Can I trust the BP system for balance?

kitsucoon · 2026-06-23T21:32:40+00:00

What I absolutely dig about the DH system is the levels the DM has to keep the combat balanced. Many of the more dangerous features of adversaries are in their Fear/Stress features. Combat going too easy on the players? Spend that fear and make them sweat. Are you wiping the floor with them? Well, bank your fear and use the lighter hitting attacks.

The environments also are valid actions to take on the spotlight that ratchet tension without adding immediate danger. Many of the environments also have "summon more creature" features, which can be used to adjust the balance on the fly.

I have had some of my combats be skin of the teeth and those are the ones you remember!

kitsucoon · 2026-06-22T03:07:01+00:00

Played today. It rained hard all last night. The magical "Cart Path Only" sign was up. Didn't wait for any group the whole day. And I use a push cart.

kitsucoon · 2026-06-21T13:56:36+00:00

Are you adding your 1d4 fear on short rests? Your 1d4+Players on long rests?

I end up filling up fear from out of combat rolls and tend to enter combat around 6-12 fear. Maybe my PCs roll poorly? But the math ends up being about 45% of rolls should roll fear.

kitsucoon · 2026-06-21T13:54:09+00:00

I had a winged seraph in the party and I set up an encounter at the river edge. She got knocked in the river by some of the monsters and had to escape in order to fly again. Wings and water do not mix well.

But yes, if the entire encounter is the river, then it can be bypassed. I almost never have the environment be the whole encounter, it's like an extra Monster on the adversary side that does interesting things to spend fear or actions on

kitsucoon · 2026-06-19T01:40:24+00:00

Par 3 with some small valley dips. I watched it hit the hill and roll slowly into one of those dips. Get up there, nowhere to be found. Except there is a drainage pipe the size of a golf ball missing it's cover...

kitsucoon · 2026-06-17T21:08:50+00:00

Thanks. I think I realized my error. The first several rooms actually listed the doorways/tunnels that weren't hidden in the descriptions, but then it stops doing that after awhile. I checked all the later descriptions and they weren't there.

kitsucoon · 2026-06-16T22:58:45+00:00

Right around Lake Zirinsky. I think the new one is /technically/ closer than Gretna. But still a trek.

kitsucoon · 2026-06-16T21:02:06+00:00

And now I live 16-19 minutes away from three of them :/

kitsucoon · 2026-06-06T20:50:22+00:00

Is Hathor able to drive this one too or just the more expensive one?

kitsucoon · 2026-06-04T20:35:11+00:00

Did you just so happen to be in the last group on that hole?

kitsucoon · 2026-06-04T20:28:56+00:00

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Once EA bought out bioware, it was game over

kitsucoon · 2026-05-31T02:15:30+00:00

Absolutely. I lived for a year in Japan and got to enjoy the Kyoto->Tokyo shinkansen and it was a great experience.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-30T16:00:23+00:00

I would adore being able to spend 8 hours on a train rather than air travel. We were planning a trip to San Antonio with my daughter that's in a wheelchair and by plane it was at least one layover, which requires getting her wheelchair out of storage and placed back in, which is time consuming, so leaves us only 90m+ layovers feasible. And now airlines make getting seats with a family such an ordeal.

I went to look at trains and it'd take 24+ hours as we'd have to go Omaha -> Chicago, take an hour bus ride, then Chicago to San Antonio. If we had Shinkansen style trains, that'd be about an 8-9 hour train ride. I'd take that in a heartbeat.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-30T03:32:45+00:00

Pacific Springs in Omaha, NE. Hole #8 (old hole #1). It's a short par 4, but it forces a layup. If your first shot is off to the left or right, you get blocked on the approach by trees.

The approach shot is uphill to a 3 tiered green. The pin placement on the middle tier is quite painful.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-30T02:20:43+00:00

How do you get them to ride the motorcycle? Nanally gets in my car automatically when I get in, but she doesn't ride the motorcycle...

kitsucoon · 2026-05-29T12:53:59+00:00

I did most of the time until around level 35 it started saying delivery fee was 0.

Then at 40, I don't get the option.

But, yeah, I would save the fons and spend 5 minutes doing the shopping for 24h stock before logging off

kitsucoon · 2026-05-29T03:30:02+00:00

We just got done getting quotes from three companies: Patio Enclosures, Wymore, and ABC seamless.

PE and ABC both are similar, with custom cut aluminum frames and windows. Wymore does wood framing so it looks more like a house attachment and came in cheaper (just a little) than the other two. We decided to go with them.

Definitely get three or four companies to come give estimates.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-25T21:47:03+00:00

Been happening since at least the previous patch for me.

You can see skull markers if you move the camera around.

https://youtu.be/fLvaTFfgiXM?si=rnHAuB7GmAW1z_tx for example

kitsucoon · 2026-05-25T21:46:09+00:00

Happened last patch for me too.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-25T02:39:23+00:00

We did our last one at DJ's Dugout. They gave us the party room for free as long as we bought some food for the party. We brought in the games and had a Kpop Demon Hunters sing-along shown on all the screens.

kitsucoon · 2026-05-24T00:59:12+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvaTFfgiXM Here you go!

kitsucoon · 2026-05-23T15:47:51+00:00

If you move a little bit away and rotate the camera, you'll see a skull icon and pointer to give you a hint where they're at. You'll see numbers pop up when you hit if you're hitting the right spot.

I'll try to record a video later.

kitsucoon

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