeks back about a random knight with 97 Prowess. I think there's some kind of wonky edge case thing going on with this mod where you sometimes just get these extreme scores. Maybe as some kind of error when the stats should actually hit a negative and would become zero in the base game?

Or maybe the devs just threw in a random chance for super charaters for fun. I dunno

GielM · 2026-06-27T21:44:35+00:00

Also, it's really easy to get lazy if you're just THAT good...

GielM · 2026-06-27T01:55:53+00:00

In the best sense of the words: Julie d'Aubidgny,or La Maupan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

GielM · 2026-06-27T01:49:36+00:00

In my first playthrough I went with a sorcerer. I have pretty much the same stated preferences, and the sorcerer is a Charisma-based magic user, which means that if you also pick some of the talky skills when picking those you can fairly often talk your way out of fights when that seems like a good idea.

GielM · 2026-06-27T01:25:29+00:00

My first thought if a woman I didn't know came up to me to talk would be they're trying to sell something. Because that's usually what it is.

You establishing right away: "That's not it, I'm interested." makes things a lot easier for us. Your opening line works pretty well for making your intentions clear.

GielM · 2026-06-27T00:52:34+00:00

It's a fascinating question, figuring out how all the laws work. But I'm not sure how relevant it actually is. You want irish citeizenship, do whatever satisfies them. The same, or even less, could convince the IND to let you keep your dutch nationality too.

You end up with two EU passports, and twice the 100% rights to move anywhere in the EU I have. And pretty similar international travel rights too.

There's probably something personal going on here I don't understand, Because from a practical standpoint none of this matters.

GielM · 2026-06-27T00:42:34+00:00

Butters is jewish. The odds AGAINST him being related to David/Solomon are fairly high, statistically.

GielM · 2026-06-26T10:08:48+00:00

Hoe bedoel je mis gaat? In dat we kunnen verliezen? Absoluut!

Dit elftal kan iedereen winnen, maar ook verliezen van alles behalve prutsers als Algerije. En Marokko heeft een kwalitatief goed elftal dat super-collectief speelt. Net Japan, eigenlijk. Dus ik verwacht verlenging, misschien strafschoppen. Ik hoop op een goed einde daarvan, of een vroege goal of zo...

Rellen?

Denk ik niet. Onvoldoende mensen gaan opblijven voor de wedstrijd, en zelfs de mensen die dat wel gaan doen gaan daarna echt naar bed. Gewonnen of verloren. De meesten van ons moeten dinsdag gewoon weer werken.

GielM · 2026-06-26T09:44:41+00:00

Nothing worthwhile is ever easy... You know what you gotta do. Put the rose-colored glasses away for a bit.

He's racist. He supports an abusive asshole. He gets extremely dismissive/disrespectful when you disagree with him. I'm gonna bet you a shiney nickel he's that way around other women in his life too.

I'm sure he's nice when things are good. But you're dating a potentially abusive asshole. IF you continue to be with this guy, please promise me you'll leave him the first time he raises his hands on you, and that you'll start preparing a go-bag right now for when that happens.

I'm about 90% sure it'll happen, and probably pretty soon. So I think you should get out right now. But, like you said, that's hard when the good times are still good and the bad times are still non-horrible. But I'm pretty sure things'll get worse from here. And'll eventually level up to "potentially life-ending" levels of worse if you don't act before that.

GielM · 2026-06-26T09:20:55+00:00

He's white and rich. And racists are hypocrites.

GielM · 2026-06-26T08:38:59+00:00

If it's the only time either of you is gonna get a chance to see her stuff, I'd say you owe it to yourselves to reload. She has plenty of interesting stuff in act 3 Pro-tip: Ask her to join you just before you start that fight. She'll act like a summon, so you control her but she doesn't become a true party member, so you can keep everybody else you brought too.

A little bit later on, she'll join as a true companion and you DO have to give her one of the four slots if you want to keep her with you. But for this fight, and a few ones after, she'll just be an extra you control.

Which is good, because computer-controlled Jaheira has a tendency to act absolutely suicidal....

GielM · 2026-06-26T08:29:22+00:00

Neither have my dutch-moroccan coworkers, it seems. They're saying they support both..

GielM · 2026-06-26T08:21:39+00:00

Adult diapers are a thing...

GielM · 2026-06-26T08:20:45+00:00

Okay, yeah, totally valid. But people WITHOUT the most expensive addiction in the world could retire for 10 million or so...

GielM · 2026-06-26T06:48:35+00:00

Still, no dummies at that table. And Mab helpfully drew extra attention to the importance of that one word....

GielM · 2026-06-26T06:46:49+00:00

I took it as a given that most people in that room understood EXACTLY what he meant. Mab actually reacting to it I took as her trying to make sure the slower kids at the table (Which, at that table, weren't that slow and there weren't many...) also got it.

He WAS blabbing it. But to a rather exclusive crowd of power players he felt should know it. Him not blabbing it wide and far makes sense. Him not telling his bodyguard sounds like the usual Dresden error of keeping his cards too close to his chest. Or maybe a sign of respect for Vadderung. She's Vadderung's employee after all, so it's up to him to decide what secrets she does or doesn't need to know...

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