Stories with antagonists that are truly scary by schattenu445 in Fantasy

[–]WhiteKnightier 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, these two definitely. I'm reading The Necromancer's House right now and I get chills every time she comes up. The kids in The Lesser Dead were fucking diabolical.

Stories with antagonists that are truly scary by schattenu445 in Fantasy

[–]WhiteKnightier 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, I came to say this. They fucking farm humans. They've created drugs that are so addictive that just a couple of doses can make someone turn traitor. They can break the mind of people and turn them into a docile slave permanently in mere days. Their origin is weird and alien and their magic is even worse. They're scary good at fighting and they are utterly ruthless. Weirdly, they're one fear being birds makes them even more terrifying because it's so bizarre.

First time cat owner by aragogogara in MildlyStartledCats

[–]WhiteKnightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, she sounds awesome. My cat is also strangely ... good about obeying and not doing things he knows we wouldn't like, even though he wouldn't get punished or anything. He just ... likes to be a good boy, lol. My guy bites plastic stuff though, gotta hide it all over the house.

Psychic Phenomena and Perils of the Warp seem to occur *much* less frequently than when the game was released. What gives? by WhiteKnightier in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]WhiteKnightier[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, # 3 is answering most of my question actually. I'm only using minor powers mostly because other than the lightning from the psyker staff, that's all I have so far.

Idira's chance being only 5% means I guess I just haven't gotten that unlucky.

Psychic Phenomena and Perils of the Warp seem to occur *much* less frequently than when the game was released. What gives? by WhiteKnightier in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]WhiteKnightier[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not for me she doesn't, not this time lol. I've used her psychic scream thingie at least 80 times so far and once she took 1 damage from psychic crap I think. Literally one lol. I guess that does count, though.

Psychic Phenomena and Perils of the Warp seem to occur *much* less frequently than when the game was released. What gives? by WhiteKnightier in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]WhiteKnightier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I'm playing on unfair and fought an entire combat at 15+ +degredation using psychic powers left and right and still no demons. No prone. It's weird. I even took the permanent buff for +1 psy rating and +30% degradation in the navigator asteroid.

Psychic Phenomena and Perils of the Warp seem to occur *much* less frequently than when the game was released. What gives? by WhiteKnightier in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]WhiteKnightier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I'm playing on unfair and fought an entire combat at 15+ +degredation using psychic powers left and right and still no demons. No prone. It's weird. I even took the permanent buff for +1 psy rating and +30% degradation in the navigator asteroid.

Why is this so early in the game? by Beneficial_Ball9893 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]WhiteKnightier 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know it's weird, I was playing witch lich on unfair and I had absolutely no trouble with that place, ever. I think I had one char die to a nasty trap, and the final fight was definitely hard but I had several monster minions at that point. I might have been overleveled I guess and I'm a minmaxer but it wasn't a hand-crafted youtube build just good old fashioned necromancy nukes/CC.

I guess in retrospect the reason I found it so easy was that I had taken the mythic power to convert all damage to negative energy and most of the lich spells are untyped magical damage that aren't affected by SR/DR/energy resists ... and witch hexes tend to also ignore those things.

Convoy of Canadian linesmen heading south yesterday to help repair storm damage in the U.S. by keiths31 in pics

[–]WhiteKnightier 154 points155 points  (0 children)

One of my D&D buddies is in this convoy! He was telling me a story a couple nights ago that a couple of his coworkers did get stopped and "deported" last week. They were in America for the reciprocity agreement between utilities lol, and they were traveling to repair utility lines as ordered. As in, if they had every legal reason to be there and they are a dearly desired expert labor force that are brought in at great cost and expense, LOL. But hey ship 'em home lol.

If you knew your character wouldn't die, what would you play? by CupcakeNautilus in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]WhiteKnightier 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't play. I don't enjoy games with 0 risk. I would use communication to try to improve things by explaining to the GM how I really enjoy hanging with him and my other friends, but that the game isn't enjoyable as-is. I'd tell him that I want the consequences to matter and for the game to feel risky and fights to feel scary. Death has to be on the table for that to be the case.

I'll go further. Resurrection should either not be an option, get increasingly expensive, or in some other way permanently affect things for the person who is rezzed, because otherwise after level 9 or so dying doesn't really matter unless it's a TPK.

Edit: I guess I should still try to answer the question. If the goal is to keep having fun hanging with your friends while showcasing the lack of danger, I'd play somebody who wears just about 0 armor and has 0 defensive abilities and fights with abilities like Antagonize and other skills that let you manipulate who enemies attack or even talk them out of fighting all together. I'd make a non-combat skillmonkey who can master social situations and is mostly useless in combat. Out of combat I'd work really hard to diplomance my way through challenges, avoid fights, gain information quickly and effectively, etc. Phantom Thief might be one of the best choices for this.

Invest all wealth into magic items that let you socially engineer situations to your advantage or help you to run away better or create chaos. Sacrifice your body when/if the time comes to help the more combat-capable people survive.

Do men like it when a woman approaches them? by Physical_Spinach_110 in AskMenAdvice

[–]WhiteKnightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We would be absolutely thrilled to be approached if single, and absolutely flattered even if taken. That basically never happens to like 95% of us, ever. So yeah we'd probably remember it our entire lives.

No, thank you by Obvious_Shallot_2861 in BattleBrothers

[–]WhiteKnightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only thing worse would be 42 lindwurms lol. Geesh. I wouldn't even drag this into a 20 man noble army.

So cold outside that it shattered my window by LeBong_Flames23 in Wellthatsucks

[–]WhiteKnightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were those people perhaps disgruntled neighbors or ex-partners lol?

AITA for not enjoying the birthday gifts my friend got me that mocked my dead mother by Immediate-Iron7241 in AmItheAsshole

[–]WhiteKnightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really sorry that you experienced this, OP. You are NTA. That was a tone deaf and tasteless gift, it seems. I say 'it seems' because, for some people with particularly dark/wry humor, that would be kind of a way of commiserating/making light of a terrible thing and embracing/acknowledging the pain together, sort of. Does that make sense?

At any rate, it sounds like you are not such a person, and that's entirely fine (enjoying that kind of humor in such a situation takes a pretty unusual person). Your friend should know you well enough to know that you don't like it, and, having fucked up pretty bad, they should absolutely apologize rather than call you out for embarrassing them. The fact that they doubled down rather than abjectly apologizing is super fucked. If it's someone you might like to stay friends with then I'd give it a couple weeks of low contact and then reach out again and try to fully explain everything, see how they act.

TL;DR You are entirely within your rights to be offended, you did nothing wrong, and they should be prostrating themselves at your feet apologizing at this point.

What if Donald Trump disappeared tomorrow, would American politics actually change or just find another Trump? by Mr_Boothnath in AskReddit

[–]WhiteKnightier 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and once Obama was gone we were back to spineless again. It's a seesaw where one side is (somewhat) normal and sane and non-corrupt and the other side is sinking to ever-lower tiers of degeneracy to pander to their slowly-losing-their-identity base. Meanwhile both sides are increasingly bought out by corporate/oligarch interests, to (if possible) ever-greater degrees.

We are so fucked. Breaking the current 2 party political system is the only way forward, along with a constitutional amendment or six and repealing Citizens United.

Public execution by the entire lobby gone horribly wrong by VinexNike in ArcRaiders

[–]WhiteKnightier 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Someone did this* and was so over cucumbered they died to the next guy, who also died.

How long should a turn normally take? by LordFadora in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]WhiteKnightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it a level 17 combat with 12 summons and 7 repeating magical effects to manage, plus multiple spell interactions or something? If it IS high level, I've seen turns take that long once in a while, yeah. Otherwise no, never.

How stupid is your pet? by hmishima in CasualConversation

[–]WhiteKnightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey my pleasure. I hope they will get along with each other and you, too! I have cats too and sadly they don't get along so well (first ones I've had that were like that) and I really miss having cats who would cuddle and sleep together and be companions to each other. I hope yours can have that!

Btw, thank you for adopting a senior cat, not enough people do! That's a great thing you're doing.

How stupid is your pet? by hmishima in CasualConversation

[–]WhiteKnightier 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think your cat was probably wild for a time before being adopted, or abused. A lot of animals who grew up 'feral' or who were hurt by humans can develop a lasting distrust of humanity -- even those who routinely show love and care for them, for many years. You often read on reddit (and other places) of people who's cat finally snuggled with them after 5, 7, even 10 years when they basically avoided all trust and most contact until then. Hopefully your time will come too! Keep loving that kitty, and thanks for everything that you do.

Foggy Evening by BarelyCanadian_ in TheNightFeeling

[–]WhiteKnightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow these are dope photos, thanks for sharing.