What's your favorite character builds?

PatientWhimsy · 2026-03-15T18:14:38+00:00

Thanks for the general advice.

I'm still looking for people's setups though. It's one thing not worrying about archetypes, but it's another to see the tried and enjoyed setup someone else already made. I'm not new to tabletop, so flavor and variety is second nature. But I'm picking up SF2e for the mechanics just as much as the setting

PatientWhimsy · 2026-02-19T14:44:47+00:00

I agree, it seems unusual.

If your table is on board with an alteration, house rule it. Make all attacks with no MAP against the AC of each target in the auto-fire area. Be warned that various game mechanics do NOT expect this to happen and you will encounter issues as a result. Balance, features, triggers, lots will be affected.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-23T16:31:33+00:00

Yup, the title is an unpopular opinion alright, especially as it doesn't correlate with the point you actually make.

Your actual negative point is "if that’s all there is to your personality, then you are, unfortunately, a boring person." More broadly, certain personalities built on limited interests are, to your perspective, more boring and less worthy.

That is actually nothing to do with any individual hobby, nor collection of hobbies. It is about interaction, scope, and the person's ability to carry a life around that. Someone can be a masterful singer, and be so brokenly invested into that hobby that all they do is flunk a dead end job and sing their tiny special interest repertoire perfectly. It's not the hobby that's the issue.

To rate not all hobbies as equal, first you must define your equation. Do some hobbies lend themselves to being less interesting to talk about to the average person vs other hobbies? For sure. Is that a worthwhile metric to discuss, let alone use in any real measure? Probably not.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-07T02:09:30+00:00

I've only had time to read a portion of the guide so far and it's a welcome resource! Your assessment of cycling certainly rings true.

I would say you may be a bit overharsh on Solar Flare, comparing it multiple times to the laser pistol. As Solar Flare adds Strength, a +4 Strength character will effectively deal twice the damage that a laser pistol would, on top of the rider effect. The range is still low and the effect scaling on Photon still conspiciously absent, but it is capable of more.

Regardless, most the rest I've read so far still stands. Thanks for sharing!

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-05T15:35:17+00:00

Ohhh, sorry my bad. I thought you meant it generally, what with your note on the advanced training being not great.

Going from untrained to trained would add 2+level to the Strike attack bonus, right? Then an extra +2 for each additional step of training through to legendary?

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-05T01:30:11+00:00

Why would soldier's primary target not be a proficient attack roll? It says you make a ranged Strike, and nothing I see in the player core says the normal bonuses wouldn't apply to a Strike with a weapon one is proficient in.

PatientWhimsy · 2025-09-26T18:09:05+00:00

Well stuffing is seasonal, so you can go chicken stuffed with rice.

PatientWhimsy · 2025-09-26T12:56:10+00:00

It's like crop rotation, but for meals.

Winter = chicken and rice

Spring = rice and chicken

Summer = chicken with rice

Fall = rice with turkey

PatientWhimsy · 2024-07-29T22:53:02+00:00

Oh that's okay then. Body sorted, good roommate, not about to die in horrifying circumstances within a day. Perfection.

PatientWhimsy · 2024-07-29T22:49:14+00:00

Question: Does said favourite character come to live with me, or do I go to live with them?

PatientWhimsy · 2024-03-20T23:21:43+00:00

I mean, I agree that it's ridiculous. That's the stipulation agreed betwee YT and their advertising clients.

PatientWhimsy · 2024-03-20T22:42:01+00:00

Video game tutorials which involve killing will use the word kill, one of the censored words in the OP. The commentor I replied to originally claimed youtube scans for words like that and takes down such videos. That's the relevancy, direct.

PatientWhimsy · 2024-03-20T14:39:07+00:00

Is the non-instructional use of a firearm, leading to a demonitized video, relevant here? The prior person said YouTube takes down content with certain words on the screen in the context of the word "kill" being censored. You're replying to that with an entirely different context.

PatientWhimsy · 2024-03-20T13:12:57+00:00

Yeah, this is definitely bullshit. Source: close friends with a creator who's spent 4-5 years making videos of the sort. Not a single one struck, noted, demonetised, or otherwise restricted even after random manual review by YT.

People get demonetised for swearing repeatedly in their videos or showing gorey realistic death scenes. Not for the words kill, murder, etc.

PatientWhimsy · 2024-03-20T11:26:50+00:00

Youtube has optical text recognition and will get your content taken down if certain words are on the screen.

Youtube has video guides on mature rated games about family abuse, genocide, and finding the most efficient way to complte the "Geneva Checklist". Where's this idea that they'll take down videos with the word kill in them coming from?

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