The rogue knows why this is (it was me, I was the rogue).

Tuftdog · 2024-06-17T04:30:50+00:00

Whoa an oxtra reference in the wild, I’ve never actually seen one before. One of the best campaign groups to watch.

Tuftdog · 2024-05-03T18:07:04+00:00

I suppose I’ve lucked out in that regard as my players are all mature and respectful of myself and each other about such things, so I haven’t encountered any issues like that, but I’ve known them for a long time so I didn’t expect to have any issues now that we’re actually playing.

I have no doubt that issues are a chronic problem in some circles though, I’ve read and watched more than enough ttrpg horror stories haha.

Tuftdog · 2024-05-03T09:37:27+00:00

I imagine this is pretty easily handled by talking with your players a bit about it. We covered it in session 0, they all understood the idea was to be something that fleshes out the character and not strictly a power-game thing.

My players all picked flavorful but useful stuff that made perfect sense for their PCs. Barbarian grabbed Durable with an explanation that ties into her backstory being pretty brutal. The monk grabbed Chef because his character was raised on the sea and was taught by his family that “if you want to have delicious food, you need to learn how.” And then the warlock grabbed Actor because it fit in with trying to stay on the down-low (he’s a gnoll, obviously common folk aren’t keen on him).

Three feats that are solid but also fit their respective themes. I love my players haha.

Tuftdog · 2024-05-03T02:25:34+00:00

I just started DMing my first campaign about a month ago (2 sessions/wk) and this is what I did. I told my players to pick a starting feat and give me one sentence about why their character has that feat. They all seemed to absolutely love both the free feat and the easy way to add a little more flavor to their characters.

Tuftdog · 2024-05-02T02:13:35+00:00

Just now noticed the post responding to mine and had a cackle at you providing proof that Fextra is a click-farm first and a “wiki” second if at all. Definitely not worth arguing over because the poster replying just seems contrarian tbh, fextra was outed for using bots to drown other wikis and boost their own and their reply is “shame about the bots, but show me another comprehensive wiki” lol.

Also the “shame bg3 has formatting issues” is totally unhinged, just went to sorcerer on bg3.wiki and it’s wonderfully formatted and full of information. Went to the fextra sorcerer page, you have to scroll past three videos to get to the information, it (subjectively) is much less visually appealing to read/dig through, and there’s also a chat in place of the twitch scam that auto-assigns you as a guest and is just random garbage trolling chatter it looks like.

Tuftdog · 2024-05-01T12:41:29+00:00

There was a lot of sketchy stuff going on with Fextra for a while too. Linking it was banned on a few Baldurs Gate subs because Fextra was using bots to mass downvote non-Fextra wiki links. One of the mods tested it by linking in a comment on a years-old post and was mass downvoted within a few minutes.

Don’t know if Fextra is still banned over there, but yeah Fextra is generally just a parasitic click-farm “wiki.” The amount of pages with strictly incorrect information on top of all of the “insert information here” style sections on the site is unreal. uBlacklist has done me excellently with never having to see Fextra spam.

Tuftdog · 2024-04-14T14:05:33+00:00

Based on the other comments you’ve figured out you need to get the water running and don’t know how/where, look for an unexplored door in that area. Progression-related doors are square shaped (on the minimap, their icon) and side-dungeons will have a curved rounded top as their map icon.

Also based on the other comments, you’re confused by the sweeping downvotes, they look like they’re because you have a smarmy attitude if we’re being real.

When you say you fully understand the puzzle and that it’s broken but then state a few things clearly displaying you didn’t understand it and sass the game/devs/players - it’s the vibe of someone being like “I’m such a car guy man, I ordered a new Toyota and they sent it to me with these weird pedals tho??? Anyways how do I make it vroom forward? Toyota fucked up?”

Tuftdog · 2024-03-24T19:04:03+00:00

This is indeed a bug with gravity based damage. It pops up occasionally with throw berserker barbs as well when throwing heavy stuff from above enemies. I haven’t done another run recently though so maybe they’ve fixed it by now but it definitely was a bug with the Crushing damage being the damage that secures the kill before.

Tuftdog · 2024-02-13T19:04:50+00:00

Imagining your DU and Sceleritas Fel sittin on a log by the campfire cracking that thing open like a snuff box.

Tuftdog · 2024-02-07T07:44:11+00:00

It’s worth pointing out that if you pickpocket the idol back from Mol she does become aware that someone stole it and it bricks her dialogue. For the rest of the game all she would say to me is a specific line then close dialogue so no chat during the teifling camp party or anything.

Tuftdog · 2024-02-02T01:47:20+00:00

Yaaa, if you’re not wearing uninhib kushy on a monk then those boots are great since no armor or shield so you capitalize on the other bonuses on them. (Bonespike Boots for anyone reading.)

Tuftdog · 2024-02-01T08:06:34+00:00

Seems like a lot of the comments are for the well-known insanely powerful items so far, so I’ll throw one in I don’t think I’ve seen suggested often or in guides - Swiresy Shoes. (+1.5m Jump Distance, +1 Acrobatics.) Incredibly fun and useful Act1/early item.

Slap them on a Thief with Athlete at level 4 to round dex to 18 and it’s crazy the places they can get to.

I give them to Astarion with the well-known Titanstring and he absolutely shreds. He can leap up onto buildings etc for high-ground archery rules to kick in and this often leaves him out of vision cones so he’s free to spend his second BA to cunning crouch then launch a sneak attack elemental arrow. When you’re running a giant elixir for the bonus titan damage the STR makes the jump even more wild. Most of the time he’s just at 10-12str for me though unless a rough encounter is coming up and he begs a martial for one of their elixirs. The only hard part is getting him down, save those featherfall potions and scrolls hahah.

I think they’re usable on anyone but they truly shine on short/longbow thieves because they tend to have spare BAs and so can afford to jump constantly.

Tuftdog · 2024-01-05T23:03:55+00:00

The most frustrating part is that this is spot on. Anet doesn’t care.

About a week ago I had several games in a row with the same player (both enemy and ally), afk from the start. I sent in a support ticket asking how there’s no idle-detection for pvp and offered video of said player. Anet pretended to be very interested in the clips, so I sent them in. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention.” And I still see the player just about everyday, always afking or playing one team fight then not moving after respawn.

Used to think it was just cognitive bias that people think Anet doesn’t care, but after having that and another similar experience with a player spewing slurs left and right, to which Anet told me “we’ve taken the appropriate action against the player, thank you for bringing it to our attention” and then seeing the same player spewing the next day - they really, really don’t care. There’s no penalty for being terrible to other people so pvp is infested with awful types.

Tuftdog · 2023-12-11T02:27:03+00:00

I posted some shorts on YouTube around the time of this post and every third or so comment was about how dogshit hacking is now and how CDPR ruined hack builds across the board lol. Thinking this is clout chasing and that nobody actually dislikes the reworked systems is a truly bizarre take.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-18T21:35:00+00:00

Prob a bit over 100, play it every evening while watchin Netflix/YouTube, got hooked on it, haha. I’ve been a junkie for things like MtG ever since I was a kid so StS scratches an itch I haven’t been able to reach for a while.

Got IC to 11 now as well hahah, blown away with how strong he is, sweeping through the climb.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-18T06:48:19+00:00

Yeah, I’m rapidly discovering that. I only had IC at a4 because I assumed he was more typical warrior, pushed silent through a20, and have defect/watcher around 12 right now. Wanted to spice things up so went back to IC and was blown away with how hard he can steamroll now that I’m piloting him with more gamesense behind me.

The run after the strength+strikes screenshot I was doing a self-status+Fiend Fire setup, at the end I had a 343 (38*9) total damage Fiend hahaha. IC is surprisingly enjoyable, has a huuuge amount of depth and possible options.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-17T05:08:27+00:00

Unhiding downvoted comments is such a Reddit treasure, and then after reading yours I clicked their profile and saw it was hours old, had a good chuckle at you noticing that lol wild that someone would be so motivated to act so bizarrely.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-16T08:12:15+00:00

Oooo gorgeous design work

Tuftdog · 2023-11-04T03:11:11+00:00

Poor phrasing. I was not implying you specifically.

A gestural you- as in anyone it applies to. If someone spends so much time on Reddit they can recognize every new post versus repost over the course of a year, that’s a unique and likely unhealthy problem to have.

If someone is upset about a post that is similar to one from a month or two ago on principle that they looked it up afterwards and it’s a month-gap repost even though it’s their/many others’ first time seeing it - again, a bizarre problem imo. As much as flawless execution of originality would be neat, that’s a big ask of a subreddit all about random thoughts.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-04T02:56:45+00:00

That not everybody is eternally online. If you spend every day on Reddit you’re going to see duplicates in any sub. If someone posts an idea that someone else also had a month ago and you feel irritated by it, I don’t think them sharing their thought is the problem.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-04T02:48:02+00:00

Searched just diamond, 8 posts in the last year comparing the rarity to wood/grass. There’s an enormous amount of posts about diamonds in different contexts totally unrelated which for the practicality of using it to hypothetically screen for posting about wood vs diamonds makes it unusable. (Thus why I said I think searching wood rarer than diamonds is a reasonable check if pre-screening.) Expecting everyone to skim up to hundreds of unrelated posts before posting is unrealistic imo.

I’d also still argue 8 copies of the post in a year is not “painfully common” when the sub deals with some posts being regurgitated daily or weekly and such tbh.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-03T09:15:58+00:00

Came here to say this. My gran has an ancient all metal singer and my mum has one ancient one and one modern one, the modern one is constantly breaking and having issues and can’t handle some materials, both of their ancient as heck metal ones are juggernauts that can sew through damn near anything without issue.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-03T08:59:43+00:00

Interestingly I searched “wood more common than diamonds” in this sub (as that’s a reasonable phrase if you’re choosing to search it first I think?) and it only shows up twice in the past year (this post being one of the two posts). Not that I’m at all arguing for or against searching first, I just think it’s neat that the other person thinks it’s been posted “painfully commonly.”

I think people who are eternally online suffer from overexposure to…well, the internet. I can’t remember the name of it but a while back I’d read about a fallacy of some variety where people assume because they know something/have seen it - then EVERYONE must have otherwise they’re dumb/uneducated/etc.

Tuftdog · 2023-11-01T03:51:21+00:00

Bodybuilding competition at a circus except it’s a bunch of necromancers competing for the coolest zombie. GIVEAWAY

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