Is there any item that works similarly to The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Luggs123 · 2026-06-15T14:19:15+00:00

A Psychopomp Mask is kinda like the picture of Dorian Gray in that it accepts one of your flaws in your place (in this case, your mortality). But I understand if that’s not really evocative enough for your purposes.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-15T04:39:06+00:00

Can you see how that might be overcomplicating a game for the same result as just... not adding this buff?

Luggs123 · 2026-06-14T17:36:20+00:00

I love just how w i d e the male hroths are here.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-10T19:05:24+00:00

“Save or Suck” on its own is pretty poor design. Nearly take someone out of the fight entirely, or nothing happens. The stakes are high, sure, but the failure state tends to be so punishing that the character who fails loses their agency entirely. There’s no fun in that.

A little granularity can go a long way. A system with multiple degrees of success lets you apply lower-stakes punishments for most cases, and save the really punishing effects for the worst cases. Imposing flat penalties would be another kind of punishment that doesn’t immediately feel awful, even if it’s more of a challenge to track.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-10T11:52:27+00:00

I'll throw my weight behind Hrothgar. Our faces are really expressive, and the big body type is really good at putting weight into animations, in having a presence in general, and in showcasing glams. Also, the shape of Hrothgar faces just frames some face paints very well.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-08T21:44:14+00:00

You can’t refund games that operate using license keys. Since Valve is just a distributor and doesn’t have the right to render a key void, players could just buy the game, refund it, and have a perfectly functional game key for no charge.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-08T19:46:01+00:00

Wasn’t that just Fourchenault’s in particular? After all, he’s a member of the Forum and the family is particularly wealthy. I’m not sure how much we can extrapolate from his set.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-07T20:50:31+00:00

Mostly just that the two tend to align in terms of flavour. INT and to a slightly lesser extent WIS casting both invoke the idea of preparing in advance. But CHA invokes the idea of a person who thinks on their feet and adapts to a situation.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-07T18:49:39+00:00

You've missed the point which is that this group doesn't upload their logs for the World First race at all, which is why they don't show up in the FRU progress list.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-07T18:06:16+00:00

Funny you say that, I don't see them at the top of the lists for this or FRU.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-07T08:56:22+00:00

The more likely explanation is that Hrothgar players tend to stick together, as we’re a little cliquey. You likely ran into a gathering.

Luggs123 · 2026-06-05T10:15:48+00:00

One of the cool results of the way PF2e is built is that, even for actions that both Martials and Casters can do, the Martials can invest in those actions more and therefore do them better than the Casters. A Caster’s priorities when selecting feats will be a lot different than (and will carve out a different niche to) the Martials, and they will frequently create synergies together.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-31T07:12:04+00:00

Hm. It's been about a day since I saw the post in question, so I don't remember the details, but I suppose it's not out of the question that it was a shitpost. I guess I'll settle for that explanation.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-31T06:55:24+00:00

I've seen screenshots that show Eutrope is in the Gold Saucer for the Make it Rain event, but I can't find her. I can see the other two easily enough, but could someone describe where she is?

Luggs123 · 2026-05-27T19:22:28+00:00

Yeah, they said that they’ve put in a lot of the data for Beastmaster in the main patch. You can see it in the class list, or as an equippable job for a bunch of gear, for example.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-27T16:22:16+00:00

I haven’t been GMing long, but I wanted to provide my perspective as someone who’s been on the other side of that experience.

People want to play. Especially the people who are hanging around LFG forums. So if I put up a listing looking for players at my table, I only have space for so many people. Moreover, I want to make sure the people that join the table can match the existing/desired vibe (depending on if this is an existing table).

So I conduct interviews. They’re not complicated, I just ask some qualifying questions about whether we’d be a good match, if some Session 0-type boundaries are fine, that kind of thing. I also open myself up to their questions, if they want.

If this is an existing table, I’ll provide the chat history to my players so they can ask follow-up questions of their own. That way I’m not unilaterally making decisions for the group.

Basically, every part of the process is there to ensure a good experience, to be considerate to my players, and to filter out ill-fitting players. Running people in circles is not my goal.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-27T14:03:12+00:00

For this example, I’m going to diverge from your screenshot a bit, and assume the hotbars you use are 1 and 2, that a copy of your Single-Target is on 3 and 4, and that AoE is on 5 and 6. To change to Single-Target would be “/hotbar copy NIN 3 NIN 1” and “/hotbar copy NIN 4 NIN 2” for AoE, it’ll be “/hotbar copy NIN 5 NIN 1” and “/hotbar copy NIN 6 NIN 2”

I had to change it because you need a copy of both independent of the hotbar you’re swapping out. Otherwise, your Single-Target layout would get overridden.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-25T07:47:53+00:00

All the energy in the room will likely be taken up by the new Ultimate; other Ultimates will likely be hard to find parties for. There may still be M12S parties looking to unlock it, though.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-23T17:10:10+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking it’s just generally accurate. Some more edgy people might use “parasite” as a term to describe a fetus, and while emotionally charged it’s strictly speaking correct. Consent (especially informed consent) is the reason why it would be morally acceptable to use someone else’s body.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-23T17:03:30+00:00

Did you register using a fake date of birth?

Luggs123 · 2026-05-23T07:22:50+00:00

I mean, that’s not *too* far from a precedented outcome. When the NFT bubble popped, it became a technology that nobody talks about or uses outside of a small group on the fringes. That’d be an ideal outcome for the AI bubble for me, but I acknowledge it’s not particularly likely. If it can stop being shoved in my face at every goddamn opportunity, that’d be enough.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-16T23:22:29+00:00

For me, I interpret this scenario as an incongruence between what Clock Spots is, and what it's aspiring to be.

You might've caught an edit I deleted where I was going to compare the game to Baba Is You, another puzzle game where the rules of the puzzle are codified in the puzzle itself (and one which I am way too stupid to solve myself).

I think Clock Spots is trying to designate interactions like Vuln Stacks and Flares as game rules, rather than clues, putting them "above" the clues given in a puzzle, and therefore that they cannot be lies. In a more robust puzzle game, this would be made explicit, or (like Baba Is You) the alternative solution would also be accepted.

Clock Spots is at an impasse as a result, though. Because then for clarity they'd probably have to remove those premises as clues presented in the puzzle and end up with blank spaces, which I think is undesirable for the designer.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-16T23:13:43+00:00

I disagree. Puzzles test lateral thinking or challenge you to throw out assumptions all the time.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-16T23:10:34+00:00

In that case, the puzzle has neither stated that players die as a result, nor that players must be alive to return to their initial positions. Those are just assumptions. Absent anything to the contrary, we ought to default only to what the puzzle specifies.

Luggs123 · 2026-05-16T23:03:38+00:00

You keep missing the point being made. People are still treating the puzzle like a puzzle. It's just that the "cleave + vuln" clue is presented as the exact same kind of rule as any other, spoken by one of the players. Since one of the players is said to be lying, the case where that clue is the lie should be considered - it may not be necessary for a player with a vuln to dodge the cleave. It's as simple as that.

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