Kale Good morning folks
Lunchtime?
#30MinuteMissions time.
The ABC is running an article on 'marriage sabbaticals' and...
Did you just try to rename 'trial separations'?
The millennial urge to reinvent shit and think it's different just because we/they do it.
Cryptomnesia allll the way down
Current status: on a giant beanstalk, surrounded by orks and an ankylosaurus
To be clear, the plan was:
Kale: spots orks
Wizard: can telepathically talk to them
Kale: hey, tell them... you're their god, and your prophet is arriving soon
Wizard: what?
Kale: we'll get them to escort us, it'll be great
Wizard: and I teleport you in their midst?
Kale: yes?
Wizard: I'll drop you on them
Kale: wait, no... I'll use the beanstalk spell, you can drop me down, the beanstalk will catch me, it'll look cool.
... that's how I ended up in a beanstalk, at 'far' range.
In amongst the 'that's AI' (when it isn't), we also have 'that's IRL'...
... when there's literally a fucking Worth1000 watermark in the bottom left of the image.
Looks like someone from Worth tried to say 'hey! we're over here now!'
... and the link is on the .ai TLD
... no, no thanks.
AI art gen comps? sure, I'll glance at that shit, show me your prompts.
But no, not at all the same as photoshop comps. Not even close.
So, #Daggerheart
We're up to... five sessions(?) now, and level 3, and it's basically just... unhinged as fuck.
I have NO idea how a party is meant to be 'managed' by a GM in this system, it's all completely fucked and broken by a few innocuous cards.
Like, mechanically, it feels like certain cards + other cards are just... yeah, ok, I guess that's fucked up
This isn't even getting into how the construct wizard (clank?) for our party got a free elemental for a pet.
Like, my character got a random trophy, the wizard got a fucking portable battery.
Ranger pets suffer from the standard 'if it costs me an action to command my pet to attack, why aren't I just attacking with my action?' that a lot of RPGs seem to have (genesys does the same thing with drones/familiars, but I think it's a maneuver instead of an action, which is ok-ish)
Shimmin Beg (he/him)@DarkestKale is there any game where pets are neither largely decorative nor broken? It's a really tough line to walk because of action economy.
I have this problem in Necropolitans; the murder machine melee fighter feels her nigh-invulnerable rust monster is useless because it's not doing relevant damage. Well, yeah? A pet that's even slightly comparable to a high-level PC isn't a couple of featsworth of class feature.
@shimminbeg I feel like if you go STRONG COMBAT PET, then your char should be pretty weakshit, and if you go STRONG FIGHTER CHAR, then your pet should be for something that isn't combat.
@DarkestKale Yeah, fundamentally you can either be a nobody who happens to be friends with a powerful thing, or a badass with a friendlet who needs your protection, or a very average person with a modestly capable pet.
Superhero with powerful superpal works fine in solo comics or stories where they're fundamentally *two characters*, but in an RPG that is not what's usually happening.