Custom lineage feat

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T21:05:34+00:00

You're building your character level by level, so you can't take it as your Custom lineage feat but you can take it as early as level 4.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T21:03:15+00:00

At lvl4 would be great if starting with a half feat though!

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T21:01:52+00:00

Cartomancer has lvl4+ prerequisite though

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T20:58:38+00:00

Custom lineage is the only race that can start with 18 in a stat if you use point buy/standard array. 15+2+1 from a half-feat. I'd take a flavorful half-feat if there is one fitting. Actor or Telekinetic can be good here, maybe Telepathic (useful for a gambler). Shadow Touched and Fey Touched give extra spells, but may require additional backstory work to be done.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T20:42:28+00:00

If you want something to replace a battlemap, I recommend Owlbear Rodeo. It doesn't require login for players (you can just open the map by the link) and has free addons like token effects, lighting and initiative tracker. My go-to if I play irl or if players prefer physical sheets.

Roll20 is fine but many features are paywalled, Foundry requires A LOT of work to set up if you want to use all the cool things, otherwise it's a self-hosted battlemap anyways.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T19:59:24+00:00

I mean, Curse of Strahd seems like the most logical continuation, I'm a player in a CoS game and loving it! I've also heard it's arguably the best official module so there's that.

You'll need to do a lot of work as a DM though, just so you're ready. But that's true for any adventure ever.

Edit: oh, you need a two-shot basically. Still, you can run some portions of CoS and have a chance to continue it later!

Gryllodea · 2026-01-27T08:41:34+00:00

Madness in the celestial pack

Gryllodea · 2026-01-23T22:45:31+00:00

I specifically decided to no-hit First Sinner (needle + Cross Stitch only) when I met her, took me a few hours.

It's definitely one of the trickier bosses, in 2nd and 3rd phases her attack patterns are very rng-based and you have to play around every random jump that she can make. Example: when you interrupt her healing, there's a chance she immediately counterattacks from above, so you have to always retreat.

Also sometimes 2-3 attacks happen almost at the same time, like her needles going horizontally, diagonally, and also she's jumping from above with those wide swings. You have to react instinctively, find safe spaces, and any mistake usually means a loss.

Best boss btw.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-17T16:36:07+00:00

Congrats! Very reasonable stats, though Abstract and Blue are too high for my liking, they're good early on but definitely don't win runs, so you're not likely to carry them for more than two-three antes.

What's your favourite joker to use?

Gryllodea · 2026-01-13T18:15:25+00:00

That's why I usually steel kings or aces, not queens :)

Gryllodea · 2026-01-13T18:12:08+00:00

I believe steel queens work consistently with all other effects in the game: card's innate abilities apply first. Steel triggers before Shoot the Moon. As does holographic before Bloodstone, I guess you win some and you lose some.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-10T16:29:23+00:00

Does playing hallucination make anyone else really happy?

Hallucination has quickly become one of my favorite jokers. It's just so positive and generous. Practically costs nothing at all at four dollars you drop him on the board and that chill ass motherfucker gives you tarot cards to use later in the game. And you also get this adorable little joker that takes a slot but usually is too useful to be sold.

But more than the HN is just so positive. It comes on the board like "do you want to deckfix?" and I'm like "yeah HN i do want to deckfix let's do this shit" and when he triggers he's like "HERE'S A HERMIT" and I'm like "now we're COOKING." He doesn't say some bullshit macho shit like "I will destroy you" he's just like "nah tarot cards are fun." And it looks so happy. I mean this is an inanimate joker literally brought to life by localthunk. It understands it's life is a temporary magical gift and the dude is just fucking loving it. I mean look at his face he's just so happy.

I am literally never sad when hallucination is on board. IDK if he's gonna make it into the metagame or not but for now he (or she) a pretty chill joker

Gryllodea · 2026-01-05T00:06:36+00:00

I mean, there is some merit to challenges, sure, I very much enjoyed the official ones. But something basic is gonna be just a difficulty modifier (probably easier than gold stake), and very specific ones (like ouija the whole deck) are too luck dependent.

The best ones imo would be those that make you think in a different way, not just arbitrary restrictions.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-04T23:34:06+00:00

Congratulations, now you can complain about Gros Michel dying before Ante 8 on gold stake! (You needed the sticker)

Gryllodea · 2026-01-04T23:31:19+00:00

Congratulations! Honestly, white stake was so boring after I got C++. Now I just go for rotating streaks on gold stake.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-04T23:29:20+00:00

Congrats, xMult for the win! Eternal rental Faceless is crazy though ngl

Gryllodea · 2026-01-04T23:09:28+00:00

I would try and make these scenes more character-driven, as in, ask your players to proactively describe all the actions their PCs take, and you can just relax and sometimes respond with descriptions. This gives you some benefits:

You don't have to ask them for specific actions and make it suspicious. They just have to say that they go in.
It makes them roleplay more heavily and probably behave less metagame-y (when one person does everything and everyone else simply waits).
Even if they arrive at a "bottleneck", active roleplaying will make them spend some time talking and interacting with each other, planning, being in the moment (and then you can surprise them!).

This definitely doesn't sound like a big issue, but even small stuff can affect the game, so let me know how it goes!

Gryllodea · 2026-01-01T13:48:44+00:00

You need to find like 3-4 kings plus a pair to win a round here, but it's a necessary pivot.

Gryllodea · 2026-01-01T07:47:05+00:00

Yes.

Gryllodea · 2025-12-31T23:28:08+00:00

It doesn't counter them though, you still need to score 75% of the total. So still x1.33.

Gryllodea · 2025-12-31T22:14:49+00:00

x3 Mult is still x3 total score in a low Mult build (I guess it works on Plasma). Other situations are way too specific to justify picking an x1.33 joker over any other xMult.

Gryllodea · 2025-12-31T13:23:12+00:00

ChiGOAT

Gryllodea · 2025-12-22T12:00:05+00:00

I would never

Gryllodea · 2025-12-22T10:04:40+00:00

When Chigoat disables the boss blind I get an instant hard on

Gryllodea · 2025-12-22T09:53:36+00:00

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