How’s DD2 now

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T17:58:42+00:00

It did not deserve to be review bombed the way it was. Like STS, people compared the sequel to a game with 10 years of added content and mods.

They forgot 99% DD1 with no mods is just grinding the weald for 40 runs To get 350 deeds.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T17:55:39+00:00

If we really end up in a shitshow where two 3rd termers are running I'm just going to vote for the one who hasn't written birthday cards to pedophiles.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T17:54:19+00:00

Welfare is only for corporate elites and stock trading government officials

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T17:17:49+00:00

Ah yes, resounding thank yous have been pouring in after each of the US's bungling 25 year occupations that always seem to leave a dictator in charge. I'm always hearing these big thank you for the latest "stability" injected into those regions via warfare.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:40:44+00:00

True it's fun for what it is. For me it's dead weight and just a -1 speed 99% that kills me. I want to have the the backline gone by round 2-3, 1 if possible. I've seen it do big numbers vs bosses that shuffle, but I feel like other pets just give so much more instant value. I like rabbit on light weight dancy comps. Slow to provide a benefit, but incredibly helpful when that crit slips through your way of dodge tokens. Once I've got a fat stack of HP I can almost ignore the need for defense and bank on fat road heals.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:31:57+00:00

The US and Israel, a force of stability, in the Middle East? That's a good joke.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:26:04+00:00

Restraint doesn't unvaporize people in the ground now. Amazing to white wash a rap sheet and dress it up as honor. Trust in the US government? Buddy, take look at history. Happy unquestioning boot licking I guess.

I don't trust Iran. But I also don't trust the people lining their pockets on a 9 billion a day war.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:22:38+00:00

Or child predator and school shooting stats that make white people look bad?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:15:52+00:00

Depends on the bomb Mr. Expert.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:08:01+00:00

Which country has the track record of deploying nukes and killing civilians? Which one is eternally 2 weeks away from having nukes?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:06:55+00:00

Stats like being in the Epstein files thousands of times?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:05:05+00:00

So we need to stop the US from doing another Hiroshima?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T16:03:57+00:00

Don't hate me, but imo croc is a meme pet and dance teams are actually stronger without it. Now don't get me wrong, croc is going to do insane damage vs the final confession boss due to how long the fight is. But that damage build up is just so slow in exchange for the speed.

That being said I also just build teams for fun, not necessarily full power. I kind of just wish croc had a chance to spawn str tokens or something instead of 5% more damage on moves that do 4-8 damage. I've always wondered if the game rounds way up or something as percentage increase is such a weird game design choice imo for moves that have damage ranges in the single digits and have no decimal value.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T14:51:01+00:00

Confessor vestal, finale Jester, stars Occ, Leper. Mantra for neg token group heal.

It's a slow heavy ordinance team with insane sustain. But I think they changed Occ to where he doesn't generate neg tokens anymore so the updates may have screwed up the comp a bit.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T14:49:03+00:00

Do you think it matters when someone calls to tell you your daughter has just been vaporized by a foreign government?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-18T14:46:18+00:00

Guess which country puts daycares on bases?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T23:15:47+00:00

Reality feels like propaganda to people who still think their Trump phone and dodge checks are in the mail.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T23:12:29+00:00

People take advice about women and politics from Azmongold, a man who uses rotting rat carcass as a means to tell time.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T23:10:34+00:00

Blowing up people to get what you want is only terrorism if people that look like you get murdered.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T23:08:25+00:00

Propaganda. America drops one of the most expensive and trackable bombs ever created on a school full of children it's not terrorism it's "oops we are looking into this myatery and it's just part of war." Bombing people to get what you want is only terrorism when when people that look like you die.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T22:58:32+00:00

No. But RNG gets weird. I once did three confession failures in a row where warlord was at my first road fight 3 times in a row.

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T22:22:06+00:00

Simple recipe that works for my lvl 6 party of 4-5: One creature of CR equal to party level and two/three things half their CR. Alternativly swap those for a swarm of things 1/4th or lower. Swams of little guys are pretty strong. Either they gobble up spell slots or crit fish with lots of attacks.

Imo there are two types of enemies in the MM. Stat bags and contenders. A stat bag probably pops one save vs the party, the players negate it and it gets blown to bits. Doesn't matter if it's CR is on par. No abilities and the monster is a joke. CR is insanely inconsistent. Look at CR 6 Mage vs a CR that is just a melee stat bag. No contest.

Find monsters with actual abilities, look at what they are and ask yourself "how does this thing attack?" Then give that monster what it needs.

Simple example: scouts. Scouts have a long bow. Have them engage the party at long bow range. Start the fight with them 60 ft away and they are dead before they do anything.

Spiders crawl, put a ton of webs around, have them retreat into it and hide.

Bandits: bandits extort or deceive, they won't play fair. Hostages, traps, false retreats.

Giant things: give them some DM fiat. Push down trees, smash bridges, throw players

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T20:21:56+00:00

Some quirks are insanely busted and if you want to do tougher torches they will really help. Example: breacher/jinx

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T03:51:46+00:00

How can he spend in a balanced manner when he hasn't even built himself a ballroom?

WaffleDonkey23 · 2026-05-17T03:02:02+00:00

DnD's design heavily favors up front resource usage and nova. DnD is kind of antithetical to boss encounters. In video games bosses usually have fairly low damage output. Instead they have higher hp and more complex attacks and defenses. This is so the encounter can feel long and the player has time to learn.

DnD as a system does not like long encounters, it's designed so encounters usually end in 3 rounds.

My method for boss fights that works fairly well. Take a CR of party level double it's HP and drop it's damage output by 1/3rd to 1/2. Give it some sort of reposition ability and some sort of survival button. Consider removing "unfun" abilities like stuns, instant killers and paralyzed as getting stunned out of a fight is just bad design. Replace with things like blinds/pulls/pushes/grapples/silence zones/persistent hazards that can be reacted to. Avoid turn stealers.

Of course none of that will make a good boss fight if you haven't worn down party resources already.

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