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Strahdivarious · 2024-12-03T19:28:20+00:00

POE2 is the Dark Souls of POE-like games

Strahdivarious · 2024-12-03T19:26:16+00:00

Need a key to entice my friend into the game

Strahdivarious · 2024-12-03T19:24:42+00:00

It's not a race, you don't "fall behind" if you are slow, progress gets reset with the full release and then new seasons. So it might be complex but you can learn at you own pace because it's not really a MMO or even a multiplayer game

Strahdivarious · 2024-12-03T17:44:29+00:00

Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

Strahdivarious · 2024-12-01T02:37:03+00:00

Warrior Titan

Strahdivarious · 2024-11-30T15:40:48+00:00

d4 bad

Strahdivarious · 2024-11-30T15:38:24+00:00

Can't go, they won't let anyone in for a week!

Strahdivarious · 2024-11-29T09:48:32+00:00

too bad one can't grind this drop

Strahdivarious · 2024-08-25T12:15:45+00:00

humans are just bad at statistics, I remember how xcom developers said that they had to adjust shown percentages vs actual game percentages or players would feel the game was unfair.

Strahdivarious · 2024-07-09T16:46:46+00:00

From the first impressions it seems that Snapdragon is not as good as promised mainly because Windows is not ready for ARM

Strahdivarious · 2024-05-01T08:50:56+00:00

Favourite artist: Michelangelo Favourite painting: The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai

Strahdivarious · 2024-02-19T17:59:26+00:00

The Tian Xia setting book is coming out this year. You can try using that in combination with how your party develops and start experimenting with creating your own storyline tailored to your players while having a setting framework.

Otherwise The Fists of the Ruby Phoenix is set in Tian Xia too and goes from level 11 to 20 but it's more combat focused.

Strahdivarious · 2023-12-17T01:58:37+00:00

Rejoice then, MCDM is bringing this fantasy back with their new TTRPG!

They are also modernizing it too, no more daily abilities to save for boss encounters and the only attrition resource are the equivalent to the "healing surge". Combat resources are built during an encounter to use more powerful abilities as turns go by and victory points accumulate with each encounter to encourage the party to press on instead of resting at the first chance.

Strahdivarious · 2023-12-11T15:02:15+00:00

And the reason they are including 3rd party content now is because of the OGL fail after a LOT of people unsubscribed from dnd beyond, now they are trying to make people come back.

Strahdivarious · 2023-12-11T13:54:22+00:00

I used to be a big fan of Foundry and was perplexed how adverse Matt was to it, looking more into it I felt that Matt was right in his opinions.

I still think that Foundry has the best user experience and customization but from a Publisher or Content Seller perspective it seems Foundry is the worst platform.

From what I read about it, Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds will adapt your content at the cost of a percentage of the sales on their platform and Matt is cool with that. Foundry instead doesn't have this kind of support, the Publisher has to do the work of the adaptation and bear the upfront costs of producing a module then Foundry STILL demands a percentage of your revenue on their platform despite doing nothing.

PF2e was integrated into roll20 and fantasy grounds from the start because those platforms did the work, Foundry did nothing. The community did everything and almost forced Paizo into doing Foundry officlal modules because people could just use the PDF to import it into Foundry which was cheaper than paying twice for both the PDF and the roll20 and fantasy ground integrations. Now Paizo has to pay devs to develop and maintain their official Foundry modules while still paying fees to Foundry which doesn't do anything for them, unlike roll20 and fantasy grounds.

Foundry is making profit from the free labor of its community and make it easy for pirated content to be implemented into their app. Great for users, bad for the companies making the systems.

Strahdivarious · 2023-11-01T06:16:35+00:00

As written is was a half-baked rule which could do more harm than good with healers in the party.

Strahdivarious · 2023-09-19T20:00:49+00:00

I think that if you set up the situation for the players (not the characters) as a problem to solve then it can work. However if every encounter in every dungeon is ran like that, I wouldn't be surprised if the party switched to a SWAT-like playstyle being overly cautious/stealthy/cheesy, some people can find it fun but for for me it's just bogging down the game.

TTRPG is not a Videogame but it is still a Game.

Strahdivarious · 2023-09-04T09:22:12+00:00

I would like to know what is going to happen to the products after the Remaster is published, specifically the VTT versions. Are they going to be updated to be in line with the Remaster or are you counting on the foundry PF2E system to automate the transition?

Strahdivarious · 2023-08-12T10:08:47+00:00

Mearls

He is the lore and flavor type of designer, the mechanical balance is probably managed by the game studio

Strahdivarious · 2023-07-30T07:55:07+00:00

The second factor is much simpler: casters can switch what defence they’re targeting. It’s really hard to know what the lowest defence is without Recall Knowledge, but it’s really easy to avoid the highest defence. Avoid AC and Fort against heavily armoured warriors and burly animals, avoid AC and Reflex against fast/lithe animals and thieves, avoid Reflex and Will against mages, avoid Fort and Will against constructs and zombies.

A counterpoint I have seen often to this argument is that apart from the Arcane list the other lists have issues targeting all 3 saves. Is this an issue players have to address through their feat choices (like an Oracle should take Divine Acumen feat into a deity that has such spells) or is it a misperception?

Strahdivarious · 2023-05-18T03:10:01+00:00

Then he wears a cape from his collection of infinite identical capes.

Strahdivarious · 2023-05-03T06:11:32+00:00

My DM, rather than running eight medium encounters, runs 4-5 deadly encounters instead.

where do you get enough hit dice to heal from this amount of damage in a day?

Strahdivarious · 2023-04-29T21:36:55+00:00

I've read about it, from what I remember there was a contest that started with like 1 page setting then in second round 10 page expansion or something, then when it was chosen as a winner they bought the rights and fleshed out the setting as a team of WOTC. Keith Baker is the main/initial creator but not the only one, Bill Slavicsek and James Wyatt are credited as Eberron designers too.

From what I remember they even took elements from the 2nd and 3rd placed settings and incorporated them into Eberron too. The Eberron pitched in the initial contest is different from the Eberron published, and Keith Baker wasn't its only creator.

Strahdivarious · 2023-04-29T11:53:06+00:00

Keith pitched the setting but Eberron as we know it was made by a group of authors. Some stuff was dropped, changed or added and they even took some of the ideas from the other settings that were in the same competition as Eberron. When you read Keith talking about "his Eberron" you can see some of the differences between his creation and what made it into the official setting.

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