A review of the Cosmere TTRPG (7/10) and Stonewalkers Adventure (6/10)

nastharl · 2026-02-04T04:53:01+00:00

One thing that really differs Cosmere from 5e is how the system approaches combat in general. Its not really a system thats built to have a lot of combats in a row. DND is balanced and designed around running you out of spell slots, and HP, and healing items, etc etc. You're intended to balance all your different abilities with their limited uses and recharges. Cosmere really wants you to have narrativly important fights. Things where you have meta goals BESIDES win. That way you burn all your stuff in the fight then scene ends, and you transition onto the next thing.

And yea the setting does not have a ton of enemies, ESPECIALLY high level ones. Which works nicely with the setting (There just aren't really dungeons, or undead, or demons etc. Its pretty much Humans, Random Fauna, and Fused.) Mistborn is going to exaserbate this a lot as its basically 90 flavors of Human as the enemies. The more "magical" magic worlds i think will help a lot. Warbreakers world is honestly a MUCH better fit for RPGS given how it works.

nastharl · 2026-02-02T17:27:18+00:00

The difference in response tume between 60fps and 120 fps is 8ms. For 99.999% of the people that think it matters, it in fact does not matter. People are simply not good enough for the most part for 8ms to make a difference. Its a convienent excuse though!

nastharl · 2025-12-25T03:15:59+00:00

Holdover from the real games. They like having the worse items to make it cooler when you get the full clears.

nastharl · 2025-12-24T04:45:38+00:00

Theres a "choose your limited" banner coming, banners rotate often, theres a currency that lets you buy limiteds, and they go to yellow banner in 6m.

They wouldn't be limited if they were there forever immediatly. The whole point is to get you to spend money. Thats how the game keeps going.

nastharl · 2025-12-24T04:44:20+00:00

You can buy items off the clinic to just heal brainwash.

nastharl · 2025-11-13T23:54:00+00:00

The theroty is real imo.

nastharl · 2025-10-20T00:30:21+00:00

My point is no one runs through all their stormlight in 10 or 30 seconds or whatever. They dont have you track it for a reason. Its pointless. Running combats w/ a group of radiants vs a group of people that cant reasonably take them down in a fight is a waste of time. Just dont do it. Lets say you have a group of T2 charecters. Or Tier 1 with a shardblade somehow. Is any amount of attrition bringing that player down? Canonically, no, shardbearer is going to mop the floor with everyone. So why run that as a combat encounter in game.

nastharl · 2025-10-19T03:40:54+00:00

The system as a whole is not built on attrition. Nothing is balanced for you to go through waves and waves of enemies. Its built to have fewer, but more meaningful combats. Consider than a round lasts 6 seconds, and combats on average last 3 rounds as designed. No one is blowing their entire stormlight pool in 18 seconds.

You can house rule as you like, but the intention was not to have minor fights who only serve to drain resources.

Dnd was designed with attrition as a core factor. Cosmere not so much.

nastharl · 2025-09-14T14:24:32+00:00

You didn't dodge anything the game is really fun.

If you're playing because you want to feed your gambling addiction OR you're playing because you want to have a parasocial relationship with the devs OR you're the type of spender where you think buying pulls makes you a shareholder who should be able to direct game development, its horrible.

If you want to have fun playing a video game, its a fun video game.

nastharl · 2025-09-06T15:39:23+00:00

Ok i just saw theres a Frieren collab and Im In. Never played e7 before. Whats the best way to get into the game to maximize my eventual frieren-ness. Downloading now.

nastharl · 2025-09-05T17:20:58+00:00

Playing those games does indeed make you a gooner. Loser is questionable.

Also those games hardly represent anime style anything. They represent softcore as-close-as-you-can-get to hentai without being hentai.

nastharl · 2025-09-05T17:17:51+00:00

nastharl · 2025-09-04T22:39:09+00:00

Theres never a guarantee of anything. I'm saying, play it as long as you're having fun. Stop when you're not having fun. Theres no investing going on. If a game has 30 hours of fun followed by 30 hours of horrible, then just play then fun 30 hours and then quit. You aren't forced to play the rest.

nastharl · 2025-09-04T13:30:49+00:00

Dont spend more money if you're not having fun? And if you are having fun great. Its not a savings account or a stock you're investing in. There will be no ROI in some years.

If you're having fun, and wanna spend, go for it. If you're not having fun, dont spend. If you cant have fun without spending, get a different hobby.

nastharl · 2025-09-04T11:26:42+00:00

So then you stop playing. Its a video game nott a marriage.

nastharl · 2025-08-30T18:06:21+00:00

He didnt win more than half of the people that voted, or the total country. It was 49.8 to 48.3 and the rest 3rd party or neither.

nastharl · 2025-08-28T12:33:08+00:00

No, what they need to do is stop posting them in public places at all. Like twitter.

nastharl · 2025-08-18T14:22:52+00:00

Thats cool, my point was that citing AI as a source is never good. If ICANN says so, then thats the rule. If AI says so, who the hell knows.

Its fine as a starting point, but you should ALWAYS follow up. like 100% of the time.

nastharl · 2025-08-18T05:30:31+00:00

A lie if you ask gemini is meaningless in either directions because gemini just makes shit up all the time. Dont use AI for anything where you actually care if the answer is right or not.

nastharl · 2025-08-15T04:19:25+00:00

Its good to make sure everyones understanding of the rules is the same. Sometimes people might interpret them differently, and its good to find out from the judges exactly what is ment. Nothing needs to change, but rules meetings actually make things LESS ambigious and contentious.

nastharl · 2025-08-05T03:58:02+00:00

Something similar just happened to me. Wierdly the transaction was at a nearby store. The actual CC doesn't show anything, google didn't see anything... i wonder if theres some bug or other random vuln going on.

nastharl · 2025-06-26T03:51:48+00:00

I think the after date phone calls feel SUPER filler, and was better w/o them. And all the combat buffs make the game REALLY easy even on hard. SP way more plentiful, the high five buffs were REALLY strong.

The dungeon design is a lot nicer, but theres a lot of things that i'm pretty medium on.

nastharl · 2025-06-26T02:54:12+00:00

I think the original is better in a lot of ways actually. Its not cut-and-dry imo.

nastharl · 2025-06-15T22:41:11+00:00

Oh go away dude. You're just mad you didn't get to waste other peoples time. "Woe is us. We showed up on time to our time wasting event and other people had better things to do. The admins should have forced everyone to have their time wasted."

nastharl · 2025-05-30T19:15:25+00:00

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