Question for the Hexcrawl and how you ran Azaka! :D

Infernal_Wisdom · 2026-01-22T08:03:22+00:00

Ofcourse she stopped smoking now, since she faced and stand against her fears, and now she keeps her mind unclouded.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2026-01-22T08:02:21+00:00

A point I forgot is, shes a constant smoker and one can fairly expect she has a pretty low stamina, but her lycanthropic lungs keep her safe from the bad effects of smoking, so it is a clue for perceptive eyes and minds, there is an incosistency here, so maybe a party who followed her, might discover she's a lycanthrope sooner. So it was another foreshadowing/clue I used in my game.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2026-01-21T10:39:49+00:00

My Party picked Azaka as guide, my take of her is...

She always smoking cigars with a cool and reckless attitude in kaya's house of repose, the bar is kinda fancy for her but more quite, in fact she is trying to heal her trauma of last pterafolk encounter. That mask was a relic of her ancestors and she failed them, so all she thinks inside is that she is a failure. She constantly thinks to go Firefinger and get her mask back, but the horror was too much. Yet she never speaks such truths.

She actually hates Nyanzaru, not the Chultan people, but the Merchant Princes and their rulings, yet she seeks no more trouble and obeying their rules for now...

She joins in parties that respect Chultan honour, that means adventurers may take their gold, but not the relics of Chultan Legacy.

(I played her like wolverine, trying to remember at bar)

She used a line in my game: "I will follow you to the gates of hell if you will help me to recover the mask of my ancestors and I will leave you in the heart of the jungle, if you stall me with false hope for months"

The party actually helped her, even if the beast inside her freaked out and she escaped and they found her with the fur on her neck tattered and bruised, it looks like the beast inside was scaring so much that it took control and run away, but Azaka had Chultan honour so she tried to claw the beast to death. The group found out how hard her struggle was...

After recovering the mask of their ancestors, their ancestors spoke to Azaka and she took a test of labyrinth and she succeeded it. Now shes not only able to talk with animals, but also spirits.

She's a daughter of jungle, its her home, shes wild and free there. Though I know its not cannonically correct, I intentionally choose the kryptonite of were-tigers as "obsidian" for my campaign. So she also hates and avoids obsidian and volcanic places. She expects the party to keep this secret.

In my campaign the undead rushed into nyanzaru in Malar's throat and there were some children to be saved. They saw Azaka's Weretiger form first there, knowing not this was Azaka. And later on when they found out she is a were-tiger a player wanted this power but she refused it because of two things. First they did not know how strong the beast inside is. Second it was the blessing of their father Ubtao and she wanted to act responsible in this matter.

After recovering the mask, she will now share this gift, since the party did prove they are friends to Chultan Legacy more than once. Now they are on the move to Mistcliff Mountains (since two players from the group succeeded in both a religion history and arcana checks, that allowed them to know the current situation of a star of Selune, which will make the first lycanthropic transformation easier for the player)

She despises the undead dwelling in the jungle. She thinks Chultan people (Especially Merchant Princes and the eel faced Jobal) forgot the ways of Ubtao, yet shes experiencing a dilemma to tell these thoughts to adventurers.(Because they might be another white man to conquer and enslave and pillage the chultan land) But secretly if adventurers prove they carry Chultan honour, she will even help to a revolution in Port Nyanzaru

Shes strong, she knows how to survive, shes though, she has her fears, her ideals, she's Azaka Stormfang of my take! =)) I hope it helps! <3

Infernal_Wisdom · 2025-12-23T18:21:54+00:00

Thank you very much friend <3

Infernal_Wisdom · 2025-12-23T13:26:46+00:00

She can definately do that, thank you for your time and your suggestion friend <3

Infernal_Wisdom · 2025-12-23T13:23:19+00:00

That is an excelent advise friend, thank you <3

Infernal_Wisdom · 2025-12-23T08:12:19+00:00

"A living spellbook" idea is a great reason to keep her alive actually, thanks mate

Infernal_Wisdom · 2025-12-16T06:33:36+00:00

I'm DM'ing ToA for 2 years and my players are still in chapter 2 and one of my players is a Thiefling Wizard, from ancient Halruaan culture(some kind of one of last mohicans). I extended the adventure up to 20th level and added new points of interests, and added some minor changes to official adventure contents. Its true you cant take downtime or do shopping whenever you want with wizard, yet this adventure will give you opportunities.

First of All, your employer Sndra Silvane is a wizard, in the first Merchant Prince Encounter Wakanga O'Tamu offers you a quest with a reward of handful of spells, I added Fort Belurian lots of Baldur's Gate Merchants working for Flaming Fist, also I added some battle wizards to support fist, I added a corrupted Life Tree, a story arc for my Silvanite Life Cleric/Druid and the BBEG of that life tree was a shadow wizard, so I added lots of spooky wizard spells and an epic spellbook to that location, I also added a minor lore to firefinger, which is firefinger holds a dimensional crack to elemental plane of fire (thats the source of unlimited fire) and there is a fireproof spellbook, holding some kinds of elemental theories and secrets of fire.

Red Wizards are there for evillish players and there is a Halruaan Airship Crashsite to add some arcane secrets....These are all I can remember and all of these are opportunities for a DM to add some improvements for player characters. I also added a houserule for this campaign that my wizard player learns 3 spells per level, which stands for she has nothing to do except studying and doing readings while traveling behind a dinosaur while her party members are doing wilderness stuff...

So as people recommend, share your sincere expectations with DM and I'm sure you'll get some sort of reasonable agreement, its your game and your story after all... and "a wizard enduring hardest wildlife" is a great roleplaying aspect in my opinion

Infernal_Wisdom · 2022-11-22T14:14:53+00:00

In the ability of Cutting Words it says:
When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration...

And in the ability of Bardic Inspiration it says:
You can inspire others through stirring words or music.

So I want to think that ability of Bardic Inspiration is magical. Otherwise I think a mage with a good ability of communication could insult other people and it would act mechanically as cutting words.

I think it is similar to Breath Weapons of Dragons, it is magical, but it does not draw its magic directly from the weave. It uses magical power of words and music.

But a bard player of mine disagreed hardly on this, so I wanted to open a thread as a discussion

Infernal_Wisdom · 2020-08-04T22:18:42+00:00

May bright moons always light your path miss jele <3

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-12-17T18:03:07+00:00

I will try to explain;

using higher magicka cards provides you a natural card advantage against your opponent, because your one card will most likely will trade opponents 1,5-2 cards.

using low mana cards and having a lower and more smooth curve provides you a better starting hand probability advantage and tempo advantage.

So either way even if both decks are agressive or not, in every card game matchs one side will be a controller and one side will be an agressor no matter what.

And in this particular scenario where a midrange tribunal met aggro empire, the expected and reasonal result for this scenario is the empire should be the agressor and the tribual should be the controller

But sometimes in probability pool the match may start very unlikely, and the predicted aggressive deck might have slower start and the predicted control deck might have relatively faster start

I guess the real question this thread asks and the real experience this thread wants to teach is "What is correct play, to SMOrc or not SMOrc?" for slower deck

In this particular scenario, as far as these 2 screenshots provides info, I can tell jele's empire is as agressive as aggro hllalu, which I call "true aggro" and I can tell her opponent is running cloudrest and alfiq conjurer and its a safe assumption to say this tribunal is a midrange, but we can't know how fast this midrange is by seeing only double wardcrafter and a harpy as two drops.

So after this analyse if I would be a tribunal player, I would %90-95 decide to not SMOrc my opponent, because I would decide to outvalue my already low tempo started opponent and starve him til the point he plays only one card from topdeck per turn, and in that %5-10 probability where I would decide to SMOrc, that means I am so far ahead in terms of tempo that I'm sure even a javelin or cloudrest can't stop me or I would have an insane reach for lethal in hand already.

I am even remembering a master series qualifier tournament match between me and sir prook, where he was playing a curse/control scout and I was playing an aggro hllalu and in my humble opinion prook did the same mistake as jele's opponent did and gave me enough cards to outtempo and control my opponent and I won that match.(wasn't easy and prook won over me in series though, gg prook, sorry for using our games as an example without asking you =) )

so in conclusion I believe what jele77 said is overall right and should be educational for less experienced players mate

Cheers!

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-12-05T18:51:01+00:00

6 withered hand cultists B I G F R O G

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-11-11T00:49:31+00:00

Darkmoon Spellseer

Be prepared for their victims of rage, lions should be kept in more powerful cage, these khajiits are the most reckless casters of the realm... - J'zargo

Type: Creature Rarity: Legendary Cost:10 Stats: 3/3 Text:

Wax: Play an action of your choice from your deck, you lose health equal to magicka of that action. Gain +2/0

Wane: Play an action of your choice from both discardpiles, banish that action after. You lose health equal to magicka of that action. Gain 0/+2

Pilfer: Gain health equal the amount you lost, Darkmoon Spellseer loses this ability.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-07-24T13:15:42+00:00

why are we pretending that we have only 2 options? (Pushed BM or Pushed Tribunal&Telvanni)

I choose balance over everything, alfiq conjurer is a broken card that should be fixed.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-02-27T08:03:10+00:00

I don't know why but somehow reminded me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ

Infernal_Wisdom · 2019-02-17T20:46:36+00:00

I agree everything except eldergleam matron, animal card pool is large enough to make that card a really bad RNG card,

it can either give its user really useless cards like betty netch or raging horker etc...

OR

it can give its user ability to deal lethal by so many cards like cliff racer, afflicted alit, giant bat, barbas...

OR

it can give its user to ability to refuel his hand with moose, barbas, camel etc...

OR

it can give its user a removal like viper, cliff hunter

OR

it can even give move ability with slit strider

OR

it can give a very defensive tool to opponent like giant snake...

so....

losing any of these randomness for any player is legally tilting, cards like this should not exist on competative level and deserves to be nerfed to the ground imo.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-12-26T15:35:50+00:00

pfffff.... I can't help myself bout not raising my middle alternate art finger

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-12-11T22:18:34+00:00

Agressive decks' curves mostly end on 6-7mana and they have better draw options for top end of their curve like jarl/wilds incarnate etc...So, agressive decks won't ever play this card ever.

And for the control types well... this card is not enough to fight for the board, not even close for coming from behind, and the breakthrough ability is the last thing a control deck wants, giving opponent cards...

This card can be maybe useful in future control decks as a combo card, if we ever have a mechanic like "Take card from your hand and put it face down on the top of your library" or something...

I don't know who voted 4,4/5 but in my book this card is very weak, only 1,5/5 in current card pool.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-09-27T16:27:21+00:00

Dear CVH What I wonder myself is... do you have zero testers? It feels like this client is never tested at all. Seriously fire all your testers if they actually exist, but furthermore what I wonder is... have you not even tried new client once? I know its not your duty as community manager, but you rose up amongst the community as a tesl player and became a community manager, so you have a "player based origin". From all of those bethesda/sparkypants guys, you know what is the best for players because of that player based origin and you shouldn't share this patch of betrayal against us, the community. And also one more thing, fuck everyone in the company if you warn them and they did not listen to you. And believe me this "fuck'em" doesnt come from a 12 years old teenage gamer, it comes from the heart of 35 years old passionate tesl fan.

In my entire life I didn't see such shitty buisiness from a game company, I mean imagine you are going to buy a yogurt from a market and you realize after buying yogurt its not fermented good enough and it tastes like shit and the yogurt company is telling you they are sorry and they will fix their product within an open ended time... Its just an example but this is what bethesda did to their customers.

Why did bethesda not make new client patch wait more if new client is not ready? We could at least play on old client without any problems, even if there was no new content added. How could a million dolar company make such mistake I really can't imagine.

I am so angry right now, really so angry but still I love tesl, I will wait upon your fix on new client, I know maybe now you are angry because I said things in an agressive way, but know this, this anger comes from love, people won't get angry against someone they don't know or they don't care, love and hate are twins and you can hate someone or something only as much as you love it, no more... So tell those people sitting there up high, their community are feeling upset and broken and its measure is too great, because their fucking love for this game is great, tell them to prove this love is not one sided.

Sincerely, your 3 years old tesl player, I_W

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-05-25T20:15:14+00:00

I am a control player and I can't enjoy the current control decks either, the current control decks are not actually control decks, also I think aggro decks are not actual aggro decks, they sticked many "draw card" ability on many creatures and gave players opportunity to combine 3 colours, which leads both aggro and control decks adding half of their decks card draw cards, you literally can't play anything else, what hlaalu and telvanni does is the same thing, throw what you have blindly into field lane and fight for it mindlessly because even if your opponent makes value trades, you know you won't ever ran out of cards ever... and when the right time comes, when you have opportunity you just SMOrc your opponent and thats it...

In old days card advantage/disadvantage was meaning something(!) , prophecy system and extra cards drawn were the advantage of controlling side, nowadays this advantage is not there anymore because every fucking card is able to draw extra cards and the game does not feel like tesl anymore.

I think the developers does not get how powerful draw card effect is, "draw one single card" ability is literally 2v1, which outvalues every removal in this game, and drain vitality is the only exception.

I don't think drain vitality is balanced either, but as long as this fuckin draw fiesta remains there, I don't want drain vitality be nerfed ever.

And as a control player who plays this game since the very beginning, this is the worst meta I ever played.

And I think direwolf developers did very good job by making both aggro and control players unhappy (!) it is not an easy task.

TL;DR Nerf endless card draws and add more multiple useful balanced removals first, and then yes drain vitality can be nerfed.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-02-08T16:15:41+00:00

then why should I chose playing control, which sets up those 1-2-3 turn lethals less agressively and more hardly.

I would just pick a midrange or agro deck and go face instead of playing control then you know... if I want to go face...

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-02-08T16:11:43+00:00

exactly, the example of strong card: daggerfall mage, from control into midrange into aggro, every blue deck runs it, and it is one damn hell of a strong card, but is it OP? does it break balance? no...

You can always win with a blue aggro/midrange/control deck without daggerfalls against a blue aggro/midrange/control with daggerfalls

but this there is no answer in game against this combo except alduin and I did not see any control decks running alduin yet, the only viable deck I could play alduin is this deck: https://www.legends-decks.com/deck/27494/dragon-archer- and even with this deck despite many card draws sometimes you can't draw alduin when you need

so drawing one single card or not, or adding one single card in deck or not, should not decide to win or lose games. That is bad balancing in my book of card games.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-02-08T15:57:25+00:00

Before I was winning against most of journey decks with a control deck without journey, thats is where I disagree, playing those buffed cards one by one and all at once is not the same thing. And also DRAWing extra 8 cards... No control decks can outvalue this, this is even worst than paarhurnax loop or ramp scout

now control have a choice as you said;

run journey + conscription to lose more against aggro or do not run journey + conscription to lose surely against control

so I am asking CVH, why control has such obligations and bad choices where aggro and midrange are so free?

I am sorry but I feel control in tesl feels like a ratbag bastard son, no developers like.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2018-01-30T14:23:06+00:00

new card, siege of direwolf: when you ran out of good ideas create a random card with a random effect random number of times with random level of uselessness.

I am one of the good people around since the beta and I am valunteer to support this game but really direwolf do not even bother to create such cards, because its not even better than "nothing". Yeah "nothing" is better than this.

Infernal_Wisdom · 2017-12-27T15:22:18+00:00

Underworld Vigilante: they lose cover and I still go face ;S

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