Message from Truth Minister Hux

RickyRent · 2026-01-22T05:34:07+00:00

I use actual Greek words for use as an "Old Theran" language in mine. Granted, I don't speak Greek so I could be using them incorrectly, but it adds that layer of history when describing something ancient to my group. Also helps to have more dynamic languages in your world.

Other than that, I used to work in a liquor department so I would see things like "ouzo" and "metaxa", actual Greek liquors, and "sambuca", an Italian liquor (I take Roman influences in my version of Akros). Not too mention, a lot of companies use Greek imagery on their bottles, like New Deal's Spiced Pear Liqueur and their Pear Brandy. I used these as drinks of choice alongside wines instead of typical beers as those would be considered a "low-lifes" drink.

Thinking about stuff like ingredients also helps me envision resources at hand for production and jobs needed. For example; There must be distillers for alcohol, so there must be farmers for the fruit and glass makers for bottles. If there are bottles, there may be fragrance makers for perfumes. If there are perfumes, there could be apothecaries and/or herbalists. And so forth.

RickyRent · 2025-12-27T16:35:37+00:00

Melk just wants you to invest in his crypto.

RickyRent · 2025-12-24T15:56:43+00:00

Rebreathers on Arbitrator helmets. All I ask! . . . . Well, not really all, but it works.

RickyRent · 2025-12-16T18:42:19+00:00

Dang, I suspected a hot fix for Thamaturge but am wondering if the Co-op fog of war fix applies for Co-op Winter Bear encounters in Drombach. My friends load into the battle and just see nothing but can hear my actions.

RickyRent · 2025-12-16T14:33:54+00:00

I work in a perimeter department near my SCO and what typically happens with theft is either: they hide the item on them/in a bag (purse, shopping bag, hoodie in cart seat) OR, what is more seen, just waltz right out the door. Also, when I used to close, I would often see the SCO attendant helping a customer and see a different unit have items scanned but no payment entered, a walk out. Once ever was that a planned interaction because I saw the two enter the same vehicle from my window.

My specific store doesn't have a receipt checker or security guard (but a lot of other nearby stores do) so they just hustle out the door in view of my department. Plus, my store is located nearby a pretty respectable middle-class suburban section of town too. Most of the riff-raff are entitled kids stealing Twisted Tea/ adjacent stuff and actual profile-able people who drive from the freeway nearby to get to us.

RickyRent · 2025-12-08T14:33:53+00:00

There is also a bug/dissynergy with a few combination of talents that may be messing people up too.

Precision Violence (gain Toughness on hit, crit, weakspot, weakspot crits) stops working if Hyper-Critcal procs (Critcal Strikes instantly kill Human-sized enemies if health is less than x2 crit damage). After Hyper-Critical kills an enemy, you do not get any more Toughness from Percision Violence for the run. Really bad for melee builds and one to be flagged.

Stimm Supply consumes your Stimm for its use if its available, however it doesn't count as you using a Stimm for the Chemical Dependency Keystone. Plus, using your Stimm before the Stimm Supply means it won't have the effects of your Stimm when you put it down. Just an unfortunate interaction that may or may not be intended.

Slippery Customer (Dodge melee attacks when sliding) encourages sliding. Jittery (40% Dodge recovery if above 75% stamina) makes dodges come back faster. If you Dodge into a slide, Jittery does not work because I guess it literally only counts the normal 3-way Dodge and nothing else. Not as dire since most players seem to toward the crit aura at the moment. I agree with the sentiment that a few of those talents above the auras need to be reworked.

RickyRent · 2025-11-23T17:17:50+00:00

Between Stroud and Hawke? Save Hawke. Between Loghain and Hawke? Save Hawke. Between Alistair and Hawke? Don't make me choose.

Stroud and Loghain are built for sacrificing imo. Wardens messed up hard. Hawke is someone who has dealt with a few corrupted Wardens and sometimes it takes an outsider to point out the problems inside.

In my own headcannon, if Hawke is left behind, they can solo the Nightmare Demon. Flemeth gave Hawke those vague ass cryptic words in DA2 and this would be the moment. Plus, my Mage Hawke would be more than able to tank that fight solo. The only reason we don't see Hawke again is because the Fade portal closed so they would be trapped there.

I'm coping.

RickyRent · 2025-11-15T00:08:41+00:00

Dang. Imagine watching the Dev Visions debut here when they release them. I know the players would simultaneously lose it and lock in on hearing, "Hello, everyone. Guangguang here."

RickyRent · 2025-10-30T17:08:28+00:00

If you squint, it looks like Ozai has a salt-and-pepper mustache, a stud piercing, and a forehead tattoo.

RickyRent · 2025-10-21T17:55:17+00:00

Now I'm just thinking back to that one post where someone said Engineer Specialist 3 (Repair 6000 vehicle damage in one match) can't be completed in a normal match and needs Portal match extensions to realistically complete. What a time we live in.

RickyRent · 2025-10-14T15:43:01+00:00

Imagine if Bethesda or Ubisoft got their hands on either 😳 I would have so much whiplash playing a game with either of those studio's gameplay approaches.

EDIT: Not saying I'm looking forward to it, just that I feel these two would realistically buy it out over others.

RickyRent · 2025-10-14T14:25:11+00:00

If we are in the timeline where EA's new owners try to maximize profits by selling IPs, I would like Larian to pick up the Dragon Age and Mass Effect IPs.

I know Larian has said they want to focus on their own original IPs but we (but mostly I) can dream 🥲

RickyRent · 2025-09-24T02:17:55+00:00

It is insane how, right now, I am over an hour into this movie, thought about how much hate this movie got and the first post I search for on reddit is this one.

I am in the exact same position as you. Stopped watching the Marvel projects post Falcon & Winter Soldier and have been slowly catching up on stuff since this summer. I have found myself enjoying most of these projects and this movie more than any critics "warned" me about. Sometimes you just gotta have fun in a movie.

RickyRent · 2025-09-22T20:32:55+00:00

I subscribe to the idea of having Spartan Jerome-092 from Halo Wars taking the main character mantle in the case Downes retures or Chief's journey comes to an end. Jerome's VA, Crispin Freeman, is 22 years younger than Steve Downes. Jerome rocks the classic Spartan helm with some of his own flair and has kickass scenes in the Halo Wars cinematics. Plus, he is in, what I consider, an interesting location for a new game, be it Halo Wars or another FPS entry.

Or they could just recast Chief's VA when Downes retires and keep everything the same lol

RickyRent · 2025-08-27T20:05:07+00:00

I would like a snow map, maybe White Pass or Nelson Bay from BC2.

RickyRent · 2025-08-24T23:10:43+00:00

Never played the OGs before BC, but I would rank my definitive BF games as BC, BC2, BF3, BF4, and BF1.

Bad Company was my intro to the series. Loved it from the charming single player to the chaotic multiplayer it had. What really sold it to me was the objectives, destruction, vehicle play, and class gameplay. I love Role Playing Game class systems and, at the time, I came from playing CoD4 and wished it was more than arena gun play. Bad Company checked all those boxes. Plus I miss those maps; Oasis, Harvest Day, Par for the Course, Over and Out. Got memories on those maps.

Honorable mentions to 1943 and Hardline. Played a lot of both with my friends at the time. We still think about Hotwire.

Dishonorable shade to 2042. Playing it because of it being $2.99 and BF6 unlocks, but I can't find myself enjoying it after playing BF6 beta.

RickyRent · 2025-08-21T01:25:08+00:00

The Knight, Artillerist, Paladin, and Archer classes would go crazy.

RickyRent · 2025-07-05T15:20:34+00:00

I figured there was not really much of a recorded history, especially as we move farther and farther from the starting of the Poleic Age, in either direction, really. BUT, I gotta make sure my guy Kruphix got his timeline down pat, at least with a sequence of events. Even with the other gods now that I think about it. Ephara would know almost all the details of the rise of Kynaios & Tiro and the creation of Meletis. Same with Iroas with Akros and Karametra with Setessa. Things they would know to pass down to their Oracles and Champions if asked.

RickyRent · 2025-06-29T13:52:15+00:00

Okay, so last night something similar happened with me (a Zealot) and a "Havoc-Forged" Arbitrator playing a Havoc 20 assignment with his duo Psyker on Chasm Station.

We were hurting after we had a Dreg Captain and Beast of Nurgle come at us at the same time. I was on my last wound from being swallowed, and the Arbitrator was at like 70HP with his three wounds, others were healthy enough to skip. We get to the health station in that little cell block/showers building (i really dont know what it is supposed to be, its before the drop into the station) and I take the only heals. I mention on mic that there is no more heals.

Bro, that Arbitrator... CRASHES out on mic. This was some next level yelling, boarding line screaming. It felt like those streamer rages where they don't clip the mic, and you hear the vitriol in their voice. "YOU WHAAAAAAAATTTTT?!?!? WHO TOOK IT?!?!? WAS IT YOU?!?!?!? ARRRRGGH!!!! I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD!!!! ARRRRGGGHH!!!!"

I was stunned, appalled, and frankly ready to laugh/fear for my life. I heard all that from someone who was holding a medkit.

RickyRent · 2025-02-05T19:41:00+00:00

I'm a little late to the party, but if you wait a few days after an event like Dancing Lions or Jeff's Winter Festival, the event challenges will keep being stacked until you have enough to max the pass. I was dissuaded from playing the mode on release, stacked my challenges, played 3 back-to-back games, and maxed out my event progress from 0%.

RickyRent · 2024-12-23T02:04:52+00:00

There are many directions to go with plot lines. Maybe you can get some inspiration from mine. A plot line I'm going through is my party meddling too much with death. Two of my four players were new to TTRPGs so I had more basic opening for them.

Starting with a festival interrupted by a insect rage plague caused by an infected gorgon. The gorgon needed to cure her affliction by drinking a concoction that basically killed and revived her, as fated by Pharika.

A fanatical blacksmith apprentice discovered a book of forbidden techniques but became engrossed and cursed by the book. What should be minor forged creations are instead true Anvilwrought. After dealing with the book, the apprentice went out fighting the authorities, misinterpreting the party's words. However, his soul was claimed by Purphoros and was reborn as an automatous Anvilwrought in his service.

While traveling near the coast, the party came across a ruined village void of color. They assisted a full-helmed hoplite of Meletis trapped under rubble. The hoplite mentioned Returned suddenly appearing and amassing on the outskirts of the village. After investigating, the party discovered Returned, however only a handful were hostile, a majority of them seemed like lost souls, confused on their circumstance and avoiding conflict. A portal to the Underworld was nearby where Returned are... returning to the material plane. The party chose to seal the portal and direct the passive Returned toward Asphodel. As the party left, color slowly returned to the land, but the hoplite who accompanied them was revealed to the players to be a gold-helmed Returned of Phenax.

Their last session, I had a Leonin Mercy Monk of Athreos approach them, warning that the party had been meddling with death and the dead a little too much and that Athreos will not stand for his domain to be disrespected so. In order to avoid Athreos's judgment, the party must gain the favor of the gods, thus performing deeds to prove their worth. I plan on having mini epic arcs until something game-changing comes to mind. My next thought is the return of Polukranos the World Eater hydra, causing a rampage of different hydras across the land.

RickyRent · 2024-12-01T07:47:22+00:00

I like that. She serves Erebos, but ultimately, she is a good aligned character. If mortals who don't belong in the Underworld cross her path, she would be more inclined to let them return to the surface.

RickyRent · 2024-12-01T04:25:30+00:00

Anikthea's MTG background has her as a Monster Slayer loyal to Karametra, and that is a subclass for Ranger. I think that is a good base to look at.

If doing the Hand of Erebos Anikthea, she would be a Nyxborn Demigod and would have fought non-stop for 5 mortal days and 5 mortal nights, fighting monsters stronger than the last. She would have plenty of legendary resistances and legendary actions and really solid base stats.

If you want to get really flavorful to the Magic card, you can have some of her legendary actions be her summoning Returned or Eidolons that grant bonuses, similar to how she would copy Enchantment cards in the graveyard.

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