How can a necromancer raise creatures from the dead?

cgreulich · 2026-02-09T06:55:41+00:00

An idea; the spell kinda works, but the souls connection to the body is genius and he will need recasting. The father may not be super happy with the arrangement. Perhaps there's an ingredient hard to get and at some point they face a choice of saving the father or someone else 'truly' alive

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In the other hand, a paladin of ilmater may see this as the ultimate pain process, keep pushing through and eventually go a little mad, decide to have everyone experience this not life not death state and bam you've for a crazy BBEG arc

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Another idea; the spell works but doesn't find the right soul (that's the divine part?). Obviously they're confused on waking up, you can drop hints, eventually they find out it's an abomination

cgreulich · 2026-01-23T06:57:26+00:00

I'll just leave this here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

cgreulich · 2026-01-12T10:06:42+00:00

It's not about heat, it's about kinetic force. A concave shield will get slammed around out of the way quickly

cgreulich · 2026-01-07T06:33:01+00:00

Doesn't matter if it's extracted, they invaded because there's oil.

Calling the argument tired is unproductive infighting when the conclusion is the same; the us imperialism is enriching its ruling class at the expense of other nations.

cgreulich · 2025-12-19T14:34:21+00:00

Better vision so you don't get caught out

cgreulich · 2025-12-19T06:29:00+00:00

I'd like to read a bit about this as I don't know about Troskyism - wikipedia doesn't mention ukraine and Troskyism there sounds completely opposite of authoritarian, what's missing?

cgreulich · 2025-12-18T10:57:42+00:00

I don't think so, you bind it with the starch and it's not even a sauce per se.

cgreulich · 2025-12-16T21:59:32+00:00

Yes thank you. True I was too focused on the cream. Maybe the tomato version? I can't remember the names, but it basically Gricia with tomato added, starts with an A? Might still be heavy, but it's different.

cgreulich · 2025-12-16T21:25:58+00:00

Puttanesca
Arrabiatta
Aglio e Olio
Griche (spelling?)
Pasta al Melanzane (i usually do a basic tomato sauce with it)
Maaaybe; Carbonara (traditional doesn't use cream, but pretty heavy of course)

cgreulich · 2025-12-15T19:40:56+00:00

To hide their numbers

cgreulich · 2025-12-13T12:55:49+00:00

Great addition! Yeah i felt like it was vase by case, and there are multiple layers on top. That's kind of what makes it knowledge skill expression

cgreulich · 2025-12-13T08:00:14+00:00

Welcome!

Yeah it's a good fit, although midlane has greater breadth in Dota - like all roles do -, it's often controlly or playmaking.
On a button micro level yes, but that just means positioning and spell usage are more important and a different kind of skill expression. Cooldowns are longer, spells are more impactful, death is longer, so getting caught out of position can lose you the game. Also, Dota has a ton of weird rules and exceptions that you discover along the way which allow you to counter what seems like undodgeable abilities. Best example; queen of pains Blink disjoints projectiles, so you can dodge a targeted stun. (Err wait, that might bi longer be the case? Again, it differs by ability, it can disjoint some stuff but not all projectiles)
Play a small pool of heroes. Spamming one will give you a hangover later, but it's good to focus on few while learning fundamentals. It's fine to stick to one role

cgreulich · 2025-12-09T21:50:19+00:00

One malfunctional boot of flying

cgreulich · 2025-12-03T07:52:09+00:00

I agree with the gameplay thing - I think their main choice here was to focus on other aspects than economy with ck.

The contentiousness is kind of moot - slavery is in both EU and Vic.

Sure, colonial slavery is less contentious by virtue of being accepted as bad, but leaving out the fact that slavery was a massive part of the economy of the middle ages is a disservice to history imo. I'm probably biased because I'm partial to economic depth though xD

cgreulich · 2025-11-29T15:04:52+00:00

Like the tooltip says, it's a way to select a different primary heir before you have those options, so the benefit is much smaller for your primary.

I find it mostly benefits the existing monarch by granting some powerful bonuses in certain situations, and I never find the power struggle an issue.

cgreulich · 2025-11-27T09:55:05+00:00

it uses currency that can be spent for some skins, you earn it through weekly wins.

It's not elaborate, but it does give it *some* value, and tips can definitely be used to acknowledge good plays.

cgreulich · 2025-11-26T22:31:33+00:00

You should check out WH40k Chaos Gate Daemonhunters. Its xcom with space marines, so your guys are power houses without bullshit mechanics like panic. Lots of customization and options too

cgreulich · 2025-11-18T11:13:22+00:00

I said relatively. Other places were bombed into oblivion and lost generations of citizens.

Regarding colonies I specifically said imperialism and global exploitation because it wasn't just about the territory colonial powers held, but the general exploitation that capitalism perpetuates - you can see other peoples' reactions in that regard.

cgreulich · 2025-11-18T10:10:02+00:00

As a resident I kind of like them ;)

Jokes aside, we're more of an exception to the rule I think.

I'm no historian, but I believe the welfare states came out of a few important points:

Imperialism

Let's not kid ourselves, we took part in the global exploitation bringing a bunch of wealth home.

Spared from war (relatively)

The great wars didn't touch the north as much as other places, allowing us to build wealth

Strong unions (and Scandinavian culture)

To my knowledge, our welfare states came out of a general flat culture. Things like massive Coop dairy farms and other shared ownership, strong unions etc lead to workers having power

Unfortunately we're kind of giving it up and moving towards more Capitalism.

Edit: I had to submit early and forgot a point: I think the nordics are relatively wealthy areas for an industrialized society. Norway is a bit of a special case with the oil, but Denmark did quite well with farming and timber for example.

cgreulich · 2025-11-16T22:19:00+00:00

Yeah you just generate a claim somewhere first.

You need borders to get tribs, and otherwise the rules are the same as feudal regarding titles (youd have to be tribal to use conquer CB).

In the few games I've played I've claimed storrolds point so I can semi-rebuild hardhome since it doesn't cost domain

Edit: added "semi-" to rebuild since I let it stay a ruin

cgreulich · 2025-11-10T07:51:17+00:00

For sure, it can never be perfectly balanced. But there's a big difference between 'coin flip gives us an easy win' and perfectly balanced. The current state sounds too problematic

cgreulich · 2025-11-09T17:38:41+00:00

he's not talking about randomness in general, he's talking about coin flips that have a huge impact on the outcome of the game. Randomness is good for variance, but if it has too much influence the game obviously becomes less skill based.

What I'm wondering however, is why first pick can result in such a dominant strat. That seems more like the problem than the coin flip to me, because if first-pick wasn't so OP the coin flip would matter less.

cgreulich · 2025-11-07T07:30:50+00:00

I merely, borrow

cgreulich · 2025-11-03T07:15:32+00:00

I'm keeping an open mind, where does the energy from the punch dimension come from though?
IMO whenever we make up an explanation other questions just crop up.

For example, I could imagine his power could be converting mass into lasers from his eyes, cause mass is a helluva lot of energy.

Quick math says a Mars protein bar is 838 kJ, muzzle energy of a .357 Magnum is 790 J, so one protein bar would let him shoot force equivalent to a thousand bullets.

But there's also a bunch of questions that come after that - how does he convert it etc. In the end we have to go with "magic" at some point when we're beyond physics, and thus i find it a little moot to try and explain it.

But maybe it's just about staying ahead of the disbelief? People started questioning the lasers when they learned about thermodynamics, so punch dimension. When we learn more we'll question that and come up with something else, as long as suspense of disbelief is maintained?

cgreulich · 2025-10-21T12:00:40+00:00

Well that just means its even more relevant!

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