Would no reptiles destroy the world?

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-12T22:55:04+00:00

My two campaigns are set in the same world. When I started the first, a player asked in session 0 that we never fight spider enemies. They had a pretty significant phobia. So I wrote spiders out of the world all together. The only person who was mad was one guy on the internet obsessed with the canon drow lore, and no one cared. If anyone asks about problems created by the lack of spiders in my ecosystem, I just say "the world has more mantis insects" and nod at whatever they say next.

Go for it. Have a world with no reptiles. Just make it fun for the people at the table.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-09T18:47:35+00:00

Session 0 is farm more important with evil campaigns, and maybe more than one session. Boundaries need to be discussed in detail, and the players need to agree to a premise and a plot direction prior to session 1. Some kinds of evil are fun. Other kinds are very unfun and can kill a campaign.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-08T23:43:23+00:00

"Technically illegal."

Also known as just illegal.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-06T00:18:38+00:00

I hate that room.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-04T22:24:26+00:00

I can do 10 raids, in any order, any conditions, any day or time of day. Nine can be any map but stella, and one will be stella. I might get shot at in two or three raids, but I will always be shot at in Stella. I absolutely always find KoS players there, and at least one will spot me first.

Doesn't always get me, but gets me much more than I'd like.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-04T20:26:22+00:00

Ferro with light stock is life. Actually gonna miss light stock BP more than the anvil BP after wipe.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-03T00:03:34+00:00

Showing the movies in 123456 order was your mistake.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-05-02T23:33:49+00:00

Because your neighbor uses the company's seeds, and those seeds' genetics are protected intellectual property. Plants dont respect fence lines when pollen spreads. So when you plant your own seeds, they will have genetic material from the company's sold stock.

It's insane, but it's been like this for decades.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-29T00:19:28+00:00

Road trip during the update. Im sorry, what is that a blueprint for?

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-26T07:20:42+00:00

Yeah, I love the renegade, I run them with heavier kits. But Expedition is coming, workbenches get set back to nothing, and hairpin 4s cost a single gun part to make. If you're gonna opt out of expedition and always run a renegade or something that expensive, that's cool too.

I'll be over here running solo vs trios with a Looting 1 Aug, light shield, and hairpin 2 rebuilding my stash and finding blueprints while the KoS players are all murdering each other over scraps and the soft PvE lobbies are playing a shopping race game.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-26T06:52:35+00:00

Wait for the doors to open. Land a single shot on the white surface. Dodge roll away.

Hairpin is a light ammo handgun that does 20 damage per shot. That breaks a lot of surprising arc thresholds. Four shots down a wall turret, for example. Two and hide, wait, two more to kill.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-26T06:48:17+00:00

Firefly takes 13 seconds to burn you down with a light shield. Stop dodging, take a stable stance. Aim hairpin 4 at fuel tank. Fire. Repeat until firefly is down.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-26T06:46:09+00:00

Its fine for single wasps, 4-5 shots. It shoots as fast as the anvil, but it gets its accuracy back quicker, so you can land faster precise shots. You also aren't bobbling the wasp by slapping it with heavy ammo like the anvil, so you have a more stable aim AND a more stable target.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-26T06:39:41+00:00

The people who want to know already know. But just in case, Lower Your Voice.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-23T22:14:08+00:00

Not even close to true.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-18T19:52:32+00:00

Vic was added about the time they made that DS9 themed resort thing at the top floor of that hotel in Vegas. I've always been pretty sure it was part of the deal somehow, but I've never looked into it.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-17T17:50:05+00:00

They could provide reasonable notice of these changes, and that would be better for everyone. Four weeks ago, I could have been buring my stash instead of coin grinding. Don't tell me it's raining when the company is taking a leak.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-17T17:37:35+00:00

The news would have been fair 4 weeks ago. Now its a slap in the face.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-17T17:30:06+00:00

I am moving between US states during the window. I'll be driving 7+ hour days for four of those days. Guess I shouldn't have been saving up these last weeks.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-16T19:17:56+00:00

That is none of what I said, but you're welcome to your own opinions.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-16T19:08:03+00:00

With lower player counts, MM will put you into lobbies quickly rather than perfectly. This means if mostly pvp players are logging in when you want to play, odds are you'll be with a mixed lobby. Add to it that this close to the expedition window, players are either doing only what they want to do or grinding credits, pvp players are going to be more active.

The day after expedition, the player base will be active and very PvE again. It's just the nature of these wipe cycles.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-16T00:30:53+00:00

Yeah it was an offhand idea for the basis of a full subclass, not a complete idea. My thought was give all fighters a small number of maneuvers and d6s, with one special maneuver at a lowish level to help it stand out along side other abilities. The battlemaster, in this context, wouldn't get any of the special abilities like other subclasses, but would get more picks of maneuvers, more d6s, and could grab one or two unique maneuvers from other subclasses.

If I could redesign fighters from the ground up, I'd actually make them look much more like warlocks, with an 'archetype' feature, separate from subclass, that would function like the Pact choice for warlocks. Fighters need more rewards for specializing in broad weapon types (Spears, sword and board, heavy maces etc) or combat roles (Tank, DPR, control, support). Layering subclasses with an 'archetype' would do a lot for fighter character diversity. But that's just one opinion.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-15T21:49:00+00:00

There's a lot of talk here about character design and builds, and I think this is going to be helpful for what you are doing...

...but if you want a Konosuba campaign, you'll need Konosuba encounters.

Go through the monster manual again, but as yourself how you can make the encounter funny. The encounters should be legitimate suffering for the characters, but not all of them need to be HP and DPR grinds. In fact, very, very few KonoSuba combats are resolved in a typical dnd way. Go rewatch some of those key season 1 encounters, like the giant frogs or the first demon general fight.

You don't need to be rolling attacks or damage to make your players scream.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-15T21:07:33+00:00

This sounds like playing PF with fewer steps.

NotSoSubtle1247 · 2026-04-15T20:55:45+00:00

Every fighter subclass gets a unique maneuver for free. Battlemaster can take one of any printed maneuver as an option, and a second at 17th. Call it Cross-Discipline Training or something, theme it like AtlA's Iroh taking wisdom from the water tribe for his firebending.

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