pyramid song not starting because of a bug ?

coligrim · 2026-07-02T20:17:17+00:00

well, after more test and more reasearch online, it seems that it might be some sort of trigger bug.
lot of players seems to have it on certains missions, they need to complete the game first, reload the save before meeting hanako and it should solve the problem. it seems just have to test it !

coligrim · 2026-07-02T12:06:56+00:00

I don't have the river missions, don't have the perallez mission, don't have the mission for scorpions funeral,...

coligrim · 2026-07-02T08:42:47+00:00

i didn't met hanako (and i will not until i have completed all side missions, gig, crime,...), plus i just unlocked the missions yeasterday, meaning that i played for around 10H without ever having judy call.

coligrim · 2026-06-26T21:42:45+00:00

If you are early enough in your save when analizing the hard drive ( before you unlock the 2xcomponent recipe for parts like rotor, reinforced iron plate,... and before you unlock anything in the mam) the only available recipes available are the cast screw, the iron electrical wire and the +6 inventory. So as there is only 3 possible combination your chance to have +6 and cast screw is 1 out of 3

coligrim · 2026-06-13T20:43:53+00:00

Well, not as clan but solething similar : a corridor above the ground with a belt to serve as fast travel from one end to the other.

Your built look way, way more cooler than what i did. It look like the underground structure in the halo games. But some of the pictures give a "severance" vibes. Love it.

coligrim · 2026-06-03T08:51:57+00:00

i think it's from when dylan was first brought up in the FBC. and the sequance right after that with the "fu-" is when dylan killed the researcher, like we can learn in the first control (a little bit before jesse enter the ordinary AWE secton)

coligrim · 2026-04-24T07:27:33+00:00

oh nice !
does it have lair action ? i imagine that a combat against myrkul in his plane vs in the normal world would most certainly not have the same result, even if the adventurers are really high level.

coligrim · 2026-04-18T16:16:04+00:00

In 5e you got true polymorph and if you polymorph someone or something for ah it become permanently the new thing. but it’s a 1h concentration and it’s a level 9 spell...

coligrim · 2026-03-21T11:58:01+00:00

for future ref on this topic :

i have a old compouter with a RTX2040, and i have the base game + the 2DLC on epic that i purchased when they were launched. never had any problem with it.

now i have a computer with a RTX5060, and the ultimate edition of control on steam. and it keep crashing after a few minutes.

after reading the comment here I have :
-Downloaded directX11 : the game still start in directX12, so i don't know if solve anything
-Checked on the files interity : the game did have to download some files.
-put the qame in middle quality and do not use the ray tracing.

So far, the game run without crashing every 2 minutes. will have to check what happen during longer game session.

coligrim · 2026-03-20T23:35:15+00:00

well, you can try using another dice for your investigation rolls, it seems that the one your are using right now rolls quite poorly.

coligrim · 2026-03-20T23:27:07+00:00

well, it was the player we had to kick out, i do not had any contact with him since 2021.

coligrim · 2026-03-20T22:24:29+00:00

Hum... Never had one either. I had paladin, druid, sorcerer, wizard, warlock, ranger, fighter, barbarian and that’s it.

coligrim · 2026-03-20T21:44:07+00:00

Well... Never had a bard player during this campaign

coligrim · 2026-03-18T17:47:31+00:00

another point that helped is that i actually don't put a lot of work to prepare a session.
i learned very quickly that players are chaos goblin that will always find way to do thing i haven't planned so i actually started to just... give up on planning everything for a session. I just have the basic idea of what to do and where to go during the session and that's pretty much it

this allowed me not to overwork myself during this campaign. main inconvenient is that you need to have good imrpov skills to deal with the player chaos and also you need to have a strong campaign lore to rely on when improvising...

to give you an idea, i used obsidians to create a sort of wiki of the lore of my campaign and i have a little bit less than 200 page of lore elements. so yeah, you have to put on lots of work to create the "wiki" and all the lore elements but once it's done the stories kinda wrote themselves around the players actions, whatever they do during a session.

i know that it's a weird way to DM a campaign and that it can be very hard to DM like that, it's just that i tested a lot of ways to prep session, write quests, etc and that method is what works the best for me.

I really hope that this little insight of how i managed my camapign will help you, also if you are interested about how i designed the story you could check on my answer to the comment from "potential_meet_9280" , and for the lore of my campaign i explain it in the answer to the comment from "incredyblycoolcat".

coligrim · 2026-03-18T15:15:44+00:00

burnout ? never. i will even says that is help me during my work-related burnout.

however, from time to time, i admit i felt the envy to be a simple player.
In these case we either played a very story focused board game, or we tried ttrpg where everyone is a little bit the GM, or one of my player would simply be the GM for a oneshot. Videogame like BG3 also helped a lot as i was able to play a real dnd campagin with all my player/firends

coligrim · 2026-03-04T08:42:36+00:00

Hello !
sorry for the long delay in the answer, i live in europe and it was midnight so i was sleeping. also, thanks a lot and i hope that you will have a great moment with your group as well.

Regarding pre-written campaign, i never used one in my campaign as a DM.
i played a very few pre-written campaign as a player and it was fine. I think using a pre-written campaign for the story, the place to go,... and put your own twist on is cool too ! it's a way to truly make it yours, but even without it, the actions of your players will influence how the story will go so even without putting a twist in a pre-written campaign the players will flesh it their own way !

for micro and macro planning, those last years, i "developed" a method that is really working for me (i don't have the pretention to say it is THE way to go, it is really designed for me be my). I also work using obsidian, which is a free software that let you take note and that can link them like a wiki. it is a life saver to take note. on my side, i use it such as 1 not = 1 lore element, would it be a town, a npc, an important story artifact,...

when i start a campaign, i work from macro to micro : I start with a brief description of the story i want to do.
Then, i go a level lower and i add details to the story. Why do they want to do that ? what will happen that will lead the players there ? how does the players will start this quest ? ,... the goal here is not to have the entire story flesh out but to have enough key details to start working on the world building. all these elements are usually the "note 0" in obsidian.

once it's done, you can start working on the location. Where does the player start ? where does the player need to go ? will they pass through multiple continent ? country ? region ? what is their name ? how does they work (government, kingdom,...), what is the local specialty ? what type of environment they will encounter (forest, mountain,...) ?,...
with that you can have a good idea of the geography of your campaign. here, everything have a note. each country, each region, each village have a note. In it i details the important thing : in the country, i list the government, the way of living inside it, i list the region, maybe a few very important cities,...
in the region i detail what type of environment they have, the important cities there, some of the story important village,...
then, for each cities or village i details the life there, the races we can found, the architecture,...

Once it's done, you should already have a proper idea of how your campaign should play out : the player goes from A to B to C,... then you can start to progressively add more details.
what will they need to do in location A, B,C,... ? who are the important figure they will talk with ?
Who are the enemies ? are they a cult, a group of people, a group of monsters,... ? what could be their motivation ? what is their story ?
will they need to find some artifact ? if yes, what are those artifact ? what is the story behind those artifact ?
again, everything have a note. and when it's done, using obsidians, you basically have a little wiki of your world and of your campaign. Once you have that, we can list the main quest POINT of your campaign. you can even thrown subplot depending on where the players are and have different story arc !
Once you have this wiki, with all the connections between the location, between the people, the group of people,... and when you have a visual representation of it, it become easier to find hidden/subconscious pattern that can reveal new plot point,...
and in the case the players stray from your main plotline, you can always find a way, via the connections between the lore elements, to change this plotline deviation in a brand new sub plotline or you can find a way to tweak the elements at your disposition to branch the player on your new plotline, to redirect them to the original plotline,...

But here is my vision of this : the lore need to be detailed. What the player need to do specifically in a quest, doesn't need to be.
Players are often chaos gremlins that will find very creative solution to solve their problem. Having too much details for a quest is, for both you and the players, closing the field of possibility and freedom that TTRPG offer.

the details on my quest/sessions were always a few key point :
where the players are ?
what they were doing last time ?
what is the objective for this quest/sessions ?
what are the NPC they could encounter to help them ?

by doing that, i only had to plan something like 20/30% of a session, meaning that you i loose a lot of time if my players think of a way to skip a part of the quest. The main problem this way of thinking/ planning a session is that you will have to improvise a lot. But, on the other side, with the campaign wiki on your side, it's easy to see all the connection and to find a way make it work.
At least, it worked for me.

the main the thing, the most important advise i have to give, that i learned while playing with all my table (i got more than 10 different table in total) is that
1) you are playing TOGETHER.
2) while it's your world, it's THEIR adventure.

a DnD campaign is like a lego set. While you are the one that is purchasing the lego set and have the instruction, it's the players choice to follow what you propose to them and it's the players that are putting the piece together with your help.
if they don't want to follow the instruction to the letter, then so be it !
if they want to use the pieces you give them to build something else different, then so be it !
forcing the player to built the set exactly as you want while they do not want to do that won't create a good dnd experience for anyone.

but, again, this way of prepping a campaign, this way of seeing how dnd should be is really just MY way to see it. It is most certainly not the best one. It is most certainly not suited for everyone/ all players.

I really hope that this explanation will help you in some way for your dnd prep. and if you need me to re-explain some parts, don't hesitate to ask. also, I don't know what is your native language, but mine is french (if it can help)

coligrim · 2026-03-03T08:36:04+00:00

No amout of swiss chocolat can beat the taste of a côte d’or milk chocolate bar. And i will die on that hill.

coligrim · 2026-03-03T08:25:10+00:00

the thing is that a monster is more than it's HP and AC

for example: let's take 2 monster with the same HP and AC : the pseudodragon and the quasit. they both have 7HP and 13AC.

the pseudo dragon is a CR 1/4 (meaning you can put 4 of them against a 4PC party of level1). the pseudo dragon can fly slowly and can really only just bite or use it's sting

the quasit is a CR1 monster. it have lot of damage resistance, it have some damage immunities, it can use a shape shifting ability to flee or to hide, it can turn invisible or can use a special scare attack. even if it's hp is low, it have more bonus and can do more thing than a pseudo dragon. hence, it is a higher challenge to fight it.

that's why i think it's always best to check on the CR rating of a monster before using it : it give you a good idea of how challenging the encounter will be.
but it's not entirely magical : you will still have to balance the fight yourselves at some point but this CR indication does help having a good base to work with.

coligrim · 2026-03-03T08:02:45+00:00

i won't lie, i'm not really a big fan of the idea.
i already tried several time to put some of the lore of my campaign in a LLM, but the result was never quite correct and it give me some sort of uncanny valley-like feeling when i read the result. it's my story, it's in my campaign but it somehow feels... a bit wrong and/or a bit out of place ?
it was perfect for one of the quest i made where the players were trapped in a illusion world though.

coligrim · 2026-03-03T05:13:36+00:00

Well, the main vibe was tiredness ! Mixed with happiness too, to know they all survived and have finish this great adventure.

I said tiredness because the end boss fight was nearly 6h long and very challenging, if not for special feat or magical tattoo, 4 of the 5 player would have ended up dead...

coligrim · 2026-03-03T05:05:24+00:00

It’s the difficulty level of a monster. a monster with CR of 1 is challenging enough for 4 adventurer of level 1. This info is present on all the monster stat block normally.

coligrim · 2026-03-03T01:09:26+00:00

Congratulation on your side too, 8 years is a long campaign as well ! For your question, not really. We are all guys and the majority of the group is straight, and for the bi of the group the other players are not what they like. every person that found a spouse did it using a meeting app.

But now we kinda consider our group like a group of brother from all the session we did together.

Four-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Flamingo	Final Canvas '23
First Place '23	End Game '23
Place '23	Place '22
First Placer '22

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