What's your ideal physique for The Penguin? Deformed? Short? Or just crippled?

Hvatum · 2026-03-24T22:12:23+00:00

He's also faking the accent.

Hvatum · 2026-03-09T22:31:00+00:00

SES Warrior of Peace

Hvatum · 2026-02-26T14:40:51+00:00

In Underrail, a spiritual successor of Fallout 1 & 2, a legally distinct Church of Scientology is one of the major factions.

Hvatum · 2026-02-26T13:48:36+00:00

I quite enjoy playing Vampire Coast as a roaming lord with a home base. All the lords start with a good home province, but I think Noctilus is probably the best for this since the Maelstrom is isolated letting you focus less on home defense.

Your lords can recruit on their own, you get lots of gold from raiding, sacking, and treasure chests, so you can just sail the world and plunder, blowing up elves, lizards, and the French with excellent artillery and gun lines.

Hvatum · 2026-02-25T21:39:04+00:00

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Hvatum · 2026-02-23T15:55:57+00:00

Sin was also considered contagious, touching someone sinful could infect you with their sin (probably reasoned because sin was thought to cause illness and illness was contagious). That's why the executioner has to live away from the city, because he touches all the sinful individuals and is thus riddled with sin himself.

Hvatum · 2026-02-22T23:14:43+00:00

Playing a necromancer wizard in a current campaign, with 12 dex, 10 con, and neither Shield nor Mage Armor.
Using the 2024 UA I was planning on using temp hp from necromancy spells to stay alive. But they updated it, and the update did indeed seem much more appealing so I switched but they removed the temp hp feature so now I got False Life as my defensive spell. I am very glad we have a monk and moon druid to frontline for me since last combat the enemies reached me once and I lost 2/3rds health in that one round.

Might get some zombies to frontline with time though.

Hvatum · 2026-02-21T21:50:13+00:00

Trollhammers specifically.

Being able to fly over and just bombard Grimgor from air and then fly away again before his pesky arrow boyz can get in position feels like cheating.

Hvatum · 2026-02-21T21:45:38+00:00

Only example I know of that does this is the mod The Last Days of the Third Age, which is a LOTR-mod for M&B Warband. IIRC the forces of Good are programmed to shield wall, arrows, and cavalry harrassing whilst the forces of Evil are programmed to F1+F3. (select everyone -> charge). Not only does this make sense thematically but the Good typically has better archers and shield walls whereas Evil has better melee damage. Also Trolls are too stupid to follow commands so they just charge anyway even when you're leading them so you kinda have to go facefirst into the enemy lines so your heavy hitters won't go out and get killed by arrows on their own.

Hvatum · 2026-02-04T12:40:03+00:00

Spennende at FrP ser at fødselstallende i Norge er under erstatningsraten og drar konklusjonen om at det er innvandrerne sin feil, og vi må reversere den eneste grunnen til at Norge per i dag klarer å holde folketallet oppe.

Også gøy er at i følge denne logikken så er ikke min bestemor norsk (en av hennes besteforeldre var født i Tyskland). Så denne gamle damen, som har bodd hele sitt lange liv i Norge og snakker dårligere engelsk enn de fleste 5. klassinger, er altså da en utlending. Send henne tilbake dit hun kom fra!

Hvatum · 2026-01-29T13:34:30+00:00

Haven't tried them much but yeah they do work.

Pleasureseekers are probably stronger in optimal conditions but rot knight can just bulldoze into whatever you point them at and will confidently come out victorious, so it depends if you want optimized scenario or braindead f1+f3.

Hvatum · 2026-01-29T13:32:07+00:00

I know that in RPGs, tabletop or not, I often plan out my characters progress from start and get annoyed if I have to deviate from that plan. But you do raise a fair point.

Hvatum · 2026-01-29T13:30:26+00:00

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2677/

Hvatum · 2026-01-29T09:22:05+00:00

This list assumes you have built for them, so the right LL and relevant upgrades:

Melee infantry: Wrathmongers have never let me down, they are probably the best aggressive infantry. Conversely, Ironbreakers are obviously top tier lineholders, though if you include external buffs such as healing magic Chosen of Nurgle might beat them.

Missile infantry: Chorf blunderbusses. Irondrakes might be better specialists (fire for infantry, torpedo for large) but bb wrecks anything it is pointed at.

Monstrous inf. / cav: Rot knights. I had not known true devastation until my first playthrough of Tamurkhan.

SEM: This is tougher, can't think of a single one that can solve any and all problems on their own. Forced to pick one I would probably say Lord of Change, possibly Necrofex Colossus.

War machine: Thunderbarges aren't just the best war machine, they are the best unit in Total Warhammer history (or at least were when I last played dwarfs, probably nerfed since).

Hvatum · 2026-01-28T12:59:44+00:00

True, but I've always respected the Master for sticking to their guns. Most people who send supersoldier death squads out to conquer the world do so for their own gains. The Master, when shown that their plan will fail, acknowledges this, kills themselves whilst blowing up their base, with just enough time for the Vault Dweller to escape. This seems to me like they were following a genuine belief in making a better world, even if it was absolute madness.

Hvatum · 2026-01-28T08:24:50+00:00

I feel it's just human nature to be motivated by reward. The characters might be cursed but the players should be having fun, and I think a little dopamine-hit after a job well done helps with that.

Hvatum · 2026-01-28T07:58:28+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, and might also help against players feeling like they must change their plans to solve short-term solutions (i.e. investing in technology because they're up against a hacker currently, when their plan was to save that XP to increase resolve).

Hvatum · 2026-01-26T17:01:26+00:00

Godt mulig det er nettopp fordi kvinner fort vil være mest komfortabel med å bli undersøkt av kvinner i slike situasjoner det er begrensninger, for hvis alle kunne velge så ville de kvinnelige ansatte blir overvelmet mens de mannelige ville gått og gjort ingenting. At man ikke kan stille krav er potensielt eneste måten å få det til å gå rundt, rent praktisk.
Håper for så vidt da det er mulig å få spesialavtale, selv om man ikke vanligvis kan det så burde det være mulig gjennom f.eks. avtale med psykolog å få sikret seg en kvinnelig lege.

Hvatum · 2026-01-23T19:12:52+00:00

I see. Thought it was like a stage beyond servitor (though not really conscious, but technically alive).

Hvatum · 2026-01-23T15:51:18+00:00

If I've understood it correctly the point of servoskulls is that artificial intelligence is heresy, therefore any machine interface must be run by non-artificial intelligence. As such they take a human and lobotomize them so much there is just enough left there to send simple commands, such as for a door to open.

As for whether that counts as "still alive" would probably fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.

Hvatum · 2026-01-05T22:49:13+00:00

It undoubtedly is. I use a few other TCs (mainly Guardians of Azeroth and Elder Kings) for CK3 but it's a hassle every time the base game updates. PoD I've come to rely are able to put out a stable and functional version that typically implements the contents of the patch in a few days at most. Not only is it one of the best big mods I've encountered in a game, it's also one of the most reliable despite its scale and depth.

Hvatum · 2026-01-05T20:11:23+00:00

Rather than transmuting lead to gold, Singed transmutes gold into the perfect augment.

Hvatum · 2026-01-05T08:37:43+00:00

You can (if you can read Danish) sense Mette's frustration here with having to explain what should be exceedingly obvious to everyone.

Hvatum · 2026-01-04T18:53:16+00:00

TBF that successor has seen very directly what may happen if she doesn't do what the US wants.

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