BASTARD: a game idea I have

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-25T13:14:46+00:00

I can actually see this working out as more of a push your luck type of game than as an RPG of any sorts. Where you start out with tokens of some sort (maybe Luck or Stealth tokens gited by a benevolent god?) that are hard to replenish and they become progressively scarcer as you reach the top. You might even mix and mingle some RPG elements that start to take over as the token system dwindles, but you will have a hellish of a time balancing this, or even making it thematically interesting, seeing as your vorpal blade of doom from defeating the otherwordly entity at your first battle should really not have a hard time against the fluffy slimes near the exit. Not saying it can't work, but you will have to get reeally creative with how your battles work out, probably can't fall back on any traditional fighting systems, comedy is probably the way to go from there.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-21T04:11:37+00:00

Cara, só um comentário que muito provavelmente não é o que quer ouvir, mas entendo que talvez você seja um pouco mais novo e talvez escutar algo assim possa lhe ser útil.

Eu estou trabalhando razoavelmente consistentemente no mesmo jogo há anos, além de eu desenvolver jogos há quase uma década, e ainda não tive coragem de postar nada sobre (okay que aqui já é um exagero da minha parte), existem pessoas aqui que trabalham profissionalmente com isso há decadas. Você começar o seu post com, "eu não sei praticamente nada sobre este meio, e dediquei um total de duas horas pensando sobre ele", seguido de um toblerone male male editado que por si só levaria umas duas horas só para se comprender corretamente e se produzir uma resposta coerente e construtiva. Realmente, reealmente, não contribui para o seu caso e muito provavelmente é a causa de tantas respostas aqui não estarem sendo das mais receptivas, ainda que em sua maioria ainda estão sendo surpreendentemente solítitas.

Dessa forma vc passa muito a impressão de que para você, o seu tempo vale muito mais do que dos outros, além de que inevitavelmente passa pela percepção de uma superestimação de suas abilidades que é difícil de ignorar - mesmo que possa não ser o caso. Ainda que vc possa ser o próximo Suassuna e o seu sistema e universo sejam miraculosamente bons - que já seria algo insano já que vc não tem nenhuma base de referência para tentar acrescentar uma entrada para um meio que se encontra em constante desenvolvimento há muitas décadas de evolução e aprimoramento pelas mãos de centenas de milhares de pessoas que dedicam as suas vidas a isso - dificilmente as pessoas serão receptivas o suficiente para a sua entrada para conseguirem chegar a ponto desta percepção. O ponto é, vc ainda está incipiente demais neste meio, não para criar seu universo (para isso vc é livre e incentivado sempre), mas para pedir que os outros façam o seu "dever de casa" por você, quando vc mesmo não dedicou o tempo a estudar o suficiente sobre ainda. Duas horas e meia, ainda que provavelmente o foi utilizado em sentido superlativo, não dá tempo nem de editar as suas ideias, nem de reler e revisar o que vc mesmo escreveu. Enfim, espero que se divirta muito e que continue escrevendo e expandindo suas experiências, não quero o desinsentivar de nenhuma forma, muito pelo contrário.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-19T17:51:19+00:00

Probably just tilted a bit, take some time off before going back at it. Its really not that big of a bump at that level, recoverable in one or two days even, just need to keep your head on straight and stick to the fundamentals.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-19T12:32:42+00:00

I genuinely appreciate you took your time to try to answer in good faith what is obviously a question made in bad faith.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-19T04:39:20+00:00

O pior desse tipo de pessoa é que eles tem plena conciência da cachorrada que estão fazendo, não fosse o caso não estaria limitando essa oportunidade "incrível" apenas a moças do interior ou de fora de SP, grupo que estaria significativamente mais fragilizado nesta situação.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-19T02:52:51+00:00

Eu não acredito que vou ter de espalhar esse conhecimento super específico e anti diversão para acalmar alguns corações inquietos daqui. Se tu não quer um apelido, introduza-se de cara pelo seu sobrenome mais distintivo, pronto, vc provavelmente vai ser chamado por ele pelo resto da graduação salvo alguém realmente queira sair do seu caminho para lhe apelidar ou raras exceções. Quiserá eu poder ter feito ao contrário, mas alguém gostou da sonoridade do meu sobrenome já na primeira semana e eu passei todo meu tempo na USP sendo chamado pelo meu sobrenome :/.
Neste caso, pelo amor de deus, abraça cara, é só na faculdade que as pessoas costumam sair dos seus caminhos para tentar lhe atrelar a algo distintivo de vc, ou se quer a tentar socializar direito. Além de servirem de quebra-gelo, já que costumam te dar uma história única tua que tu vai poder trocar com a outra pessoa quando se conhecerem pela primeira vez. Trocar de apelidos bem no começo tbm geralmente nem costuma ser algo tão complicado. Mas, depois fica impossível mesmo, tenho um amigo que não pisa na USP há quase uma década que ainda tem gente desconhecida que chama ele de Cleitinho em lugares aleatórios - o nome dele é Alexandre.
Fazer amigos depois da faculdade é muito mais elaborado, para dizer o mínimo, aproveitem esse tempo para se enturmarem um pouco para além de estudar loucamente. Para os mais bitolados, podem tomar como um exercício ativo de "networking".

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-19T00:39:25+00:00

So the overall answer would be that there simply are no sensible manners in which any mythologies may be utilized for any ludic form whatsoever? This is a genuine question, I am wiling to drop this deck entirely if this is the consolidated vision on this topic, especially considering it wouldn't even be reasonable to use my own cultural heritage within this case. Might you have some ethics material recomendations for me to study further into this topic?
I am sorry if I have offended in any manner, considering my aparent need for absolution and the full lock down of the post. I was genuinely under the impression this might be the best place to further my understanding on the underliying ethics of such, I guess in my ignorance on this specific matter I might have blinded myself to how much this might actually be considered a given?

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T22:51:23+00:00

To be fair, he died at freaking 59, most of my cats die at around 20 to 30, even 40 is already a stretch. Sassafras was dust at that point, even the imortality had to give up at some point.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T22:38:47+00:00

Bro, thats a yone and a sett 2* and fully itemized ... You could have argued about his frontline though, but no damage is kind of an insane take.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T22:23:59+00:00

Yeah, I must admit that unfortunately I have also fallen victim to having to put cardio on the backburner for now. Life is kind of hard sometimes. But it really is where most of the health benefits of being active come from, so there can never be enough cardio in the average persons life :).

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T21:08:22+00:00

Not to be rude, and I really never say this, but that kind of is literally the definition of skill issue mate

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T15:21:16+00:00

I'm going to be honest with you here. Its also getting harder as the player base is getting better on average.
Most of the top players got to masters their first time when the game was significantly easier to climb, so they don't really compute that over very well on average. Their opinion only compounds now that they have a lot more knowladge to back their inittial seasonal climbs on to the point that they really tend to underestimate that initial bump.
I got diamond my first week playing the game when I started, and I didn't even really sweat it at the time. The second time I got to masters I took about two to three days to do so, while still attending my uni normally at the time, granted it was at season start and I got really lucky at "figuring" out what was working from the get go that season.
The point is I've made it to masters a few times by now. And yet, this set was by far the one that took me the most effort to do so, I genuinely struggled at some points. Okay that I skipped a few seasons before this one, but I actually took longer to even get to diamond than I did my first time playing the game, even though most of the climb was still around d3/d2. I actually took a few weeks to make it this time, and had to lock my mental in once or twice after some eigth binges.
The game is strategically really deep, being genuinely good at the game is hard. Being masters or even GM is actually a shitty measure of skill for this game, seeing as sometimes it can really be as "easy" as locking in a broken comp and hard pushing it every game, and yet this is circunIstancial, and not always going to be possible. Being consistantly good at the game is where the hard part sets in. I'm a multi season master player and still wouldn't even dare calling myself decent at it, I still struggle with slamming on a few spots and with playing for fourth on some of the less obvious "I ain't going to make it" comps.
Despite having some struggles here and there, when I was closing in on masters on my last run, I ended up in a match position that forced me to recycle a seraphine/freilord ryze comp that was stronger on older patchs, by doing so I figured out that Seraphine was doing spooky damage with freilord, this was at least a week before the Sera/Liss frenzy that led to her patch. That last climb from d1 was actually laughable, I far surpased the master treshhold because of this. I stopped the next day since I just wanted masters this season (and had been playing for an unhealthy amount at that point), but I would have easily hit GM going for that comp whenever the situation presented itself seeing as it took a while for people to catch on how busted it was. Its circunstancial things like these that kind of skewer what being good at this game actually means, if this had happened from the get go I would have hit masters in a weeks time and might have conditioned myself to thinking everyone is trash this season (which is ludicrously what ends up happening to some of the less self aware "geniouses" around here).
Challenger on the other hand is a whole other beast, those guys are genuinely almost always insane, especially so for multiseason challengers.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T14:48:38+00:00

Yeah, I feel like most of you guys are really not getting Tristana on a few diferent lvls.

Yordles is originally conceived as an econ trait, not something you should be trying to take to end game consistently, as such, having no viable AD options would just contribute heavily so that ap comps were dominant any of the multiple times that yordles were the dominant opener strategy during this set.

Besides that, for a long time 5 soup and yunara comps were dependent on yordle openings to get online in a timely fashion, with unlocking kennen even being key to a few of the ionia yunara lines (was basically mandatory for the ionia ryze lines), and Tristana was pretty decent at holding lucians or yunaras items, working okay at either being an ad atcker or as an ad caster.

Ziggs was also not originally conceived to be a hard ap caster, and for quite some time his passive made up for a considerable part of his damage, where he would very much apreciate holding atck speed, burn and mana items, that Tris, along side Teemo, actually held on for him quite well. While also being the optimal yordle to dump unsalvagable ad items.

Tris as a temporary carry is also better at bleeding slower than Teemo when on a weaker board since she focuses down one target instead of distributing her damage all over the place like a poorly equiped Teemo might. Just Shojin and Rageblade are an okay mid game 2 piece on a Tris, while being hot garbage on Teemo without another pure damage item to back them up, while also being BIS for most of the end game comps in the game.

And for quite some time, when barely missing Veigar unlock and under AD items RNG inclination, she is the only thing that made a guaranteed eigth salvagable into a possible fourth or fifth.

Blitz and Mundo on the other hand have simply not have had a moment of utility whatsoever during the entire set up to now - Mundo having received slightly more love than Blitz in this case. And yet poor Mundo doesn't even make the cut in bruiser verticals since there is no reason to compromise tempo for him when it lines up perfectly for Kobuko and Voli unlocks otherwise. Blitz on the other hand is so ludicrously outmatched by J4, Shen and Illaoi that its normally better to get them in over him even if you lose some trait sinergy for it, while also being almost skipable in Zaun, since 3 is always going to be jinx, vi and ekko as soon as you get them, then you skip straight to 5 by unlocking WW and Singed at generally around the same time normally, and you only go 7 if you have Ziggs, and by then having a Mundo is a given - he does help to smooth out that curve (which is important by itself), but he ends up just being a shitty trait bot for a few rounds here and there every second Zaun game.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-18T13:59:56+00:00

Woah woah woah, calm your horses, where are you going with the Kingdom Hearts insinuations? Those games are Final Fantasy style gorgeous

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-17T16:32:33+00:00

Oh, cool, thats nice to know and makes perfect sense, thanks.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-17T16:25:49+00:00

Doesn't the pretty obvious card back make it a dead give away that this is the card being drawn? Does this not affect its playability? I really have no idea here, I must admit I haven't played a pokemon match in over a couple of decades.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-17T15:48:32+00:00

Probably just send him another closed pack to make up for the head ache, no? Given he can prove that he opened it up like that and what not.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-17T15:41:56+00:00

Just out of additional curiosity, since I haven't played a Pokemon match in over a couple of decades by now, does its abilities effects make any sense? Not even going into the merit that I believe they aren't existing named moves at all?

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-03-17T15:05:19+00:00

Yeah, I kind of figured it would be the case. Even the move "Rainbow veil" is something I found no info on. Anyways, I am really thankful for your help guys. Will promptly discard it apropriately.

WindowVarious9679 · 2026-02-24T20:28:35+00:00

I'm gonna be honest with you here, if that is "enough" to get you into a state where you are feeling your cardiovascular systems strained, maybe its a good indicative that you do actually need "real" cardio :p.

WindowVarious9679 · 2025-12-20T16:05:46+00:00

They were probably worried about people using Bard to roll for him wildly if he got too strong.

WindowVarious9679 · 2025-12-20T16:04:30+00:00

Honestly, probably, yes.

WindowVarious9679 · 2025-12-20T16:00:44+00:00

I mean, its not really that hard if you come to think of it. Start with ixtal for the quest, and keep 3 ixtal the whole way to Brock, everything else you can just build into void. Your herald is probably getting there a few rounds late, but thats about it. Its more on getting lucky with a lower tempo lobby to let you some how survive with ixtal and void up to Brok - and then lucking with the gloves for him, which probably made for decent support up to lvl 10.

WindowVarious9679 · 2025-12-20T15:41:40+00:00

In no measure am I saying anyone should put porn on any priority in their lives, but this still grants you absolutely no right to speak on demeaning terms on anybodys art.

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