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  1. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    I'm taking Uzuri to a big CC event in the morning. Let's see how it goes...
  2. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Meta is great right now. Playing field is wide open, there are some decks consistently getting top 8s but those are more due to the fact that they're more represented. Almost every deck has a reasonable chance into every other deck, with a couple of exceptions (Uzuri, Riptide, new Prism, and...
  3. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Do you literally not know what a contract is? "It's not Rudy's fault for breaking a contract he agreed to because that's just who he is" is such a ridiculous concept. When you sign a contract, you honor it. Like an adult.
  4. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Did you read the rest of my post? Apologies if my snark offended you, but that shouldn't discredit any of the facts I gave you. LSS is not like Wizards where you can just break contract over and over again and it's water off the duck. They expect vendors to honor agreements, like "adults."
  5. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Part of the contract you have to sign in order to be an official retailer of Flesh & Blood is not to sell below MAP. If you sell below MAP, you are in breach of your contract and can have your supply cut off. Rudy was in breach of contract, LSS asked him to adhere to the contract, and Rudy said...
  6. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Lexi is LL!
  7. Kriptini

    Fractured - The Dynamic MMO

    I also haven't tested in about 2 years. My impression was that I liked the design of the game and enjoyed all of the content that I got to test, but control of the character and responsiveness of commands/abilities was so poor that it made playing a chore, let alone PvP. If that has been fixed...
  8. Kriptini

    Nevergrind Online - 5-player Multiplayer Co-op Dungeon Crawl RPG on Steam

    Buying this immediately. See y'all in the dungeons!
  9. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    New set is great for draft, definitely the best draft set they ever released. I'll be playing Iyslander for PQ season again. Her Lexi matchup is not great, but I like her better than Uzuri right now because she somehow gets less hosed by Dromai.
  10. Kriptini

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    They kind of did the opposite. While it's true most subclasses felt functionally similar to their counterpart at launch, that had changed pretty drastically by the launch of the 4th expansion (Kunark). Warriors: Berserkers got more AoE damage and threat tools, Guardians got more defensive tools...
  11. Kriptini

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    In what delusion are you living where people rerolled entire classes in games due to balance changes that weren't just people overreacting?
  12. Kriptini

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Talents are a much larger balance issue than just having more classes because classes are discrete arsenals of abilities and stats while talents allow you to create multitudes of permutations of abilities (and sometimes stats). It is bizarre to me that you would argue that more classes are...
  13. Kriptini

    General tabletop RPG discussion

    Pathfinder 2e is the mechanically superior system in the chunky fantasy RPG genre. As far as published books go... there's a lot of wokeism so I would generally recommend homebrew.
  14. Kriptini

    Home buying thread

    Also, cost of living is way higher now than it was in the 80s. The home price to household income ratio might be similar to how it used to be, but if we look at net household income after cost of living expenses, the ratio is way worse.
  15. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    I don't even try to fight Barbs. It's pointless.
  16. Kriptini

    JRPGs

    Harvestella is okay. I have a Steam review for it here: Steam Community :: Kriptini :: Review for HARVESTELLA
  17. Kriptini

    The D&D thread

    I like FanRoll, they have some liquid core dice that are really neat and also tons of metallic dice. The misfit dice bags are pretty reasonable and you can get some really neat stuff in those. https://fanrolldice.com/
  18. Kriptini

    The Authoritative Final Fantasy & Bravely Default thread

    I love the Bravely Default series. They are class-based like FF3 or FF5, but (most of them) have narratives that are as strong as FF4 or even FF6. You'll level up multiple jobs on each character, borrowing skills and passives from each to make cool builds, or there might be some fights where you...
  19. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    I agree with you, the design is a little strange... but I'm having a good time just being a Goblin Greenie so I'm not super concerned about it. I'll play until I stop having fun.
  20. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    We're so back!
  21. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    I've been having success "playing" Rogue. Of course, when I say "playing," I mean going full rat mode, never taking an engagement (unless my advantage is so superior that there's no way I can lose), and portaling out at the first available opportunity. With a good ambush, I can kill most...
  22. Kriptini

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    Keith Parkinson's art is fantastic! But if we're talking about brand recognition among normies, it's gonna be from the guy who did the cover for the red box.
  23. Kriptini

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    The lore became a lot more solidified in EQ2 (even though it was a different timeline). I think the biggest value of the EQ IP comes from the iconic characters. Lucan, Antonia Bayle, Firiona Vie, Mayong Mistmoore, Nagafen, etc. Maybe people don't know Firiona Vie by name but everyone has seen...
  24. Kriptini

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    Black Desert is huge. I don't like it, and most MMORPG veterans don't like it, but it's a pretty bespoke entry in the genre and it's lasted the test of time. RIFT had a great run. The game did not kill the studio, it was doing so well that the revenue from it allowed Trion to get investment for...
  25. Kriptini

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    I disagree, we've seen a few MMOs in the last decade or so that have been brand-new IPs but still had a good run, like RIFT and Black Desert. It's more about having a strong studio.
  26. Kriptini

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    There could be a fate worse than it getting cancelled, it could get made and then be really bad. EG7/DB needs to hire better talent if they want to do this right, their current life support team isn't gonna cut it.
  27. Kriptini

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    It's not a free to play game, so the 20 cent fee really should ideally only apply once per customer. ...ideally, anyways...
  28. Kriptini

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Yeah I asked Ali about it the day of the announcement, here's what he said at the time.
  29. Kriptini

    The D&D thread

    I would really advise against playing 1e at this point. Even if your group is math people who love customizing characters and synergizing, there's still plenty of that in 2e, and it's a much better system. But if you're really dead-set on doing 1e, the best adventure paths are: Rise of the...
  30. Kriptini

    Disney's Lorcana (trading card game)

    It matters because all forms of removal for this card are either at least as efficient or more efficient than playing the card itself. If Belle cost 3, this would be a different conversation entirely, but at 5 cost, it's backbreaking.
  31. Kriptini

    Disney's Lorcana (trading card game)

    I haven't really been seeing the power creep tbh. People are pointing out the new Belle but I don't think it's that good. Here's what I wrote in another conversation: Belle dies to literally anything and coming out at 5 means it's either the end of the game or you've already lost because...
  32. Kriptini

    The D&D thread

    I don't think it's combative, you're letting the dice determine the results. I think it's more "combative" when everyone is metagaming low rolls on searches and knowledge checks.
  33. Kriptini

    The D&D thread

    This is baked into the rules of Pathfinder 2e: for checks where success/failure wouldn't be immediately apparent, we use "secret" checks where the GM rolls the d20 and then applies your character's modifiers. This can be really fun for knowledge cheks, because a critical failure grants incorrect...
  34. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    I don't think the Banneret promos are particularly "dank." Maybe the Levia Redeemed mat will sell. James White wasn't there because NZ had their nats the same weekend but Francesca Volante (director of organized play for NA) was there and we chatted with her a bit, trying to get a ProQuest.
  35. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    Went 0-3 drop in the PTI event, 5-0 in a commoner side event, and 3-4 drop in the Calling. All with Iyslander. I just don't practice this game enough to be able to compete at a high level, sadly. It also looks like Iyslander might LL this season. If that happens, I'll need a new hero... and...
  36. Kriptini

    Flesh and Blood

    I'm in Vegas! PTI event today and Calling tomorrow. Bringing Iyslander of course.
  37. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    At least Din of Darkness scaling got nerfed!
  38. Kriptini

    Dark and Darker

    Rogue bros... it's over...
  39. Kriptini

    Disney's Lorcana (trading card game)

    This is what I've been thinking about building. In testing it does extremely well into aggro and pretty well into midrange but is about 50/50 into control. I might make some changes to help it into that matchup since it seems like Ruby/Amethyst is the deck to beat, but for now I'm gonna be...