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Nah man, it is literally impossible to recognize someone wearing sunglasses regardless of how well you know them.

There's been a lot of complaints from established authors that people who really like a story never go to the fiction page and thus never see any positive or negative reviews, so don't up/down vote them. This leads to negative reviews being a lot more visible than expected, because the only...

If anyone in charge at WotC has any sense, they are probably already sending over the blank cheque with 'keep doing stuff for us' written on it. I'm actually impressed at how well everything worked - giving a huge pile of cash to a beloved but relatively indie dev doesn't have a great track...

It's true, but in BG3 it is a bit different, especially for beastmaster rangers, as you don't need to spend resources to use the pet attacks. So you can have a spider spam web every turn for free, which is an absolutely disgusting amount of powerful CC

The reasoning for that from the dev convinced me - basically the way that the dark urge fucks everything up is less obvious if you didn't previously know where things were going. For an early act1 example

Sort of - not sure if you noticed, but hex is a jumpy spell, whenever you cast it on something and it dies, you get the hex back and can pass it on with a bonus action instead of casting it again. You need do concentration though. But yeah, warlocks are basically magic archers. Respec him to...

Jump - high strength barbarian can jump much further than they can run, especially if you cast jump buffs on them. Fog cloud or darkness can block their LOS, forcing them to close in.

My review of tactician so far: Ow, ow my balls. Leeroy Jenkins tactics are going to get you brutally killed, every time. If you are engaging in a fair fight, you have already lost ;p It's pretty satisfying to come up with a plan for a fight you got destroyed on and then beating it handily...

Warlocks are only sort of nukers, they are really more like archers, their spells are just a bonus to the core combo of hex + eldritch blast. If you want the big aoe deeps it's easy enough to multiclass them after a few levels of warlock to sorcerer. That way you get the big booms and when they...

Just the instruments as far as I can tell - you get 3 songs you can do, and they play those songs on whatever instrument you have equipped. I only have a drum and a violin at the moment, drum is kinda basic, but the violin music is pretty good.

Awwww yis,

Tactician is no joke, I got game-overed by the first fight outside the tutorial. Man, I have gotten like absolutely nowhere in the first 5 hours. I spent ages in character creation, played through the tutorial, then decided my character portrait was bugging me ( female drow looked like a dude...

I'll give a nod to https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/69512/bog-standard-isekai-a-litrpg-progression-fantasy It has a few things working against it: - It's a terrible name - The name is a pun - It's a terrible pun - The pun doesn't even make any sense unless you have already read the story On...

Zom is good stuff. The scene where they all raise a toast and then head back to the office hit hard. There's definitely some personal experience in shitty companies going into this one 8) I like Seven Spellblades as well, I am not even sure what it is about, but it's certainly very pretty...

Noooo, magical secrets has a pre-approved list of spells that doesn't include any ranger/paladin spells. How are bards supposed to make fun of hapless rangers like this ? I suppose it's one way to make balance easier though.

Yep, not because I am good, but because I embrace the pain. Also, you don't really get a good feel from the fun toys available when you can just bitchslap the enemies into next week with normal melee attacks.

I thought this one was pretty funny and does a good overview of the types of shenanigans you can get up to.

Huh, I stand corrected. I've even watched most of them. You know, I think Secret Invasion *is* the worst of those actually. I haven't seen the werewolf one, but FAWS had movie tier action sequences, She Hulk was funny-ish, Loki was just good, Wandavision tried something different and it mostly...

IMO it was pretty meh, not actively bad. That is a super hedged headline though - 'worst disney+ MCU show' isn't a very controversial label given there's only been, what, 5 of them ? It's like breathlessly claiming that the latest transformers movie is the worst transformers movie in history.

The three I liked the most in that kind of style are: Across the Obelisk Tainted Grail Monster Train ATO is party based version of the same thing, with better RNG hedging due to shops and starting loadouts. May be a bit overwhelming at first, but my favorite by far. Supports co-op if that is...

In fairness, while there is no relationship between them, Aziraphale's description in the book is literally that he gave the impression that 'he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxides', so it's not like there's no background for that.

The PVP in DAoC did seem to get pretty personal - one of my friends was such an epic troll ganker that he managed to completely derail wars just by showing up - three quarters of the enemy forces would immediately forget what they were doing and chase after him. Stealth was probably a bit too...

Fucking mines, that shithole country is at least 50% mines by surface area, hah. You definitely need an explosives expert in any party - apart from the mines there are so many IEDs on loot.

I actually did some research on how they implemented it, and apparently in BG3 you don't even need crossbow expert, you can just inherently reload hand crossbows even if you are dual wielding ( and the game has hand crossbows in it, which always helps ), so you don't need variant human, and can...

This was pretty funny, which is rare these days. "Oh boo hoo, it's a metaphor, stop taking it so literally"

No, Foundation is more like a history book than a linear story - it jumps between different important things that were hundreds or thousands of years apart. The show is just trying to make that work while keeping the same characters, so you get increasingly implausible reasons why they are...

Depending on how they implement crossbow mastery and itemization you can do some pretty dumb shit with valor bards and range attacks. 5E clerics are pretty much tank-mages too, even without sketchy powergamer builds. They have some pretty sick cantrips, including aoe.

The genetic dynasty was corrupted in S1, they aren't perfect clones anymore - it's kind of a major plot point for his character in both seasons.

Eh, it might be good, but The Boys works mostly on the strength of Butcher and Homelander IMO - the odds of them getting that lucky with casting again are not great. Also no source material is a bit of a red flag.

Sort of - rather than being a gimped caster of general spells, they are a full caster of 'bard' spells. The bard spells are a cross section from different classes, mostly sound related, and exclude all the heavy hitters. Lore bards get to pick 2 spells from any class though, so there are some...

That still mostly works, especially on normal - I restarted on commando with the above team after soloing the first island with Blood. Though as Burns pointed out - it's not a sure thing, particularly because some maps are very cramped, with poor sightlines. Think house to house fighting type...

So, about halfway through this now I think. Thumbs up - it's JA2 but with modern graphics, solid voice acting and some improvements that don't change the flow of the game at all. The early game is a bit different - you can end up with a pretty competent and reasonably equipped starting team...

I cut all the irrelevant stuff that no-one has changed or is talking about changing. This bit though - that's not how ability checks work. 15 strength is a +2 modifer, and 17 is a +3. For it to be impossible for the halfling, it would need to be a strength check with DC23, which your...

Heh, I ain't saying they are world of warcraft fanfiction, but when the final big bad turns out to be the Activision legal team, no-one will be surprised 8) They are good fun though, well written and one of the few stories about a game where it actually feels like a game, and the numbers make...

Yeah, this was great fun. Many laughs from me.

Ima stop you right there and challenge you to come up with a single story element that relies on, say, a halfling player character only having 15 strength instead of 17. Or, to follow 5E more closely, a story element that is ruined by the PC having an 80% chance to pass a strength check vs...

"Let's free dive down to the ship !" "I can't swim" "That's fine, I'll go get the ship, bring it up to the surface and you can get on then" "Now seems a great time to learn on the job, you drowning seems like a fun diversion" Empire vs the Assassins was a surprisingly awesome fight on the...

This is pretty good fun. Steroid may be kinda shit, but he's comedy gold. Blood seems just as overpowered as he always was. I'm kind of torn on what to do for a custom merc, you kind of want the min-max, but the existing mercs are already better min-maxed that you can make.

Hard truth - that logjam is never getting cleared. Embrace the pain of looking at full price games you bought on release 9 years ago and haven't opened yet.