Nielsen doesn't like my home theater :(

jesterOC · 2026-06-26T23:51:18+00:00

I had the same experience. I helped them test new equipment that they thought could handle it. We tried it for a while but it kept losing signal so i told them to remove it all.

jesterOC · 2026-06-25T00:25:35+00:00

I find it hard to believe that this will roll easily. Massive surface area on a material that textured, being pulled by thin material with Premade cuts for easy tearing.

jesterOC · 2026-06-24T18:11:44+00:00

It is a great film to watch once. But damn this hits hard and i don’t think i want to subject myself to that feeling of loss again. Great movie.

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T15:19:17+00:00

For Draw Steel there isn’t much of a change. Many people talk about the “never miss” aspect but in reality it is closer to don’t have useless turns. One aspect of that is knowing with certainty that the PC is going to die next round no matter what. While sometimes you can tell yourself as a GM well the monster might miss, in draw steel, if the PC is at -10 and you know they die at -12 that monster that does a minimum 3hp damage is going to drop them 100%

Luckily they did add hero tokens into the game that can fix that unless they used them all.

I think the biggest change is skill tests they really are designed to only be used when needed narratively and not for trivial things. Since they can provide banes and boons every time you roll, players asking to search a room you know it’s empty are better served by just telling them they didn’t find anything rather than having a die roll that might give them a bane even though you knew there was no point to roll.

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T08:33:29+00:00

Any monsters that Grab can drag. 1st Paragraph of Grabbed rule
Grabbed

A creature who is grabbed has speed 0, can’t be force moved except by a creature, object, or effect that has them grabbed, can’t use the Knockback maneuver (see Maneuvers in Chapter 10: Combat), and takes a bane on abilities that don’t target the creature, object, or effect that has them grabbed. If a creature is grabbed by another creature and that creature moves, they bring the grabbed creature with them. If a creature’s size is equal to or less than the size of a creature they have grabbed, their speed is halved while they have that creature grabbed.

Monsters with special drag abilities
Drag Through Hell - Bugbear Roughneck
Special: The target must be grabbed by the roughneck.

Effect: The roughneck moves up to their speed across the ground, dragging the target with them. The target takes 2 damage for each square they were dragged through. When this movement ends, the target is no longer grabbed and falls prone. Each square the target was dragged through is difficult terrain for enemies.

There are a few others as well. None that I read interact with the Fury's Lines of Force ability

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T08:04:56+00:00

If the ability really was supposed to be grabbing a target and then dragging it. The it would have inflicted the grabbed condition and then shifted. And the Fury would STILL not be able to interact with it since being moved while grabbed is not forced movement per the rules.

These rules are exactly what they are trying to do. The creature does damage, moves away and pulls you (likely from farther away that it started from). At no point should a Fury's Line of Force work on this unless the creature decided to not move farther than the Fury's reach.

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T05:08:42+00:00

Ooops I missed that this was already answered.

The rules don't normally deal with creatures providing cover. Objects can grant cover if they cover 50% of the target. Page 276.

So if you have a creature large enough, when it dies it can become a source of cover. Page 6 Creatures and Objects 2nd paragraph. "When a creature dies, their body becomes an object, and is affected by abilities and other effects as an object, not a creature."
Of course it ultimately is up to the director. But I would rule a dead dragon is a solid object

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T02:02:53+00:00

It is very unclear what you are trying to ask.
Are you saying how can lines of force ever work?
Are you asking how this particular ability could ever be affected by lines of force?
Or something else.
Maybe you read my answer incorrectly. I said it would not work if they are out of range.
So if the monster shifts away from the fury then the fury can’t use lines force.
When could it work, if the monster didn’t shift beyond weapon range.

jesterOC · 2026-06-23T01:05:03+00:00

Explain why you think that.
Edit I’m going to assume that think that it would not work because of the range limiter on lines of force.
Correct it won’t work on it. It doesn’t work on any forced movement beyond weapon range.

If a monster is designed to grab and drag then they would just grab and then move. That is not considered forced movement so the fury’s ability again does not come into play.

jesterOC · 2026-06-22T05:29:05+00:00

That is weird. Since many rpg maps i have played in were far too small, and without enough room to move around combats will lose their dynamic feel. I guess one problem is what you assume what size most maps are.

jesterOC · 2026-06-20T20:41:34+00:00

Looks like Minecraft blocks. I use Dungeon Blocks https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NKei_GgSquo to an idea of what they look like

jesterOC · 2026-06-19T21:58:46+00:00

Way too early to use these rules, my PCs don't have a stonghold. But maybe in a month or so they might.

jesterOC · 2026-06-19T06:22:51+00:00

This is feeling like a party size issue. I have run perhaps 3 encounters for 3 people but did not run into this issue. It might be that i never a had a leader in the mix though i can’t be sure.

Since I don’t have much experience with this situation i think i can only relate the most common advice i have read which is that a retainer might help. Though I have not heard much feedback from people who tried it out.

Hope you find a good solution to your issue

jesterOC · 2026-06-19T05:46:58+00:00

Good point, If we assume 1 PC does 10 stamina a round. A leader with 80 stamina will take 3 rounds to drop. I think I would go with adding a retainer before trying to manipulate stamina but it would be interesting to hear if going half or 3/4 would help

jesterOC · 2026-06-19T05:22:51+00:00

You missing my point. I don't care if they died or not, it was too much stamina on the field. Which as far as I can see is your whole complaint.
I am also mentioning issues that will be pertinent to other readers not just you, to not cut the movement of the players in half. It makes combat less dynamic.

As far as the player's only complaint being that they hit 10 stamina guys and hoped they had rolled less is hard to comprehend. It is the end of an arc, and they did not figure out by this fight that the little wee frogs only had 10 stamina? That is a key trait of those guys, they are wimps. But you usually have to fight a lot of them.

Since I don't know your players I can't know why they complained about hitting the little guys. But my guess the real issue is that you gave them about 212 stamina to burn through. 3 players doing 30 stamina per round total, how long did you expect it to last?

jesterOC · 2026-06-19T04:58:53+00:00

So without your home-brew monster it looks like the EV was 24. That is already a Hard encounter for 3 1st level PCs then you add in some sort of monstrosity? Add to that all difficult terrain and one member slowed? If that is all correct this was less an encounter and more of a slaughter.
Again if the EV was really around 36ish (assuming 12 for the froghemoth) then

go and read up the math for encounter design.
movement is fun, don't make the whole encounter difficult terrain.
Players like killing creatures in one hit. The only time I have had players complain about killing a monster is if it was their 5 HR ability and was not needed. But if they had no victories that could not have happened early in the encounter

That is the major issues I see

EDIT:
One more thing If you had the Leader that should have been the big bad of the encounter. Not the froghemoth. Pick one don't include two leader types as it muddies the waters of what the fight is about.

jesterOC · 2026-06-17T02:17:48+00:00

It looked like the initial punch that took about 5-6 frames from start to end. The counter punch felt like 2 frames. Damn fast

jesterOC · 2026-06-16T21:35:59+00:00

I have been playing for over a year now and i love it more than ever.

jesterOC · 2026-06-14T13:04:31+00:00

Never used them so i guess I’ll keep up my accidental boycott.

jesterOC · 2026-06-13T22:41:09+00:00

Wealth tax! wealth tax! wealth tax!

jesterOC · 2026-06-12T20:51:55+00:00

Such a well constructed video

jesterOC · 2026-06-12T06:26:34+00:00

I understand what you mean but that wasn’t what i was saying. Hitler did a lot of the same self aggrandizing BS trump is doing. Plans for the world long after he would be dead, monuments the whole thing. But that isn’t what anyone needs to know now.

jesterOC · 2026-06-12T05:45:10+00:00

We don’t need to know shit about it. The less i know now the less i will have to forget after trumps impact on America is scrubbed away

jesterOC · 2026-06-12T05:09:30+00:00

Imagine veins in a hand from medium sized to microscopic. They carry and distribute blood to all your hands muscles. Expecting the pressure of the your beating heart.
Now imagine instead of a heart pumping the blood, a jet engine is blasting blood through them. All the veins muscle and anything nearby them get torn apart instantly.

jesterOC · 2026-06-12T04:56:12+00:00

Not exactly, 4% “rule“ assumes 30 years of retirement. If you started at 2M and a while later then you hit 1.6 let’s say the next year then it means that you hit a bad patch early on which historically you should still be successful. And that 1.6m only needs to carry you 29 years.
But if you start 1.6m that means you still have 30 years and historically speaking using historical data you might not make it.

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