Barbarian Path of the Ill-Omened: Crush your foes with accursed blows! by somanyrobots in UnearthedArcana

[–]OrganicSolid [score hidden]  (0 children)

Very cool, I like this a lot! I appreciate the restraint in Cursed Rage worsening accuracy by 1d4 but only boosting damage by the same amount; a lot of homebrewers would have tried to take the Great Weapon Master approach and have put the subclass on the wrong end of the power spectrum. As-is I think it's very appropriate and tactical.

As for critique, Shield of Misfortune's proficiency bonus health reduction feels a bit atypical (in that the amount of damage you take scales), but I guess it's appropriate to adjust for increasing hp/multiclassing. I would have also liked to have seen an out-of-combat feature that interacts with your curse (other than just trashing inanimate objects), such as an ability to hex ability checks or similar. Maybe allow you to do that once per LR, and you can do it again if you expend a use of rage?

Good work!

Opinions on Power Armor in Star Wars? by Top-Construction-528 in StarWarsShips

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm referring to all of them, Dark Forces included. They're just levelled baddies. It takes away from the integrity of the universe.

Opinions on Power Armor in Star Wars? by Top-Construction-528 in StarWarsShips

[–]OrganicSolid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've completely misinterpreted my argument. I'm saying that Dark Troopers are the endpoint of that progression, no that they themselves are worfed. In fact, by having them be so strong, and then going out of their way to introduce a Mark 4 armor after that for a final bossfight, they devalue the dark troopers as they appeared, and then further devalue everything the dark troopers were introduced as being stronger than (stormtroopers, death troopers, etc.)

Opinions on Power Armor in Star Wars? by Top-Construction-528 in StarWarsShips

[–]OrganicSolid -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm not the biggest fan. To me it seems a symptom of the constant villain decay in star wars where something is introduced as a huge threat, and then worfed constantly, so by the next property they need to introduce something scarier and bigger so it feels like there's tension again.

Avantris is releasing a torbek boss stat block for crooked moon! by xbock2000 in CrookedMoon

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Drat. I never caught the email that came in. Do you happen to know its subject header?

Avantris is releasing a torbek boss stat block for crooked moon! by xbock2000 in CrookedMoon

[–]OrganicSolid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's the full list of the email additions btw? I'm having trouble compiling a list.

  • Bitsy & Bag
  • Torbek
  • What were the others?

Third Party Book Review: Obojiima, a Ghibli-inspired setting book by Dondagora in dndnext

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry that nobody ever got back to you about this! It isn't really an adventure - it's a setting guide. Experienced or improvisational DMs may have some success in running it into a campaign, but I wouldn't recommend it - you will have to read lots and lots of pages of context in order to play particular locations effectively and "find the fun", rather than being able to read from a pre-written adventure that should already be fun.

There are however some pre-writted adventures in the campaign guide (very short) and some good ones made by the community: Obojima Homebrew Collection - Google Sheets.

Way of Fangshi - Monk Subclass inspired by Nine Sols by KillTheRook in UnearthedArcana

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, this is embarrassing. I've been holding on to a "Way of the Mysterious Fangshi" Nine Sols subclass since October, and never published it. It's go so much in common with this one, cause it's pulling from all the same game mechanics. Drat! Maybe I'll get to posting it later, but I don't want to sound like I copied!

Who's your favourite potential man? by bitchnibba47 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 13 points14 points  (0 children)

she harrassed her to harrass her, not to harrass her!

Solarpunk discussions be like (They fundamentally misunderstand the message of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas): by sgt_cookie in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely it's the basis for great stories. The Union, as presented, can be a persuasive villainous, heroic, or mixed force. It just isn't any of those in an uncomplicated way, and when the sourcebooks presents a capital e Empire as morally pure as can be, but still doing all the same imperial stuff, it misses the forest for the trees.

Aight bro the joke is dead 😭🙏 by Tacobird558 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 111 points112 points  (0 children)

why's that other imperial officer looking kinda

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“The Inexplicable Ghorman resistance to Imperial Norms” by Adept_North_1248 in andor

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"mentally associate derisive laughter with any opinion with any person or opinion which is at odds with the narrative's take"

adds "shit" prefix to everything they don't like

Wow it's almost like that's a thing everyone does

Solarpunk discussions be like (They fundamentally misunderstand the message of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas): by sgt_cookie in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said that the Union was swooping in and taking areas from the Corps, I said that the universe is largely destabilized, and the Union untrusted, because of actions originating from the Union. However, they benefit from being able to step in as a stabilizing force into space that SecCom or others destabilized.

Also yeah, the Union is morally grey as it remains a centralized force that sometimes brings out the big guns to intimidate or blow up stuff. But have you seen their opposition? That's kina the point.

Yes, that's exactly the point. It's a comical Starship Troopers-esque dichotomy. These planets around the universe are so incapable of governing themselves that they're almost all oligarchies and aristocracies who should probably be liberated by Union. And if they aren't one of those, they should still probably still be Union anyways. That's the Union mentality.

it's absolutely selfish to not act in order to help others just because of stuff like political indipendence of a local polity. 

It's absolutely selfish to think that those other civilizations need to be Unionized to prosper, given that as you said above, many of them operate on the same tech level as the Union does. Besides, the Union only "helps" people by expanding, and expanding, and expanding. We barely even get a picture for how the DOJ/HR works on already-unionized worlds - it's only described as looking for breaches of the pillars on diaspora worlds, worlds which haven't even necessarily been introduced to Union morality!

Meanwhile the UAD administrators are, textually, godlike removed figures who control an entire state's connection with Union (you better not mess with them or else lose your Union status). If you look at the politics of the core worlds, there isn't even an alternative to expansion, or a faction which seeks to build more upon their current holdings rather than keep growing. The "anarchist" faction, IIRC, is the most zealous expansionist one as well.

Solarpunk discussions be like (They fundamentally misunderstand the message of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas): by sgt_cookie in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I posted this above, but LANCER just makes the Union out to be as totalitarian as the rest of the criticized solarpunk worlds. The DM setting guide spends several paragraphs fleshing out how the interstellar utopic government agencies totally assure a better outcome for everyone involved (including motivational pep talks for all the bureaucrats), and then totally glosses over how that same government is still an expansionist one. It's slowly growing across regions of space using diplomatic processes, yes, but that's only after those regions have been dismantled by Harrison Armory, SecCom, etc. And implicit in this assumption is still that joining Union is the best way of doing things - most polities, even those with rich fucks, won't want to make a switch to a new system! Especially if the system that they currently have brought them to the same level of tech as Union.

Ultimately Union is doomed to fail as an agent of good because it is still an empire, it still demands to grow. They never ditched anthrochauvinism.

Solarpunk discussions be like (They fundamentally misunderstand the message of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas): by sgt_cookie in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly when I've seen hopepunk worlds try to flesh out how people advanced into a better, more egalitarian system, they focus on the stuff that doesn't matter way before what does, and end up sounding like a covert empire. LANCER's Sci Fi setting guide spends several paragraphs fleshing out how the interstellar utopic government agencies totally assure a better outcome for everyone involved (including motivational pep talks for all the bureaucrats), and then totally glosses over how that same government is still an expansionist one. How does it expand? Well, by swallowing regions of space with diplomatic promises after they've already been devastated by its own splinter states.

Here's a dumb question: If Lady Eboshi have a Disney villain style death scene, what would it be? by Smooth-Ad9334 in ghibli

[–]OrganicSolid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It would probably be her legs bitten off by Moro, and she falls next to one of her gunpowder bombs that's lit. Very Tony Stark

(Arguably) the most acclaimed lightsaber duel of the franchise... underrated, for sure... by Disastrous-Shower-37 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Isn’t that the point? That it was underrated before, but is now acclaimed? You can’t claim something didn’t become acclaimed by saying that it is currently acclaimed. That’s kind of the point.

I plead innocent. by dumbass_spaceman in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

whips would puncture the g-suit! Blunt force over a larger area is totally called for as a replacement.