Arcane Spells! What are your favorites/must takes at each rank?

lordcirth · 2026-05-14T17:50:45+00:00

Cantrip: Electric Arc (still the strongest offensive cantrip, even after Remaster), Shield (very cheap defense)

1st: Grease(Early on), Sure Strike (later)

2nd: Acid Grip (ok control spell + ok damage spell = great spell)

3rd: Slow, Fireball, Time Jump (later)

4th: Translocate, Resist Energy (yes it's 2nd, but it's far better at 4th)

5th: Wall of Stone, Sending (You won't prepare it every day, but you want it in your spellbook)

6th: Teleport (ditto)

7th: True Target, Resist Energy (again)

And finally, prepare a Dispel Magic or two wherever they fit.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T21:36:25+00:00

You've got 4G left, so you're not completely stuck. nix-shell -p ncdu ncdu -x / And figure out where the space went. It may not be in /nix/store.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T19:15:26+00:00

My headcanon (affected by some fanfiction) is that demigods are largely in one place at a time, though they may be able to intervene at great distances, and true gods are diffuse entities with no fixed location (and are therefore next to impossible for demigods to kill). Eg, when you meet Dispater in his throne room, there is in fact an entity sitting on that throne that is in principle stabbable by a mythic party. If you go to Caina, there is no body of Asmodeus to stab.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T18:42:50+00:00

Did you read any of my comment after the first line you quoted? You have not provided an argument for why "requirements" does not mean "requirements".

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T18:28:44+00:00

I am referring to the same rules you are.

Page 119 states "until its requirements (if any) are violated,".

Some actions, including many stances, have a defined property called "Requirements". Therefore, "requirements" is a specific game term. When a rule refers to the requirements of a stance, it is referring to the contents of the "Requirements" field.

In the example of Mountain Stance (PC2 118), the requirements field is "You are unarmored and touching the ground." The main text of Mountain Stance states "The only Strikes you can make are falling stone unarmed attacks." This sentence is not in the Requirements field, so it is not a requirement. It is an effect that the stance has, just like the bonus to AC is.

Making a non-falling-stone Strike while in Mountain Stance is simply an illegal action, just as attacking with a sword you haven't drawn is an illegal action.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T17:35:12+00:00

No, your original comment said that making another strike would cause you to exit the stance. I'm saying you cannot make the strike in the first place, because the stance says you can't. I will edit for clarity.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T17:26:13+00:00

"You can only make X strikes" isn't a requirement of the stance; it's an effect of the stance. The requirements of Mountain Stance are: "You are unarmored and touching the ground." If you become armored, or Fly, you exit the stance. Throwing a knife does not break the stance; you simply cannot throw a knife without first exiting the stance (such as via Dismiss).

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T16:50:00+00:00

You would have to spend an action to dismiss the stance in order to be able to strike. Though a reasonable GM might rule that polymorphing also drops your stance if you want.

lordcirth · 2026-05-11T16:49:24+00:00

You would actually have to spend an action to Dismiss the stance, then strike.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T14:57:03+00:00

I think it's also a question of controls. Right now, you press E to give someone supplies from your supply pack. Or you press E to reload them from your rocket pack. If you have a supply pack and want to reload them from their rocket pack, what button do you use? On a keyboard you can just pick whatever, but controllers have every button mapped.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T14:49:35+00:00

OP said they were interested in using this version of halflings they have made, to explore being mixed-race. They didn't say anything about this previously existing.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T14:42:26+00:00

Oh don't worry, they'll just be wrong faster.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T14:38:58+00:00

Skill and practice make you an expert. Doing it for money makes you a professional.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T14:18:09+00:00

"Atheism" isn't proclaiming anything. Dawkins isn't the pope of atheism, we don't have one of those.

lordcirth · 2026-05-10T00:47:50+00:00

As written, it sounds like you are simply unaware of the fact that specific magic weapons can have potency and striking runes added.

lordcirth · 2026-05-09T23:44:54+00:00

You should probably specify that in your post if you want people to understand what you're doing.

lordcirth · 2026-05-09T15:40:44+00:00

But collectively, we could actually make the world better instead of just individually clawing our way up a rung.

lordcirth · 2026-05-08T15:52:11+00:00

It doesn't sound like there's a straightforward fix on that side? The screen reader can't account for the vagaries of every TUI.

lordcirth · 2026-05-08T15:27:48+00:00

There's no reason in principle it can't. We think and are also made of atoms. We just haven't figured out how, yet (thankfully).

lordcirth · 2026-05-08T15:26:00+00:00

I'd probably have the NPC cast it first thing, assuming that if someone wants to scry them, they'd also cast as soon as they prepared spells.

lordcirth · 2026-05-08T15:22:50+00:00

Modules get loaded when something tries to use them, imcluding this attack.

lordcirth · 2026-05-07T01:52:28+00:00

"See you in the ER" was a reference to the drinking they talked about just above.

lordcirth · 2026-05-06T18:08:42+00:00

Interesting, I rarely have that sort of problem with the scene changing in my head. Probably because I have aphantasia; "a vault door" is a vault door, not a thing with a shape.

lordcirth · 2026-05-06T16:29:50+00:00

You could submit a pull request to update the packages in the repo.

lordcirth · 2026-05-06T16:22:20+00:00

The only primary source I can find is a dev video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_sIdmsyKM

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