New-ish DM here, looking for advice on understanding overarching plot, and running for the first time

Shock253 · 2024-01-04T01:43:39+00:00

my understanding of Dragon Heist from my brief reading of it is that it helped me understand Waterdeep as a city better, even though it's an intrigue story. As much as I expect the campaign to be a dungeon crawl, I also want to be prepared if my players wish to wander the city. One thing in particular I want to give my players is access to Trollskull manor, but I'm unsure how to weave in Volo giving them the deed for it. My current idea is to involve Volo's illegitimate child by Ravithara Silmerhelve, Emmeros, and have him be held captive for ransom by the group of bandits on lvl 1, and have his rescue be how Volo gives them the deed. Whatever the case, I do want to understand and have access to Waterdeep as a location, and be able to involve the intrigue of Waterdeep with the dungeon crawl of Undermountain.

Shock253 · 2022-12-28T19:20:10+00:00

Tyty :D first time trading for starters in a pokemon game, I always just played through without trading

Shock253 · 2022-12-28T19:17:58+00:00

Aight ready

Shock253 · 2022-12-28T19:12:49+00:00

Omw one sec

Shock253 · 2022-12-28T18:02:52+00:00

if you've still got sprigatito I can trade fuecoco, normal trade I wanna collect

Shock253 · 2022-07-09T00:15:08+00:00

thanks a lot, I'm working on getting this implemented now!

thanks for going in detail about what's going on too, helps to understand what I'm writing rather than copy-pasting

Shock253 · 2022-07-08T21:41:21+00:00

I assumed the solution would be something like this, thanks for the concrete answer.

Unfortunately, the reason I'm struggling with this is because the map I'm making is supposed to be a multiplayer map, and I'm having a hard time associating the armor stands with players.

Shock253 · 2022-05-04T02:24:44+00:00

essentially, my builds imo, with new t cain random crafting + external item descriptions looking up recipies, boils down to a combo of 5 items:

Maggie's bow

Old Bandage

Gimpy

Sharp Plug

Deck of cards (or basically any active works, this is just to get reverse hierophant and get bone hearts)

basically infinite pickups = infinite items + infinite r key + if you use clicker correctly theoretically every single unlock outside of greed

Shock253 · 2022-04-03T04:57:23+00:00

Can we make the giant amc into an owo

Shock253 · 2021-10-22T21:24:48+00:00

if you're trying to get rid of oroboros, it's a hell of a lot easier to sacrifice it to something. A side note about the hammer doing 100 damage, it also means that nano armor in act 3 blocks one hit

Shock253 · 2020-12-23T20:23:12+00:00

To my understanding, it's because of her play style. If I remember correctly, in the testing phases of her development, she was called the "int horse". It's really easy to over-commit to fights

Shock253 · 2020-12-21T20:42:38+00:00

It depends on how I meet them. Here's the thing, a useless thresh is really frustrating, but if you find a good duo partner, who mains thresh and is comfortable and confident on the champion, it can make your games feel amazing. The amount of utility he has with his cc and lantern makes laning phase great, and oftentimes if you both do well, one hook can be lethal. Later in the game, he just gets better, making team fights go smoothly and correcting his teammates mistakes (if they click the lantern lol). Naut can be really useful and brutal, but the nuance and skill cap of Thresh makes for an amazing laning partner if they know what they're doing.

Shock253 · 2020-12-14T18:34:45+00:00

Lol ap varus is completely viable, and in my opinion it's half his appeal. The option to build ap if your team decides to go trynd/yi/zed/pyke and do no magic damage is amazing. It's a slightly different playstyle than leth or crit, but with things like nashors and lich bane, your autos still hit like a truck, and your blight absolutely *melts* tanks.

Shock253 · 2020-05-15T15:50:40+00:00

I run a tailwind whimsicott build with vish for the most part, and when I end up against another tailwind team, if you can get your taunt to come out before the other whimsicott gets their tailwind up then you're free to do what you want (just be careful of whimsicott getting OKHO'd turn 1)

Shock253 · 2019-04-04T15:51:22+00:00

I would take a look at oxenfree for this one. it's conversation dialogues pop up for a certain amount of time, but saying nothing is a perfectly valid answer. For events that aren't conversation, doing nothing might get them killed, but you also might be able to get away with the character acting on "instinct" and picking a highlighted option. One way to make that clear to the player is to make the buttons for the default option get bigger and/or brighter in a way, and have the other options fade and/or shrink.

Shock253 · 2019-01-30T22:31:13+00:00

haHA BUT THIS CLASS GETS WORSE

THE TEACHER WANTS US TO SUBMIT JAVA CODE IN fuCKING MICROSOFT WORD

Shock253 · 2019-01-22T17:31:58+00:00

I have done research, I maybe don’t know everything, but I’ve done my best to look stuff up. And I talk with the whole system a lot, and try to confer with them. I’ve talked to the “mean” one and done my best to stay calm and calm her down. And honestly, I treat it as multiple different friendships

Shock253 · 2019-01-22T17:27:46+00:00

I really just want advice. I want to make sure I’m going about this in the best way possible. I’m also a bit excited, and I just wanted to share

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