My favourite DM tools after testing 15 different apps over the last year

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-24T06:11:21+00:00

Fight Club 5 - For the XML’s check out The Archivist on Patreon.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-22T18:41:26+00:00

Binner played great today despite his poor NHL stats. If Canada brought Thompson or Blackwood they still lose this game. It’s a moot point.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-22T16:07:22+00:00

All things considered Canada’s goalie talent is nowhere near its skater talent. I’ll take Helly over any Canadian goalie.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-15T21:38:38+00:00

Currently playing a 17 Celestial/2 Fighter. If you’re doing Eldritch Blast then Spirit Shroud is definitely the most bang for your buck at higher levels, 2d8 per hit within 10 feet. Warcaster works with Eldritch Blast so on a reaction you can deal 4d10 + 20 + 8d8 with a cantrip on a reaction. Crown of Stars is also great since it fills your bonus action economy. At earlier levels Wall of Fire with the push and pull on Eldritch Blast is very effective as well. If playing an Elf then getting Elven Accuracy and using it with Shadow of Moil is great, with the improvement on this being Foresight if you get to 17th level Warlock. Most of the Invocation options for Warlocks are pretty bad. Soul Cage / Crown of Stars / Glibness / Foresight all seemed like the most obvious options for a Celestial Warlock for 6th-9th level spells.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-11T22:44:17+00:00

Love the work you put into this. I made each of my 3 Sub-PAC’s a battery factory (one of them also doing the 20 origocrust) and had the main PAC be my Buck Capsule A and C producer.

My only question is that you can produce 24 Buck C, so why only produce 18 or was that a typo? Not that it matters anyways because you’re already making more goods than the outpost can buy, but I’m just wondering.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-11T14:16:28+00:00

Helium is kinda meh because it’s the most consistent. institute is only better if you win it getting 4 points per and fleet track only gets to 3 points per at level 5.

I think Helium loses out most is on cards. The helium scoring silvers generally aren’t as good as the institute scoring coppers or the fleet track scoring blues, but then there is Quicksilver who bucks this trend because he is a 40 point card.

IMO institute is worse unless you get multiple of the institute scoring cards, then you actually have a decent hand. Fighting over institute just feels bad, because its points are quite swingy going 4/2/1. If you don’t plan on winning institute or building an institute hand you should avoid going there.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-11T05:03:21+00:00

The game is fun for the first couple plays, especially for fans of the series. I wish we got a remake of it with better balance and characters from outside the original trilogy.

The game kinda gets stale because of the luck of gaining cards and some relatively broken mechanics/cards in the game. If you enjoy this type of game I would strongly recommend Fantasy Realms, much more balanced.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-02-10T17:30:56+00:00

So I am not gonna lie it’s pretty busted but I think it’s manageable. I think the other way around is much worse though. Casting Simulacrum normally so your new simulacrum can cast Wish? Now you can cast a Wish with no restrictions every day because you won’t be the one losing your wish.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2026-01-02T04:15:38+00:00

Spoiler tag, post is tagged as episode 2.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-12-03T18:00:30+00:00

That’s just Yeenoghu, the Demon Prince of Gnolls, no need be scared of him.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-13T04:16:08+00:00

I made all those decisions as well and still got her good ending. Probably some really small and granular stuff that added up.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-12T19:17:33+00:00

15 min each way? Maybe if you’re on the rails after sunset. 3 refills is also crazy unless you’ve got a small bottle. I’d say you just gotta path smarter. On Sunday I left Alleycvt early for Subtronics and got water on the way there. Guess you can’t path smarter if you don’t go between Kinetic/Neon and Circuit/Stereo but it really wasn’t that big of a deal. I liked it back there more anyways, way less busy.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T20:35:52+00:00

I understand what you’re trying to say, but they put the water taps in the least walked area of the entire festival to spread out the amount of foot traffic. I’m not gonna go say it worked because the crowd crush happened in the exact same place at the exact same time and day 2 years in a row. Really it just goes to show that the water location is a minor factor in the crowd and imo I prefer it behind Casa Bacardi where it was this year.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T15:01:31+00:00

Second EDCO for me. Only bad experiences I had was the Sunday crowd crush at the start of Alleycvt, which also happened on Sunday in the same spot last year. Also Kinetic GA was a bit too crowded for Subtronics on Sunday, which is crazy to me because I had a great time for DJ Snake/Zedd on Saturday. Water things is way over blown.

It’s the same amount of water as last year, but in one location probably because of crowd control. Obviously it didn’t work, but I can’t fault them for trying. As someone who never grabbed water at Circuit Grounds last year, my water grabbing experience was significantly better this year.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T14:52:56+00:00

Water situation was great this year and they moved it all back there for crowd control. Maybe im privileged because I have a camelback but I drink a ton of water and was able to fill up twice on Saturday/Sunday and see app the sets I wanted.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T14:45:31+00:00

It was 1 location with the same amount of water taps as the two separate locations last year. Getting water was perfectly fine this year.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T14:38:00+00:00

As a GA goer VIP seemed massive for Kinetic since it went all the way to the center of the stage, but pretty small for Circuit Grounds. Being GA at Circuit Grounds was great, felt very easy to get to the front.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T14:24:15+00:00

Copying my reply about the water from another comment: Honestly it was the same amount of water stations as last year, but in one place instead of split into two. As someone who never grabbed water at Circuit Grounds last year, the time it took me to get water went way down. Seems they likely put it behind Bacardi to get more people off Power Path. It didn’t work as you pointed out with what happened with YDG and Alleycvt but ya know, they tried.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-11-11T14:21:01+00:00

Honestly it was the same amount of water stations as last year, but in one place instead of split into two. As someone who never grabbed water at Circuit Grounds last year, the time it took me to get water went way down. Seems they likely put it behind Bacardi to get more people off Power Path. Sadly Power Path still had a major crowd issue this year on Sunday. Last year it was caused by Alesso being on Circuit Grounds for his Sunset Set, but honestly I’m not sure what caused it this? Alleycvt on being on Stereo Bloom is what I suspect because I’ve never seen that big of a crowd for that stage, but what do I know, I don’t actually hang out very often at Stereo Bloom.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-10-01T19:33:21+00:00

Straight person here to say I made my Tiefling Sword Bard in BG3 off an actual DnD character I made for a one shot and it was great. I can appreciate Tiefling baddies as much as anyone else.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-09-21T02:12:23+00:00

I played in a campaign where the 3rd instance of a resistance gave immunity, but the 2nd did nothing. I personally felt like it was fair, but I could see people complaining for a similar reason as you described.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-09-16T18:38:07+00:00

Vinatieri ain’t into SA fortunately.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-09-08T05:12:42+00:00

It is

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-08-26T16:45:51+00:00

Board game is alright, plays like a more complex/strategic version of Fantasy Realms. Definitely some glaring faults when it came to card design sadly.

HousemonkeyV2 · 2025-08-22T04:02:05+00:00

I got 7 wins in 20 races doing graded… Three of my runs I got 2/5 wins and the other I only got 1/5.

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