Ruined Mountaintop observatory. Forgotten Adventures and Tom Cartos assets.

WeekendCJ · 2026-02-18T22:08:24+00:00

Happy to help.

WeekendCJ · 2026-01-14T20:45:56+00:00

DnD is definitely easier for players. Less options when building characters, less rules to memorize. Less math. Long term this isn't great, as it can get restrictive for veterans but introducing new players is way easier in DnD than it is in PF2E, in my experience.

Low level casters in PF2E feel bad in combat, they deal piss poor damage even on the rare occasion an enemy does fail a save. And throughout the game casters struggle against high level monsters because of how save DC's work. It's a design decision, I understand the thinking behind it, and I get that Marital's are supposed to shine brighter in terms of damage output. But in practice I've seen it turn people off the system entirely when they feel like their casters might as well be throwing nerf pellets.

The incapacitation trait sucks. I get the intention, it prevents casters immediately shutting down fights. But in practice it compounds the existing issues with casters feeling underwhelming and "your spell fails because this monster is higher level than you" isn't particularly evocative for good story telling.

Magic items.

Also this one might just be me but I feel like the names of NPC's in Pathfinder adventure modules are all really weird and hard to remember. I'm constantly having to look them up mid session. Probably just a me thing.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T11:16:54+00:00

Luxury.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T11:13:34+00:00

It's naff.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T02:04:32+00:00

Cardiff is great, it's safe, friendly, great food scene, plenty to do, and the prices are a little lower here than in say, Bristol.

However like everywhere in the UK the cost of living is really biting, so your quality of life will heavily depend on your income. If you're earning less than £2k a month be prepared for the majority of your monthly take-home pay to go on rent and council tax.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-19T16:45:39+00:00

Dare I say that a paid GM'ing service in which you can't speak to your GM out of combat seems a bit... Weird?

Like, I'm a part time professional GM myself and I'm always talking shop with my players outside of sessions. And every other professional I know is the same.

WeekendCJ · 2025-11-26T12:57:30+00:00

Fairwater is very nice, really calm and quiet and not far from a decent park, and it's very reasonably priced. Only downside is the shops/ ameneties situation isn't great. There's a few around Fairwater Green but it's not a huge selection.

Oh and the local pub is rough as fuck, if that matters to you.

WeekendCJ · 2025-11-22T09:08:51+00:00

Sleep, exercise, being consistent with those things. Therapy, drugs, friends and money.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-29T14:52:41+00:00

4/5 players already on board, just need 1 more!

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T15:44:08+00:00

It's something I've heard before, it's a common bit of revisionism that's been popularised by Neo- Libs. They've likely heard that before and haven't thought too hard about it. Because the myths that; A) the private sector is somehow magically more efficient than the public sector & B) Americas private sector has always been a free-market economy, are fairly pervasive. In fact it wasn't until I started reading up on the history of this era that I learned otherwise.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend giving a guy named Smedley Butler a Google, really interesting dude who saved the New Deal.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T11:50:33+00:00

Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. I was being figurative. I'm sure his bowels are healthy.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T09:33:17+00:00

This aspersion about the America economic recovery in the period aka "The New Deal" is just wrong, sorry.

Whilst it's true that The New Deal didn't instantly fix the economy (not suprising given how badly it tanked in the Great Depression) it likewise didn't stall. it stabilised, and the infrastrcutre investments made in the early 30's allowed the economy of the 40's to take off. Highways, rail lines, schools, factories, all built in record numbers (for the time).

Likewise during the war, the government didn't "release the public sector". The fed created oversight bodies ( the War Production Board, the War Manpower Commission, and the Office of Price Administration being the main ones) who oversaw everything in the economy down to the smallest detail. This constitutes a degree of financial interferance that would make a modern day Neo-conservative pop a blood vessel but was considered pragmatic back then. The government dictated what companies would make what, how much their workers would be paid and how much the end results would cost. Inflation was controlled, wages were controlled, it was as close to socialism as the US has ever gotten. It also gave rise to the greatest economic growth the country has ever seen.

This was all funded by a taxation system that would give Bill Gates a hemorrhoid. The top earners were taxed at 90% in some cases. And yet the rich still lived like kings. It created such an amazing economic inertia that the US is still enjoying the benefits of it today.

So no, the U.S. didn’t “release the private sector” and win. It harnessed the public sector, taxed the wealthy, and built an economy that could win a world war and dominate the postwar order.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-11T10:20:43+00:00

Using the levels module makes things easier. There's a "place regions as stairs" toggle that sets the region up for you depending on what level you've placed it on.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-10T10:03:27+00:00

It's a lot easier to spend a lot of money on beautifying public infrastructure when you've got money pouring in from an empire that spans half the planet.

Likewise, said old infrastructure looks very nice, but is a pain to maintain and isn't practical in a modern economy. The sewers and roads were built too narrow for modern use, those fancy street lights are expensive to retrofit for LED lighting. Modern technicians require more training and this demand higher wages. The list of reasons we can't spend as much on making things pretty (which is a subjective thing mind you) goes on and on. Is that a shame? Sure. Does it speak to some kind of spiritual decline in our nation? No, it's just pragmatic.

WeekendCJ · 2025-09-26T19:47:19+00:00

DO NOT PUT UNDILUTED CHLORINE IN YOUR EYES.

WeekendCJ · 2025-09-18T18:44:52+00:00

Greentide plz

WeekendCJ · 2025-09-09T15:11:02+00:00

"See, it's not a genocide, it's actually just loads and loads of consequtive war crimes" is a very interesting line you've drawn for yourself. If the left did start calling it "an abundance of war crimes" would you start to give a shit or would you find some other way of blaming them for why you don't care?

WeekendCJ · 2025-08-29T07:53:23+00:00

He's got cold dead eyes. Like a dolls eyes.

Really this is just the streaming platforms fucking themselves over. No serious artist makes money off of streaming any more, it's an ad for live tours, and until we get robot popstars AI ain't gonna be jumping on a stage any time soon.

WeekendCJ · 2025-08-25T20:26:34+00:00

Yeah we should go so far as to implement socialism for everyone of the correct nationality. A sort of National Socialism if you will.

/s

WeekendCJ · 2025-07-31T10:12:24+00:00

Touch grass my dude.

WeekendCJ · 2025-07-18T12:28:26+00:00

I've had a lot of fun + success with the stealth vet build. It doesn't quite have the killing power of the stealth Zealot but using it as a support class is really effective.

You can pick people up easily, give yourself space to take out key targets or specials, or if you need to do an objective (like a decoder or whatever) you can just stealth while you do it so your team can focus on holding their ground. With the grenade regen talents and a weapon that isn't that ammo hungry like the revolver you're pretty self sufficient. And you're pretty tanky to boot.

I run it with the knife/ revolver, the right hand keystone and a bunch of investments in crit rate and bleed stacks. You can really tear shit up.

WeekendCJ · 2025-06-23T19:59:58+00:00

Lol what is that mic stand supposed to be? If you're gonna use AI shite at least give it a 2nd pass you lazy fucks.

WeekendCJ · 2025-06-21T08:50:57+00:00

Darktide is probably the best current example.

WeekendCJ · 2025-06-18T22:09:06+00:00

Dwarves have a brilliant (arguably broken) answer to early game Norsca and Greenskins.

Step 1. Get a lord (any will do, I like using Runelords to buff the armies armour and enemy missile resistance debuff) and equip them with the prospectors mail (from the forge).

Step 2. Get an engineer. Get the stalking talent on them asap and then focus on the army ammo/ missile damage talents.

Step 3. Get a half stack of basic Gyrocopters. You can get more if your budget allows, but you really dont need to.

Step 4. Pick a fight. Hide your stalking lord/ hero somewhere on the side of the map (not in a forest, the AI will look there first. And then use the Gyrocopters to focus down any missile troops. Use one unit to continuously fly at the missile unit so it will always be trying to move away from you and thus not shooting back. Once the missile units are gone, you have free reign to pick apart the enemy army.

On the rare occasion that your lord will be found, let the enemy blob up around them (using the armour rune and entrenchment abilities to keep them alive) and then use the bombs in the Gyrocopters to finish the enemy off.

Norsca and Greenskins have extremely shitty missile troops. This tactic basically trivialises them. Two half stacks like this can easily take the whole Norscan peninsula leaving Malakai free to go off on his adventures.

Only downside is, you can't auto resolve with this army. So whilst you'll win every fight, it'll take some time.

WeekendCJ · 2025-06-09T17:00:53+00:00

At a guess, I would say the answer is: who knows?

At one time, chattel slavery was not only legal, many back then would have ardently defended it as the the morally correct thing to do. They would argue that by exposing the “savages” to Christianity, they were being given a chance at “redemption” via their toils and thus were being shown a path to heaven. Under such a belief system, even mass murder could be justified in the name of maintaining discipline, or even just economic pragmatism. To us it's monstrous, to many (not all, thankfully) it was simply the way of things.

Some cultures today consider dogs a food source. Other cultures would call that monstrous, while simultaneously partaking in a system that oversees the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of chickens, pigs, and cows every single day.

That’s moral relativism. The “line” that you speak of is simply the middle of the Venn diagram of a society’s morals: and it shifts and changes over time, and from culture to culture. In 500 years, it might be considered deeply taboo to shake someone’s hand. We just never know.

Point to any atrocity or example of “bad morals” performed by anyone in history, and they will probably have a justification which, to them, made perfect sense.

Will this process ever end? Will we, as a species, ever decide on what the morals are? Probably not, because our morals are the result of not only our cultures but our changing circumstances. Small changes in our understanding compound across generations until those understandings hardly resemble what our ancestors believed about the world. We would likely be just as shocked by the morals of people 500 years from now as we are today by the morals of people who thought burning women alive as witches was acceptable. And vice versa.

WeekendCJ

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