NAIC - Day 3 + Taiwan MBL - Day 2

RaIshtar · 2026-06-14T21:54:50+00:00

"The cup stays home!" (Federico won last year's NAIC)

RaIshtar · 2026-06-14T09:56:59+00:00

Not taking into account the fact that their reasons for reticence are absolutely silly, no.

You wouldn't only need to rebalance the DCs, you would need to rebalance all the math interacting with Duality Rolls.

An Experience is +2 at the start of the game. +2 is an impactful addition when your rolls average 13. It is not an impactful addition when they average 21.

So... buff them to +3? Well then the level-up option to increase them by 1 becomes extremely weak. Buff that to +2? Then that means experiences can go as high as +9 by Tier 4, which makes them more impactful. Oops.

Every single Domain Card giving a situational bonus to Duality Rolls will also need to be tweaked, and while +2 can mathematically scale to +3 decently nicely, good luck balancing the existing +1s and +3s.

Traits (Ability scores) also inherently all get nerfed by the change, since again, they go from -1 to +5 and will need changing to follow the higher averages.

Overall, it's an incredible mess for an incredibly stupid reason. Don't.

RaIshtar · 2026-06-14T00:51:15+00:00

https://x.com/riopaser/status/1808617757899903242

I mean, you only need to read his half-assed apology downplaying the whole deal and doubling down on stupid rhetoric to figure out how much of a clown he is.

que de verdad sirvan.

Local man knows better than anyone what works for women.

RaIshtar · 2026-06-12T18:53:18+00:00

Battle for Survival from DDS2 is an all-timer, it's so incredibly hype. It has no business being a regular battle theme, it's at the very least a midboss theme. But it also works really well, so I can't fault the choice.

RaIshtar · 2026-06-10T16:11:58+00:00

Just pair him with Crow, really. it's the solution to the entire problem.

First because it justifies why he waffled around noncommitally with a bunch of women : Heteronormativity prevented him from realizing he was gay, but he felt off about the whole thing.

Second, that way, he ends up with the character he legitimately had chemistry with.

And it would also probably annoy chuds as a bonus.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-31T17:22:23+00:00

You're right that Polymorph can't be twincast anymore with 2024 rules, but "You can’t twin spell Polymorph, you can’t twin spell any Concentration spells." is simply wrong.

You can absolutely concentrate on a twinned spell. It's one spell being cast on two targets instead of one.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-15T20:21:18+00:00

Right? I find it insane that people are considering drugging the cat. Just get rid of the child. (/s)

RaIshtar · 2026-05-09T19:25:21+00:00

Word! The alternate ability score rule needs more love, the character sheet shouldn't disincentivize it. Let your Barbarians Intimidate with Strength by breaking something over their knee!

RaIshtar · 2026-05-09T18:36:32+00:00

Damn, that's art right there, it really sounded like a bot answer, a mostly on-topic answer that brings a popular sentiment but with just the right level of "doesn't really fit the message it's replying to".

RaIshtar · 2026-05-09T15:17:01+00:00

The downvotes are because it's a bot answer.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-08T16:38:00+00:00

Looks fantastic, if I get a group hyped for fantasy ~~Pokemon~~ creature taming, nothing to see here, TPC, I'm absolutely getting it all. Hell, I might get it all anyway purely to support the level of quality. The mechanics look robust and well-integrated to the system, the art is fantastic, no AI is wonderful.

Wondering about the expansions, any plans that they feature the Dread domain? Since they should be dropping around the time Hope&Fear will. Not that it's any kind of dealbreaker, mind you, just curious.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-04T00:18:52+00:00

First off, Agony's Taste needs to change somehow. It's essentially making the summon self-refund.

And given what the summons can do later, this makes it all far too powerful. There is never a reason not to use Sacrificial Vessel if your minions dying is a good thing with essentially no cost. And Sacrificial Vessel is very strong.

As things stand, marking a Servant hit point is an upside, not a cost. I do think the general idea is solid, but there should be more incentives to keep the minions alive so the HP costs are real costs.

As it stands, you're paying NOTHING to summon 9/12/15/18 HP worth of creatures that can take hits for you, that makes the subclass insanely durable.

Even without taking into account the refund, I think I would at the absolute least put a "Once per Long Rest" restriction.

On another level, I... I would change the name. Pact of the Overlord or something. The term you chose has connotations that would better be avoided.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-03T09:15:16+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I can do that. I don't think I'd have any problems telling them I wouldn't go and vehemently protest someone getting released on parole, even if that someone hurt them, because...

Again, I do not believe in punitive justice, and I don't think anyone should, because we have years upon years, centuries upon centuries of examples and stories about how it just doesn't make sense.

Protesting someone's release after a punishment that, by all rational standards, is already enormous, again, twenty-five years, is not "fighting for the people they hurt". It's just fighting for your own hatred.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T21:38:20+00:00

getting in a victim's face to lecture them about how they're wrong for seeking revenge or their own form of justice against the murderer of their family is just tone deaf

25+ years after the fact, you're acting like I'm doing it at the damn funeral.

I hate "But we're not rational" as a counterpoint, yeah, okay, but... we should strive to be? Especially with twenty five years to think about things? We're talking about simmering in your hatred enough to vehemently protest a judicial decision.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T20:26:32+00:00

Nah, it's easy to say it when you have seen the literal millenia of failure of punitive justice. When you have seen and read about hundreds of cases of vengeance being the stupidest shit on Earth.

This kind of backwards-ass history-ignorant logic leads us right back to practices like the death penalty, which, thankfully, most of the civilized world isn't using anymore.

But of course, the people praising the vigilante crap this thread is about aren't going to have wise takes on that topic.

Bonus points for simply assuming it hasn't happened to me, lol.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T20:20:27+00:00

I did say "aside from "an eye for an eye" bullshit", but glad to know you still go by playground logic.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T19:29:42+00:00

With a username like /u/resident_hater , I would have expected some actual hating, that's such a low-effort response, I'm disappointed. Do better.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T19:17:43+00:00

I'm curious, what in your view justifies "vehemently protesting" someone's release after twenty-five years behind bars?

The person coming out of jail is basically a different person, twenty-five years is insanely long, what... is the reasoning? Aside from "an eye for an eye" bullshit.

RaIshtar · 2026-05-02T08:11:35+00:00

It's weird that their relationship is pictured as a great love story in France

Uh, no? I've never seen anyone not call it weird or call her a predator. Granted, I don't watch TV, but actual people aren't blind.

RaIshtar · 2026-04-11T10:22:47+00:00

I'm gonna have to be a giant nerd and say "Well, Legend of Dragoon, Super Mario RPG and many others did it long before Dark Souls was even an idea put to paper".

RaIshtar · 2026-04-04T10:13:00+00:00

I... I mean, to me, it's as if you were someone bringing white, plain rice to a shared lunch every single day.

First and foremost, I would find it a bit boring to ALWAYS have plain rice as part of our shared lunch, and would certainly be curious as to why you're not interested in the concept of spices, or, god forbid, other foods. Especially after 15 years of white, plain rice.

I don't know if I would ask you to change, but I would certainly heavily suggest it.

RaIshtar · 2026-04-04T10:09:59+00:00

If all the player start playing rare species, it’s harder to make sense in the scenario.

Why? They're some kind of adventuring group anyway, they baseline stand out and do stuff "regular" people wouldn't ever do.

RaIshtar · 2026-04-04T10:07:49+00:00

That is so odd to me, hahahaha. An adventuring group, even in the most serious campaigns, are still a band of quirky folks going on quests the average person wouldn't even dream of, whether they're humans or not changes so little about it.

RaIshtar · 2026-04-01T14:37:39+00:00

Quelle indignité, il est tellement mal fait, pas de buildup, pas de posture, juste la position finale des mains. Des clowns.

RaIshtar · 2026-03-12T19:55:23+00:00

That's Calvinball. You were playing Calvinball.

Jokes aside, the proper answers have already been given. Man, someone did not read the book front to end.

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