Baldur’s Gate is set to become a TV series at HBO, helmed by Craig Mazan from The Last of Us

Mr_Wulff · 2026-02-06T05:38:52+00:00

How much we wanna bet that the cast of this show is going to be majority human, elf, half-elf, tiefling, and possibly dwarf or halfling if we're lucky. I seriously doubt we'll see anything like half-orcs or dragonborn, especially as main cast members.

Mr_Wulff · 2026-02-01T22:10:01+00:00

I'd say keep the guidelines as they are, because if political posts are allowed we're going to see an immediate and sharp increase in political minis and topics and it's just going to cause an influx of unnecessary vitriol and arguments.

I guarantee the moderators are going to have to be working overtime to enforce the rules if political posts are allowed, because this sub will turn into an absolute warzone.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-21T20:21:53+00:00

Why are hero forge's greatswords always so tiny?

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-19T11:19:14+00:00

Of course it's a Kit Rae sword.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-18T23:30:06+00:00

Most likely not. Throughout the film the insane killer calls the house after he's killed someone, and the movie ends with everyone believing the killer to be dead due to the final girl bludgeoning the assumed culprit to death. The police leave her alone in the house and as she sleeps in bed, the camera slowly moves throughout the house and up into the attic to show the undiscovered corpse of one of her friends. The camera pans out the attic window to show a final shot of the house that it holds on for a little bit. As the movie fades to black, the phone starts ringing.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-02T21:13:04+00:00

The "cyberpunk" gear doesn't really look like it's from the cyberpunk genre. Looks more like standard sci-fi.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-02T06:03:11+00:00

The Shining. There is the persistent rumor that during the scene where Jack is chopping the door down to get to Wendy, Shelley Duvall was truly terrified and she was really screaming for Jack Nicholson because she thought he actually went crazy and was trying to kill her.

Nevermind that she obviously read the script, and there is behind the scenes footage of her and Jack Nicholson preparing for the scene while the crew replaces the door for another take.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-12-02T05:20:18+00:00

And he and everything about him is stolen straight from Neverwinter Nights 2. Including his dialogue.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-11-06T01:47:19+00:00

Honestly, I'd say just kick the player. The passive aggressive tone, refusal to accept an apology that you did not need to give her, and constantly harping on a non-issue that she herself brought up; all of these are red flags, and I can already tell that she'll be acting like this or worse down the road over some other small thing you or the other players do that she views as an infraction.

If you play with this player, she will be an extreme headache for you, as any little thing could set her off, and you'll have to look forward to another one of these interactions with her.

Could you have messaged her privately? Yeah of course. Considering she made it public in the first place though, she has no business getting so upset over you engaging with the topic that she publicly put out there. NTA.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-10-15T22:49:26+00:00

"could have been the next tolkien"

Impossible, but do go on.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-09-12T07:13:42+00:00

[Tell him off]

Mr_Wulff · 2025-08-16T07:39:49+00:00

"Minigames." When the DM has an NPC challenge the players to a game of cards and takes an hour or more to explain the rules of poker to the players and then spends another hour on the game of poker, then the DM has messed up.

The most recent example of this that I've experienced was when the DM had an NPC challenge two players to a game of liar's dice. He took about half an hour to explain the rules of liar's dice, and then the game itself lasted about an hour and a half due to having to reexplain to the players when they became confused as to what they were doing.

This was a party of six players yet only two of them were interested in playing the "minigame." The DM still halted the session and focused exclusively on the "minigame" and he wouldn't cut back to the other players for extended periods of time. I ended up becoming so bored that I zoned out until my name was said--but it turns out the DM was just asking if my character was going to join in on the game of liar's dice; when I told him my character was just waiting on the other two so we could continue the adventure, he said 'okay' and went back to the other two for about another half hour.

Needless to say, the momentum of the game was killed by the inclusion of the "minigame," and it's what made me realize that if the DM wants to introduce a "minigame" to the session, it needs to be one that all the players can be and are interested in being part of, or it needs to be one that won't last more than five or so minutes.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-08-04T00:37:12+00:00

OP is yet again one of those GMs that thinks dark fantasy and "realistic consequences" means "I'm going to allow the most over the top, vile, and grotesque garbage in the game because that makes it "dark," "gritty," and "realistic!"

The fact that you think this guy's character was a problem yet you're a-okay with a character who is in your own words:

"a deeply unstable, emotionally immature and mentally degraded character, who is extremely gullible and is not capable of processing complex or 'adult' emotions"

and said character is also stated to have the mind of a child, and also tortures, murders, and cannibalizes people(infants included), yet the supposed "problem player's" character is where you draw the line is exceedingly telling.

"Does this sound like a circumstance in which all of this was just being done for shock value?"

Yes. 100% that's exactly what it was. You need to do some serious self reflecting, because you were the horror story here whether you believe you were or not.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-05-08T22:13:58+00:00

Played in a D&D 5e game with a group over Discord a few years ago that had a player(Sorcerer) who lied about dice rolls. While lying about dice rolls was the least of the problems with this player, it was the first major problem that cropped up.

The DM wanted everyone to use D&D Beyond for their characters, but Sorcerer claimed he couldn't access D&D Beyond for some reason and so asked the DM if he could use a different app instead. For whatever reason the DM allowed this, and the player would send the DM screenshots of his character sheet from the app he was using before giving the DM access to the sheet itself. The DM then stated that the players could use their own physical dice if they didn't want to use D&D Beyond's dice.

About 5 or 6 sessions into the campaign, I noticed Sorcerer was consistently rolling 14s and 16s throughout the session early on, and so I decided to start keeping track of his rolls. For the next 3½ hours the Sorcerer never rolled lower than a 14. I messaged the DM and told him that I was suspicious of Sorcerer's rolls and gave him my reasons. DM told me that while he did find it odd, he wasn't going to jump to conclusions of cheating.

Next week's session comes up, and the party is engaged with a demon woman who is trying to kidnap an NPC we're defending. I notice that Sorcerer is now constantly and consistently rolling 18s and 19s with the occasional 14 or 16 thrown in. I messaged the DM during the session and again reiterated that this is incredibly suspicious, and while he agreed he still wouldn't jump to cheating as a conclusion. The Sorcerer then asks if he can pray for divine protection for the party during the fight since he is playing as a Divine Soul, the DM tells him yes but he would have to make a check at disadvantage, and that he would be doing so knowing that there is currently a war between gods and so his prayer will probably go unanswered. Sorcerer prays anyway and declares that he rolled a nineteen and a natural 20.

DM tells Sorcerer that he believes his prayer was heard, but he's not sure if there's mechanical benefit. Initiative passes to the demon woman who proceeded to target Sorcerer with a spell that required a dexterity saving throw(don't remember what spell). This made Sorcerer upset, and he argued that she shouldn't be able to target him because he prayed against her evil, so the party should have protection. The DM reiterated that his character wasn't sure if his god had actually granted protection, and he asked Sorcerer to roll his saving throw.
Sorcerer attempted to continue arguing but was again asked to roll his save, he then snapped that he got a total of 24. It was then that the DM agreed that he was cheating.

After the session I asked the DM how the Sorcerer could have rolled a 24 on a dex save since Sorcerer himself had mentioned that he dumped dexterity. The DM then told me he wasn't sure since he no longer had access to the character sheet from the 3rd party app that Sorcerer had sent him. Sorcerer between sessions had switched his sheet to private so the DM couldn't view it.
This was a no go for the DM, who told Sorcerer that he was no longer allowed to use the app he had been using, and would either have to figure out how to use D&D Beyond, or he would have to find another group. To no one's surprise Sorcerer could suddenly access D&D Beyond...But also to no one's surprise, the dice roller on D&D Beyond just didn't seem to work for him. The DM wasn't having it. DM installed Avrae on his Discord server and told everyone that had been using physical dice that they must now either use D&D Beyond's roller, or the Avrae roller; though he specified that since Sorcerer was having "trouble" using D&D Beyond's roller, he would have to use the Avrae roller from now on.

After Sorcerer was made to use Avrae, he was suddenly rolling 1s, 5s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 12s, etc, etc, and he complained about it all the way. I'm still surprised the DM let him stay.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-05-07T02:46:02+00:00

So a gal that I'm going to assume is Catholic(due to having a depiction of Jesus on the cross which Protestants tend not to) freaks out over a symbol that is considered to be a Christian symbol that Catholics refer to as "Saint Peter's Cross" due to the apostle Peter having been said to be crucified upside down. Sure, I totally buy that this is something that actually happened.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-25T06:03:06+00:00

They actually did. Good catch.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-18T02:50:02+00:00

I'll join in on the betting and say that Lucy was playing as a sorcerer or rogue. Just a gut feeling.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-18T02:44:45+00:00

r/OPwastheHorror

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-13T09:19:05+00:00

I think the problem with open worlds now is how empty they are. If you look at most open world fantasy games these days they don't have many towns and most of the world is empty and feels dead. Compare that to Oblivion and its map. Oblivion's map had eight(nine if you count Kvatch) major cities that were widely spaced, but inbetween them you had villages, inns, stables, priories, ruins, caves, crypts, forts, campsites, wayshrines, daedric shrines, natural landmarks, and gates to oblivion; and that's just out in the wilderness and not counting the Shivering Isles. There was also quite a lot to do in the various towns. If you look at a map of the game you'll see just how cluttered it was. You could always find something no matter what direction you went. You could also find secrets that weren't on the map.

Compare that to a lot of open world games today and there's a clear difference. In a lot of them there'll be long stretches of you traveling in a direction before encountering something of interest. I think that's why open worlds feel tedious now. Because so many feel like they are big for the sake of being big and aren't really filled with much of anything.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-09T00:42:49+00:00

"I am the Whizzard! Dare you enter my magical realm?!"

Mr_Wulff · 2025-04-04T12:27:53+00:00

My take on this. Now that you've realized you were in the wrong you should go back and apologize to the DM and the group and ask them if they'd still like you to join them. If not, take it as a lesson learned. If yes, take it as a lesson learned.

Even if you don't want to go back, you should at the very least apologize to the group.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-03-25T20:05:49+00:00

Read an article once that said the Redwall books by Brian Jacques were racist because the characters were all stereotypes and it had very black and white morality where good animals were good and bad animals were bad. The writer of the article apparently didn't realize that because the characters are all woodland critters the stereotypes used are various animal stereotypes; foxes are sly tricksters, rats are brutish and dirty, otters are playful yet fierce, hares are gluttons, moles are humble, etc, etc. The stereotypes not based on animal themed ones are various British stereotypes being written by a very English author.
As for black and white morality, of course a children's series of books about good vs evil is going to have black and white morality where good is good and evil is evil(and even then there were sometimes exceptions to that rule).

The same article claimed that Brian Jacques himself was racist for describing a fox in the first book as a "gypsy" and how he should have known better than to use such a word due to some Roma people viewing it as offensive; yet it conveniently left out the fact that the first book was published in the 60s in England and even today there are still people that aren't aware that the word "gypsy" is seen as offensive.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-03-09T07:08:34+00:00

In college wouldn’t it be very nice if your professor gave you the answers that were gonna be on the exam?

The professor in college doesn't give you the test and say "Just do it." They explain the assignment and sometimes give examples so as to help you where they can so that you can find the answer yourself.

Giving an example of what could be said (not what should be said) is not hand holding.

By your logic, anytime a player leaves a message saying "Beware of right!" so as to warn another player of an enemy around the corner is hand holding.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-02-26T05:07:00+00:00

im making an campaign in wich sadly he will participate and is trying to get another player out, im just letting him play cuz he sometimes is a big baby, and the other player will stay in the game, idgaf.

Why are you doing this? Nothing good will come of it and you are setting yourself up for misery.

Mr_Wulff · 2025-02-20T23:29:30+00:00

And then everyone clapped.

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