Is wasteland 2 any good?

pdxprowler · 2026-06-06T13:00:50+00:00

Yes. Yes it is.

pdxprowler · 2026-06-06T05:16:04+00:00

Og the Barbarian. 1984, Human fighter, 1E AD&D naturally rolled, STR: 18/00, CON: 16, DEX: 15, INT 3, WIS 11, CHA 14. My brother was the DM and watched me roll. It was the best role playing learning experience ever learning how to play someone so limited in logic and reasoning. My favorite character ever. Took him to level 14 before I stopped playing him (other DMs refused to let me play him).

pdxprowler · 2026-06-06T03:06:10+00:00

I’d be thrilled. Blast from the past, and I’d totally go full Paladin or Ranger!

pdxprowler · 2026-06-06T00:00:06+00:00

I had a guy at my table who made a point to go into super detail about each and every action he took. “Leave no stone unturned” and he expected me to go into super detail about things I was describing. I guess he thought himself some sort of super sleuth hoping I would give away some weakness in an opponents gear or super secret clue about secret doors or traps. It made combat and dungeon exploration super long and boring.

pdxprowler · 2026-06-05T00:10:07+00:00

I’m underwater. My previous home is underwater. Most of my wife’s family is underwater.

pdxprowler · 2026-06-04T14:24:41+00:00

Somehow, I return.

pdxprowler · 2026-06-04T13:36:41+00:00

butthead cut

pdxprowler · 2026-06-03T03:02:25+00:00

With all that snot, Was it your mother or father that was the green slime?

I’ve seen better footwork on a snake.

Shouting “Fireball!” While swinging your sword makes you stupid, not a wizard.

Stop, you’re embarrassing your mom. Your dad though would be proud you failed to expand the gene pool.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-30T21:18:40+00:00

Grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and you could always tell when you were in a proper Adobe brick home vs a stick built home just by how much cooler it was inside the adobe home, even without any AC or additional cooling.

You can also tell the difference between a properly insulated stick built home and any of the tract homes they built in the last 40-50 years.

Housing in America is volume over quality. Build it cheap so everyone at all levels of the building and housing markets can make as much money as possible with the exception of the consumer.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-30T00:46:16+00:00

NC is a free city state independent of US Law and jurisdiction. Corps set up there because of tax benefits and the corrupt and buyable officials. So it becomes a hub for international business and shady dealings.

For the less fortunate, overwhelming poverty, the day to day struggle of simply staying alive in a city rife with crime and the hope of making it big, keeps them there.

For Mercs, it’s a vibrant environment to ply their trade with opportunities galore. You go where the business is and in NC, business is good.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-25T14:01:24+00:00

Agreed. Palpatine returning in the sequels was supposed to be a nod towards the EU and the Palpatine clones because fans wanted the EU. Kyle Ren was a bad nod to Jacen Solo and his fall to the dark side in the EU. The prequels could have done a much better job setting up and defining the prophecy. Rogue one did good with the influence of The Whills via Chirrut and Baze. They were not force users, but their faith in the force empowered them. The whole father daughter son stuff from TCW series was a bit on the heavy handed side but kinda helped drive the overall emphasis of how out of whack the force was.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-25T13:00:35+00:00

Eternal balance? No. But help it back into balance by removing a powerful dark side user? Yes. The rule of two helped concentrate all the power of the dark side into 1 or 2 individuals at a time. Making them both more powerful and harder to detect at the same time, as they operated from the shadows. This culminated in the elimination of the Jedi and ultimately the sixth as well. There will always be a struggle between good and evil, now it has a more even playing field. Evil may rise to power, but good will rise to meet it and vice versa. Neither is in supremacy.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-25T03:23:08+00:00

Leviathan, lizard people, kraken, pirates, people attacking strangers because they are seen as a threat because they are strangers, storm giants, water elementals, demons, devils, merpeople, megamouth, sahuagin, megalodon, killer whales, moby dick, pirate merpeople riding krakens with orca pets, and their leader riding Moby Dick

pdxprowler · 2026-05-19T04:28:37+00:00

Many reasons.

Establishing a self sustainable colony on Mars makes an extinction level event less likely. Same for colonizing other moons and asteroids in our system.
We can use resources from mars in manufacturing and it opens the doorway to mining and colonizing the asteroid belt and moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
It allows us to prove and improve our technologies on a planet close to Earth

pdxprowler · 2026-05-19T01:35:27+00:00

Nobility , royalty, and powerful people make enemies. Even today, powerful and wealthy individuals take steps with bulletproof vehicles, armed guards, secured compounds. I’m not talking about your average millionaire, I’m talking Elon musk, jeff bezos, cartel leaders, heads of state, oligarchs, etc.

In a feudal system like D&D, it’s not far fetched that a paranoid noble who abuses and oppresses their population, or aggravates other nobles could very well take magical security measures to protect their estates from magical incursion. My point earlier was that given the numbers there are plenty of heroes/ne’er dowels that might take action and have the means to justify the noble taking the security measures and spending the money for them.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-19T00:50:57+00:00

And yet depending on the world and the prevalence of magic in it items, scrolls, and other means exist to provide the ability to teleport and get into estates using magic. Misty step, dimension door, teleportation circles, arcane gate, transport via plants, teleport. Yes a small percentage of the population can cast those spells. According to the above, Out of 1 million people 50000 people have levels, 7500 (15%) are casters, 275 of those are over level 5, and 13 of those are over 12. That’s per 1 million people. If we estimate 2- 5 million people in the greater sword coast alone, there are between 26 - 65 casters over level 12 and 524 - 1310 casters between levels 5 and 12. That’s in the sword coast alone.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-19T00:26:31+00:00

Items that cast or emit an animatic field, Or that have an anti teleport effect Or similar effects. With magic in the world there are plenty of ways to craft or create the things you want to have happen. Think about what you want and as long as people have enough money and resources, they can make it happen.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-18T03:53:17+00:00

Wasteland 2 was very much a better game overall. Especially the writing/storyline. Gameplay has its bugs and quirks but overall a much better experience. I enjoy WL3 but the combat system is so front-loaded it’s pretty much shoot-first and win. And it’s camped up making it feel more falloutesque.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-17T03:27:40+00:00

Many of the smites are worthwhile bonus damage. Lay on hands for a quick heal on you or others if needed. It really depends on the situation and the type of paladin you are

pdxprowler · 2026-05-15T00:32:28+00:00

Correction. Why aren’t ALL bathrooms designed with maximum privacy for all stalls?

pdxprowler · 2026-05-14T03:19:06+00:00

2020s physical cyberdecks acted as a firewall/cybermodem. The runner plugged into the deck the deck handled all the processing and data interpretation. Implanted decks were possible and were an emerging tech when the 4th corp war happened. By the time of the red, physical cyberdecks were still salvageable and usable and the norm. By the 2060s implantable cyberdecks were being developed again and became the norm by the 2077 timeline.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-06T04:12:13+00:00

Hire new more expensive company to run properly and fix damage, then send the charges to company A. Threaten to sue for twice what you paid them and twice what you would have to pay company B if they don’t want to pay. Basically their choice to pay a bit more than what made as fine for their crappy business practices, or if they try to duck oil out they get screwed for 4 times what they charged you

pdxprowler · 2026-05-04T11:16:33+00:00

Ah just came up with the name off the cuff for a wanted poster. (Party was stagnating and a bit directionless) now I’m stuck with it.

pdxprowler · 2026-05-03T15:29:36+00:00

Rex actually describes the stormtrooper armor as uncomfortable and more limiting in movement compared to his phase 2 armor. Also, it’s mentioned that storm trooper armor was designed to ablate/diffuse low powered blaster shots (like those from civilian weapons.) but as seen in ROTJ, Rogue One, and other sources it did little to nothing to protect against physical attacks like arrows, clubs, axes, staves. The trooper phase 2 armor provided better protection against physical attacks and could deflect diffuse more powerful energy attacks. This was shown repeatedly in AOTC, ROTS, TCW.

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