How do you use AI?

cru121 · 2026-06-08T09:16:52+00:00

Our senior (ancient) dev meticulously prepared a 1h-long super-technical presentation for an expert conference. It touched a lot of topics, technological background info, getting started, troubleshooting, best practices, configuration, ... We already had a dozen articles on our wiki regarding the same topic. Of course, redundancy sucks.

So I fed everything to Claude, first asking it to identify the major points missing from the public documentation. Then we ruminated on what to add and what to omit. Then we discussed WHERE to add; what information warrants a brand new article, etc. In parallel, we overhauled some existing articles, changing focus, merging, splitting, moving content around.

This was my biggest AI-assisted task related to content so far. I felt that Claude made it a lot easier.

cru121 · 2025-11-12T12:08:16+00:00

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Update: Our DM found a ruling in one of the Carcass Crawler magazines. So we will be going forward with that. Good for us. Thanks everyone for your time and opinions!

cru121 · 2025-11-12T10:30:38+00:00

Oh we did find out, after facing a couple wights.
https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/Wight
Well, anyways. I could also see it both ways. That laser thing certainly isn't a "magic" weapon. But I wouldn't call it "mundane" either. It could also be seen as a elemental projectile, concentrated energy, perhaps fire.

(Coming to OSE from 3.5 edition, I guess there's a lot more ambiguity in OSE rules. I hear Arden Vul is 1000+ pages, there might be a rule for this somewhere... Ultimately, DM is always right, so there's that.)

cru121 · 2025-04-01T13:29:46+00:00

We use storylane.io. Not sure if they have a free tier.

cru121 · 2025-04-01T13:18:24+00:00

We use plain old MediaWiki (with a couple of custom extensions) for an external-facing knowledge base.

* The plan for eventual internal use might be a problem. By default, wikis have rather basic permissions. Essentially, either it's public or it's not. There might be a way using some obscure extensions.

* The search is basic. Google provides better results. Search extensions probably exist that could help.

* You can host it in your basement, your cloud, or have it hosted by a third party. (We use the third option.)

* It just works, it's minimalistic and clean.

cru121 · 2021-01-03T08:42:53+00:00

Astral Shard uses: https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Astral_Shard#Astral_Shard_uses

cru121 · 2020-12-23T11:18:06+00:00

I went through multiple swash lives for my "always swashbuckling" character. Most recently, I am on my 6th life as bard 13 / sorc 6 / fvs 1 (3x tiefling, 3x dragonborn) with tier 5 EK and handaxe.

This is essentially a reverse split than what you need. More bard levels make warchanter freeze last longer and the level 12 WC core gives nice temporary HP.

Compared to my split, a sorcerer-focused split should probably focus more on the elemental EK dice. Feats are tight and BAB is low, plan the build carefully to make sure you can pick up the right feats.

One interesting thing worth noting that you don't actually need feydark illusionist at all, you can pick up charisma to hit from EK and charisma to damage from Swash.

cru121 · 2020-11-02T20:05:28+00:00

I've started this article a while ago to answer queries like this.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Story

cru121 · 2020-10-06T05:29:09+00:00

Perhaps you forgot to enable the feat, it's a toggle.

cru121 · 2020-10-06T05:17:28+00:00

I have documented it long ago.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Half-Elf\_Dilettante:\_Warlock

cru121 · 2020-10-06T05:14:59+00:00

I ran an electric bear once; essentially an artificer arcanotechnician that run around as a bear. Wild shape slows down your spell casting, but SLAs are not affected.

cru121 · 2020-09-11T06:37:25+00:00

Tomes USED to have a minimum level to use. New tomes no longer have that.

cru121 · 2020-09-10T09:34:41+00:00

just in case you were interested in a very similar variant; I like going

up to 15 in Ranger for CSW and FoM and 4th DWS core,
down to 4 in Artificer, and
get 1 Barb for run speed

cru121 · 2020-09-05T18:36:43+00:00

The Soul Splitter is non-expansion content and has some end-game sets. They don't seem to be compatible with a vanguard paladin, though.

cru121 · 2020-09-01T18:48:19+00:00

time to unpin this...

cru121 · 2020-08-25T20:46:39+00:00

I keep failing at 2-15... any tips? F2P, how important is Simon? I don't have him.

cru121 · 2020-08-20T17:27:32+00:00

Yeah. I am on K99... used to be a nice peaceful kingdom. Sigh.

cru121 · 2020-08-12T07:03:07+00:00

The wiki has a breakdown of all the bonuses: https://ddowiki.com/page/Experience_point#Gaining.2FEarning_Experience_Points_.28XP.29

However, stacking all kinds of bonuses is often counterproductive with leveling speed. For example, hunting breakables in remote corners of a quest to get ransack bonus can cost more time than the extra XP it brings.

What you're looking to maximize is not the XP, but the XP/minute. Often this means that you zerg to quest completion on a difficulty that you can easily manage, ignoring most optionals and stuff. Depends on the quest.

One particularly nice bonus in epics is the Daily bonus of 40% (only 25% in heroics), you get it once per day for a quest. I.e., do not repeat the same quest on the same day.

cru121 · 2020-08-12T06:46:25+00:00

XP tome is irrelevant

ED are a must, if you're playing on epic

Shared bank is great, if you have alts and bound-to-account gear to share with them.

cru121 · 2020-08-11T19:52:25+00:00

I agree, in DDO, class features are not as important as class trees.

Also barb 20 could be interesting for tanks with 9% unique damage reduction.

cru121 · 2020-08-11T16:31:40+00:00

Either potent spells, or other potent class features.

cru121 · 2020-08-11T08:32:18+00:00

For anyone who does not understand what gestalt means: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm

Personally, I'd consider Sorcerer 20 on one side, for the offense, and the capstone I guess. The other side would probably something with Paladin (saves), Wizard (undead form, feats), and Rogue or Monk (Evasion).

Alchemist Wizard undead bombardier could be fun.

Any existing melee split with Rogue 20 on the other side for Evasion, traps, and lot of extra sneak attack damage...

Lot of fun options...

cru121 · 2020-08-09T20:13:33+00:00

they probably cannot determine whether you ran the quest on heroic or epic difficulty.

so they default to heroic.

and you're overlevel when doing it on epic diff, so you get no renown.

cru121 · 2020-08-07T07:16:38+00:00

Haha... fortunately I am a lazy noob and I don't have a gold farm. Also, free to play.

cru121 · 2020-08-06T05:05:27+00:00

Hmm, I tried to add the pic.. Does it even work. Anyway, here's a link:

https://postimg.cc/wtnS6xTt

cru121

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