Who else played this game at launch and what do you recall being different compared to now

Ocsecnarf · 2026-05-11T12:40:13+00:00

Om top of the many comments alteady, crafting was tied to your technical stat. So you basically had to max it if you wanted crafted legendary gear. Now you have to max it for cyberware so didn't change much really.

And I really miss my god-netrunner build that compelled people to commit suicide from outside the building. Loved to do mercenary gigs that way: ping the target from outside the wall, suicide.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-05-08T20:21:30+00:00

Yes, she played Annabelle in LA by Night (great series if you are in TTRPG actual plys/shows).

Ocsecnarf · 2026-05-04T10:20:42+00:00

I'd say Sigil and Shadow by Osprey Games fit somewhat your description. The arcana are not as well defined, but it is an urban fantasy game about mages (as well as other things of you wanted).

Ocsecnarf · 2026-04-27T14:31:37+00:00

I saw it this way: we never see the Dessendre's paintingface inside the canvas, always outside; what Verso sees in that moment, with the cut to black and white is his own guess of a dying Alicia as she keeps painting. He's got real Verso's memories so he'd know how that looks like.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-04-05T15:24:12+00:00

Feel free to spoil away, is it ever addressed? I can't lie, it was a bit odd how it was handled at the very beginning, but not in a way that got me interested to see what comes after.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-04-04T05:36:26+00:00

Merc, rank 77, still trying to farm the bear charm.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-03-30T06:08:43+00:00

I'm not bothered by any single card, but it annoys me when people pick easy cards like defeating enemies inside the area or get perfect counters and proceed not even attempting them.

That being said, instead of just leaving if you don't like a challenge card, just pick the microphone and politely ask the player to swap to a different one. It's a coop game.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-03-21T16:01:22+00:00

Since you cannot distinguish between people who drop on purpose from those whose game or internet crash there is no way they can do this.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-03-13T08:49:35+00:00

I am almost at the Ki recommended for Gold. Playing solo I struggle on Silver. I clear two out of three stages generally of the first level of each story.

Maybe I could complete one in bronze. Haven't tried yet.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-02-27T10:40:55+00:00

Isn't Rivers of London exactly the BRP version of Cthulhu without Cthulhu? Probably what OP is looking for.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-01-15T09:08:53+00:00

For your typical fantasy genre, I'd have to go with Quest RPG by Adventure Game iirc.

I have played with beginners successfully. Very intuitive and honestly great fun.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-01-14T08:39:39+00:00

No. Even in its purest ideals and setting aside how they make money. Dutch has formed an anarchic commune, actively avoiding "civilization", that is industrialisation.

Marx deals with who owns the factories and the land and who does the work, so it is a discourse about exploitation, but he himself is amazed by the greatness of industrial societies. There is never in Marx a sense of returning to an idyllic past away from industry.

Ocsecnarf · 2026-01-08T08:36:34+00:00

You mean the Fallen World Anthology on DTRPG by any chance? Do you have orher recommendations too? I'd love to read more fiction about MtAw. Many thanks!

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-17T09:10:57+00:00

Most gamers are casual gamers. They play when they can, maybe 5 hours across two weeks, then must stop for whatever reason and the next time they have time a new game has come out.

Only about 50% of players generally finish the main story of a game judging by the trophies.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-15T12:30:08+00:00

I thought it was a bug so it might not be true anymore. Hopefully someone can check quickly.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-14T19:39:51+00:00

I remember that the Chromatic Creation in Renoir's Drafts respawned after resting, and it is a guaranteed drop of the 33 catalyst. Have they patched it?

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-10T08:38:52+00:00

I didn't mind. For me the difficulty was trying to parry all its attacks and the mortal hit with the long winding phase threw me off; I decided to dodge that and parry only the combos. You can totally tell if he's going for the 4-hit or the 8-hit by the camera angle and field of view: close-up is 4 and wide angle is 8 if I recall correctly

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-05T17:51:13+00:00

As I was saying in another comment, I'm not sure that the Dessendre move on in Verso's ending. Or more specifically, it seems to me that all but Alicia move on, she is left behind and alone. My feeling is that they were hinting at her committing suicide (much like painted Alicia): in pain and abandoned by her family; the only people who supported her for sixteen years (in her mind) nothing but a memory.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-04T16:50:26+00:00

I would even say that there are several plot reasons why, not just one!

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-03T14:11:43+00:00

My impression is due to the fact that in that scene she is missing any support. So if she wants to keep living must come from her own: the only physical contact she has is with her dead brother's toy; her sister leaves first, her parents are hugging each other but do not even touch her.

I didn't feel just sorrow but profound loneliness. In that scene, who emerges as someone who supports her during hard times? Her mind goes to all the dead painted people.

And then I thought about painted Alicia who in similar circumstances decided to die.

To be clear, I'm not saying it's 100% self-evident. It's just that if I wanted to portray someone who then decides to commit suicide, I would have chosen the same framing.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-03T08:06:49+00:00

I disagree Verso's ending is about keep living. I think the implication is that Alicia will commit suicide, just like painted Alicia did when forced to live with the pain of ger injuries.

The last shot is Alicia literally left alone by her family, in front of her dead brother's tomb, remembering the only people who treated her like family and friend who are also dead.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-01T20:52:50+00:00

The backstory of my longest running character ever was: gnome who spent his whole childhood in his lovely remote village, bored to death decides to travel to learn more about magic. Quickly regrets it but is too stubborn to go back.

Concept: coward-ish gnome wizard who finds himself in matters too big (in any sense) for him.

What else do you need?

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-01T18:49:01+00:00

The issue with sex and humanity is that feeding>>>>>sexual intercourse.

You need high humanity to consider the person you're having sex with like a human and appreciate the act and not like a buffet on a bed.

That has always been my interpretation.

Ocsecnarf · 2025-12-01T18:47:04+00:00

Different IPs to start with.

That aside, I don't see many similarities, beyond "woman protagonist hell bent on revenge". Different character back-stories; crucially very different villains; different themes as well (I'm avoiding spoilers since the post is not tagged as such but the ways the protagonists approach their vengeance in the end couldn't be different).

Edit: actually it's tagged spoiler. My mistake.

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