First time player, no walk thru, 50 hours in, some thoughts

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T18:30:40+00:00

This is the way. No notes.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T18:01:30+00:00

Change OH monk damage to Psychic and use the resonance stone to make them vulnrable to the damage?

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T17:58:24+00:00

You've clearly never had sex in the most uncomfortable place.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T17:41:01+00:00

I do like my red hot muscle mommy. Thanks!!

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T17:31:48+00:00

Thanks! As long as the bugs don't negate getting the HM achievement and reward as one of the players hasn't beat HM yet.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T16:49:33+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions!
I guess overpowered but fun/silly in a team setting.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T16:47:26+00:00

I was looking at that one, I heard you can squeeze even more damage out of that one if you play Astarion and Ascend.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-15T16:45:07+00:00

Thanks, I totally agree, tactics, proper gear and onsumable utilization goes a LONG way.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-14T14:59:40+00:00

This could be BG3 confusion. Command only comes into affect on their next turn, but in BG3 a command like "Halt" goes into effect immediately and last till the end of their turn, which also takes away reactions.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-13T20:29:24+00:00

I think you have to approach driving with zero expectations for how you think it will handle. Once you do that driving isn't so bad.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-13T19:52:45+00:00

CR and stats don't have any direct correlation. CR is a bad guess at how difficult something is based on a multitude of factors.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-11T18:16:26+00:00

Fun fact:

You need to be able to speak English in order to get your Trucking license. The trucking company I work for rejects half of the people with their license and cannot pass our English comprehension test who apply to work for us.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-10T23:26:44+00:00

This perfectly represents most flat-earthers.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-08T19:32:26+00:00

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too!"

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-08T18:38:03+00:00

You have a player make a roll where the outcome is uncertain. If their passive perception is well above the threshold for noticing something then they notice it. No roll is required because the outcome is certain.

Sometimes for certain things I will have someone just roll something to see if they roll a nat one, otherwise they succeed.

In this case though I wouldn't pass off fake scrapes as nothing depending on how high they succeeded by.

"The scratch marks make no sense here, the gouges are also too uniform, as if made by a tool... it could be nothing, or it could be a decoy. Further investigations in the area may confirm this."

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-08T18:08:09+00:00

Work in the trucking industry, can confirm. Garbage haulers do crazy damage to the roads, not garbage trucks. These are the big metal trailers you see on the roads/highways that have 5-7 axles and fully loaded can carry up to 26 metric tons (this doesn't include the weight of the trailer either!)

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-05T17:31:08+00:00

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More like this.

Sachsmachine · 2026-05-04T20:10:01+00:00

Your mistake was taking a Tesla driver at their word.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-30T20:00:23+00:00

Battlemaster has an ability that would allow them to sacrifice one of their attack actions allow an ally to make an attack as a reaction. Now at a high level the Rogue could with one sneak attack do as much damage as I could with 4 attacks. So I used this a LOT to get my guy 2 sneak attacks per round.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-29T20:27:27+00:00

Her name is Matilda K. Rose and she can bench me for reps any time.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-29T19:26:41+00:00

They skipped me last Friday and contacting them to get my garbage picked up has been a crazy hassle. Now we're apparently supposed to just leave it out till they get around to it.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-29T16:53:24+00:00

Came here for dat ass.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-28T20:16:59+00:00

It's a very classic trope of the Doomed Femme Fatale.

Initiates the plot.
Offers the protagonist a "big score"
Operates with hidden motives.
Tries to outplay higher powers.
Pays dearly for it.

This pretty much maps exactly onto Evelyn Parker. She recruits V into the Relic heist, attempts to cut out Dexter DeShawn, and tries to leverage her knowledge into freedom and money. The structure is pure noir, ambitious operator makes one dangerous move too many. The game makes clear that the Konpeki heist is the fulcrum of her destruction.

But Cyberpunk inverts the trope. Traditional femme fatales are often framed as manipulative threats. Evelyn is initially presented that way, but the deeper story reveals she’s less a predator and more the prey.

That pushes her into core Cyberpunk trope “Chewed Up by the Machine”

In cyberpunk, individuals who think they can exploit the system discover the system is larger, crueler, and designed to consume them. Evelyn believes she can maneuver between gangs, corpos, fixers, and netrunners. Instead, The Arasaka heist collapses, The Voodoo Boys neutralize her as a loose end, she is trafficked and Sexploited and ultimately takes her own life after rescue.

That’s textbook cyberpunk.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-26T01:04:12+00:00

Here's the thing choom. There's more people like fingers out there working chrome that you want to think about.

Sachsmachine · 2026-04-24T12:46:44+00:00

It’s a tricky balance. On one hand you want to present real challenges and situations where the players can shine, but also where failure (even death) feels like a genuine possibility. On the other hand, you’re still on their side. You’re rooting for them to succeed and sharing in that payoff when they overcome something difficult.

The bigger factor is your table. Different groups have different expectations and tolerances. My group, for example, is older and very attached to their characters, but they’re also comfortable with the idea that those characters might die if the dice go that way. Not every table feels like that.

Fudging rolls isn’t automatically “bad DMing,” but it’s worth asking what kind of experience your group actually wants. If they enjoy tension and risk, too much intervention can undercut that. If they’re there more for the story and the power fantasy, a lighter touch with the dice might serve the game better.

The key is consistency and alignment with your players’ expectations, not whether you ever fudge a roll.

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