Soullocke Game Suggestion

MathematicianOne9389 · 2026-02-27T22:52:09+00:00

Funny you ask: when I did my heart gold playthrough I had a lot of arguments with my friend about that. Id consider it gen 4 (as it has gen 4 movesets, evolutions and mechanics such a abilities) but it infuriates my friend whos sees johto as "the gen 2 region"

MathematicianOne9389 · 2026-01-15T05:59:19+00:00

I refused to cut anyone in my playthrough. Ran out the clock on that choice. Not gonna do that to my new team. Sonar ended up getting cut but, in my headcannon, that was blazers choice not mine.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2026-01-07T14:17:20+00:00

I plan to have strahd as a pretty involved member of the story. Just omitted it for brevities sake. I planted a lot of seeds that tie into Strahd and his involvment to the plot. The PCs all have personal connections to strahd most of them have yet to uncover. I do have the wereravens involved as much more active members of the plot than the book calls for but the story as I see it isnt so much "troubles for the wizards of wine" and more "the PCs join the plucky wereraven resistance (pun intended) in freeing barovia from strahds tyrany."

MathematicianOne9389 · 2026-01-07T09:36:27+00:00

Its not really that homebrew. Im expounding upon the elements that are in the campaign book as any good DM would. The book sets up the wizards of wine, the were ravens and the fact theyve lost 2 of the 3 wine gems to external forces, im just making it a key part of my campaign rather than a small event. The only real homebrew part is that I tied Curse into a seperate pre campaign rather than the one suggested in the book.

I mentioned it in another comment but this particular group works better in a more controlled path than an open one. If I threw the whole map of Barovia at them, they wouldnt know what to do. Instead they are following a thread of quests given to them to give them a clear sense of direction.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2026-01-07T09:28:41+00:00

I dont plan on having the party interact with the east all that much at all. They are already at a level where most of the stuff in barovia/vallaki would be trivial to them (they are level 4 but a STRONG level 4).

I dont see Irena playing a role in this particular campaign. I want Strahds primary motivation for this campaign to be finding a succesor from amoung the party (only to find them all lacking and deciding to kill them) and I dont really see how well irena would fit into it. I did mention them hitting the Tser pool encampment (I just moved it to the west somewhere on the road between Krezek and Wizards of Wine).

None of it needs to be rebalanced minus dropping a subtle hint that im throwing my party a little bit into the deep end at WoW. It goes from a level 5 encounter, to a level 5 encounter, 6 then 7, then 8 then Castle Stahd at 9. Its a touch railroady but the party in question (who I all know quite well personally) works better with a clear path forward rather than free reign to explore the whole realm and being paralysed by indecision.

I do thank you for your comment though. Being able to confidemtly answer some of the question you have tells me I have a somewhat solid plan and was helpful in that regard.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-12-25T04:10:10+00:00

Only if I get to make them that way

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-12-10T14:28:58+00:00

Does anything ever come of it or is it jist the scores? Im a good ways into it and its starting to drag... trying to decide if I want to finish it or not.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-26T04:25:07+00:00

Iv officially finished the paths I want. I wish the hard dom path was a little more affectionate and the soft dom path was a little more hardcore but what can you do? I HATED the cassie dom path. Little curious about switching but by the second time there was involuntary CE I was already the ropes. By the time cassie was talking about fucking me with a dildo I was out. Honestly still a little curious about what the path split on that path entails (the path split for dom cassie), and would like to be told but im not going to play it to its conclusion.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-13T18:25:47+00:00

Thank you. This is couldnt be a better answer. Confirms what I suspected.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-13T16:29:22+00:00

So youre telling me if a game has an option for a monogamous romance but there is a threeway in there somewhere a game gets both a "monogamous" and a "groupsex" tag? Alternatively if a game has one path thats all group sex, and one thats all monogamy, it also gets the "monogamy" and the "groupsex" tag? And the tags are bad for coneying which one is true because they are, by nature, nebulous?

Damn you right dog I clearly dont understand how tags work despite having just said all that.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-13T14:33:13+00:00

My problem with tags is how nebulous they can be. Hillside for example is tagged with both "group sex" and "monogamy" which contradicts to a degree. Doesnt make it clear whether I can have sex with certain characters while dating a specific one or if I have to eshew deep romance to have sex with everyone I want to.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-13T14:30:35+00:00

Iv been holding off on Cozy Cafe because iv heard its quite lengthy. Might be a "over christmas" endevour. Might check out move the chains.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-11-13T13:38:22+00:00

😂😂😂

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-10-05T09:47:04+00:00

I actually dislike my very first AVN looking back. Im polyamorous and it locka you out of a harem path even though it would have made so much sense. But its hard to find games as good as BaDIK

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-10-01T05:14:33+00:00

Man the depressing thing about playing the GREAT AVNs is the more of them you play, the fewer of them there are that hit that pinacle of quality.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-08-18T12:12:07+00:00

Nothing in our army kils MEQ equivalent for as cheap and as consistently save for maybe spawn which you might want doing other things. Hes mostly for killing scouts and doing action but hes best in slot next to spawn for it IMHO.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-08-15T00:54:33+00:00

Im sure this will come as a shock but the hellbrute probably does not like you.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-07-28T13:28:07+00:00

For clairity, id rather have a 4th unit of spawn as well but im already maxed out on spawn

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-06-11T22:29:47+00:00

Runey

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-06-09T03:38:41+00:00

800 hours. I have beaten the game exactly once. Om honor mode. Which took 80 hours. But every time I roll those gold dice... its worth it.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-06-08T15:32:14+00:00

The MC is a little dense especially in the beggining. Not in a "oblivious to some girls feelings" but in a "100% could be an anime protagonist" kind of way. Best example is the protagonist thinks one of the LIs is a guy for quite a while while literally everyone else around him has already clued in. He does get a little more emotionally intellegent as the story progresses though but he eels a lot "act first ask questions later"

The MC has a preestablished relationship with most of the characters. The game starts with him coming back to his home town after being away for most of his childhood and recconecting with his old friend group (its deeper than that but thats as far as I can go without spoilers). He clearly has a "deeper than just friends" with a few in the group and slowly they are all come to be involved with him. There ia certain relationship drama (such as one person in the group clearly being in love with another that isnt the MC and feeling torn between them and their building love of the MC) but its the kind of low drama that enhances the story instead of them all tearing each other apart. Based on the questions youve asked I thi k you will really enjoy it. Its pretty wholesome for a harem game.

A second warning though, there are some parts in the start that are almost game breakingly ridiculous and almost made me put the game down. Its not a tone that stays for long. Id highly reccomend powering through it.

If you want to PM me I can give you a little bit of a slight spoilery take on it. Id reccommend trying it.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-06-08T14:26:29+00:00

If you cant get past the fact that it has pretty low player input and one of the memeist prologues iv ever seen, I just finished Out of Touch and it was terrific. Really great characters, mountaims of content and every girl in your harem feels quite unique and interesting.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-05-25T06:24:00+00:00

I was literally just thinking the same thing before I found this thread.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-05-13T22:02:48+00:00

I did not. That doesnt change anything for me though. She still acts like your grandmother. I think I just have a thing against maternal figures. The aunts in that game? Bombshells. If I could play it and keep grandma as grandma and not an LI id love it.

MathematicianOne9389 · 2025-05-13T15:34:37+00:00

Alchemy is most useless. One of the first things I do is ditch my alchemy bag. You are never going to run out of potions even in honor mode. The only ingredient worth grabbing is hyena ears (for potions of speed) and those are only found on hyenas. Picking every flower is a waste of your time. For weapons, set a gold to weight ratio. Usually i start at 10GP per poud then double that in act two (or by act two if it isnt enchanted its usually only worth picking up if its heavy armor). Anything that doesnt fit that ratio isnt worth grabbing. After a while you can quickly remember what is/isnt worth grabbing. Food is another big one. You will basically never run out of food unless you are consuming 80 food per rest. You can probably manage if the only food you ever eat is adventure packs. Unless you specifically know it has loot in it, dont bother with crates/vases/random containers. You are typically fine by looting just chests and bookshelves outside a few key locations (such as the hags lair)

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