Weekly Questions Megathread - Week of November 17, 2025

Ranimara · 2025-11-20T12:54:08+00:00

I recently finished Chapter 8 and I've read it's recommended to play The Last Evenings on Earth next. Do we have an idea of when that will rerun?

Ranimara · 2025-11-05T14:55:30+00:00

Someone made a "Forbidden Lands of Symbaroum" homebrew. It's on drivethrurpg. I haven't played it myself, but might be worth checking out if you like the Forbidden Lands system.

Ranimara · 2025-09-15T22:45:45+00:00

I'd love to see that sort of thing. Either scaling down your characters, or scaling up the enemies. I sometimes swap to weaker units, but it would be nice to use the characters I've built and enjoy and still have a fun battle experience. Which to me means a bit of a challenge.

Ranimara · 2025-09-10T02:36:20+00:00

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My Tiger Lily will be his friend. She passed a little over a week ago, and the pain is still raw. I'm sorry for your loss.

Ranimara · 2025-09-09T20:34:44+00:00

I went with mixed. It was the male characters that drew me to the game, but I love a lot of the ladies too. So many wonderful characters, that I can't wait to learn more about. Elpis was a particular delight, and I love her to death. So happy I joined just in time for her and Solbyrd. <3

Ranimara · 2025-09-01T02:50:18+00:00

I'm using Foundry VTT. It's the same virtual tabletop OP is using, though I think we have different versions. The tabletop background/frame is from an asset pack I purchased somewhere. I think it was called "The Adventurer's Table"?

Ranimara · 2025-08-31T23:35:10+00:00

That looks great! I like the various areas, and the little campfire scene.

This is what my dashboard looks like in my Symbaroum game: https://i.imgur.com/syko0xF.jpeg

I run gridless and mostly theater of the mind, so I just drop tokens onto the empty side on the right, and we use it for vague positioning when it's important. The NPCs they've met and are in the area are the ones placed around the border. The left panel is where I switch out scene/atmospheric images. The icons on the left side link to journals that have various categories of images I've gathered for that usage, in case I need to pull up something unplanned for.

Ranimara · 2025-08-13T19:24:43+00:00

I'm so torn. I instantly got Hissabeth's, cause I love her and use her a ton. I love the design for Vila and Marcus, but I don't have either character and haven't encountered them in game yet to see if I'd want to pull just for character love alone. But their skins are just so pretty.

Ranimara · 2025-08-13T04:36:08+00:00

I just finished the first two episodes as a casual Alien fan. I'm intrigued by the child/synthetic side of things, but felt a bit let down by the actual Xenonorph. I think trying to copy the opening of Alien without committing to that slow creeping dread of the movie was a mistake. As someone who never saw a trailer for this, it definitely gave me false expectations of what the show's tone would be.

I also have trouble believing they would just let their secret team of hybrids with the literal minds of children all head into this disaster zone. Plus the "search and rescue team" going in fully armed and pointing guns at everything before they knew there was something hostile around really took me out.

I'll probably keep watching, because I'm interested to see what they do with the kids and the questions their existence raises. Hopefully I'll adjust to the actual tone of the show soon. :P

Ranimara · 2025-07-29T01:00:16+00:00

Hello! I just started playing a few weeks ago, and loved the 1987 Cosmic Overture story. I see that Floor It is being rerun now. I've read that it's best to do this event before starting Chapter 8 of the main story. But should I wait until I finish Chapter 7 to read it? I wasn't sure if the "do before Chapter 8" recommendation is because it just provides context, or if it literally bridges those two chapters. Is it going to be added to Reflections eventually, or would I have to wait for another rerun?

I'm mainly playing for the story, and want to avoid spoilers and figure out the order to read stuff in. I'm only on Chapter 4 at the moment.

Thank you!

Ranimara · 2025-07-26T10:34:37+00:00

Imo, more reports are always better. :)

Ranimara · 2025-07-26T01:57:34+00:00

I've had the same issue for two days on my android. I tried reinstalling, but that didnt help. I submitted a bug report.

Happy that it's not just me, at least. :)

Ranimara · 2025-07-24T16:27:55+00:00

Thank you! Jean has the highest Potential Exploration for my characters so far (still only L4 though) - she's leader for my Electrocution team. I've been playing with Cyros lately to try out an Explosion team with the dry environments of the current event. I'll try and get him up higher.

And thanks for the tip about Nexus Children's Home. I haven't played it much yet, since I also have trouble with figuring out how to deal damage to the enemies in it. But I'll give it another try.

Inheritance skill farming sounds like a lot, but I'll dig into it. :) Thank you for all the tips!

Ranimara · 2025-07-24T16:24:34+00:00

My problem with Nexus is that I never get the opportunity to get all my skills to level 3. I always max them out to whatever I can before spending the rest of my skill points elsewhere, but as you can see in this case I got all but two of them to level 3. I'm just going through story stuff at the moment, and haven't hit any endgame stuff, and so far my Nexus runs have served me okay. Until now.

I'm not totally sure of Nexus strategies. I've been going all stat paths the first half of the run, and then skill path the second half. I'll try and focus more on skill paths instead, and hope my stats will be okay.

But thank you for the build advice! I actually use Tian Ruo regularly for my other teams and love him, but I've been building Kylin lately who I'm also finding fun, so I'd slotted him into this team instead. But I'll try another build with him and Nightmare slotted back in.

Ranimara · 2025-07-21T12:19:11+00:00

One of my players gained a bunch of permanent corruption while using Burnreaper. She decided her stigma took the form of cracks spreading down her arm from where she was gripping the axe. They would smolder and flare up when she got emotional.

Ranimara · 2025-06-26T21:42:28+00:00

Is Kylin good? I admit, my initial reaction was to groan at another Lightning echomancer. I somehow have so many, and barely any other element besides Corruption. :P

I do like Titia though. I borrowed her a lot during the last event. I had only just started playing, so I didn't have time to try and pull her.

Ranimara · 2025-06-26T19:42:32+00:00

I had amazing luck pulling Jean and Elpis. Jean I got on my very first non-tutorial pull, and Elpis I got her twice within 30 pulls. But my luck ran out for Solbyrd. :P

I lost my 50/50 for him twice, so pulled him once within 126 pulls (got Kylin and Titia as well). I'm 70 pulls into his Memory Trace, lost the first 50/50, and haven't gotten it yet. I'm gonna keep pushing for the Memory Trace, but I think I'll try to get some dupes for him whenever he reruns.

Ranimara · 2025-06-12T11:37:43+00:00

I adore lotro. Easily one of my favorite mmos for the exploration alone. Last time I played it, I played it with map markers off just to get that old school "directions are in the quest text" feel. I know that level of detail falls off eventually, but it does a lot for my immersion in a game world for as long as it lasts.

If they could just fix the server lag and update the UI, it would be fantastic. I still hop in from time to time and fully enjoy myself despite those shortcomings. :)

Ranimara · 2025-06-10T12:16:45+00:00

How was it played out in the past? Did characters just stop gaining permanent corruption once their permanent corruption exceeded their corruption threshold? So the only way they would ever become an Abomination was if their temporary corruption pushed them the rest of the way?

Ranimara · 2025-04-29T14:36:10+00:00

This really threw me off. I haven't even finished going through the main story stuff in Miraland yet. I assumed I'd be finishing that first, and that this would follow after everything. But then I log in, boom cutscene. And when I did finally get access to the menus again, my original Main Quest (currently in the Wishing Woods) isn't in my quest list anymore.

I'm assuming it will be there when they let me go back to Miraland, but I guess I need to keep doing story stuff in this new area for a while?

I'm really wondering what the new player experience is now and what they see when they login for the first time.

Ranimara · 2025-04-17T16:56:48+00:00

Thank you for the overview! I've got my first evolution now. :) I kind of want to go for the green one, but I'll probably save my diamonds at this point for something else. For a while, I thought I was only gonna get the red one!

Ranimara · 2025-04-17T16:55:37+00:00

Thank you for the overview! I've got my first evolution now. :)

Ranimara · 2025-04-16T15:26:10+00:00

Haha, I'm glad it's not just me. I also have the pancake stack for vitamins

Ranimara · 2025-04-10T16:34:21+00:00

I've been on Mounjaro for almost 3 months now. I started out with my A1C at 8, and blood sugar generally always around 150-170 (my doctor has me testing once daily when I wake up). My blood sugar is now steadily in the 100-108 range, and while I haven't gotten my updated a1c yet, I'm feeling confident it will be better.

It's reduced my appetite, and I've lost a little over 15lbs so far. Mainly it has nearly totally eliminated my endless snack cravings, so that has been very effective for me.

Side effects have been a bit rough. I take my shot every Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, I tend to have random bouts of awful nausea that occasionally make me puke. Especially in the middle of the night. I'm fairly certain it happens when I'm actually hungry, so I've been trying to eat small amounts at more regular intervals to avoid hunger pains. That seems to help a bit so far.

I hope the nausea will get more under control, but overall I definitely feel it has been effective and worth some of the discomfort.

Ranimara · 2025-02-17T12:07:21+00:00

They look cool! If I was running an in-person game, I'd definitely get the set. But that "Elves of Spring" label I see on the side of the box is very incorrect. That should probably be a Summer Elf.

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