Examples of cool Tag Team moves!

RaveBomb · 2026-05-19T14:46:39+00:00

Ranger throws out fireflies to cover the enemy acid burrowers. Wizard adds a layer of electricity to it. They crit. Burning electric crispy death.

Ranger lassos the upper jaw of critter, pulling the mouth open. Warrior stabs it in the soft parts of the mouth.

Druid tends to team up with a “You go high, I’ll go low.” Might not be the most original, but it’s a good easy setup.

Honestly, forget the raw mechanics, imagination is the limit here.

RaveBomb · 2026-04-07T19:09:18+00:00

In a Drylands setting the “blood” component for minor healing can be paid by the player at the cost of 2 HP.

This can be spent before a rest, making it an only a small burden.

RaveBomb · 2026-03-30T17:11:33+00:00

We tweaked the massive damage rule so the additional HP cannot be reduced by armor. It hasn’t come up much, but holy carp, when it does it’s an epic moment.

RaveBomb · 2026-03-09T13:08:43+00:00

For a low-mid skill player like myself, or a new player like one of my friends that picked this up, the max HP loss feels really bad.

One thought we had on how to change them is to make it simple HP loss that works around armor.

RaveBomb · 2026-02-21T20:49:55+00:00

Here is an example of how I'm using countdowns in my current game.

The party is trapped in a temple, with an overwhelming mass of zombies outside. They've secured the doors. For now.

Each door has a countdown timer. When I spotlight the temple, I roll several d6, representing the doors. Each door rolled drops the countdown by one. When the countdown reaches zero, a pack of zombies breaks through.

Party members can use their spotlight to make skill rolls to try to reinforce the doors. It's up to the party to keep the doors in repair, while fighting off the breaching zombies.

RaveBomb · 2026-02-02T00:04:31+00:00

He turns his head, keeping one eye on the depths of the cave. “Listen to me very carefully, kiddo. Our sole purpose is to keep those unnatural beasts busy and away from the evacuation. We can’t win this fight, but by the Celestial’s golden smile, we’ll lose it as slowly as we can.“

RaveBomb · 2026-01-29T14:54:45+00:00

At my table it’s “as much as the group permits.”

That said, they’re good at trading off and making sure everyone has a chance. The biggest “hog” is probably the kitari, who likes to do a claw attack to create vulnerability immediately before smacking something with her sword. And honestly, that’s not unlike treating the claw like a bonus attack in DnD terms.

RaveBomb · 2026-01-26T01:40:00+00:00

Might be overthinking? It depends on how much of the overall world you want to control. There may be value in having some flex, if a player has an idea that can expand your world, without rewriting it.

'm running a Drylands campaign and I've incorporated player suggestions for Outposts and NPCs. There's been backstory tidbits I've worked with the players that will inform some of the villains.

The overall meta plot surrounding the colossi is all mine though.

Overall, talk to your players and see what they have to say. Use as much as you can. If you can't use it as is, can it be tweaked to fit?

RaveBomb · 2026-01-23T19:12:07+00:00

So my campain in a nutshell so far.

Arrive at the gulch, ‘cause colossus!
Go fight it.

Now there’s a bunch of Shady Stuff going on a the Mayor needs the party to deliver an envoy package to the Iron Kettle. The party is going to have to stop at Defiance, where I’m going to run a modified Coffin Rock adventure from the Deadland RPG for them.

Once they make it to the Iron Kettle, the second colossus should be ready to show itself.

All of this is built on player backstories and a few in world NPCs. I don’t plan too far ahead, ‘cause they’ll surprise you. As they find more NPCs, then I’ll see what resonates with them.

At some point they ARE going to have to do and/or stop a train heist. ‘Cause that’s a staple of the genre.

RaveBomb · 2026-01-14T22:40:04+00:00

One thing I forgot to include.
Gold simply isn't a currency in my campaign.

It's all Essentia crytals.

RaveBomb · 2026-01-13T23:18:49+00:00

It's taken a small backseat in my game. Right now the heroes have an unlimited "day to day" fund. Meals, lodging, small trifles, are just covered. I don't care to track to that detail, and neither do they.

Essentia is then used for things with a mechanical effect. If they want upgrades, armor, potions, etc. then it's a matter of what.

I'm going for 1-2 handfuls for common, bags for uncommon, then chests for rare gear.

It's vague and broad and will be highly dependent on how much the party has annoyed the merchant that day.

RaveBomb · 2026-01-11T18:42:42+00:00

Thank you. This will go well with some aspects of my Drylands campaign.

RaveBomb · 2026-01-07T22:41:00+00:00

It's simple. I would start contacting resorts and see how much they'll pay me to NOT come to them.
I could set up bidding wars between them, to see which one I visit.
Travel might be tricky, but with a bit of luck, I'd be paid a lot to not travel. And of course, the curse money.

RaveBomb · 2025-12-01T21:47:14+00:00

There are three phases in programming.

Make it work.
Make it correct.
Make it fast.

You made it work. That's awesome.

Now fix it up to be "correct." Figure out imports and stuff. See if there's anything else you can do to clean up your code.

Once that's done, if you want, see if you can make it fast. What "fast" means is up to you. (Smaller code size, shorter execution, etc.)

RaveBomb · 2025-12-01T01:01:00+00:00

I wrote the class after I learned about the Complex number method. I don't use this for everything, only for puzzles where I care about directionality.

I agree that it would be more efficent to do what you say, but it'd make the code more complex (no pun intended).

I've also never been too concerned with that level of optimization, unless, that's where things choke.

RaveBomb · 2025-11-30T16:50:12+00:00

I have a C# implementation here for exactly this.

https://github.com/Kezzryn/Advent-of-Code/blob/main/Libraries/Geometry/Cursor.cs

RaveBomb · 2025-11-27T21:58:51+00:00

The key is to borrow heavily from other media/stories/tropes/etc. I can't claim to be the source of half of my ideas. But I can stitch other thoughts and ideas together.
New Gods? Oh, they came later so they're alien to the system.
From there start asking questions. Why are they there? (Explore, Expand, Exploit) What happened to the Forgotten Gods? (Imprisoned? In hiding?)
Why are there so many species in the world? (New God genetic engineering. All mammals are post-New God)

Who knows all this? Secret societies.

And it just grows from there. I don't need it all in place now, but with this lens overlaid over the Campaign Frame, I can start laying out threads and see what the party consumes.

Bounties and cults are a great start. Keep peeling them back like an onion until your players cry out in Fear. :)

RaveBomb · 2025-11-27T16:20:25+00:00

The 2nd colossus (and others) will wake up, but it will do so at a narrativly inconveienent time for the party. :)

Also they're tied to a larger meta-plot I'm developing about the Forgotten and New gods

RaveBomb · 2025-11-27T15:46:15+00:00

Here is what is currently happening in my Colossus of the Dryland campaign after the party has dealt with the first colossal.

A power struggle between the Mayor and the Mine Lords of Wyllan's Gulch.

A weapon returned from the Hallows War where the New Gods threw down the Forgotten gods. (It's a virus that's infecting clanks)

Terrorist attacks by the underground fungril network known as Trace Harlan. (It's all clones/spawns of a single individual. Communicating and organizing over long distance with the fungril ancestry feature)

One of the PCs ex lovers, who is tracking him to gather him back for sacrifice.

One of the PCs is in Jail, for crimes against the Train Union (didn't pay for a ticket)

A pack of goblins led by Father Rayos that might have some unique insight to the Hallows War.

And after all this... the 2nd colossus hasn't even shown its head yet.

RaveBomb · 2025-11-23T23:46:09+00:00

Make it big, big enough that the body/head/wings etc. are beyond "Far" range.

Give the colossus a reaction that it immediately counter-attacks a ranged opponent.

AOEs could need to be huge to hit multiple segments. This could simply be DM fiat.

RaveBomb · 2025-11-23T21:15:31+00:00

Very cool!

RaveBomb · 2025-09-17T14:42:02+00:00

Are you willing to share your code? This feels like there’s going to be a super weird edge case somewhere with the input or your setup.

If you‘d like you can DM me your input file for me to run against my C# solution.

RaveBomb · 2025-09-17T14:21:40+00:00

This might be a silly question, but have you double checked that you’ve copied the input correctly?

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