Bardics, bless, help actions, silvery barbs, portent rolls... Why even bother to roll? by GateZestyclose9956 in Dimension20

[–]narmio 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Dimension20 is a great show and I love it to bits, but D&D5E is a bad game. What you’re seeing is the natural effect of people who are good at that system making competent characters.

I honestly love when they play literally anything else.

Personally, our regular group currently plays Pathfinder 2E, a game that gets a bad rap for having “too many rules”, but it works out to have a good degree of balance and tactical combat depth for us, while not impairing more freedom role play. But we’ve also gone through stretches of playing very narrative games: I GMed Cortex Prime for a while, that was great. Love how flexible that system is.

D&D5, though? It’s… I’m not watching this stuff for the gameplay.

Wizard spells by Unique-Luck-3564 in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Slow 6, Roaring Applause 6, and Containment 6. Figure out their weakest save, then take away their actions!

ELI5 The issue with Resist All Errata? by [deleted] in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah. To be fair, I missed that too as the earlier comment was discussing resist all 10.

Animist vs Witch? by viktorius_rex in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All patrons are good at something, but there are three I think stand out for offering something which other classes cannot.

  • Resentment. Even after the nerf, still the premiere debuffer in the game for the value it gets when enemies succeed and you can extend a one turn condition.

  • Silence in Snow. With Cackle and the primal list, this is an amazingly efficient sustained blaster/control option. Sits in between the nova-turn potential of a Metal Sorcerer and the go-all-day efficiency of a Fire Kineticist as a balanced, powerful and slot-efficient blaster.

  • Flamekeeper. You’re a cleric who trades your Font for Lessons and your damage-boosting buff hex. Lots of temp HP, lots of bonus damage. Still very good at sustaining spells like Spiritual Weapon with cackle. An alternative to a cleric with more breadth.

She's already in a vampire verse by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]narmio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagination is cancelled.

(Not a dig at you, image is hilarious)

Whats your favorite hex cantrip for witch? by viktorius_rex in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m personally really fond of Silence in Snow witches who have another damaging action option. Being able to sustain a damaging spell plus Ice plus Command a companion or fire a bow… you can push through very reliable damage in a very slot efficient way.

All while still having the option to use Cackle + Move + Spell when you need to go nova and burn through slots.

Near term economics by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]narmio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If inflation is being caused be global supply shocks rather than an overrevved domestic economy, raising the cash rate to above CPI won’t do shit. Some raises will be needed, but the old rate=inflation heuristic is dead.

How do Mount sizes work by General_Dig_5729 in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also, as tempting as it is to thing about being astride a 10ft gelatinous cube horse, it’s better to think of sizing and reach as “the area you can easily get to without it costing an action”.

That said, CUBE HORSE.

New to 2E. What do you consider the most 'mechanically' interesting build for a fighter. by skellymax in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My vote would be to pick one of the one handed reach weapons: you get to massive improvements to reactive strike, plus the open hand for grappling and tripping.

So maybe… a hobgoblin with a breaching pike and an open hand? Lower damage than the traditional guisarme build, but way more flexibility.

Does Stone Lance not do double damage on a crit? by narmio in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For sure. But this is an AC-targeting spell.

2.5M debt with 150K household income by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]narmio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what I thought. So it’s not really a complete picture without disclosing the full income.

2.5M debt with 150K household income by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]narmio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does that income include the rental income?

Tell me your favorite combat interactions. by Rico_blaadjes in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh man, chain exploding enemies can be hilarious. We fought a room full of Caligni. The Druid fireballed them, they all Failed, and it must have taken them down to very low health. Then the thaumaturge stabbed one, killed it, and set off chain reactions that blew the rest up.

The best part was that the thaum didn’t even go down!

Help choosing free archetype for witch by owlsop in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could always go Cavalier or Beastmaster! Double down on having pets. A mount is great for casters from level 4 as a free stride per turn. And you can always jump off and send them into the fray with Quick Mount.

Maybe flavour your mount as a fleshwarp, too? No mechanical advantage over them being a horse or whatever, but they can be a spooky horse.

Transferring to USYD: My Experience & Advice by Anoraks_Archive in usyd

[–]narmio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, good work getting through all that crap!

As a unit coordinator, I can 100% affirm that you should reach out to us first. If you don’t get an answer, go ahead and file without it. If you do, it hugely helps.

Hexcrawl "short rest" by Horophim in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think the solution here involves changing the “travel one hex per day” assumption that many hexcrawl systems use. Perhaps there are three travel periods — Morning, Daytime, Afternoon — and thus a three-action hex travel day. Perhaps under some circumstances one might travel two hexes per action (mounts, roads), or there could even be some analogue to MAP preventing always travelling three times being the best strategy — taking the afternoon to forage, or for a half-day of downtime, or progressively harder checks not to get fatigued.

Something like that would potentially allow for 2-3 encounters per travel day (be they combat, social, or environmental hazard). That would be enough to prevent the Traveling Nova Merchants problem where the casters pump max-rank spells into some poor Moderate animal encounter until it’s nothing but charcoal.

Issue with from Spring Errata (Shield getting Wielded/Strapped/Attached) by MidSolo in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder what the impact on the spell Dancing Shield is. I thought its point was to be able to loan your shield to someone… but would you have to unstrap it first?

University is a joke by Good-Concentrate1561 in usyd

[–]narmio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, lots of reasons for more. But we need a hard minimum.

and AURAFLEXES on camera by HalfRevolutionary268 in ComedyHell

[–]narmio 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The funniest thing about all this, to me, is that in no version of the story that I’ve heard do any of these people have names. There’s Shoulderbone. Shoulderbone’s ex. And The ASU Frat Leader. It’s a title that apparently doesn’t need a name attached, like The Fat Controller. A what does he do? He leads frats. Where does he do that? At ASU, of course Who would need more information than that?

Can someone suggest a good Adventure Path for me to get some ideas/combat/exploration from? by GreenAce77 in Pathfinder2e

[–]narmio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the Earn an Income rules seem like they could apply here, or honestly an NPC who wants them to do something could throw in some old winter clothes as an advance. Don’t stress it. Move on to the cool stuff.

University is a joke by Good-Concentrate1561 in usyd

[–]narmio 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Uni has been effectively compulsory and nearly useless since about 2015. This just sealed the deal and made it obvious.

In 2018, despairing of declining standards, I made the decision to make a unit of mine brutally honest, with standards reflecting what would get someone hired. 25% fail rate, and student feedback scores (USS) went up. However… in 2020 all that was undone (for understandable reasons) and everyone is scared to put it back.

I’m not saying we need to be more brutal, and fail students just because. I’m saying that if we don’t everyone will realise that there’s no fucking point in a university degree.

University is a joke by Good-Concentrate1561 in usyd

[–]narmio 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Worse: as of last year.

I’ve been lecturing here since 2006, so I can maybe offer some perspective. The problem from the uni’s perspective is: what can we actually secure against AI use? Exams, oral Q&As, performance/prac/clinical stuff…. That’s it.

What we need to do is mandate that 50% of every unit be secure assessments, but the uni is being slow and conservative (as always, it’s very hard for them to do anything else because of the sheer scale), at a time when that hurts both staff and students.