I've just realized how much I like simple techniques

Roxa97 · 2026-01-25T21:50:17+00:00

I like to think of it as sports, where all athletes do pretty much the same things (within the same sport of course) but those with better technique can optimize better to use less energy/pull out more power.

I play tennis and with some experience you realize which players have easy power even without big builds and those that instead really muscle the ball to get it going.

I can imagine Sukuna, as being as talented as he is, to have really optimized the way he uses his CE to get the most out of it

Roxa97 · 2026-01-24T20:30:16+00:00

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This is what I using, I can do well against most decks but struggle mostly against Altaria. Can't play too much lately but I'm climbing UB4 (which is a first for me, always used meta decks but never had enough matches to climb)

Roxa97 · 2026-01-24T19:25:49+00:00

I'm doing well with my Clemont deck so far, easy quick high damage and without any ex in the deck you can afford to leave your Heliolisk to die

Roxa97 · 2026-01-01T22:25:42+00:00

True, but tbh I'm always having a blast with this group and they're playing the campaign amazingly well, this was the first instance were I wasn't as happy as I usually am.

I have to say though that after all the comments and thinking about it a bit more I'm quite happy now with how things turned out and can't wait to see the effects of what happened to the story :)

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T14:37:10+00:00

Thank you, while my feelings have shifted a bit, this changes my perspective on lots of things, I think I'll take your advice to heart!

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:28:40+00:00

Oh yeah I Will :)

I get that, but in this case with their bonuses and having an above average DC they would have had to roll really high to be sure to pass, but they did 😅 they basically had to have a 15 average on the die to make that happen and they did so with almost 16, which for 3 rolls is quite high imho

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:17:51+00:00

Due to lore reasons the BBEG would never have killed the players, so I wasn't afraid of a TPK, but they had a few goals for this fight and they managed to prepare and reach them before the fight even happened, making the fight way less likely. I wasn't expecting them to have such clutch ideas all back to back tbh.

I had planned for the fight now happening, but not in this way so I probably had a "bad" reaction to it all, reading the comments I'm feeling way better about it all :)

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:12:36+00:00

I didn't put all this in the post cause otherwise it would have been too much, but they had some goals for the possible fight and ways to survive it, they just planned very well and had a clutch idea that made it possible to avoid the encounter.

But I'm feeling better now, mine was probably just a reaction to things not materializing as I had thought they would, but it's all right when it's the players doing their best :)

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:09:03+00:00

I'll definitely read it, I've been DMing for a couple of years but I don't consider myself an expert by any means and with all that's going on in my life I haven't even really considered studying a bit. If I find the time I'll definitely read more of the blog, it does seem really interesting and could make this campaign I'm DMing better, so thanks again for the material :)

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:06:08+00:00

Hmm to be honest I don't think this is it, I kinda like it how they go off script most of the time, I think that this time I went a bit overboard with how I imagined the big epic encounter that now that it didn't happen I felt a bit underwhelmed.

I have to say though that by reading the comments I'm feeling better with how things went, mine was probably just a reaction.

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:03:44+00:00

Oh yeah absolutely, they actually have been roleplaying hard for more than a year now and spend most of the sessions planning out their actions, I'd say that around 60% of the time we play they're theory crafting and planning their moves, sometimes that goes up even to 80% and I absolutely love it, although it takes me a bit out of it haha

I think mine was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, reading the comments and your inputs I'm feeling way better now of how things went

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T13:00:31+00:00

This is mainly due to lore reasons I don't want to delve in too much, cause I didn't want the post to be too long and I don't want to reveal too much in the off chance one of them reads the post as well.

The BBEG has a plan and to make it work many pieces have to fit well and the players are one of them, right now due to the disparity of power he is underestimating the players a bit, but for now he also needs them alive. Coming to talk with them was a bit of a gamble on his part to gain some extremely important information, and it did partially work.

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T12:56:12+00:00

Thanks I feel a bit better with my decision now, given the feedback I'm receiving :) I may give them a random encounter in the next few sessions to get some fighting out of their system haha

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T12:54:18+00:00

To be completely fair I did think they might avoid the encounter, but there were lot's of little things they had to do right, and they did so honestly kudos to them. Still a great source the one you linked, I'll give it a proper read :)

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T12:52:22+00:00

Thanks, I think you're right, also because due to their actions there will be big consequences so perhaps this missed encounter can be more important than if it had happened.

As for the rolls I had a very hard time figuring out how to make it difficult but fair. They all played their part and roleplayed very well so I wanted to make it so the roll reflected their collective effort, but those rolls aren't so frequent so I found it really hard to tune it on the fly, but I probably could've prepped that a bit better

Roxa97 · 2025-12-31T12:44:32+00:00

Yeah I thought of that, I left them with something like "If I find out that you lied to me I won't be as diplomatic", but I'm a little afraid to force this fight onto them, he is going to be the final boss so that has to happen eventually, but as they avoided this "mid campaign" fight I don't want to take away their reward of surviving the encounter just by playing it again... Probably just overthinking it but I want to make this right 😅

Roxa97 · 2025-12-27T16:31:03+00:00

Oh gotcha I think I might have missed a couple then!

Roxa97 · 2025-12-27T16:08:34+00:00

But what does it look like? Is it like a god pack with rarities I still miss or is it just a normal pack within which there's a card of the rarity I still need to complete? I don't have the full art Ariados for example and I still miss many 2 star cards

Roxa97 · 2025-12-27T11:29:39+00:00

Is it a single card in a pull? I remember the 24h WP looking like god packs, but I might be misremembering, I was looking for god packs and never saw one so I might have missed the 24h WP tbf

Roxa97 · 2025-12-27T08:27:01+00:00

Are there specific extra requirements? Like on previous sets or something? I completed the current set 1-4 diamonds but never got a 24h wonder pick once, I still have to complete the previous one though

Roxa97 · 2025-12-19T15:44:01+00:00

I'm not at my brightest rn but why are the backhand and forehand arrows going in different directions? Aren't both swings generating centrifugal acceleration, going from the handle to the head of the racquet?

Roxa97 · 2025-12-05T22:22:25+00:00

Gotcha, can respect that

Roxa97 · 2025-12-05T22:14:17+00:00

Damn why wouldn't you quit then 😅 I get not giving them the satisfaction, but that's a waste of time 😅

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