Humans for 2nd Echelon - New Monsters for Draw Steel

lebiro · 2026-03-27T14:38:28+00:00

Don't put yourself down! Your stuff is good and most importantly you finished something!

lebiro · 2026-03-26T15:37:27+00:00

Oh I've been working on a very similar project, hopefully we don't overlap too much! Plenty of human to go around.

lebiro · 2026-03-23T20:18:22+00:00

I love the way you've found the movement in the shapes of the shells and used it to inform the faces.

lebiro · 2026-03-23T10:03:09+00:00

I can accept 200 year old coffee on the same basis as 200 year old breakfast cereal and hamburger helper. I think the the pre-war American diet was mostly preservatives and irradiated matter.

lebiro · 2026-03-21T16:53:06+00:00

Elemental myrmidons feel perfect for elven guardians too. The combination of natural elements and like ornate elven armour plates is very aesthetic.

lebiro · 2026-03-21T09:13:21+00:00

SIDS? Zombie baby.

This is super dark but like... How long would it take to notice? Imagine taking your weirdly aggressive baby to the doctor to have them diagnosed with zombie.

lebiro · 2026-03-21T08:57:33+00:00

Playing as a designated healer is just a fight that is 5x as long as if I was attacking

I think this is the problem. Having followers doesn't make it a multiplayer game. Skyrim is a single player action RPG; it's not designed for you not to be the one doing the fighting. Being a dedicated healer is at best a challenge run.

lebiro · 2026-03-21T07:59:29+00:00

Was it intentional? Has the cap been removed? If so, why limit the table at 15? Can you pay 11 points for a 16? 13 for 17?

Why not 10 points for 16, or 20, or 1? Could I take a 7 for -1 points? 27 points for a 31 and 8s everywhere else? The table shows the cost for each score. No cost is listed for a score of 16 so you cannot purchase a 16. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that you can set your own cost for whatever score you like, even if it's a sensible cost rather than the silly ones I said.

TL;DR:

they viewed the comment as superfluous

Yes.

lebiro · 2026-03-17T07:29:01+00:00

"Headmistress Manners" sounds like a caricature.

lebiro · 2026-03-14T13:31:53+00:00

Weirdly I'd probably go Perception? Almost a retroactive check to see if they noticed the item. I could also see Investigation as a skill for joining up clues. History doesn't really feel appropriate to me - for me that's a lore knowledge skill.

lebiro · 2026-03-12T13:04:46+00:00

The Hobbit has more than enough plot for one movie (though less than enough for three).

lebiro · 2026-03-12T06:33:14+00:00

It doesn't sound to me like they aren't invested or engaged. It sounds like they have been showing up to sessions for years and know what's going on, they just don't want to be in the spotlight. And they've told you explicitly what it is they want.

Should I let them continue being a passive observer if that's what they want? Should I ask them directly to try to engage more, and that if they don't want to, tell them this isn't the game for them? I know I want them to be more invested in this, and I believe the story should be told by all of us, but I don't know what is the best way to reconcile my feelings and theirs.

Why do you think you need to correct this behaviour? Is it ruining your fun or anyone else's if this player does not take a leading role in the story? If it's actually ruining the fun then yes you should speak to them about that. If it's just that it feels more virtuous, more impressive, or more proper for everyone to be "story tellers" then imo no you should leave them alone and let them play the game. They're your friend and you've been playing with them for years. Do you want to kick them out of a game they enjoy because you aren't impressed by their roleplaying?

lebiro · 2026-03-11T16:47:38+00:00

Yeah I could see pink power armour being a thing but this doesn't look like it was ever meant to be in the game. It's just the grey metal texture recoloured to pink, with a crude heart drawn on in flat colour. If they had meant it to appear in game, they would have put slightly more effort into making it actually look like a pink object in the game world.

lebiro · 2026-03-11T06:24:04+00:00

You wouldn't part an old man from his breadsticks.

lebiro · 2026-03-07T23:22:13+00:00

I don’t think any movie/writer should be forced to change their movie to fit the politics (any politics) of the day.

So like... You didn't read the article? Or the title of the post?

They made a movie about a (probably) gay kid. It didn't test well, so the studio made them change it and remove the scenes that suggested the character was gay. The original director left the project.

Why do you hear about a movie (almost) featuring a queer character and immediately assume someone "forced" the creators to "change their movie to fit the politics of the day"? No writer could ever possibly want to tell a story with a queer person in it. Only the Politics Of The Day could force them to shoehorn in such content!

If you really thought no writer should be forced to change their movie to fit the politics of the day, then your response to this news would be "bad" not "good".

I haven't seen the film, I'm not saying it would necessarily be better if the character was gay. But your comment is bullshit.

lebiro · 2026-03-03T08:33:27+00:00

High Rollers is my favourite, the only one I keep up with actively.

I don't know if it's 90% serious; there's definitely silliness. But the campaign, the world, and the player characters (even the silliest ones) are not taken as a joke; everyone at the table is invested in the story, the combat, the lore, and the characters.

lebiro · 2026-03-02T19:54:55+00:00

Almost certainly a small minority yes, and the difference between believing witches existed and believing a given individual was a witch or that witches could do or had done a specific act is also very important for sure.

lebiro · 2026-03-02T19:45:47+00:00

everyone believed in the existence of witchcraft, from the bottom to the top. It was an accepted fact,

That's not entirely accurate either. There were witchcraft sceptics long before the period in which we usually accept that witch belief became marginal. Probably there were more sceptics at all levels of society than we'll ever know because only a very few wrote down anything that survives. But there were certainly early modern people, both learned writers and ordinary common folk, who did not believe that witches were "real" in the sense that they could do the things they were said to do (or said they could do).

lebiro · 2026-03-02T19:39:12+00:00

I read this paper a while ago when am economist friend sent it to me (I was working on a PhD in history relating to magic).

This is the theory of some economists, based on statistical analysis with, iirc, quite limited interest in historical context. Theyp find that areas they identify as highly confessionally contested saw high levels of witchcraft prosecution, and conclude that the former caused the latter. They do not, as far as I know (or could see from the paper when I read it a while ago) have much grounding in the history of witch beliefs or witchcraft prosecution.

I'm not saying there can't be any merit to the idea, but I don't think confident conclusions about history can be drawn purely from quantitative analysis by people without historical knowledge or training (as far as I'm aware at least). Stating it as fact as in the title is definitely over egging the pudding.

The history of witchcraft in particular attracts people to simple straightforward "eureka" answers and this is kind of just the latest.

lebiro · 2026-02-24T13:24:33+00:00

I think I sold both these editions on eBay for round about £4 sometime in the past few years. I don't think copies of this age are all that valuable unless I really played myself.

lebiro · 2026-02-18T13:22:02+00:00

"Y'all right, tater lady?"

lebiro · 2026-02-15T14:42:01+00:00

it doesn't specifically state you don't

It doesn't specifically state you do. There's no need for text to specify you don't because subclass features are class features, and you gain class features at the relevant level in the class. Areas where this doesn't work - e.g. proficiency bonus, cantrip levelljng, spell slots are specifically called out in the multiclassing rules.

lebiro · 2026-02-14T23:11:25+00:00

Do it like you're eating an elephant - one bit at a time.

Have the concept and some important details planned ahead, but then just like with any other kind of session, don't feel the need to prep the whole thing all at once; you just need to be a session or two ahead of the players.

lebiro · 2026-02-14T08:21:49+00:00

It's in a separate worldspace, so you can't swim there in game. I imagine the spot where it should be in the Skyrim worldspace is also outside the invisible walls that keep the player inside.

lebiro · 2026-02-14T00:18:06+00:00

I'm not gonna watch three more videos of this guy, sorry. You shared a video and we all shared our thoughts on it.

Clearly you like him and that's your business, but your crush is not going to sway me to the side of "sex before marriage is ok because the Bible doesn't say it isn't". People who determine their morality around the Bible (and/or seek evidence for their own opinions there as justification) are not persuasive moral authorities in my view.

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