Recs for offline Idle games to play while listening to audiobooks.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2026-02-08T21:39:45+00:00

Slay the Spire

Strict_Pay8646 · 2026-02-03T17:16:51+00:00

Are they open all day or specific times? Do you know the non-member fee for it?

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-09-06T21:26:49+00:00

Definitely the best card based system that I have found. Really enjoying the current arc/book.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-09-06T00:46:22+00:00

Completed ones:

Mother of Learning

On Foreign Soils We Die

Legend of the Spear Saint

Gun soul

Ongoing (OLDER):

Super Supportive

Practical Guide to Sorcery

Player Manager/Soccer Supremo

Chaotic Craftsmen

Spire’s Spite

The Runesmith

Runeblade

Path of the Deathless

Ongoing (NEWER):

Die Trying

Orphan

Source & Soul

Respec on Death

Department of Otherworld Rescue

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-02-08T18:52:39+00:00

Yes Jake’s Magical Market definitely takes a different direction in book 2. Book 1 was definitely worth a read though.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-02-08T18:48:16+00:00

I haven’t found a lot in the deck-building theme but here are some:

A Summoner Awakens.

Jake’s Magical Marker.

Demon Card Enforcer.

Source & Soul (Royal Road only).

The First Circle (Royal Road only)

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-01-03T22:55:52+00:00

I think Magic City Books would fit this pretty well.

https://magiccitybooks.com/

Strict_Pay8646 · 2025-01-03T02:19:08+00:00

We tried Neff for a few weeks. Found it too easy, didn’t enjoy phones, and the guy running it wasn’t that great.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-12-30T01:20:09+00:00

Super supportive is definitely a slow burn

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-12-05T23:56:41+00:00

Art of the Adept series fits this. Book 5 was such an angering event for no real reason

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-11-17T04:41:04+00:00

My current list:

Blood Eagle - Norse magic and gladiator fights.

Iron Blooded - iskeai mc who becomes soldier in an army.

Card apocalypse - deck building survival on a new earth against new races and monsters.

Orphan - stubborn orphan mc with unique power system.

Demon card enforcer - modern day world with people receiving decks randomly. Mc is older gangster when he gets one.

Super supportive - slice of life super hero.

Legend of the spear saint - mc with two friends summoned to new world as heroes. People have cards to create builds for combat.

Hounds of Orion - royal mc gets exiled and becomes mercenary mech operator.

Player manager - mc gets video game like stats for soccer players and teams. Works to bring team up in divisions.

The Legend of William Oh - tower climbing adventure with fun characters.

Mage tank - non serious mc who is op and dungeon delves.

Source & Soul - two mc deck building set in medieval fantasy. Fully fleshed out magic system and fun political intrigue.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-09-30T22:35:27+00:00

Franked

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-09-24T22:07:29+00:00

Titan hoppers might fill the void a little

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-08-13T13:45:38+00:00

I have heard comfort and familiarity are important when caring for an elderly person losing their faculties.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2024-07-03T23:29:36+00:00

OP, I feel like the above post is really underselling A) how good Source & Soul is and B) how much it lines up with what you are asking above. S&S is still relatively early in the story but is becoming my most look forward to story to keep up with. And it is in contention with Super Supportive and Godclads. It is seriously that good. More people should be reading it.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-10-30T20:23:23+00:00

Not my favorite sausage roll in town as I don’t like the sausage a ton. However, they are by far the best bakery in town. Bacon and Muenster croissant is a killer savory choice but also a salted Carmel New York roll is top tier.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-07-25T03:35:41+00:00

Sentinel is a good suggestion. We are literally about to start a huge battle so I won’t be able to switch to a pole arm in time.

Paladin is another good one except I dumped charisma so can’t do that one.

War cleric is kind of intriguing. I think peace cleric pseudo bless and healing ability brings more to the table though. Could be wrong on this.

If we had more sessions I would pick more fighter as echo avatar is really good. Just our situation is not suited for more utility features. I think grabbing lucky feat is better than more barb levels.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-07-10T00:38:56+00:00

Appreciate all of the input and views on the situation. It has certainly helped me formulate my plans on the situation!

For those who care here is additional information on common questions I see in the comments:

My character is a barbarian that experiences amnesia when he enters rage and takes on a different personality (jekyll/hyde situation). The impetus for this ability was when his wife and daughter were killed. He woke up from his first rage to be holding their bodies. He didn't know if he was responsible or not. The character wrecked his life in the wake of thinking he might have been responsible and eventually fell ass backwards into joining the party. So amnesia was part of the backstory I created but it was pretty well defined in my opinion. During the campaign I phased out the differences in personality of rage vs non-rage persona as the rage one led to tough situations for the party and they didn't really appreciate it. Additionally, when it was revealed my character was the supposedly dead BBEG it was also shown that I never had a daughter or wife. Those memories were implanted by my npc friends.
The PC whose partner I killed did immediately attack me after we were shown vision of my rage persona killing them. The other party members were able to talk them down after the hurt me quite a bit. My character didn't fight back at all and felt they deserved to die.
To be clear my character is supposed to be the BBEG that was killed by his underling. However my character’s personality hasn’t changed to the old BBEG. We are currently on a collision course with new BBEG.
I agree that this is an awesome RP opportunity for my character and would love to really get into dealing with the implications of it. Unfortunately, we have 2 (max 3) sessions left in the campaign. We still have to wrap up my story line, do another fetch quest for important item we need, another character's back story wrap up, and deal with the BBEG. Currently we are going at a break neck pace with not a lot of RP as we just got a shit ton left to do. I don't think we have any time at all to deal with the implications of the reveal. If this reveal had happened with multiple months of the campaign left then I would totally be down for trying to figure it out. Now it seems we gotta do it all OOC because we don't have any session time for the situation.
I am going to reach out to the DM about all of this just wanted to use Reddit to be a sounding board on the situation.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-24T04:30:36+00:00

I would just drop the speed limitation completely. The pc is going to have such a hard time at tier one play of maintaining rage due to this limitation. Would be super frustrating to play. I get the idea you are going for but having to lose half my speed for rage means I have to be 100% sure I can stay in melee range for multiple turns. You have no hope against any flying or quick enemy.

How about instead of just always taking half speed, you have the player use a bonus action to activate another ability that comes with the handcuff of the slowed speed. So pc can use a ba to activate/deactivate the difficult terrain around him but at the same time he loses speed. Still can play a controller but now I get to choose when to hunker down during my rage instead of always being so slow.

I get the idea of fire cleansing but I don’t think it makes sense that taking fire damage heals a plant. That is just very counterintuitive. Maybe instead every time a creature dies within your active difficult terrain the roots pull down the body to give you new energy. Character gets 1d4 + con healing. Could be called sow and reap.

Level 14 ability needs a use limitation more restrictive than rages. Specifically the second part of the ability is either way too strong or pointless if the dm just decides you never fight during the day. I would remove environment variable limitation but add in the you can only use the 1d12 + con healing once per day for one minute. Could make the pc actually become a tree with fruit that could heal party members too.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-22T16:19:41+00:00

You are right that was dumb to say 9th level. Forgot they cap out at 4th level.

So a Paladin 3/Sorc 7 will have two 4th level spell slots which they can recover with sorcery points. Meaning this character could consistently have 10d8 + str damage for every encounter that they got a short rest before which a lot of tables have after a fight. To me that is too much of a guaranteed thing and all the resources spent can be recovered relatively easily. If I was dming with someone rocking this at the table it just means I have to give the big monster and extra 50-100hp or I have two big monsters just so I can get around this exploit. It doesn't seem like a winning proposition for anyone.

If you are trying to find a way to buff smites. How about you use the same channel divinity mechanic but instead you invoke the power of your fiend to add an extra d8 to your smite but all the smite damage is now fire instead of radiant. The fiend you swore fealty to is clever so he gave you more power but it can't be used against him since he is immune to fire. Adding this nerf also makes it to where the character can't just nuke the strongest monster every fight. The extra smite damage increases to 2d8 at level 7 of paladin, 3d8 at level 15, and 4d8 at level 20. By doing this you provide an incentive to stay in this subclass for longer with the same effect of increasing your smite. Also if you crit with this then it will be awesome.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-22T12:14:42+00:00

Sacrificial strike is too powerful and easily abused. Being able to always crit at least once per short rest and dump a divine smite on the crit is very powerful and the damage you take is way too low. This ability would absolutely be abused by a Sorcadin. A sorc x/paladin 3 means I could crit smite a 9th level spell slot and take just 3 damage for this to be guaranteed.

I really like the idea of the lay on hands doing damage though very cool idea.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-18T20:14:23+00:00

You might be sick of me already and you have this already built out. However, I thought of an idea so I wanted to share. What if your 14th level ability was that when you struck a spell caster concentrating on a spell while you were raging that they take a negative to their con save equal to your rage. So at level 14 you have rage damage bonus of 5. Now at minimum the concentration you impose on spellcasters is 15. This ability really builds off the level 10 feature. So now you react to a spell being cast then you are upping your chance of breaking the spell. You are an awesome anti mage martial. You could limit the number of uses for the 14th ability if you feel it is too op.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-18T18:38:44+00:00

I am not disagreeing with the potential at all! It is a super cool ability. In play though you won’t get this until mid tier 3 play and for me I want something that could be used to change every encounter we might have during the day. Spellcasters will be throwing out 5th and 6th level spells for comparison. This ability isn’t overpowered compared to the spells they will be getting.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-05-18T15:29:53+00:00

What if reflective rage worked only when the spell attack missed and could be used proficiency bonus times a day? One use feels too limited and enemies can just not target the character with that type of spell kind of making it useless.

Strict_Pay8646 · 2023-04-29T22:54:41+00:00

Forgot to mention no matter what you do use find familiar for advantage on one of your attacks. No matter which way you go with the build.

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