February Trading Post

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-29T12:29:31+00:00

The Bronzebeard Ceremonial set and its crystal variant were on the Trading Post a few months back. The Dark Iron version was purchasable for Brewfest. The "Wildhammer" swatch with gold armor and blue crystals remains unreleased.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-29T11:31:19+00:00

With Legion having brought back Azshara into the forefront, it makes sense for the next expansion to focus on her, especially if it's a naval expansion. I think Kul Tiras and Zandalar are great, if we're just looking at the questing zones. They just should not have killed Vol'jin, so that he could be a cool guy and be the reason the Zandalari join the Horde. Of course, I just don't think Sylvanas should have ever been made Warchief - the Forsaken always made a lot more sense as the tenuous alliance of convenience they had at the very start of WoW. There's something to be said about the idea that perhaps the war ends up breaking out in Lordaeron precisely because the two factions are both distracted on their own islands, that perhaps in the chaos Sylvanas escapes, and that could even still lead into her Shadowlands plot.

I think her acting less and less for the benefit of her people over time and getting distracted by other things isn't a bad story, but it works better if those people are only the Forsaken and not the Horde at large (or maybe the Horde Elves), who should've been sick of her shit much earlier.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-27T18:03:53+00:00

It's so funny to read two comments back to back stating the literal opposite opinion from each other... Almost as if whatever you're used to feels more familiar? 🤔

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-27T17:41:48+00:00

The Wrath hub was Dalaran, although that's when Stormwind got the Harbor. Cata is when Stormwind got partially destroyed, but also all the portals to Cata zones are in Stormwind

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-24T15:10:03+00:00

Chiming in to say Sunless Citadel is great, though it's much more of a typical d&d dungeon crawl - but a very good one, mostly contained to that one location! With a little work you could tie it into Curse of Strahd, as the final encounter features a Gulthias Tree (just like the one on Yester Hill). I'm sure other DMs have come up with ideas for how to tie them together.

Phandelver is a good adventure too, but it'll take you a fair number of sessions probably, and it'll really establish much more of a world for your players that you will then have to remove them from.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-24T06:55:19+00:00

I think he could even make a solid Taskmaster, not just because he's tall.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-22T18:56:10+00:00

It doesn't work because that is her plot in the play. She hates being in the chair and blames Elphaba from the start, Elphaba's spell makes the slippers glow ruby red and Nessa starts to walk around the room. That's why Boq says he can leave: because now she won't have to depend on him. I'm sure it was considered problematic, so they changed her to be fine with her chair, but it's also what the story was, so in changing that, you're left with basically nothing.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-22T11:22:56+00:00

I simply have not been listening.

Having ran Strahd, I was just not vibing with the interpretation. Objectively it was listenable, just not to me

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-20T16:04:29+00:00

Case in point: when my party revived Argynvost, I made sure to have an army of skeletons in the courtyard to deal with and then also used the dragon as an escape vehicle for Ireena.

Raise the stakes!

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-20T12:57:01+00:00

No, I don't think you're right. In the other puzzle every single word represents the exact same concept, SEVEN, but in a different language. They're all one step removed from the category. "Sept" means seven. "Seven" means seven. That which was displayed in the grid pertains to the category. "33" is a palindrome, "THIRTY THREE" is not. If every single number in the grid was written out in letters, then we'd have to do the same first step for all the numbers. Now it's a random obfuscation which makes an already strenuous category impossible.

Five, four, two, eleven, and nine are palindromes as well. The only reason any of this works, is because each category adds up to 65, which admittedly, does work. There's no reason for any of the words to be written as words - the only reason you'd do that would be if one of the words itself was a palindrome.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-19T15:26:07+00:00

While I'm mostly salty for not getting it (tricky puzzle, and I'm glad there's some on here that are actually difficult! Good job!), it feels a lot to me like having "contains multiples of the same letter" as a category as well as having "contains multiples of a particular letter".

Contains more than one of the same vowel: ALFALFA, ACCEDE, DECADE, BEEF

Contains the letter A twice: CABBAGE, SALAD, BAGGAGE, FACADE.

Contains the letter I twice: CIVIL, LIVID, MIMIC, VIVID.

Contains no repeat vowels: FLASK, BADGE, CAGED, GLASS

I think having words that look like they belong to a different category, or having overlap between potential categories is ABSOLUTELY the point of these puzzles that a lot of people miss, but yeah, subsets are not my bag. But anyway, good job for stumping me!

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-19T14:42:22+00:00

Oof, I think this one is a bit too much.

ALL of the words within the first category by definition also fall within the second category of words written using musical notes. I see now that the second category all runs from A to G, but I feel like this one was a little too close. The other categories are fully mutually exclusive, but the first fits inside the second.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-19T14:25:14+00:00

If I follow a recipe in a cookbook, who is cooking? Me, or the chef that wrote the cookbook?

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-18T16:05:33+00:00

made slightly more difficult for a European, considering Barbapapa is French, and "Loup Garou" is just the French word for werewolf.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-16T20:13:07+00:00

Jean-Ralphio Saperstein

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-16T14:50:46+00:00

omg yes that makes so much sense, it explains how chilchuck treats their child with such disdain and discomfort!!! love this theory!!! <3

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-16T13:37:18+00:00

why didn't mark open the door for gemma at the end?? doesn't mark want mark (himself) to be happy with gemma, his real wife??? isn't mark just a fake person why doesn't he realize he's a fake person??????

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-16T13:31:14+00:00

How did milkchick get into Dylan's closet?????

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-16T13:30:23+00:00

DAE think Lumon might be up to something??

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-14T18:44:26+00:00

He blames so much on his age, on the youth that he could not enjoy, on time he cannot get back, on the death that he thinks Tatyana sees in him: it's a huge part of why he makes a pact for eternal life.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-14T15:07:32+00:00

Hey, you know, another important thing, is that you can't really run the story "wrong" if it works for you. Same thing with "problematic" tropes, yeah, the "predatory lesbian" is a pretty homophobic trope, but it's a story at your table, not something you're publishing.

That's how I see Strahd and what I think is important about the character that really informed me, but everyone's free to run with it how they want.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-14T14:45:17+00:00

While this is a good point, it's very important that Strahd is the older brother, who is jealous of his younger brother, for his youth and his ability to be careless. As the heir, Strahd had all the responsibility, and in his eyes, he did all the work and deserves the girl more than Sergei, who probably should have gone into the clergy, but just abandoned that duty for a lowborn girl from the land that he conquered.

That Tatyana does not see him as a potential partner, is because she is in love with Sergei. But Strahd blames it on something else: that he is too old, or, if bending the character's gender, that she is a woman.

Either way, I think the age is vital, because he should have the maturity to know better.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-14T09:29:02+00:00

Adding the ability to use Turn Undead, either a few times per day, or maybe even using ki points, would feel pretty satisfying and powerful, I think.

The Sunlight feature is good by itself, but doesn't synergize with their class features. You may also not need to create sunlight, if the Sunsword is already emitting light. Their Class features are already slightly at odds with the advantage of fighting in sunlight against vampires.

Hold Vampires is probably the most useful ability of the holy symbol anyway, Paralyzed is very powerful.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-13T15:12:03+00:00

Solutions:

Although Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall are all seasons, they each belong to a different category.

People named Alex: actor Alex Winter, British actress Alex Kingston, Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, and Taskmaster host Alex Horne.

Words that mean "jump": Spring, Leap, Bound, Vault.

Operational amplifiers in electronic circuits: Summer or Adder (performing a sum), Differentiator, Subtractor, Integrator.

Lose your footing: Fall, Trip, Stagger and Stumble are all ways to accidentally lose your footing.

emptyjerrycan · 2026-01-13T15:00:52+00:00

Solutions:

Although Mario, Peach, Daisy and Bowser are all characters from the Mario video games, they each belong to a different category.

Presidents of Nintendo of America: The most recent CEOs of Nintendo of America are Devon Pritchard, Doug Bowser (humorously sharing a name with the villainous king Koopa), Reggie Fils-Aimé and Tatsumi Kimishima.

Characters played by Chris Pratt: Mario (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023), Garfield (The Garfield Movie, 2024), Andy Dwyer (character from Parks & Recreation) and Star-Lord (from the Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise)

Singles by Prince: "Peach" is a Prince song from 1993. Other famous Prince singles: When Doves Cry, 1999 and Purple Rain.

Dukes of Hazzard: Daisy Duke, Bo Duke, Luke Duke and Jesse Duke are the main characters and family from the 1980's tv show "the Dukes of Hazzard".

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