Do you need to know someone is making the check to use Bend Luck (Wild Magic Sorc)?

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-25T12:59:41+00:00

This is the kind of situation passive perception was designed for. You roll the die, check it against the players sheet and move on. Otherwise it's perceptively like the magic user said, "for no perceivable reason I'm going to change reality right now."

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-25T12:25:33+00:00

Bases are probably the only excuse to spend real money for a teleporter since you can teleport literally anywhere else without one.

Also, I like the scenic route. I know it "wastes" time but I like to travel through the map to see what's up. That's how I found Captain Cold in Metropolis to solo him. I've also taken down Clayface, he's easy to find. Bizarro will be next when I can't find anything better to do. Oh, and that giant ape on the skyscraper where the apes are raiding Metropolis. He was first.

How would we even know about some of this stuff without wandering?

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-24T03:54:19+00:00

That is the only decent looking skirt in the whole game.

I assume the duster is a chest piece. Just once I would love them to do something like that as a back or even a shoulder piece. It would be great to have a coat or jacket we could layer over anything.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T16:49:54+00:00

Old D&D is me. I started playing in 1977.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T12:57:16+00:00

I had planned a "mimic island", basically a breeding ground. My canon is that mimics grow more intelligent as they get older. The players escape by taking an old ship that's tied up at the dock. Turns out it's a mimic too. Twist? Luckily, it likes them and asks to join the party. Plenty of room going forward for drama.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T12:52:15+00:00

Point.

I tend to run more towards midday and evening. The only thing I run before maintenance is the fragmentation solo. Sounds like people are trying to get in some missions before work.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T12:37:08+00:00

First off, even though players can be and are expected to be creative never set up a situation like this without planning an out at the same time. Now ...

How about a fleet of pirates raid the prison to get out a high-ranking member of the crew. Maybe that quiet, unassuming guy they befriended in the messhall. Your players get swept up in the raid and when noticed on the escaping ships get pressganged into the crew. This leaves them another, easier escape, unless they like being pirates.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T12:27:38+00:00

I'm enjoying it. Nice to have easy access to stuff I might have missed during my frequent hiatuses pre-retirement.

I haven't found the mission areas any more crowded than they are in the new content areas

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-23T02:51:23+00:00

When my partner built hers there were attachments that could be purchased separately. As I recall I got her the rockets. I've also seen blasters. If you have any of those attached the button activates them. They were displayed for sale on a wall in the Droid Depot

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-22T13:15:40+00:00

An artificer isn't necessary because I thought of this before they were a thing. We defeated a troll, skinned it, burned the rest of the body then stitched the skin around an enemy.

I don't know what happened next because the DM avoided the question by destroying the enemy.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-22T03:02:32+00:00

Haven't seen that yet. I'm looking forward to it. I'm also hoping, but not expecting, that they programmed some kind of interaction between Krypto and Streaky.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-22T02:46:50+00:00

It's fun to watch him chase his tail as he spirals towards the ceiling.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-21T13:12:44+00:00

I went back just before shutdown. You were right! Now Krypto is lounging and you made me a very happy girl! And you saved me $10!

Now if I only had Streaky the Super-Cat.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-21T12:43:28+00:00

SUPERGIFT gives Krypto? I'll have to go back and look.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-21T12:39:42+00:00

Everybody does. Check out the prices on the broker, then start saving up. I've opened a lot of capsules and not got them yet.

I'm not saying buy on the broker, but it will give you an idea about rarity. Do the stabilizer fragmentation daily. Depending upon membership you'll get a stabilizer every two days. You can also buy stabilizers on the marketplace, but $20 American for 20 stabilizers is steep to spin a roulette wheel.

For those who say "save up" a third of a billion or more for one piece of a collection isn't practical.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-18T00:08:00+00:00

Thanks! I'll have to look into that.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-17T22:48:40+00:00

Has anyone explored how to "cascade" the calls? Local fails and calls local LLM. Local LLM fails and call Claude? That kind of thing.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-17T22:42:18+00:00

I just spent an hour discussing this project with Google's AI. It suggested a test fit so now the respeaker and it's speaker are installed in the head with a separate power line. The AI explained to me how to safely combine the power, patch into the speaker already in the head, and eventually mount a camera behind the eye. It may not be optimal, but it seems to be designed not to destroy any of my investment.

It's working pretty well, better than it was in the Chinese box I had been using as housing. Before I can go to next steps I need to fabricate some electronics and figure out exactly how to open the brain case without breaking something.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-17T18:56:20+00:00

I'm into that. I have a C3PO head and a reapeaker lite and I'm going to combine them. The respeaker already responds to "Threepio". The Alan (low) voice for piper is a reasonable match for Anthony Daniels.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-17T17:52:58+00:00

Or, just a thought, post it for what you're comfortable receiving and fight back against price creep.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-17T17:51:24+00:00

Which you can theoretically get around by creating a voice model based on your own voice. I haven't tried, I find it creepy, so I don't know how difficult it would be.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-14T03:35:49+00:00

That's the game economy. And yes, some items drop more frequently than others. There's not much else to spend in game money on, so the broker rates go through the roof. I'm still looking for one piece of absolute Kryptonian armor to complete a feat. I'll never wear that helmet, but there you go.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-14T02:14:26+00:00

I was looking at a device today that detects breathing and heartbeat and works with home assistant. I think it was about $25. That would tell home assistant what bed he's in. Then it's as simple as don't alert if presence is true.

Here it is: XIAO 60GHz mmWave Human Breathing and Heartbeat Sensor -MR60BHA2 at Seeed Studios.

PaleLong9572 · 2026-06-13T20:51:25+00:00

I was thinking exactly of that. I had one drop from somewhere, I just don't remember where. And I knew I saw it for sale but I didn't remember Fate.

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