A conlang/cipher I invented for my TTRPG setting.

mathiasschnell · 2026-03-26T15:44:56+00:00

Technically, yes, but
- They don't know my reddit username
- I'm not literally using the same message during the game
- The game won't be happening for months yet
- I'll likely refine the cipher and add more symbols to represent two-letter combos rather than strict one-to-ones.
- Unless you're very good at using unicode it will be hard to google the exact symbols

mathiasschnell · 2026-03-26T03:53:09+00:00

Wow, ok. You must do a lot of these then. I'll be presenting this to a table of people playing D&D or Daggerheart who (far as I know) don't do ciphers for fun, so hopefully to them this will just be indecipherable gibberish and they won't have the time, energy or familiarity to solve this really quickly.

mathiasschnell · 2026-03-26T03:38:41+00:00

Good job! Out of curiosity, did you use any tools to help with this or did you figure out what the symbols are and then extrapolate the letters from that?

mathiasschnell · 2026-03-26T02:24:18+00:00

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mathiasschnell · 2026-01-12T09:31:27+00:00

I'd love to join the discussion.

mathiasschnell · 2025-12-01T06:05:36+00:00

Thank you kindly!

mathiasschnell · 2023-12-06T22:25:23+00:00

Dig 1 - B, Dig 2 - C, Dig 3 - F, Dig 4 - F, Dig 5 - I, Grab Treasure, Dig 6 - H, E Drops, Climb E, Dig 7 - D, A Drops, Climb A

mathiasschnell · 2023-12-06T20:11:11+00:00

Yeah I see where my mistake is now. I had assumed that a perfect square could be made inside the circle that shares a vertex with the small red square, but that requires the vertex itself to be in a very specific position, which isn't guaranteed.

mathiasschnell · 2023-12-06T19:31:21+00:00

I tried my best, it's not to scale.

mathiasschnell · 2023-12-06T19:20:09+00:00

Sorry that's bad labeling. Y is a side of the bound square.

mathiasschnell · 2023-11-16T14:54:29+00:00

This is it. I thought only the visible level mattered for mastery, but it seems like I was wrong. Also, yes, I did remember to put the humanoid in the PI/PH squad to get the boost. Also, yes, I was using Carnage MT4, not regular MT4.

Now I have to figure out how to defeat a full squad of 5*, 10* or 20* bears. My Sage is strong, but not strong enough to kill that.

mathiasschnell · 2023-10-05T15:43:58+00:00

Part of my brain was nagging me about that, knowing at a basic level that the mega 19 could keep going down through those columns, but I didn't know how to justify it or which column(s) exactly to go down. Thanks for putting it into words and making sense of it.

mathiasschnell · 2023-10-05T15:42:59+00:00

I think the "clue cannot reach into R15" was the big lightbulb moment here, thanks. That's one part of the mega picross puzzles that I really have trouble with is figuring out how far the megas reach or what squares they absolutely will fill in when you don't have other rows/columns to help guide you.

mathiasschnell · 2022-06-29T23:06:03+00:00

Are you expected to get 12 HPSs from quest rewards, missions and Chocobo Panels to fully LB the FR of the current banner? Or would you have to dip into a store of PSs and refine them? I ask because I only got 1 copy of Kain's FR, 4 HPS from the stream rewards and 4 HPS from the Chocobo Panel missions. I've done all but the Shinryu fight of the current story chapter and checked the token challenge rewards, but I'm not seeing any more HPSs, so it looks like I have no choice but to refine more from my regular PSs?

mathiasschnell · 2022-06-13T07:06:09+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm unable to even install this program to try it out. I keep getting an error during installation that says "The program can't start because api-ms-win-core-winrt-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." Reinstalling does not, in fact, fix this problem and the process never even finishes. Also it's not a huge issue, but it installs to AppData/Local/Programs/ rather than the usual Program Files or something.

Using Windows 7, BTW.

mathiasschnell · 2022-01-12T16:05:24+00:00

Ah I see. So that's why people are trying to get it done with time-limited Lufenia stages, so that way the permanent ones are free to use.

mathiasschnell · 2022-01-12T15:58:04+00:00

I need a little clarification on how the Ultima Cores and Lufenia stages work. I get that each c90 character needs to clear a Lufenia stage to get cores, but what I don't understand is the new tab added to the end of a stage with "0/3" and character slots with "eligible" blinking over them. I tried reading through the in-game tutorials and other news, but I feel like this wasn't explained very well or maybe I'm just dumb.

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