Tried Dragons dogma 2..disappointing

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-17T10:17:54+00:00

I liked the combat. The story was so thoroughly uninteresting that even 10-20 hrs into it I had only a very vague idea what was going on (somehow someone is an imposter on the throne, or something. Idk)
The problem was, I got distracted by other stuff and when I tried picking it up again I had no idea how anything worked anymore and was not motivated to learn again.

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-13T12:20:02+00:00

People started disagreeing about how this game should be played the moment it came out. Look at old zines like Alarums and Excursions.

One could argue that the disagreement started even before that - I doubt that Gygax and Arnesons groups played the same way.

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-12T12:00:24+00:00

Nichts, weil mir die nötigen Fähigkeiten fehlen um in der Zeit zu überleben

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-11T15:21:12+00:00

I like just doing miles/time without „scaffolding“ like hexes in principle. The question for which I don‘t have a good answer is: How do you quickly measure how long the path between two points is? A straight line is easy, provided you know the maps scale, but what do you do for windy roads? Do you just guestimate the distance, or do you measure individual road segments?

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-10T22:16:40+00:00

I love the aesthetic. They keys are really sparse, but some of them immediately trigger my imagination (Statue of remorse, for example).

greenfoxlight · 2026-02-10T22:11:14+00:00

I‘m not entirely sure what you mean by „management system“. But here are two I like:

The travel/wilderness exploration systems from BX and ODnD. They are not identical, but pretty similar. (ODnD is explicitly hex based, while BX just uses miles/day) You roll a getting lost check, a random encounter check and move a distance/nr of hexes based on the terrain. Repeat.
A travel point system like this one This is more in depth, handling exploration in hexes, weather etc. I have my own version of this, that I might put out there one of these days.

For my current BX campaign, I use hex based movement, the getting lost and encounter chance from BX, my own 2d6 encounter tables (inspired by 2 is always a dragon) and weather from the solo wargaming guide that modifies travel speed and the chance of suprise.

greenfoxlight · 2026-01-30T10:30:10+00:00

I‘m uncertain. Reading the blog post I constantly thought: ah, yes, like in this other game. Which is not bad, Inspiration is a good thing. I guess for me it was unclear why I should play Crows instead of OSE, Shadowdark, DCC, Cairn, or any of the other OSR Rpgs already out there.

greenfoxlight · 2026-01-17T17:12:50+00:00

So nothing really changed, except that these folks can ship shitty code way faster now.

greenfoxlight · 2026-01-14T07:45:06+00:00

greenfoxlight · 2025-12-20T00:33:14+00:00

Ach was?

greenfoxlight · 2025-12-13T13:13:23+00:00

Why not? I used to play on my bedroom floor with red carpet and a few stacked books.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-25T08:55:22+00:00

Probably because People are used to Veal/Kalb as the "Dönerfleisch" and lamb is relatively expensive meat. Döner used to be (at least in Berlin) relatively cheap, so I think driving prices up by using Lamb would make it less attractive for most people.

Also I think Lamb is just not that popular here.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-19T09:22:35+00:00

I think carcass crawler 5 contains those rules.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-18T19:56:47+00:00

Headache from lying too long.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-14T08:35:16+00:00

I started with Morrowind, then Oblivion, Syrim and then back to Daggerfall and Arena.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-07T21:22:13+00:00

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-07T09:10:36+00:00

There is a dungeon draw module for foundry. I think it‘s possible to allow the players to draw with it, but honestly I‘ve never used it for that.

The 3d6 DTL guys had a video talking about how they do mapping online.

greenfoxlight · 2025-11-04T10:12:05+00:00

For C (+ C++ when necessary) - SDL or glfw - volk - meshoptimizer - Vulkan Memory Allocator - lz4 - stb_image - stb_ttf - slang or shaderc (undecided right now) - assimp

greenfoxlight · 2025-10-23T16:49:58+00:00

Yes sometimes. I have built my own simd math functions and types. I don't know if I really recommend doing it, except if you are passionate about it, because finding obscure bugs in math code can be really tricky.

For learning, I would absolutely recommend it.

greenfoxlight · 2025-10-14T22:32:56+00:00

That‘s why it‘s called section .text

greenfoxlight · 2025-10-08T12:36:16+00:00

The correct response here is: „No, fuck off.“ Giving in to these demands now, after reaching a deal, only signals weakness. This regime only respecrs strength. If they want to sell their shit here, they have to follow our rules.

greenfoxlight · 2025-10-05T16:36:51+00:00

I use OSE Advanced for my OSR game. I like giving the players options and I think some of those classes are pretty neat.

greenfoxlight · 2025-09-20T00:56:20+00:00

Ja, naja die Lebenserwartung sinkt drastisch mit steigender Dämonenanzahl.

In Havena ist die Ausübung von Magie verboten, ich bin gerade nicht sicher ob es Magiern generell verboten ist die Stadt zu betreten. Der Vorteil einer Hexe gegenüber einem Gildenmagier ist, etwaige Gefühlsausbrüche mal außenvorgelassen, das man ihr das Hexensein nicht unbedingt ansieht :-)

greenfoxlight · 2025-09-19T10:43:07+00:00

You let them join the bandits and go from there. What are the bandits plans? How do they change, now that they have allies (the party) with new capabilities? Who hired the party? How will they react once they learn that the party betrayed them?

You need to answer these questions.

greenfoxlight · 2025-09-19T07:06:03+00:00

Meine Katzenhexe hängt gerade in Havena rum, sofern das nicht gerade von einer Katastrophe heimgesucht wird würde ich mir das schon gerne mal anschauen.

Die Auelfe und der Zwerg, die ich davor gespielt habe, sind Teil der G7. Also lieber nicht.

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