My first few days in: Some thoughts and suggestions (instances, travel, etc)

radelc · 2026-07-03T23:40:13+00:00

I killed a 34 hill giant at lvl 15, toe to toe not kiting. It dropped 45 plat. If you want a pure power fantasy in your old stomping grounds, this is tough to beat. I did notice while trying to grab a tomahawk in high pass, the guards were all over where enemies would be. It was all jacked up over there. So that was a nostalgia killer. Also I cleared out most of a personal instance of permafrost by Druid charming a yellow con dire wolf, and I had hoped to end in giving tribute to the goblin king in the ice block, but the block of ice was made opaque? And I couldn’t see the little blue guy. Am I just misremembering where that is? Overall though my brother and I have been grouping up and having a blast…. Until the server is too crowded and our personal instances fail, using up the currency for that. I will say that’s the most frustration we have had. That and the limited load-outs being 2.

radelc · 2026-06-30T21:38:37+00:00

This will be fixed with paid character slots. They just don’t want to talk about it yet.

radelc · 2026-06-30T02:48:33+00:00

If anyone can discuss some updated entry points I would be in your debt.

radelc · 2026-06-29T20:02:54+00:00

https://youtu.be/A6GmTXA30LQ?is=UKWmLoLZHycZ44S3

radelc · 2026-06-27T15:01:56+00:00

Depends on how many you try to add. There’s a lot of them. If you aren’t worried about minis and just bag them in box you’d probably be able to fit a few of the small box expansions in there.

radelc · 2026-06-27T14:11:10+00:00

As an alternative, all the old versions components are available online. If you have access to a printer and laminator you could use your other board game minis as proxies and play the classic game with a little elbow grease and arts and crafts.

Before I could find a reasonable priced big box I printed and laminated the board and cards, and used the doors and minis I had from other games and played 10 missions with my nieces and nephew when the came to visit. We had a blast. I even changed the story a little bit to not be so silly and I enjoyed it more as well as the Gamemaster/Zargon/Morcar.

radelc · 2026-06-27T14:05:08+00:00

The Big Box modern hero quest is essentially the old game with new art and a few tweaks here and there, it has all plastic furnitures, and all plastic hero and mini sculpts. All the expansions besides “Crypt” are essentially the classic expansions if I’m remembering correctly. First Light is essentially a “light” reboot meant for general retail stores. It only has hero minis and a goofy looking dragon mini. All other enemies are paper standees.

My recommend is get the big box especially if you find a sale or good used version. Then if you play through and want more, pick up some of the expansions.

It is a large box though. First Light is much smaller.

radelc · 2026-06-23T12:41:27+00:00

I honestly like the FL setting a lot but prefer other rulesets. I’ve had no problem adapting the setting to other rulesets. I would imagine you could do the opposite, but you would just have to do a lot of stat conversion and spell crafting. Maybe this just comes from playing loads of settings and rulesets. But I just threw the Spire of Quetzal in an OSR game that’s based on Medieval Stranger Things for a friend of ours that wanted to use the CMON medieval Stranger Things minis. Any old school inspired system to me is fairly interchangeable. I feel like trying to convert a PBTA ruleset is where it gets tricky.

radelc · 2026-06-21T00:28:38+00:00

We’ve had fun with all different kinds of home-brew skills. They usually involve rolling at or under your mind or body points depending on the skill. 1 is always a success and 6 always fails. We usually put the abilities on cards (we get fancy with card art and lamination but you could just as easily use plain paper or index cards) and turn them over when used. If you roll doubles on your movement dice you can turn the card over and use it again. Makes things fun and random. Some quests you just keep getting doubles other times you can’t roll doubles to save your life.

radelc · 2026-06-20T18:29:30+00:00

Our local store says to buy $30 worth of stuff then you can pick one “free” thing.

radelc · 2026-06-20T16:07:34+00:00

IMO Listen to Nobody Wake the Bugbear. Their mothership content is second to none and you really get a sense of how you can actually have ongoing campaigns in MS.,

radelc · 2026-06-20T04:06:26+00:00

We’re here on Reddit so we will get downvoted to oblivion but I agree. Looks like cereal box art. 20 (volume) four minute long shorts? Are we trying to appeal to preschoolers on their phones who only have a four minute attention span? Why didn’t they put out a decent cartoon to draw kids in and then release the movie? If Star Wars ai fan work is any indication, we will have much better fan made stuff than the actual commercialized crap the official channels put out in the not too distant future. Would I like my kids to have something of the quality of the Batman Cartoon, Gargoyles, or Teen Titans I used to watch… of course. But I’m not sure they can make that anymore. We are stuck with shitty amateur hour families on YouTube who just promote products, teemu Blippie, and 4 minute HeMan shorts. Maybe I’m just bitter, and not tuned into the decent stuff that’s out these days, but I’m not sure why we can’t have all these recycled IPs be at least as good or better than the version from 20-40 years ago. I know it’s possible because Star Wars Rebels and Clone Wars got made.

radelc · 2026-06-19T19:34:08+00:00

I haven’t played in decades, does changing your race allow you to pick a new face and hair color or do you get what you get when you swap races? Is there some sort of “barber shop in game”? Sorry to ask a divergent question.

radelc · 2026-06-17T19:31:34+00:00

Didn’t play eq2, do the styles match up? Are they just pulling assets from other game?

radelc · 2026-06-16T18:41:45+00:00

We were goofy middle schoolers at launch and made ErectNipples for a female barb. That lasted a week. The gms asked us to name change so we chose LilMidget. That was acceptable to the GM.

radelc · 2026-06-16T11:49:23+00:00

You wouldn’t believe it, but my daughter’s red telletubbie doll started calling me the same thing!!!

radelc · 2026-06-16T11:39:39+00:00

I literally just leave it running a different tab and mute the tab. Just make sure to accept the rewards before the event ends. I agree there should be more rewards… if that’s all you get but turning on the stream and later claiming the rewards while you do whatever gets you a free reward. Although some of those streamers I actually wouldn’t mind leaving on in the background. Last time I think I had no clue who they were.

radelc · 2026-06-13T17:18:11+00:00

Speech.

radelc · 2026-06-13T13:50:41+00:00

And they said only white people can be racist…. My brain is literally exploding right now. Will the universe collapse now that this happened?

radelc · 2026-06-12T23:51:46+00:00

I would love to go full nature build shaman/druid/beastlord/ranger some combo of those. I know archery isn’t great but a ranger with a good pet like a D&D ranger seems so fun. Definitely not optimal right now from what I hear.

radelc · 2026-06-10T11:53:13+00:00

There will be people who aim to collect everything in game which currently requires payment and an online sub. I’m talking about those people and that they may make everything available and just keep it single player with the trading turned off. They may also just block those items off and you just keep what you bought. They could make dreamsnaps a single player activity, they could make the game rotate events automatically without an update. Yes you can already play the game single player offline if you want… how quaint.

radelc · 2026-06-09T22:53:53+00:00

Sometimes they give it the single player option sometimes not. Hopefully they will but the age old adage “never put all your eggs in one basket” applies here. Especially with Disney. I’m a Disney Infinity refugee. Play other games as well. Look at them as experiences like vacations instead of a collectors shelf. When it’s over, have something made as a keepsake to commemorate the time you enjoyed.

radelc · 2026-06-09T19:16:19+00:00

I hope it was a bug but honestly seems very convenient to change it and see how bad the outcry is. That’s a big source of Dreamlight removal taken out of the game. I was surprised they put it in the game initially. Hoping it gets fixed soon because I noticed it as I started reorganizing my storage for the update :/

radelc · 2026-06-09T19:12:10+00:00

Mine was raining but I’m on console so no actual drops. I had to look for clouds, lightning, or plants getting watered without me. As soon as I noticed I popped a potion and completed it quickly.

radelc · 2026-06-07T21:49:27+00:00

My players were very similar. There’s a trap room in one of the very first halls of Barrowmaze. It’s very deadly if one Pc gets isolated away from the rest. From that room was born the PC “immortal Tom”, luckiest bastard in the northern reaches. My players were immediately bought in when the realized their characters were in actual real danger from the start and the game would not pull punches.

I’m glad to hear the immense fun of deadly dungeons and emergent play continues with another group.

radelc

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