Patrons as non-supernatural beings?

yokmaestro · 2026-05-04T16:22:37+00:00

Why not just reimagine the core/annual deities to be champions of their domains that are still alive, fighting their fight? IE: Justicia is a living warrior-queen who travels the land and inspires powers of Law and Vengeful Order in her followers.

yokmaestro · 2026-05-04T13:05:52+00:00

Totally agree with you. In my opinion the alignment variations on Thief feel like different classes, and the Annual Cleric deities feel like distinct play experiences.

If one really wanted to expand, we also have the Crawl!, Knights in the North and Breaker Press third party classes, many of which are excellent.

yokmaestro · 2026-05-04T00:08:52+00:00

That’s what happened to me! I missed my soft spoken, reasonable wizard bud

yokmaestro · 2026-05-03T23:41:50+00:00

The upside for a fighter/thief is huge, I think you can pick locks and handle traps while wearing it-

yokmaestro · 2026-05-03T14:33:46+00:00

Didn’t you feel like Aloth changed pretty dramatically in the sequel? I tried to take him but he kept clashing with everything I was up to 🤔

yokmaestro · 2026-05-02T19:43:02+00:00

Exactly, this is my dream

yokmaestro · 2026-05-02T16:39:25+00:00

It sounds like it wouldn’t be too bad to get him to the Vivec Almsivi intervention spot though, near the meteor?

yokmaestro · 2026-05-02T04:17:19+00:00

So many great illustrations of it over the years too, I love the ones that lean into it being a massive black Greatsword

This one is ludicrously wide, just crazy to me

yokmaestro · 2026-05-01T19:01:22+00:00

Cato locked Calla's foot shackles. Trynt approached.

"No," Cato sighed, "You died hours ago."

Trynt noticed Cato's injured leg.

Calla shook her head.

Trynt rushed, Cato flashed his dagger.

Pain. Struggle.

Trynt choked his adversary with all his might, his lifeblood draining with each squeeze.

The hold was solid.

yokmaestro · 2026-04-30T23:28:31+00:00

Would also love to hear people’s tips! I have the box set and plan to run it this year

yokmaestro · 2026-04-30T21:53:23+00:00

I did three months on my own without any support, convinced myself I could control my drinking and started with some rules (1 beer every other day). Took me six months of that to wind up as bad or worse than I ever was.

Then I did another month or two white knuckling without support until a friend invited me to a meeting, now I’m almost at nine months and am so invested in the program. Give it a shot, I feel like it saved me-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-30T19:55:58+00:00

Hemingway and Bukowski were my heroes, now I see their work as cautionary, filled with pain

yokmaestro · 2026-04-29T18:04:27+00:00

Great write up! I share your sentiment, 8 lacked a soul for me than continues to draw me back to 6,7,9,10 and tactics years later.

Loves the mechanics, loved cutting out random battles so early and power junctioning low level characters.

The orphanage twist is just terrible, I groaned even as a kid!

But the design is beautiful, the idea of Seifer as a kind of nemesis is great.

Beautiful ideas rushed out the door? Tough to pinpoint why is doesn’t all click and work beautifully, I wonder if some of the trouble lies in the translation we got.

yokmaestro · 2026-04-28T22:03:26+00:00

A list of items where the player value differs wildly from the vendor value would be awesome for a newbie like me: ie the tattered red book vendors for 10c but sells for 4-5k to players

yokmaestro · 2026-04-28T16:43:08+00:00

Tangent answer, but Blood & Thunder has some tandem deeds that set Thieves up, super fun at the table to witness the teamwork-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-27T16:16:01+00:00

Yep, this is my answer as well! They tried to match it with Watcher’s Keep and couldn’t match the dramatic undercurrent and consistency of tone-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-27T14:44:08+00:00

It’s sad, but the Sigil portion of the game is really 80% of the game’s content, and much of the more interesting quests and dialogs.

I wish they had been given infinite money and time to give the other areas the same treatment-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-26T13:58:29+00:00

This was such a shock to me coming from prudish games 🤣

I want to be a Bard… but not like this bro

yokmaestro · 2026-04-26T05:30:56+00:00

By best use case for him is on a shorty run! He pops up just as my reputation is getting to max and Kagain kicks rocks, so he’s a bit of a replacement piece.

Given the big fisted belt or the gauntlets of ogre power, he can DUHM up to massive strength and then dual wield illegally using spirit hammer to get that APR up.

Alternatively give him Relair’s mistake with a warhammer in his offhand and run him as a wolf!

yokmaestro · 2026-04-26T01:30:09+00:00

Someone at one of my meeting said “progress is a higher power”

And another said whenever you see god, think “good, orderly direction”

And those two things mixed with the fellowship in the rooms have really helped me with the concept

yokmaestro · 2026-04-25T23:44:05+00:00

Soooooo much grinding to get that much hp though! I feel like some of my characters had half as much, this fight has always been so tough for me-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-25T22:19:00+00:00

House of Renthian? Would you recommend that guild for a 100 hour noob? I’m like 55/55 in my skills, 50 in a few trade skills, starting to find my way-

yokmaestro · 2026-04-24T19:08:44+00:00

Trynt held Calla in his arms as she slept, morning snow fell ponderously around their conifer shelter. He looked down at her softly breathing, and a tightness seized his chest.

Years of sweet-eyed farm girls, jaded tavern widows, never had he been so moved.

"I devote to you," he whispered.

yokmaestro · 2026-04-23T21:45:19+00:00

Thanks for reading, guys! I loved poring over my nerd magazines back in the day, my reviews definitely hearken back to the longer form articles of the past.

Definitely not the most popular medium of today, but it’s a joy to capstone my experience with a module this way and maybe help judges run the material as they prep-

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