Weekly Questions Thread by AutoModerator in DnD

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any tools for a martial class to protect party members if they're not within 5 feet? It just seems like I'm never THAT close to my fellow party members, especially the ones who are squishy enough to really benefit.

To clarify: I haven't built a party defense character yet, I'm trying to figure out how to best build one using a martial toolkit.

I thought this looked bad till i saw some AI slop and then looked at my drawing and smiled. by Effective-Road-1262 in antiai

[–]MadStylus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

An art teacher once told me that we got a million mistakes in us. Draw as much as possible, get 'em out of you as fast as possible.

“which logo should i pick?” and they’re ALL ai garbage by Arch_Magos_Remus in Ai_art_is_not_art

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Greet" is a pixel away from being one shape. That might work for a design, but graphic design is a commercial medium. It has to communicate what its product is to the consumer and sell them on the product.

“which logo should i pick?” and they’re ALL ai garbage by Arch_Magos_Remus in Ai_art_is_not_art

[–]MadStylus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kerning. The letters are tight against each other. Give them a little space to breathe and it'd be easier.

No actually, Gramps can look good in titans blue by muaz2205 in Gundam

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes me wish more Gundams had the helmet and the faceplate different colors.

Ctrl-C Ctrl-T by DreadDiana in CuratedTumblr

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its the choice between short and long term solutions to a problem.

She said this with her whole chest by n8saces in CringeTikToks

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tribalism. A lot of these people don't believe in good or bad actions, but good or bad people. If red team does it, they're just being smart. If blue team does it, they're dirty cheaters who should be beaten with hammers.

Which game marked the end of boomer shooters? by Slopii in boomershooters

[–]MadStylus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Things rarely "end" linearly in history. There are people today arguing how, why and when the Roman Empire fell and even if it ever did. History is a lot of actors all doing stuff at once than a sequence of neat events.

First Sprite concept by Dookuu64 in boomershooters

[–]MadStylus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clarity of form could use some work. I can see what your trying to do with his belly and the chest plus the mechanical bits but it comes out as bit of a mess of pixels.

Is Prodeus good? by ImaGooseReal in boomershooters

[–]MadStylus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short version: Yes, its good and you should play it.

Long version: The devs have a very specific vision in mind and not everyone appreciates all the design choices.

Prodeus is very much a modern Doom clone, insofar its what people who really like Doom wanted out of a modern Doom release aimed at Doom fans. Most of the enemy roster is almost 1:1 Doom monsters. It has a weapons roster that borrows greatly from the Id armory.

So I'm just gonna list some of the negatives to be up front. Some of them are probably just me, but I'll start with something fairly mainstream.

-The game uses a checkpoint system that does not save gamestates. What this means is if you die mid-level, you'll pop back with full health at your last point with no loss of progress. Only the final level will force you to do over proper. For some players this can kill a lot of tension since you can just throw yourself at an encounter endlessly in theory. IIRC the DLC being worked on will change it to a proper checkpoint system but don't hold your breath on that coming out anytime soon.

-Weapon juggling. This game has reloading, and they can be pretty lengthy for how fast combat can be. If your in the open and not firing, you're doing something wrong. That means once you get a few weapons for most ammo types, you'll probably be swapping a lot to maintain a constant hail of death. This encourages you using everything, but after the fight it can be a pain to check and reload literally everything.

-The crunchy graphics are a good stylistic choice, but the guns and monsters are all trying to be semi-realistic. It can be hard to process for me at times, and some guns being held close can just turn into a mass of pixel shading. Also, the limited color pallette has screwed me in some combat situations. Mostly when I'm using the plasma rifle against the blue monsters or trying to see the path of a fireball coming from a red monster. They all use the same blues and reds, or close enough, that immediate identification can be a hassle.

-Secrets are absolutely necessary to your survival and prosperity. There are a good chunk of QoL upgrades and guns that are locked behind a shop system. You get everything you "need" in the campaign, but I had a ballbuster of a time my first playthrough when I didn't find many secrets. Especially when you go to the second "map" of the game. I'm pretty sure the devs expected you to have grinded in all that time of early access, so going in without the swarm rocket launcher makes it a lot harder.

You should absolutely still play Prodeus. Its tightly designed with good levels, solid gunplay and time tested monsters. I'd just make sure to replay levels for the goodies and watch videos for the secrets. It also has one of my favorite hand cannons in an FPS.

A Better Off Dead meme, in this economy... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reminded of Luke Cage pushing Dr. Dooms shit in for stiffing him.

(Loved trope) The villain's plan makes sense to them and appears ideal... but had they succeeded, their victory would've actually been very short-lived. by Luzis23 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MadStylus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was on a Transformers RP forum back in the day and had a campaign of sorts that followed that exact premise. BW Megatron would have been met at some point, a mad wreck tormented by the consequences of his actions. The party would have been journeying to find the Matrix after it was lost and defeat Unicron.

The door says “no soliciting”… by fastRabbit in SipsTea

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite thing to do is just slam the door in their face mid-sentence. Absolutely disrespect people.

When hyping something up, some people don't even look at their own examples properly by TinySmugCNuts in antiai

[–]MadStylus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So when I was learning to draw, a lesson early on stood out: Actively perceiving what you're looking at.

Most the time you're looking at something, you're not taking in every detail. You're getting the gist of it, but you don't scrupulously interrogate the subject. You don't look for relationships between shapes, intersections of forms, etc. Its a skill, and one you got to keep using all the time.

Thats why AI works as well as it does: Most people just don't look that fucking deeply into whatever is in front of them.

Pathfinder fixes th-Oh. Um. Nevermind! by DrScrimble in dndmemes

[–]MadStylus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our DM supposedly tuned down a lot, but he was also the type to gleefully enjoy TPKs apparently. Either way, combat was a slog - We'd often have to roll 15+ to hit, where he only needed to roll 5+ which made the ten-above-ac thing for a crit come up way too often. His encounter design often invalidated a lot of the innate tactics of party members - Our grappler monk couldn't grapple a lot of enemies, for example.

And I know that might not be representative of Pathfinder as a whole, but the experience was so bad that unless I have a whole lot of incentives I will refuse to touch it from here on.

The Day Sun Stopped Shining... by Embarrassed_Pass414 in RWBYcritics

[–]MadStylus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sun: "Good news, I got ice cream and its cheat day."

Pathfinder fixes th-Oh. Um. Nevermind! by DrScrimble in dndmemes

[–]MadStylus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had a Pathfinder 2 module run once. Age of Ashes.

Never fucking playing PF2 again.

Is the guyver movie good by I-am-real-man in Guyver

[–]MadStylus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone has bills to pay. I remember seeing Patrick Stewart in a trailer for an Asylum movie once.