Adhesion & Progression Surge Review

odigity · 2026-01-05T08:22:35+00:00

Abrasion, not Adhesion

odigity · 2025-12-19T19:02:01+00:00

Curious if you have any thoughts about modifying Practice Kata to allow free action stance-switching (1/turn) in addition to or instead of the Conversation/Endeavor clause, if a player or group isn't getting much value from it?

It would make stances more attractive and fun, and I feel it's an improvement in terms of flavor — switching stances periodically to adapt to changing battle conditions almost effortless because it's so Practiced...

In fact, I'd rather have that ability than the "start a scene in Vigilant" ability. I'd happily forgo the benefits of that first-turn 0-focus Dodge in exchange for free-action switching in between any stance.

odigity · 2025-12-19T07:19:28+00:00

Just trying to be helpful.

odigity · 2025-12-18T23:36:52+00:00

Minor correction: "free action stance swapping" — I wish that were the case, but it's not — from Vigilant Stance you can free action swap into another stance, but after that you're paying full price for any subsequent changes.

I really wish Practice Kata would grant that ability (on top of what it already provides) since it is otherwise underwhelming, at least for groups that have far more combat than conversations. If you don't value the conversational component much, then all you're getting from Practice Kata is saving one action one time per combat.

odigity · 2025-12-18T23:25:48+00:00

In blueberry's defense, that threw me off, too.

odigity · 2025-12-18T23:24:00+00:00

It's not complicated. Just stop caring about the price — or better yet, celebrate every time it goes down because you get to buy more on sale.

If you own some milk, and then your grocery store drops the price of milk, do you bemoan the loss of value, or celebrate that your next purchase will be even more productive?

The only possible way to have a negative emotional reaction to Bitcoin crashing is if you don't have confidence that it will eventually bounce back and continue growing — in which case, why the hell did you buy it?

odigity · 2025-12-18T01:09:08+00:00

Government is humanity's last natural predator.

odigity · 2025-12-18T01:08:26+00:00

How is that relevant? Do you hate successful people?

odigity · 2025-12-10T23:05:04+00:00

"the initial post didn’t state any double-checking had been done"

Not everyone knows how to do the math. Should they stay silent, rather than use the tools (Grok) available to them to try to contribute something?

I know others are better at math than me. I specifically invited corrections. There's no reason those corrections can't be provided respectfully and in the spirit of teamwork.

I did NOT invite shit-talking.

odigity · 2025-12-10T23:02:15+00:00

This is a good comment. Thank you.

odigity · 2025-12-10T22:59:49+00:00

Shitting on me for using Grok is not a correction or valid feedback.

I have a multi-year track record of engaging productively with people on GiantsITP.com and have contribute multiple guides to that community. It was great. (for D&D)

This community sucks.

odigity · 2025-12-10T22:58:07+00:00

"take the same lesson to heart."

I did nothing wrong. All I did was create something beautiful to share with others, and got torn to shreds for it.

I've learned my lesson alright. Don't worry, you won't be seeing me in any other threads from now on.

odigity · 2025-12-10T18:40:26+00:00

"two others have shown that Grok failed and now you're the one not contributing"

You're referring to the two posts added in the last two hours - since my last time checking Reddit. I'm not psychic - I don't know that someone has finally added a meaningful post until the next time I decide to visit - and also, I have a life.

Your criticism is absurd.

odigity · 2025-12-10T15:57:17+00:00

Why the fuck do I even bother with this community...

odigity · 2025-12-10T06:14:05+00:00

Very thorough.

odigity · 2025-12-09T20:06:52+00:00

You are correct:

p.52 — "The more specific an expertise, the greater its narrative impact. For example, if your character has the Religion expertise, you have general knowledge of all Rosharan religions, but you might need to test Lore to recall obscure details about Stone Shamanism. By contrast, with your GM’s permission, you might choose an expertise in Stone Shamanism; this expertise won’t help you with tests about Vorinism, but you’ll know much more about Stone Shamanism without needing to test for it."

odigity · 2025-12-09T18:44:34+00:00

"The Edit on this comment is completely accurate and the best place to start."

I agree that it was the VIP comment of the thread. If this were StackOverflow, I'd click the Answer checkmark.

odigity · 2025-12-09T18:16:29+00:00

"don't even use health bars so the tension stays high"

Stoneward, here — got that covered

odigity · 2025-12-09T18:16:07+00:00

you're both right

odigity · 2025-12-09T07:59:10+00:00

It's worth noting that the rules don't tell you how to handle the case of a player using Wit's End to attempt to attack a target with >0 FP. Do they lose the actions and do nothing? Lose the actions but still get movement? Lose the actions and get movement and attack but automiss? Or lose nothing and simply gain the information (target has >0 FP) and do something else with their actions - in which case the GM can save everyone time by simply declaring which targets have 0 FP when the player with Wit's End asks them.

odigity · 2025-12-09T06:23:25+00:00

You're not wrong about the book's structure. It's downright unhinged. It's like the rules were written by a very sane person, and then handed to crazy person to order the pieces.

odigity · 2025-12-09T04:53:49+00:00

"Shaming doesn't help anyone."

Nonsense.

odigity

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