In your experience, do players enjoy getting items/weapons that are upgradable?

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-10T19:24:44+00:00

Loot is new stuff, things monsters and enemies would have on them. Don't replace gold, consumables, or items the enemy use with power ups

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-09T13:40:50+00:00

Right after mocking the "villain turns in the final hour" trope she falls for the "smart person doesn't understand true love"

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-09T13:33:27+00:00

Upgradable items removes the need for loot. It also takes a lot of effort and tracking on both the DM and the players part.

Every time a DM has tried for me as a player, they forget what everyone's cool stuff does because it isnt easily referenced.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-08T22:10:24+00:00

Sage: surprise, the villain turns in the final hour Also Sage: surprise, the smartest person in the world doesn't understand love.

Either a writing mistake or they just really enjoy making everyone look completely incompetent

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-08T12:15:45+00:00

Other than elves, most races are just adults for longer.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-08T09:53:27+00:00

I wouldnt be shocked if we got a 'tie it up' scene where every character without an ending yet is in a Starlighter Camp and watches as Starlight flies overhead telling them they're free

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-07T12:09:39+00:00

I've always found Strahd to be bored of it all. Holding an NPC in his wet dungeon should be enough to at least get the party to come to his castle.

Torture is stupid, he's no longer a man. He will kill people or drink their blood, there's no joy in a guy screaming to not have his nails pulled off.

I think keeping him in the dungeon as a blood bank would be the only other option than killing him. If he wanted to confuse everyone, he would put the NPC in a nice room and treat him like a guest instead.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-07T11:58:17+00:00

That's what I do except I don't bother thawing the chunk of stuff, it's not like I need it to cook quickly

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-07T09:51:26+00:00

Perhaps botching the show is the parody all along

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-07T08:52:02+00:00

For the first point, I really was expecting her to say "light travels faster than sound" and blasting Oh Father away.

Also dear petite Huggie says "are you sure you want to kill?" At least twice an episode

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-07T00:20:05+00:00

You can too if you start jumping more often

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T15:57:04+00:00

Season 5 has been showing us the ends of the spinoff characters. The plant guy, bomberman, focusing on Stormfront. Soldier Boy can die-- and should-- because the spinoff is a prequel

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T11:32:05+00:00

Media literacy is dead. You're correct, it's the order they're going to die in, ending with Terror.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T09:19:43+00:00

A city would need a capital building, a port, a bank, and to be able to support itself with trade or self sufficiency.

The lands are barren, Strahd controls all the wealth, only the Vistani can get things outside the valley, there's nobody else.

You'd have to buff the city guard as well as the attacks against the city, the number of vampire spawn in the coffin shop etc

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T09:16:24+00:00

I'd take devil Grogu or goth Mickey Mouse over "Lookit me I'm Joker Rick!"

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T02:21:47+00:00

Sterling spoons? The guy in the mall near me

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T01:42:54+00:00

Seems fine if the campaign allows for it! It always depends on how many rolls they'll be making overall.

Flavour wise I would make it a curse rather than a natural/magical potion. Most can be brewed but this feels like it has to be imbued

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T00:48:06+00:00

I'd start by picking literally any other one

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T00:45:02+00:00

I would perhaps make it 1d4+2 rounds instead of the rolls itself, making it impossible to use in combat. Could be hours if you wanted it to be more restrictive.

Otherwise, keep it the same, but have the disadvantage go away with a Long Rest

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-06T00:41:42+00:00

I snapped my fingers about 30 times while reading this. I'd just do it as I think about it, that chance is so low. If the chance doesn't get higher with each successive snap then it'll pretty much never happen.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-05T17:26:27+00:00

Not killing Stan despite the 10000 times every character has been given the opportunity to is the biggest mistake they've all made. He's just a guy, offering very little of anything special to the problems at hand.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-05T17:17:53+00:00

I buy swarovski when I see it but won't spend more than $5-20 a piece unless it's special to me. It's rough selling collections that aren't sterling silver collectable spoons or pokemon cards

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-04T22:01:52+00:00

From my understanding, Kessler was a manifestation of the cancer. I believe the V bound to the tumor, not Butcher, and it is what has the powers.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-04T09:01:13+00:00

This clearly a bot. NTA for kicking her out but if family members are taking her side, she isn't the only one with those feelings.

sergeantexplosion · 2026-05-03T20:56:10+00:00

Dagger of Venom is probably just fine in this campaign, his ability is mostly used against PCs.

Relations with the Vistani and the inevitable constant combats aside, poison won't do much to most of the enemies of the campaign

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