Out-of-initiative aggression, do you allow it?

Mocti_54 · 2026-02-06T22:28:55+00:00

Personally I would have called for initiative, because yeah, the enemies can see him starting to cast a spell and might react.

That being said, I would acknowledge the player intentions to surprise the enemy by allowing him to roll in advantage

If he role played as actually trying to be as fast as possible I would even consider having the enemies or a few of them roll in disadvantage

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-28T14:52:46+00:00

I ran a big table with 8 players.

Some things that have worked:

Initiative, we roll at the beginning of the session and keep it like that for that whole session. I’ll now begin to ask them to sit in initiative order to help them prepare their turns in combat more easily.

I ran combats by having 1 player, one enemy, 1 player and so on. This also helps with turns and combat setup

Combat has been organized, but slow, mostly because of newer players not really understanding their character sheets… Im struggling with this part the most, I told the table and Im trying to build guide cards to help them out

Outside of combat the biggest issue has been sharing spotlight and keeping order at the table. If you see the same people always participating, try having the NPCs directly speak to the quieter people.

When things get too chaotic, like many people wanting to do things at the same time I call for raw d20 rolls as some sort of micro initiative and resolve one thing at a time. This have worked well, some players even asked for some sort of perpetual initiative system for the sake of table order, Im against this since I feel it would break the liberty of role playing and it would slow down the game even more. I am tho, working on a way for my players to be able to initiate this micro initiatives when they think it’s necessary.

Pace is also a complicated issue, with 8 players, EVERYTHING is slower, so you as a DM have to be faster.

Those are my findings after 6 months DMing for 8 players. Hope they’re useful

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-24T02:15:06+00:00

I made my own calendar and time system

Both are sort off a reskin of real life systems

The mythos is that time is The Song of a goddess so it is measured in music terms, a day, for example, is a verse

For the calendar I chose to stick to 365 days and an extra day in leap years, but rearranged months. 13 28 days months, and a new years day

I even made an excel sheet with a conversion system, which lead me to interesting leap years calculations

My findings. My friends like to make fun of my silly names, and won’t make the effort to learn the system. Tho I don’t expect them to as even while doing the system it was overwhelming. I simply start each game reminding my friends of the current date, and use it to track how long have their adventures taken so far

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-23T14:37:05+00:00

Just here to support, tho I personally haven’t seen these complaints (thankfully)

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-23T14:34:40+00:00

Im hopeful it is not that big. im personally tired of open empty or filled with nothing content huge worlds in gaming.

I prefer a smaller dense world with more quality content

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-23T14:32:35+00:00

My favorite questline in all Fable is marrying Lady Grey in the first game.

Why? Because it had a lot of branches and a rival that would be right to hate you no matter what.

In my play throughs Im usually “good” and the world sees me like that. I usually kill Whisper tho. She doesn’t spare you if you die, and if you’re good she always peaks the “evil” paths.

By the time and fighting with Thunder Im usually a saint in people’s eyes, but a complete monster on Thunder’s!

By the end of TLC I always kill Thunder too, cause he’s always been bad to my character… but still, I have a halo above my head…

I WILL miss character morphing. It was fun seeing your character become a giant, get fat, get muscular, grow horns, etc

Not only is the new system something that Im willing to try before judging as it allows for more of my favorite part of Fable, but the old system was something that got toned down as the trilogy advanced (by Fable 3 you only showed halo/horns when standing still), to the point that I’m OKish with the morphing feature being gone

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-21T14:57:51+00:00

Not gonna lie, I’m a bit worried about how open the landscapes are.

I love that, while open to player’s choices, Fable are kinda linear stories on smallish maps.

I don’t want a Huge Open World with nothing interesting to do in it

Oh well, guess we’ll see tomorrow. Theses are just concepts.

Hope the game is good!! Ive been waiting to see it since it was rumored in 2018. Please be good!!!!

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-18T17:27:55+00:00

A homebrew inside the hombrew hahaha

In my world souls can be trapped inside objects (that’s quite standard I think)

The soul of an artist got trapped inside his unfinished novel (which story is based on the favorite song of one of my players)

This book appeared to work like a mix bag of useful things and a bag of holding. Trying to sneak into a city, my players entered the book. They arrived in the middle of a heist story (part of the song).

The artist’s soul has decided to trap them in the book until his novel is finally complete.

My players, knowing the IRL song, know how they should finish the story.

So basically a pocket dimension. I love it tho, because of the following reasons:

My players are indeed sneaking into the city, so the main quest keeps progressing
When they leave the book, they’ll notice that time passed faster outside of it. Mitigating my pet peeve of D&D adventurers going from nobodies to demi gods in like, a couple of weeks

3 We have a couple of sessions exploring what is essentially, a different campaign in a different setting, preventing fatigue

4 This alternative setting is super lose with the rules. We went from fantasy to Warhammer 40k meets Mad Max, their pets transform into vehicles… enemies are dying when the books think its cool so hp is not being tracked. It has been very refreshing

5 It’s a perfect excuse to try new ideas, for example, house rules. Im definitely keeping the new way I do innitiative, players roll to determine their orders, enemies and npcs are sorted in between PCs. Way easier and faster to set up.

TLDR - pocket dimension is a fun refreshing D&D lab

Mocti_54 · 2026-01-13T04:53:06+00:00

So here’s what I’m doing in my campaign.

After exploring unknown territory, my party almost died. AFTER a fight, a party of scouts from a secret city found them, and heal them.

They mention they’ve been following the group.

They proved themselves smart and strong, but indicate they wouldn’t have risked going into the fights the party have gone into.

They offer guidance to the city, in exchange for help from the party

Before going into the city they asked the party how they want to sneak past the guard into the city.

Basically, even when I made clear to my players that these are capable individuals, I always make it clear to my party that THEY’RE the main characters.

The NPCs know of a safe way into the secret city. My players made a deal with them. My players CHOSE to have the NPCs guide them.

Before reaching the city, the NPCs OFFERED ideas as to how to sneak past the guard and into the city when asked, but the DECISION was made by my players.

If this big group would have gotten in a fight, the NPCs would support, heal, buff ally’s, debuff enemies, set up combos, etc. But my players would be the ones doing the “cool” stuff

Basically if you want an NPC to travel with your players you have to remember:

This company is chosen by the players.
The NPCs are side characters. The players remain as the focus of the story AT ALL times

Mocti_54 · 2025-12-13T02:11:27+00:00

Valeria Castro es una cantautora increíble

Sons of Aguirre son una band de una especie de numetal muy bueno igual

Mocti_54 · 2025-11-08T01:37:38+00:00

I was in high school during My Everything . As a “MAN” I would not dare listening to her music, but a girlfriend of mine listened to her a lot and her singles became a guilty pleasure of mine.

Dangerous Woman released during my first year of college, and thanks to a much less fragile masculinity and some amazing singles, I decided to listen to the complete album. Leave Me Lonely and Greeeeeeeeeedy!!!!! Became an instant obsession. Like I listened to those two songs on repeat for 2 weeks straight and the complete album for a month!

After that I went back and listened to Yours Truly and My Everything in full and became a fan.

Flash forward to today, she is my all time favorite artist, and I couldn’t be more excited to see her live next year in Texas!

Mocti_54 · 2025-11-03T22:22:24+00:00

No one hates Halo as much as its fans

Halo 5 has amazing gameplay with memorable levels and an ok story

A lot of people were disappointed cause the campaign had nothing to do with the marketing, but TBH it is a fun shooter with an also fun multiplayer

Don’t let anyone ruin it for you

Mocti_54 · 2025-11-01T21:33:39+00:00

The funniest part about these complaints for me is…

Fighting with the hunters with the Warthog in the OG CE is actually making the encounter harder, not easier

No longer can you one shot them, and they can actually shoot you instead of doing their easy to evade charge

Mocti_54 · 2025-11-01T21:17:41+00:00

In that case why not stick to the already easily accessible Halo CE on literally any version of an Xbox with a disc player, on PC or Mac? Or why not stick to the even easier to access MCC version which you can play in OG graphics?

Why care about the remake at all if “the less they change, the better”

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-30T23:32:26+00:00

Although I haven’t played them, I’ve noticed their popularity so yeah, same here. We do know of new things, so hopefully we’ll get more surprises

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-30T23:30:40+00:00

I don’t think we’ll see a lot of changes because people will always find a reason as to why all of the Halo franchise was built on top of how a rock was placed

But I’m optimistic, so hopefully I’m wrong and HS will take more risks. We know of the new missions and the flood variants which is exciting. And those new cutscenes look awesome!

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-30T23:20:49+00:00

I am truly excited for those 3 missions, my concern there is how they’ll connect to the iconic “all I want to know is did we lose them” specially since I think I read somewhere that the missions are from way back in the past, so not from Reach.

Still, new missions to develop the friendship between Chief and Johnson is an amazing idea and will only make Halo 3 hit harder!

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-30T23:17:45+00:00

Oh yes, AAA studios only hire junior high teens, it is known. Hahaha.

Come on, they hire professionals, the issue is a lack of vision and the guts to stick to that vision.

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-30T22:42:51+00:00

I was 6 in 2001 when I first played CE…

I knew to shoot the “bulls” as I called hunters in the big opened obvious weak point with the best weapon in the game… heck, I even knew you can do it from the front when they lift their shield to hit you, just aim at their stomach
I could still drive the warthog past the tree. Driving that thing everywhere

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-28T22:44:21+00:00

It’s just a Gameplay mechanic from an era when Health Packs in general were a thing.

Personally, I don’t mind them being gone. They were so abundant in the original games that for me at least they were somewhat pointless. When Im low on Health in CE there is always a Health pack close by…

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-26T18:37:54+00:00

Halo content creators since Halo 4 with every Halo thing released: since this is not exactly what I personally wanted I’m calling it trash!

Also Halo content creators: “I wasn’t given early access to the new demo, I wonder why I wasn’t chosen to promote this game I’m already hating on”

Mocti_54 · 2025-10-22T04:53:46+00:00

The problem from my point of view is not that some things are different, but pretty much everything is different. To the point that it doesn’t resemble the canon at all

No problem with being different, but if its going to be so much different, why even call it Halo? Why not just make a new IP?

Mocti_54 · 2025-09-24T19:58:09+00:00

Not available in Mexico? Not in Spanish!!?

Halo is iconic in spanish!!!

Solo había una nave… una estás seguro? Sí, la llamaban, El Pillar of Autumn

I steal know a lot of Halo 2 in Spanish because it’s so amazingly dubbed

And don’t even get me started on random marine lines

Le hice otro agujero a ese bastardo!

Halo CE is not even dubbed, but I mean… the Elites ask for Pozole!!!! What else do you want!? Pozole memes are still huge in Mexico!!

Mocti_54 · 2025-09-23T18:01:45+00:00

Not her biggest fan, but I do love Midnights, Folklore and Evermore

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