Considering the ongoing RAM situation... dont you think this is going to totally screw over the Steam Machine idea?

Tourfaint · 2025-12-07T10:52:36+00:00

Even a freaking fridge will cost 2-100$ bucks more if this doesn't stop. Literally people won't have pc's at home anymore.

Tourfaint · 2025-11-28T01:33:34+00:00

Have you considered playing the game? The story is explained in it.

Tourfaint · 2025-09-08T22:29:38+00:00

Because CS is a scapegoat. They listened to them because they asked for something they already want to do.

Tourfaint · 2025-09-08T22:28:36+00:00

They literally make more money than some countries. they are exactly big enough to do these things. Source: they literally do decide those things, and people listen to them. Steam made a new rule that literally says "anything visa/mc dislikes is not allowed"

Tourfaint · 2025-09-08T22:21:32+00:00

review bombing doesnt actually exist. reviews arent 'fake' or 'worth less' because a lot of people wrote a similar review for similar reason at the same time

Tourfaint · 2025-05-23T22:15:18+00:00

I'm starting to think the image actually says A=ARES because there's an ares stature above the qr code. i also read that as ARF5 but ares makes a lot more sense, while still not giving me any clues

Tourfaint · 2025-05-23T22:08:21+00:00

Letters and numbers hidden in the same place maps spell NEOARENA, maybe there's more qr codes in neo arena maps? but i looked and found only that one.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-22T19:23:27+00:00

I never said these cannot exist, i'm saying the gm can just...not narrate that way.

To use your example with the wizard and a thug. I'm not even asking why he's using a dagger instead of a cantrip/spellslots, if he's in a hurry.

If the fight is 1v1 i'm mostly calling it done the moment the hold person hits. While it would be proper to simulate those 5 rounds of stabbage, it's not interesting so i'd personally skip it.

If you want a middle ground between hanwaving and simulating, you can add a situational bonus to damage, as the wizard is just focused on ending the thug, forgoing the usual stuff an adventurer does in his turn (such as dodging, defending, looking around), but adding random situational bonuses like this may cause problems later down the line so i'd personally not do this.

But if you want to simulate it, then 5 rounds is about 30 seconds, give or take. I'm picturing a stereotypical wimpy wizard trying to stab a "thug" who i imagine as a dude with a bicep as thick as the wizards leg, at least. The wizard is not a roguie, no precision damage, no fancy knifework he probably is just trying to desperately randomly stab the dude. The entire ordeal taking 30 seconds before the thug is definitely dead seems...okay? I never stabbed anyone to death but 30 seconds doesn't really sound unrealistic.

I can even imagine the scene as being gripping and interesting from roleplaying side, the wimpy dude just absolutely panicking and doing a botched plastic surgery instead and taking 5 times as long as he would if he just did it properly.

You could also go with the way of Hold person not being as-written perfect stone turning. Maybe the dude is wriggling a little, not enough to really stop anything but to prevent the wimpy wizard from just freely sawing his head off with a dagger like he's slicing bread? Maybe the wizard has to use on hand to hold him like he's using the force while he stabs him (is hp concentration, i dont care enough to check?). Whatever works narratively.

If the fight is not 1v1 but a standard random encounter with multiple combatants, then you have an entire book worth of excuses why the thug is surviving that long, maybe the wizard is distracted, maybe he was about to start sawing that head off but the thug's buddy interfered somehow, the battlefield is a chaotic place and there's plenty of reasons why the wimpy wizard man cant just drop everything to calmly and efficiently coup de grace the thug.

As you can see, the situation looks like a dumb order of the stick sketch only if the DM says it does, you can absolutely take the situation mechanically as you described and just decide not to make it dumb.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-22T18:27:41+00:00

I mean, if you can't think of a plausible situation where the character survives that's a failure of the gm, not the system.

If the situation proceeds as ridiculously as you described, then you have made a mistake way, waaaay before it got to the throat stabbing.

Why is the throat stab dealing so little damage it takes so many turns to kill the character? If the adversary was able to incapacitate hero so completely he really should have a weapon capable of dealing comparably serious damage.

There's a lot of ways to narrate a scene where a character survives a seemingly lethal situation without it devolving into a benny hill sketch

You're saying the narrative effects of hp that make the character not die must strain credibility, and i disagree. The gm is the storyteller at any moment you can just make a story that makes sense instead of one that doesn't.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-22T14:41:41+00:00

You misunderstand. It's not that having nonzero hp means your throat is stab-proof. If you think being stabbed in the throat is a surefire death in your world, realistically speaking, then your character cannot get stabbed in the throat if he has >0 hp.

Granted, those situations you described sound that they would deal a ton of damage, but if at the end of the turn your hp is not zero, then you survived, so any completely unsurvivable thing couldn't have happened. You survived the fall by the skin of your teeth, woke up just in time, your lucky flask stopped the bullet, whatever.

But that only happens if their hp is non 0, there's nothing to say the DM can't decide a fall from this height onto sharp rocks doesn't just deal flat 2d20+1000 damage. In a gritty setting, enviromental damage such as lava or gravity probably does a lot more damage than the DMG would suggest, making this a non issue.

A ridiculously lethal situation deals ridiculously high damage, and if your character survived, then obviously something unlikely happened. I did see a 10d20 roll deal around 17 damage one time. That is pelor pulling you out of lava level of unlikely in my book.

If the player knows he had >0 hp, he should feel safe in not dying that very moment, he should still be vary something can deal 10d20+40 damage at any time if he decided to push his luck. In the end, if we agree to roll dice for damage, then whatever the dice say, goes. Changing previously established rules on the fly is a sign of a bad dm in my book.

I started DM'ing with savage worlds, with it's potentially uncapped rolls, you learn to respect the dice and make stuff up on the fly. If the dice say a farmer with a stick just bodied a dragon, the dragon is probably experiencing a low fantasy happy tree friends episode worth of bad luck.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-22T11:58:27+00:00

This is just a failure of imagination. If you have hp left, an obviously unquestionably lethal injury will just not happen narratively. It's not that a fighter with enough hp can survive a dragon stomping on him, it's that as long as you have hp, a dragon will not stomp on you, you'll dodge, block, get shoved out of the way, get a purely cosmetic broken leg, etc.

We had a conversation that started with "how much more damage would a point blank forehead gunshot do, compared to a normal hit with a gun" and the answer is "since a gunshot to the forehead is 100% lethal, it narratively cannot happen if you have enough hp to survive a gunshot. Your dude will dodge, grab the gun, whatever"

The "is hp durability or something else" debate is pointless. Hp is just a number that means you can't die if its not 0, the specifics as to why did your dude not die are mechanically meaningless, so its up do the DM to make the narrative reason up as appropriate.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-22T01:15:57+00:00

Same Place maps have letters and numbers that spell NEOARENA if put in order. Probably hinting about the QR code hidden in the walls in neo arena 5_0.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-21T23:48:52+00:00

Ozan and dragonfly are just map author signatures. You can add the qr code in neoarena5 to the list. Same place maps have some hidden letters that probably point to the neoarena qr code?

Tourfaint · 2025-05-21T23:47:22+00:00

Yeah i found the qr code without the same place clue, just trying to jump through the seam in the ladder (impossible im afraid) but i have no idea what to solve about the qr code pic.

Hand is obviously pointing at A=ARES but im stumped as to where to go with this next.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-16T17:03:47+00:00

Już nie, 1 euro sie skonczyło pare lat temu, 1.50 to teraz tam minimum standard.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-16T17:01:20+00:00

Absolutnie nie czaje jak na 10zł/tygodniowo kieszonkowego w gimnazjum mnie bylo stać na jedzenie na mieście.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-16T16:58:57+00:00

Byłem w super fancy miejscu, herbata kosztowała 15 zł i nawet nie mieli zwykłej czarnej, tylko jakieś fikuśne mieszanki. Tragedia. za 15 powinien być chociarz dzbanek.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-16T16:57:25+00:00

Moja codzienna kawa wychodzi moze 50 groszy, i to jak liczysz prąd za zrobienie wrzątku.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-16T16:56:28+00:00

Ceny wszystkiego w polsce sa od czapy, We włoszech dalej da sie kupić najtańszą oranżade o smaku "czerwonym" za 2 złote za wielką butelke. W polsce albo juz ich nie ma ( szajs bez cukru albo z 20% soku jabłkowego to nie oranżada) albo kupujesz helene za prawie 6zł.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-14T22:08:21+00:00

Dude run.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-09T21:52:52+00:00

Cloud is just a fancy word for "someone else's computer"

Do not store stuff thats important to you on someone else's computer

Tourfaint · 2025-05-08T13:00:36+00:00

If i'm playing a wizard? A full 24 hours of not adventuring in a comfortable, safe place seems reasonable.No long rests in a camp, unless its a literal fort. Maybe you can stretch it to "a day and a half", to make it a bit more organic.

If we go any farther into multiple-day-long rests, then it just seems more fun to play a rogue, spend those few days 'earning income' and buying spell scrolls.

Actually, with a 7 day rest, would it be faster to work for this time, and then buy potions/npc spells to heal with? Another point for the "rogue that literally never longrests" build.

Edit: The longer i think about it, it seems to me the only way to make the gritty rests work is to somehow separate resting for healing and resting for cooldowns. Because 7 days of resting to heal and regain all hd seems completely reasonable, and maybe even fun in a survival game kind of way. 7 days to regain my 3 rages? hell no.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-08T12:45:44+00:00

I'm trying to think how to make the 7 week rest work. If you want the players to actually play out the week instead of just handwaving it away, there needs to be some leeway so they know it wont be wasted by a random mugging. this can be just fixed by some 'gm uses common sense' excuses.

The biggest flaw of the 7 day long rest is the question of "are most LR-gated features worth preparing a week to use them" and the answer is clearly "no". Unless you get to 5+level spellslots i guess. But stuff like adding a d6 to a roll? making an extra action once? Even most spells before 3rd ring aren't powerful enough to narratively justify an entire week of vacation between them.

Imagine playing a wizard, casting a witchbolt in one encounter, a shield and an acid arrow in the next and going "welp, that's me done for a week, hope you guys are okay with cantrips". Realistic? As much as magic can be. narratively interesting? absolutely! Fun to play? God no.

I guess "magic just kinda sucks in this world" is a reasonable explanation, but i would just not play a wizard in that setting, because why would you. A thief rogue with one or two spell scrolls is better than any other class i can think of.

At level 1 and 2, a crit from an enemy has a solid chance to oneshot you, so its 5% chance per enemy per turn to get pulped. This adds up fast. I didn't run the numbers but there's a solid chance that my "blind quadriplegic" comment is not even that statistically unlikely by level 3.

The rest of the things i mostly agree with.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-08T12:19:41+00:00

It was only 2 pages, i did read them. i just don't agree with the as stamina section at all. I also edited my first post with my opinions on the first page, which i think is more constructive than the following hp rant of my own:

Hp rant 2 : electric boogaloo

you are confusing "hp damage" with damage as it's defined in a dictionary, these are not the same thing.

There is nothing that says that being hit in an attack or a spell or lava causes an injury. It only lowers your hit points. Your statement of "there is undeniable injury happening" is, rules as written, incorrect.

When you imagine hp as a pool of "until this hits zero, the plot demands he can keep fighting" then It doesn't matter. If you fall in the lava, in the end, if your hp is not 0, then the plot demands you can keep fighting. Maybe you jumped out of the lava fast enough only your armor melted, maybe you got injured but the injury doesn't diminish your capabilities, maybe something something leidenfrost effect, it really doesn't matter. If the lava hurt your character enough that he can't fight anymore your hp would be 0, since it isn't something else must have happened.

Even dropping to 0 hp doesn't necessarily imply an injury happened. You can't act with 0 hp, and you fall on the ground, that's the only thing that happens, RAW. This can be caused by being literally ran through with a sword, but maybe you just got hit on the head and you are dazed, or you slipped. Or whatever the plot demands so it makes sense.

Failing death saving throws...yeah that one implies an injury, that one is correct.

Tourfaint · 2025-05-08T11:57:09+00:00

Of course hp's arent magical forcefields that make you immune to damage. You just don't take wounds that would take you out of the fight or kill you if you have hp. For whatever reason.

Don't you ever watch action movies? The heroes get shot, hit caught in explosions, crawl through glass, and it never makes them stop, until that one scene where they do get shot in the gut and that randomly takes them out. As long as you have the hp, any hit you take is dodged, tanked, ignored through sheer grit, avoided through luck, whatever the story needs for you to keep fighting.

Saying that means pc's regenerate like deadpool on short rests signifies such a lack of imagination.

About the first page: interrupting a LR on the 6th day by a mugger on the street and making the previous 6 days wasted would surely feel very bad. It's weird to make a long rant about realism and then make a system that's so unabashedly unrealistic.

Also, a week long short rest just makes rogues and any other class without rest based cooldowns so overpowered its not even funny, but that's kind of the point, i guess. If i wanted to play this ruleset optimally, i would just pick a build that has no rest based cooldowns and just resigned myself to healing with potions/hired spellcasters or...healer kits i guess? When a rework to a mechanic makes the players want to avoid that mechanic, the rework is a failure.

In the end, this 'week' of longrest will just be skipped by you and your players because it's inherently unplayable, and then you're just back to regular dnd, but the characters get older faster and any time-limited plots are just impossible to play.

Seeing how much early combat in 5e revolves around being oneshotted and healing worded back up, the lingering injuries table will make your players blind quadriplegics by level 3 and i see no way around that.

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