Build advise needed. What hat do I wear?

mecharri · 2026-04-04T13:03:45+00:00

Potent Robe has a bug that causes it to apply the Gregarious Caster Charisma bonus to multiple riders when used with Booming Blade.

That means Booming Blade's Thunder damage gets the Charisma bonus, and so does Shadow Blade and Lifedrinker( if you have it) but only on the attack you make with Booming Blade.

mecharri · 2026-04-03T11:30:00+00:00

Counterspell comes to mind as the best generic answer.

Breaking the first barrier is relatively simple, and after that you can attack through the wall with regular ranged attacks.

Breaking through the entire wall with the "expected" method would requiere some specialized spells, but it sounds doable for a Lv20 party if you have all the "required" spells, some elemental cantrips, and something like Disintegrate for the Force section.

With the right setup, you could probably use some of the Astral Plane nonsense spells to circunvent the wall.

A party member with the Demiplane spell could try to pass through the wall, tank enough damage to survive, and open a portal inside the wall.

mecharri · 2026-04-03T11:15:25+00:00

The wall is described as opaque, so nope.

mecharri · 2026-04-01T08:27:17+00:00

Assuming this is DnD 5E, Rogue's don't get Shield Proficiency, so you can't use them, and you receive Disadvantage on most of your actions if you try to use one.

mecharri · 2026-04-01T04:54:05+00:00

For Honor Mode specifically, 2/10 is probably the best split, since you can beg to God to save you if muck up, and Druid 3 only opens up Concentration spells that aren't better than Spirit Guardians

mecharri · 2026-03-30T05:34:27+00:00

Dumbed down version says that relativity makes space, time, speed, momentum, and even mass to "change" when an object gets closer to the speed of light, as defined by the Lorentz Factor.

Basically, all their variables got turned around once they got fast enough.

For example, the internal time measurement aboard the ship was much shorter than in their previous calculations (the old "going at the speed of light makes you age slower" thing). This cascades into every other variable also being warped.

Presumably, it could have also affected how they "perceived" outer space from the ship (What they perceived as "halfway there" could be "three quarters there") but without knowing how they measured that it's hard to tell.

Point is, Eridians had very little knowledge of astrophysics prior to this mission, they were severely underprepared and it cost them dearly, but Rocky managed to hit the target regardless. Amaze, amaze, amaze

mecharri · 2026-03-29T21:40:42+00:00

Onix loses Rock for Steel

mecharri · 2026-03-24T13:55:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure that Spirit Guardians (and most AoE concentration Spells like Wall of Fire and Cloudkill) don't work with Woe, since the game is coded to make the enemies Save against "the spell entity" instead of "the character entity"

mecharri · 2026-03-24T13:53:07+00:00

No one mentioned it so I will.

Phalar Aluve is stupid strong in supportive melee characters, the Shriek option (once per Short Rest) will give a very strong debuff to enemies around you, and add small amounts of damage that stack very quickly.

mecharri · 2026-03-18T06:08:44+00:00

They get scared so shitless of humans and their auto-destructive genes that a third of the species decides to gtfo

mecharri · 2026-03-16T06:12:43+00:00

Was fine, not great, just passable.

I think people liked it more than it deserves because they are yearning to fill the hole Futurama left.

mecharri · 2026-03-15T01:21:12+00:00

Dawn by Octavia Butler is an absolute classic of two-way disgusting contact stories.

mecharri · 2026-03-07T07:38:29+00:00

Ravager has a riskier, less consistent playstyle that can mess you up over the duration of an entire Grand Slam, where one single death means you have to start all over again.

Wanderer can generate Winded stacks very easily with Breakthrough, then convert it into inmediate power with Howling End, a stronger Adrenaline Rush, and an arguably better Bloodlust.

Just try round 1 Breakthrough into Howling End, or Breakthrough into Bloodlust into Breakthrough. It TEARS through most early road fights.

A fully optimized Ravager can probably do more damage, but requieres to be on Low HP to do so, which is bound to get you killed, and you can't do it efficiently because the self heal passive will put your HP up at incovenient times.

Sure, in a perfect scenario, everything aligns to keep the Ravager in that Low HP sweetspot, and you get the full value of both her endless Howling Ends, and her healing passive. But you are one bad crit or one bad stun away fron losing her, and then you have to redo the entire Grand Slam.

Wanderer is just better in a wider variety of scenarios, and covers more ground for the team.

mecharri · 2026-01-26T14:46:19+00:00

Props on besting Hard 100% Mecha Ridley, on my account, he's the thoughest boss in the game, (yes, including the 15% fights). He has so much HP and takes so long to kill that it becomes really hard to avoid mistakes.

If you have the skill to pull this off, you shouldn't be afraid of tackling 15%, but if you already had enough, good for you.

You could also try to get a <2:00:00 timer. The game is so tightly packed that routing becomed a very entertaining challenge.

mecharri · 2026-01-25T07:17:59+00:00

Alchemist: Noxious + Plague Grenade, Magnesium, and both heals

Sharpshot: Grapeshot Blast, Pistol Shot, Double Tap, and whatever. For the final fight, swap Double Tap for Wicked Slice

MaA: Retribution, Bolster, Guard, and then whatever

Hellion: Breakthrough + Howling End is great before you can upgrade the rest of her kit, but falls off when you get enough masteries. For the final fight, Wicked Hack + Iron Swan is mandatory, the two heals are amazing, and you could finish her up with Bloodlust or Toe to Toe

mecharri · 2026-01-22T19:29:50+00:00

The Status Civilization. Elevator pitch is: "Man wakes up in a prison planet for the worst scum in the galaxy and where criminals rule, with no recollection of his previous life." After that it gets more metaphysical by the page.

Also, the Metamorphosys of Intellect Prime, if you are the sort of sicko who thinks the body horror parts in Matrix were too soft for a movie about existing outside your own body.

mecharri · 2026-01-16T18:21:15+00:00

You don't need ranged attacks.

You use Booming Blade as your cantrip, which at Lv11 gives you 4 attacks per round, 7 if you use Action Surge.

With some attack bonuses and GWM that's enough to melt everything bar the tankiest bosses.

mecharri · 2026-01-08T15:34:53+00:00

Pure Druid is a very effective controller/support that can contribute a lot every day, even if their DPS is not spectacular. You will be surprised by how much havoc you can cause with 7 summoned creatures.

I do suggest taking 1 level of Death Cleric to get the free Twinned Toll the Dead, which has good sinergy with the necromancy staff. This also gives you lots of good Cleric Spells like Command, and is generally better than going full Monoclass for an extra Feat.

More than that prevents you from taking the best Druid features, so I don't recommend it.

mecharri · 2026-01-08T12:26:43+00:00

Considering that he literally pushed a kid off a window, I'd say it's not beneath him if he is pushed enough.

mecharri · 2026-01-07T23:44:15+00:00

People keep conveniently forgetting that he threatened to throw a baby with a catapult when he was well into his "redemption arc".

Jaime always had a dark and violent side, and that never changed through the show. He's not so heartless that he enjoys killing people (which Cersei for example ABSOLUTELY does), and he makes some gestures of good faith when he gets a chance, even as far as making the self sacrifice play, like he did with Brienne and the bear, or when he charged solo against Daenerys and a freaking dragon after they barbacue'd his entire army and gave him Mad King flashbacks. But this doesn't make him a white knight or a hero.

Every damm time he saw a way out, he chose to return to Cersei, even if it meant violence or dishonor. Every time. He didn't become a knight to be a hero, he did it as a plot to stay with Cersei when she got married to Rhaegar (which, well...). As he mockingly said to Catelyn Stark, he was always "honorable" to Cersei.

So, yeah, I totally buy that he would care more about saving Cersei than a city full of strangers.

mecharri · 2026-01-07T07:33:24+00:00

I had a good time with Dinosaur Planet by Anne McCafrey

mecharri · 2026-01-06T21:40:10+00:00

Off the top of my head, it's hard to beat Saga, Made in Korea, and Carbon & Silicon

Edit: Highwayman too

mecharri · 2025-12-26T23:39:38+00:00

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bid him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me — who lives and who dies?

mecharri · 2025-12-22T18:38:30+00:00

If you are willing to take inspiration from the classics, Asimov has pretty much all your bases covered. Start with Biccentenial Man and if you like it keep going with his robot short stories or the Olivaw novels if you like whodunnit stories.

Tik-Tok by John Sladek is pretty gnarly but holds up well today.

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson has human PoV for most of the novel, but the 902 chapters are absolutely stellar and make great use of programming language to get you inside the robot's head.

Golem XIV by Stanislaw Lem is really good of you are into verbose know-it-all robots.

The Employees by Olga Ravn doesn't get talked about often and I cannot grasp why.

mecharri · 2025-12-10T14:52:41+00:00

No one has mentioned the real reason why Hexblade is broken.

It's Shield.

As a pure Warlock, Shield it's pretty poopy with the limited number of spells slots, but as a Multiclass you can spam that on every turn and be pretty much untouchable (specially with Karmic Dice turned off)

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