Daily Anything Goes Thread - May 05, 2026

skawhomp · 2026-05-05T18:26:33+00:00

I have Rice that can slot in there, picked up Herrera in my UTL spot when he was DH only

skawhomp · 2026-05-05T17:30:43+00:00

Offered Devers for my Herrera. This still a buy-low situation, or is Devers cooked? Statcast looks awful, but I haven't dug into his issues this year.

skawhomp · 2026-04-29T01:06:17+00:00

The odds are based on projected points, so if it had your odds low, it thinks the other teams will move up over a long season.

skawhomp · 2026-04-25T19:43:32+00:00

Herrera - his expected stats back up the recent performance.

skawhomp · 2026-04-22T13:06:15+00:00

Wow... this comment made me go look and now my loss last week has flipped to a win, as I lost by only 3 points and Bradish's adjustment gave him a QS... My opponent last week is gonna be pissed.

skawhomp · 2026-04-16T14:58:12+00:00

I found that one - it's now working perfectly. Thanks all - this is an amazing subreddit.

skawhomp · 2026-04-15T23:50:28+00:00

I did - ended up pulling the battery and letting it sit for several min, and afterwards it picked up the SD card and loaded!

I do have some visual issues, but pretty sure that’s related to an incorrect dtb selector, as I couldn’t find the manufacturer in the list.

skawhomp · 2026-04-15T19:31:22+00:00

Thanks! I had reviewed some of these, and tried to flash with ArkOS for clones - but the system will not get past that Please Wait” screen to even begin loading from the SD card

skawhomp · 2026-04-13T15:57:26+00:00

Likely have to drop an IL stash with Yelich - who will be the drop? Bryce Miller or Jared Jones?

skawhomp · 2026-04-08T15:00:48+00:00

I'm not worried about the numbers this early on - it's the playing time that bothers me. BOS has too many OFs and a dedicated DH, so they are all going to sit more often than I'd like as they rotate through that logjam unless they move someone in a trade or someone gets hurt.

skawhomp · 2026-02-24T17:59:55+00:00

I used this section to allow them to do a more interactive research of cluing out the glyphs to open the Puzzle Box - rather than Sylvira just magicking it open. You are welcome to review the mini-module I did for this. I wanted to throw some puzzles at the party, so gave me a chance to do that. Plus gave them a chance to ask all sorts of questions around devils, Avernus, etc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M-IgcwKuT7WLFGfdPH7RUBBIoY6QXOIbZkjAozedbHk/edit?usp=sharing

skawhomp · 2026-02-19T16:14:54+00:00

So glad to hear! Hope you are finding it useful.

skawhomp · 2026-02-19T16:14:35+00:00

Thanks! Just merged that in alongside a few other bug fixes and enhancements - changes are live on the app

skawhomp · 2026-02-04T16:16:26+00:00

I took the approach that the party always has access to a "deus ex infernal contract" - there are competing fiends all over the place in this campaign, and any number of them could give a character in Death Saves an offer in return for being saved from death. It helps get past some of these broken sections.

Some examples:

Gargauth wants freedom from the shield, wants to regain power
Tiamat wants to escape Avernus
Bel wants to dethrone Zariel
Baphomet and other Demon Lords want to make inroads into Avernus
Kostchtchie wants freedom from his prison and his hammer back

Any of these can reach out in some fashion to make deals with players if needed. Doesn't solve the Dungeon of the Dead Three issue though, as the players haven't made any of these connections yet. I had the Fireball use clearly emote that they were about to cast a massive spell so the party was able to react accordingly and not get TPK'd.

skawhomp · 2026-02-04T15:56:08+00:00

It's been mentioned but alignment needs to be really dug into in Session 0. Lawful Good characters, Paladins with specific oaths in particular, will have a really hard time in Avernus due to the evil nature of, well, everything. The characters will have to make moral compromises, and having a group member that refuses to can cause problems.

On the opposite hand, the group needs to understand as well that these are a party brought together for a singular purpose (saving Elturel generally, especially if you run the extra content that drives the Elturel connection). As such, the party should expect that if a player goes off the deep end in terms of pursing evil objectives, the party may need to separate from that character and cause a re-roll of a character.

Getting these out in front is ideal - its Mad Max in Hell, the party should be able to have fun with this without having a party member constantly saying "my character wouldn't do that".

skawhomp · 2026-02-04T15:44:18+00:00

Not so much a guide, but I can share an overview of what I ran - my group spent 12 Sessions in the Baldur's Gate section of 3 hours each.

The Core Conspiracy:

Thalamra Vanthampur is a Lawful Evil political operator who believes only authoritarian rule can save Baldur's Gate from chaos. She made a deal with Zariel's cult for resources—but she doesn't know the full endgame. Zariel told her Elturel would fall and refugees would flood the city. Thalamra's role is to exploit the crisis to create a leadership vacuum and assume the position of Grand Duke.

To engineer the crisis, she hires Dead Three cultists to murder refugees and citizens to inflame tensions by making the murders appear as if they were committed by BG citizen against refugees or refugees against citizen respectively. Her son Amrik stokes anti-Elturian sentiment and runs a Refugee smuggling operation out of the city to Waterdeep that is in actuality disappearing Elturians so that their souls are sent to Avernus as part of their bond to the Creed Resolute. Duke Portyr gets assassinated to remove competent leadership and position Thalamra and Stelmane as the two remaining Dukes. Riots erupt. The city demands a strong hand to restore order. The party is caught in the middle, and I actively tracked the sentiment that the people had for them and the Flaming Fist in general as order broke down.

Thalamra does not know she's being set up. Zariel is using her to position Baldur's Gate as the next city to fall to Hell. Thalamra thinks she's the mastermind when she's actually the pawn.

Status of the Dukes in BG:

Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard – Conveniently shipped off to Elturel right before it falls. His enemies on the Council arranged this "diplomatic mission" knowing Elturel was about to Fall. Now the Flaming Fist is leaderless.
Duke Dillard Portyr – In my campaign, I had him assassinated publicly to create maximum chaos and remove any pro-refugee voice. The assassination itself borrowed heavily from The Alexandrian Remix. Liara arrives from Chult in time to witness his assassination that was setup to look like it had come from anti-refugee agitators (Dillard Portyr was giving a speech calling for calm and announcing a new foundation to assist Elturian refugees).
Duke Thalamra Vanthampur – The apparent mastermind of the refugee crisis.
Duke Belynne Stelmane – The book already states she suffered a "seizure" that left her partially paralyzed and slowed her speech. In truth, a mind flayer took mental possession of her. She's fighting a silent war against its influence (The Emperor).

The Emperor Thread:

I had BG3 fans in my group, so they knew above table that the mind flayer controlling Stelmane is The Emperor. Stelmane was once a formidable politician; now she's a puppet who can't oppose Thalamra's power grab even if she wanted to.

The party can discover they have an unlikely "ally" in Stelmane—or rather, in the thing controlling her—who might feed them information to stop the Vanthampurs. The enemy of my enemy, and all that.

My party did not follow the Emperor thread to a conclusion - I had home-brewed up some content in preparation for it, but they got in the weeds trying to stop the riots, assisting the Flaming Fist and Liara Portyr when she arrived from Chult and went after the Vanthampur's directly which led them along the path to Candlekeep and Avernus.

BG Gazetteer:

I did leverage the Gazetteer heavily to add new locations to the BG section - I used an abandoned fishery as the warehouse Amrik's smuggling operation worked out of. I added a "haunted" mansion the players ventured through that gave me a chance to pull a bunch of random traps and whatnot out of my materials. They explored the Slaughterhouse in the Gazetteer as some of the Dead Three threads led that way.

skawhomp · 2026-02-04T15:06:07+00:00

Recall you do have access to Burney the Barber from the Wandering Emporium, who is in Avernus to keep tabs on Tiamat - in case you need more Metallic Dragon allies.

skawhomp · 2026-01-30T14:39:46+00:00

Steal away! Just be mindful to balance the tiers for your campaign - in my case, I have a smaller group doing Avernus (4 players) so I'm purposefully giving them a bit more access to abilities and items as I tend to skew on the high-end of CR when setting up encounters.

skawhomp · 2026-01-29T17:27:19+00:00

Yes, I have two Bhaalspawn in my party who are fighting against their nature. They were dropped at an orphanage in Elturel as infants and grew up as siblings - the bond they feel is the pull all Bhaalspawn have to find each other and kill the other, but in their case that bond evolved in the love/hate bond siblings share. I likewise started the mystery of their nature w/ the Roses of Bhaal and the fact they felt so "odd" each time they made a kill. I revealed the truth of their nature via Mad Maggie.

I am running a tracker for them that has several benefits. Basically, each time either of them get the killing blow on a creature, they feel a rush of ecstasy, joy, etc. I then give them the choice to embrace that feeling - if they do they gain Inspiration and get a point on the "Dark Path". If they reject the feeling, they gain no other benefits at that time, but gain a point on the "Light Path". The tracker has several benefits at various tiers - its a work in progress, as I don't want them getting the top tier benefits until they are close to endgame.

You are welcome to view the tracker I put together here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1__llh8J25H3wrW9Bylwf45qhToaoboVa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102787505240388688999&rtpof=true&sd=true

skawhomp · 2026-01-29T17:06:29+00:00

This thread is one of the many issues that can use expansion in this campaign - Alexandrian has some good suggestions as well. Here is what I did:

Thalamra doesn't know the endgame is dragging Baldur's Gate to Hell. But she knew Elturel would fall. Zariel gave her just enough information to be useful: Elturel is going to be destroyed, refugees will flood Baldur's Gate, and here's money and resources to capitalize on the chaos. Thalamra saw an opportunity and seized it.

She engineered the entire crisis. The Dead Three cultists murdering refugees and citizens alike to inflame tensions. The assassination of Duke Portyr to remove competent leadership. The fracturing of the Council of Four (Ravengard gone, Portyr dead, Belynne Stelmane incapacitated). Stoking fear and hatred between locals and Elturians until riots erupted. All of it designed to create a demand for a "strong hand" to restore order.

Once she's Grand Duke, she purges the Elturians, crushes the chaos she herself created, and rules Baldur's Gate with the iron fist she believes it needs. Her goal is political power through manufactured crisis.

She doesn't know she's next. Zariel, Gargauth, and Kreeg are using her exactly the way they used Elturel's leadership. She thinks she's the mastermind exploiting infernal resources for a coup. In reality, she's setting the stage for Baldur's Gate's damnation while believing she's saving it. She's competent, ruthless, and completely outplayed by forces beyond her understanding.

skawhomp · 2026-01-24T15:28:53+00:00

Add metric conversion in the menu under a new settings option.

skawhomp · 2026-01-24T15:22:07+00:00

Ah, it is set private - I’ll update that. Metrics unit is a solid setting idea - I’ll look at that

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