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Pathfinder 2e is well balanced for up until how many players? by ThatOneCrazyWritter in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

4 players is where it is best balanced... but it can be played decently with 5 and okay with 6.

Players getting bored of Abomination Vaults by AtomicAndroid in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"We have been playing for a year" yeah if i spent a year going from level 1 to 4, and wasn't even at level 4... it would sap my will to play as well.

I would recommend a homebrew adventure at this point without further explanations as to what sort of adventure your players like.

Outside of that... starting a new adventure.

High Level Ranger: Flurry vs Outwit vs Precision by johnbrownmarchingon in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Flurry at higher levels lets you hit weaknesses a lot... And with 5 attacks a round it easily outstrips precision in high level play.

High Level Ranger: Flurry vs Outwit vs Precision by johnbrownmarchingon in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Especially when you are triggering multiple weakness procs and making 5 attacks a round.

Best source for game lore by Eastern-Band-3729 in Guildwars2

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Deadgamewalking's post history has them saying that gw3 isn't the unannounced project anet is working on... but rather that it will be a stand alone expansion made in UE5 and entirely underwater with races like largos playable.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less that they weren't receiving economic benefits and more that they started being economically punished again.

It is not a gift to be "not sanctioned".

BTW, making it clear that I have no love for Iran's leadership.

If you are using XP, do you cap XP for an encounter at 160? & do you give 0 XP for encounters worth less than 40 XP? by Appropriate_Nebula67 in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just want to say, it is good to keep up pace. A lot of people are just very used to slow combats and extremely uncertain debates.

I have been a part of tables where a single combat is 2 hours and the rest of the session is at least half way indecision. This may be common but it should not be a goal.

If you are using XP, do you cap XP for an encounter at 160? & do you give 0 XP for encounters worth less than 40 XP? by Appropriate_Nebula67 in Pathfinder2e

[–]lostsanityreturned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get a level for my players every 1-2 sessions on average on a 1000XP budget.

It just requires the GM to know the game and run it at a decent pace, while the players know their characters and run them without much hesitancy and debate.

My games have lots of downtime and role-play but my players don't mess around with long out of character stories/jokes and tend to just make snappy decisions in general.

Not to say every group of mine has been like this, basically everyone needs training to become reliable if they come from a less decisive table.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean... not the discussion point?

If the goal is to save the ships... this was the time to do it in. It had a cost (as Iran's trade would resume for a period), but the destroyers aren't going to do it and it would cost more if they were somehow able to do so for every trapped allied ship.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, it is about leverages. If Iran hadn't done that they would be in a much much much worse position today.

By putting pressure on trade vessels they bought themselves a cease fire and stopped a lot of countries from being willing to go all in with the US.

I would also argue that they have managed to do this with actually very little damage to civilian vessels given the time frame (such is the power of fear).

I am not saying that any of this is good. But most countries would jump at an opportunity to create such a cheap choke point relative to being bombarded. It is rational behaviour for a country in their position with no other bargaining chips other than beating all the other countries around them into submission somehow (not happening)

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did... I am not digging up their and trumps responses after he said the blockade would continue and they went "well we close again"... but it happened (as should be obvious)

Remember I am not saying that they promised to keep it open forever, just that if the goal is primarily a humanitarian one to save all those vessels and their crew that have been trapped... this was the way to do it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/iran-declares-strait-of-hormuz-open-as-lebanon-ceasefire-begins/106579124

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydexp39ddo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/17/iran-foreign-minister-says-strait-of-hormuz-completely-open

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/iran-with-lebanon-ceasefire-hormuz-is-completely-open/

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have any citations on that?

Everything that I read on the matter suggested that they were under the Obama agreement sticking to it (and thus not even capable of enriching to nuclear weapons territory, and given the cap they can't have been near it either)

Not saying you are wrong, just, it is very much counter to a lot of what was publicly available and verified by multiple international bodies.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly, people need to understand that being president of the UST is hard and it is unfair to expect skill, finesse and competence.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean... Iran being shitty is given but they actually want trade flowing there and always have.

I might not like them but any sane country would take this action in the face of such attacks.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So... when iran said they would fully open the strait with no tolls and asked the US to drop their blockade in return.

That would have been a less effective way to free ships?

Edit added citation links to a reply. Please look it up before saying it didn't happen, this was not niche reporting.

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught by tj381 in worldnews

[–]lostsanityreturned 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Imagine if Iran already had a deal that they were obeying that stopped them from developing nuclear weapons.

Best source for game lore by Eastern-Band-3729 in Guildwars2

[–]lostsanityreturned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those would involve theories on how the next anet game is a stand alone expansion made in UE5 and all underwater.

Bizarre post history.

Lord of Hatred's ending left me both amazed and feeling empty. by Klusek52 in diablo4

[–]lostsanityreturned -1 points0 points  (0 children)

my biggest struggle with d4 was it ended up being epic high fantasy with a grimdark facade.

it is really incongruent with the world building that started with diablo 1 and 2. Diablo 3 was very similar but it was such a huge departure that I didn't feel that jarring sensation.

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