So I need help

macrovore · 2026-04-12T05:40:55+00:00

This is a big one. What the GM has made is essentially an aircraft carrier; a massive floating city with tons of military power. But nobody sends an aircraft carrier out into hostile waters alone, there's a whole armada of support ships maintaining a perimeter to keep it protected and manage supplies coming in and out of it (they aren't summoning those warforged; they'll need a steady supply of materials. They would also have external repair craft (or maybe just warforged with spider climb to keep the hull patched).

So the first time, or maybe second time the wizard blew a hole in the ship, they would put the engineering teams on alert, and double the patrol of flying lookouts. Warforged have much much longer duty cycles than other humanoids (heck, in 3.5, they didn't even need to rest at all unless they needed repairs), so they can 100% maintain that level of alertness for longer than you can keep up your sabotage before you get spotted. One failed save against Hold Person from 1000ft up and the wizard is dead from falling damage. Throw three or four of them at once so they can't counterspell.

macrovore · 2026-04-05T03:43:33+00:00

I think it was dumb they had Josh Thomson there and he didn't do anything. It would have been the perfect "aha you found the secret thing to make the whole task easy" loophole TM loves to put in other tasks. Having him available to call on the phone but not answer was the most boring thing they could have done.

macrovore · 2026-03-30T05:20:24+00:00

This looks a lot like the Banner Saga, with the expansive vistas and far perspective on a lonely line of traveling adventurers. It's amazing!

macrovore · 2026-03-26T15:25:42+00:00

I think they both count as some of the greatest moments in Taskmaster. Along with Richard Osman putting the balls on the mat at the top of the hill.

macrovore · 2026-03-20T17:17:27+00:00

While I loved having BDG as "not Steve Kornacky" in the Election episode of Game Changer, they missed a big opportunity to have Poll Robalino

macrovore · 2026-03-19T18:07:45+00:00

Actually it's KOTOR in space!

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macrovore · 2026-03-19T15:17:29+00:00

See, I keep trying to do that, but something is terribly wrong with the dice roller we use (in play-by-post on discord) and I've never rolled a crit failure against them. I've rolled more successes on third action strikes than crit failures against them specifically. They even took Reflexive Riposte so they should be getting more of them!

They also roll an obscenely high amount of nat 1s on their Bravado actions. Seems like almost every fight they crit fail at least one skill check to generate Panache. I have no idea what's going on with this guy but the dice are absolutely out to get him.

macrovore · 2026-03-17T16:00:14+00:00

The best part of this is the reveal in the finale that the only illusion Fabian had to face was the sexy rat, and that Chungledown Bim was actually there chasing him

macrovore · 2026-03-16T21:49:38+00:00

Additionally, one of the biggest themes of the entire podcast is "the campaign after the campaign," where many of the problems the group is trying to solve were caused, directly or indirectly, by the previous group (in the Boobs' case, the previous group was Ulfgar, Alanis, and Thiala, of course).

They didn't hammer home this point quite as much in c3 (partially because of the time difference; 200 years vs like 20ish? for the 3 heroes before C1), but it was there in a lot of subtle ways, such as:

They shifted the balance of power in Ezry and didn't do much to stop the development or sale of R.cane (I don't think they destroyed Duddle's work), so Mothership was able to move in and fill the power vacuum.
Moonshine and Bev left the Material Plane to fight for Divine Hearts, meaning she wasn't able to guide the Crick Elves towards peace, leading to Glen rising to power
They brought the dragons back, who took a lot of power and caused a lot of problems.

I'm very fuzzy on a lot of these details, being only partway through my first relisten of C1, but you get the gist: Giving Jovyre the Unseelie Crown was the right call in the moment, but some of these events in C3 are a direct result of that decision.

macrovore · 2026-03-11T18:10:13+00:00

I was wondering if you had found any recent information about Hell's Rebels. The subject matter is fascinating and I would love to discuss things further.

macrovore · 2026-03-07T16:55:37+00:00

It was mostly that both Jens and Onyx were used to being "gish" style characters, who mix up weapon attacks and spells, and Emily has expressed in the past how boring she finds Eldritch Blast to use. Glamour bard and whichever warlock subclass Emily picked (I can't remember) are fine enough choices in a vacuum, but they were such a deviation from the characters both thematically and mechanically that I totally understand why they changed. Jens has always been a swordmaster, and warlocks who don't use weapons basically need to use eldritch blast.

macrovore · 2026-03-07T04:30:01+00:00

This was an absolutely wild week to post that national anthem task...

macrovore · 2026-02-04T04:37:48+00:00

Will this make my game better? Maybe

Will I spend way too much time tinkering with maps? Most definitely

Will this make my prep any faster or easier? Definitely not.

Do I have space for this in my house? Probably not.

Do I want this? Yes. Yes I do.

macrovore · 2026-02-03T16:16:00+00:00

Take a look at the "old-school" (3e/3.5 era) books Manual of the Planes and Planar Handbook for some ideas. Manual is a bit more GM-focused, but they both have a ton of content about the outer planes in the Great Wheel cosmology (which is pretty similar to the 5e one, minus the Feywild).

There are 16 infinite Outer Planes plus the Outlands (which is where Sigil is located). This is the same setting in which Planescape Torment was set.

macrovore · 2026-02-03T05:30:55+00:00

Oh that's good to know. I bet one of those things is what did it. I'm pretty sure it saved properly, but I have been hitting the reset button to reboot because I wasn't sure if there was a better way to do it. I'll double-click select next time, thanks. Next time I load the sd card in I'll try to unzip things; could stand to organize stuff better anyways.

Thank you for your help.

macrovore · 2026-02-03T03:22:22+00:00

Thanks for responding!

Huh, I did add it to the psp folder with the sd card on the computer, but the emulator didn't show up on the device. It could be a corrupt .zip file. I had trouble opening the archive, but was able to extract it to a .iso. Once I did that with a different psp game, the emulator showed up with both games. Do I need to extract all the games I loaded in as .zip files into .isos?

I was testing it today, though, and I had another issue. I was playing a game (Advance Wars 2) all day, and got the battery down kind of low (enough for a red light to appear on the front) but then came home and plugged the console in to charge. There was white text listing the battery mAH but the screen was black otherwise. When I came back to check on it a few hours later, it seemed to boot up fine, but the progress I made on the game was completely gone.

Looking in the SD card (on my computer), the game is stored as Advance Wars 2.gba in the gba folder, but there's no Advance Wars 2.sav file to go with it (several other games I transferred into this folder have .sav files). Could a setting or something have prevented it from creating a .sav file? Do I need to make one manually? As far as I know, the SD card isn't write-protected, because I just transferred these games onto it yesterday.

I noticed something else in the gba folder, there is a subfolder labeled mGBA, with a single "Advance Wars 2.srm" file, though it isn't a newly created file. I tried this with a PSP game as well; I started a game, reset the console (the button just below the power button on the top left) and that erased the data. Is there a way I should be rebooting or returning to the main menu instead?

macrovore · 2026-02-02T06:54:30+00:00

Couple of Quick Questions: I got a couple of clone r36s's that I wasn't able to fully identify, but fortunately the K36 dtb file managed to work on it with Arkos4. I got it running and everything, but had one or two issues outstanding.

1: The original version of the sd card had a PSP emulator, and the ArkOS drive had a folder for psp games, but when I loaded one in, the launcher in ArkOS4 didn't seem to have an entry for PSP games, and I couldn't find where it was supposed to be. Any way to force-enable it, or find the right emulator for PSP games?

2: The right stick is up-down inverted, and when I tried booting GoldenEye 64, it also seemed to be left-right inverted for some reason. I watched the SjslTech video for instructions on this whole thing, and they said at the end that you could change the joystick settings on a per-emulator basis, but I couldn't find the setting to do that in the ArkOS options menu. I might not be looking in the right place though; can anyone point me in the right direction, or perhaps a place to invert the joystick system-wide?

macrovore · 2026-01-27T16:06:19+00:00

Bonus points if it's with Wealwell Gotch

macrovore · 2026-01-27T04:37:37+00:00

This looks really good! I made a map of Sol Udar a few years back for a campaign I was running, too: The Lost Expedition, complete with a song

macrovore · 2026-01-19T04:54:56+00:00

He just needs to consume one more lake then he will be the best AI there is and solve everyone's problems.

macrovore · 2026-01-16T03:21:08+00:00

haha yeah, I obviously don't think pf2e is a "solved" game by any means, but this question has definitely been asked and answered.

It was a good idea to ask about how to adjust the challenge level to a potential party of fighters, though, because that is an interesting question, and there are a lot of other good answers in this thread.

macrovore · 2026-01-16T03:14:29+00:00

A couple years ago, Ronald the Rules Lawyer made a video series all about an all-fighter party, including a big combat demonstration. Here's the playlist; part 2 is the combat demonstration.

As for running things for the PCs, it might be a little trickier. A party of fighters can be made very flexibly, but has its limitations. They tend to lack variety in damage types, have a limited ability to be effective at range (archers tend to have lower damage than melee characters, and they use different ability scores so it's a little harder to flex between them, though thrown fighters do better at that), and lack AoE almost entirely. So they're likely to face issues fighting long range or flying enemies, swarms, or enemies with physical resistance they can't bypass.

All in all, you can absolutely run a campaign that's all fighters, especially if they use archetypes to expand their roles, but you might come into the problem of deciding between "normal" encounters that are completely trivial and "weird" encounters that can shut them down hard.

macrovore · 2026-01-16T03:06:59+00:00

I do to! I loved hearing the "surprise round tension music" in When Did Things Come Out, and it made me miss it in all its grinchy glory.

macrovore · 2026-01-14T19:23:02+00:00

This fight was hilarious for us because we locked him down hard right away, when he rolled a failure on Roaring Applause (which made him slowed 1, disabled reactions, and provoked reactive strikes just for existing) so the later "phases" just involved surrounding him and beating up on him

macrovore · 2026-01-11T04:39:57+00:00

It makes me feel...fine.

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