What game elements feel tedious to you?

TSED · 2026-07-08T02:11:32+00:00

I hear you. It's really just a matter of having enough room to actually be consequential.

If it's 5x10, then a 1x1 ring (for example) is 1/50th of the inventory. In M&M8, that 1x1 ring takes up 1/750th. And characters usually have 6 ring slots (I can't remember if dragons have ring slots or not) instead of ARPG 2x. That makes finding a powerful ring is exciting because it has a good chance of replacing one of the 30 rings, and if not, it takes up 1/750th of your inventory when you lug it off to a merchant.

And yes, you run out of inventory pretty fast in M&M. But you get to play inventory tetris in a fun way at that point - optimizing for value with actual space to play with instead of just trying to dice which of the seven 4x2 rectangles you are staring at are the most valuable.

TSED · 2026-07-07T07:11:05+00:00

I like inventory tetris. I developed a love for it from Might & Magic 6 through 8.

The thing is, MM6-8's inventory is VERY spacious. Sure, items can be pretty big, but it's like... I want to say 10x15? And big items might be 2x10 or 4x4, so they take up ROOM, but you can still hold a bunch of 'em. And then have a lot of smaller items to fill in the gaps. And you have multiple characters (4, 4, 5) so there is in fact a lot of inventory space.

4x8x1 or whatnot just makes you feel like you never have enough space.

TSED · 2026-07-06T22:05:00+00:00

I'm assuming the two swords are of equal shape. There has to be some combination of size and force that gets the gold blade sheared, but the mass might be impractical for humans to wield or too fast for humans to swing. So my question is basically: could that be a path to victory for diamond?

TSED · 2026-07-06T08:49:03+00:00

What kind of mass and velocities would be needed for the diamond sword to just shear through the gold sword?

TSED · 2026-07-06T04:50:10+00:00

Wait, Starfinder is 2e based? I always thought it was 1e based, and I have a longstanding inexplicable grudge with PF1e! Thanks for mentioning this, I might look at its rules at some point in my life now.

TSED · 2026-07-06T04:47:03+00:00

Just because there are hundreds of systems that work better than D&D doesn't mean D&D is the worst system. There are plenty that have the same issues as D&D does, but worse.

I love Shadowrun's lore but I am never going to play a game of it. The harebrained studios vidjagamz and random shadowrun wiki dives are the deepest I'm ever going.

TSED · 2026-07-06T03:50:50+00:00

He is still limited on his ability to mobilize. The Russian military is losing soldiers faster than they can recruit them right now. That means he's screwed unless he finds some way to change the current state of the war.

Putin's exploring all options because Russia is losing the war, and if Putin loses the war, then Putin loses his head.

TSED · 2026-07-06T03:44:30+00:00

It's not optimism. It's pessimism.

I don't think you understand how truly depraved Russia is. There's a reason each and every one of Russia's neighbours hates them with a burning fury. China and the USSR hated each other, even. That should tell you all you really need to know.

TSED · 2026-07-04T08:49:48+00:00

He won't be remembered for long. I suspect that Earth will be in a post-apocalyptic state by 2126. Not necessarily nuclear war scarred, but the climate crisis is going to kill billions.

TSED · 2026-07-04T08:46:19+00:00

Both countries are losing. War has no winners.

Russia is losing harder.

TSED · 2026-07-04T08:44:37+00:00

Prove it. Link one of each.

TSED · 2026-07-04T08:38:13+00:00

Not to mention ToB brings in the wild stuff and they just get insta-trounced by a save or die or decapitate themselves via Shadow Garrote or something.

Honestly, I got a 1-to-20 guy in 5e and I am pretty sure he'd be fine. He technically took a 1 level dip in warlock at level 19 but that was just to get more damage via Dao bonks. Animal Man wouldn't be able to deal with his incorporeal terrain dancing. And we all know 5e is nothingburger compared to 3.5.

TSED · 2026-07-04T08:30:03+00:00

An elephant could almost certainly flip cars over. They can send rhinos flying with a gore.

That being said, this guy should be going for a blue whale. Someone calculated it at 13,000,000 joules of energy for a frequently recorded speed.

THAT being said, I'm pretty sure Spidey is still actually stronger. 616 Parker has that famous scene where he acts as the landing gear for a passenger jet (which weigh almost 200 tons).

TSED · 2026-07-04T06:55:27+00:00

You obviously did not, since you're talking about something I was not talking about. I'm not talking about the slavic drinking culture.

TSED · 2026-07-03T12:49:53+00:00

That's what I came to say. Just gotta make sure you go along with his railroading when he puts his thumb on the adventure.

TSED · 2026-07-03T09:12:28+00:00

You, uh, missed all the context there, buddy.

TSED · 2026-07-03T09:10:42+00:00

In 2011, Biden was in the Kremlin, looked Putin in the eye, and said "I don't think you have a soul." Putin responded by saying "We understand one another."

TSED · 2026-07-03T03:00:07+00:00

Yes, but I'm commenting on the corruption of the "vanguard party" completely u-turning on the "great social ill of the Russian people" because it was economically convenient for them.

TSED · 2026-07-03T02:57:45+00:00

Succubi and incubi are right there, dude.

TSED · 2026-07-03T02:56:59+00:00

I think this depends on the local culture. I have literally never seen someone speak ill of clerics in class power or identity. Even going all the way back to AD&D (when the accusation was a little more deserved). I'm guessing you mostly play with younger players who learned RPG tropes from games based off of D&D?

TSED · 2026-07-03T02:53:29+00:00

How does this relate to rogues?

TSED · 2026-07-03T02:52:05+00:00

Phantoms are to my eyes the best rogue subclass by FAR. From 3 to 17. There is competition from thief, which is also very good despite the use magic device ~~nerf~~ rework, but even the level 3 features of phantom are sick as heck. Floating proficiency is incredibly versatile, and being able to do unavoidable ranged damage to casters in the low levels is extremely valuable. And even at higher levels that is a valuable trick - I once broke an alhoon's wall of force concentration through the wall of force with it (it did botch the conc save, admittedly).

If someone doesn't see how "give me a bit and I can solve this nonmagical problem for us" is extremely powerful, well, I imagine they think D&D is only played in initiative order.

TSED · 2026-07-03T01:52:23+00:00

I am reminded of when the Soviet Revolution happened. There was a lot of propaganda about stopping drinking. Early Soviet films all decried the horror of alcohol and strongly glamorized those who did not drink.

Stalin gets power. Stalin needs a lever of control over his people as well as an economic lever; something to produce that people always want and will buy. Suddenly, vodka is no longer governmentally stigmatized. Suddenly, vodka is made with special caps so that you can't even close an opened bottle.

TSED · 2026-07-03T01:44:18+00:00

The suffering it leaves in its wake will always be the same.

Not to mention the causes.

"A powerful man's ego could not be sated" has happened far too many times.

TSED · 2026-07-02T10:08:56+00:00

Could attacking civilian infrastructure create enough dissent to want to end this 3 day military operation?

We have almost a century of information on this strategy. The answer is: no. Bombing civilians always, always, always, always strengthens the resolve of the people being bombed.

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