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The third act is now in beta on the Bleeding Edge build and will be released later this month for normal access. They continue to make some pretty wide ranging changes to the game, notably now with the Exploration Nodes. It has actually been a fascinating look into the game design process...

Yeah it's an issue. You just have to wrestle with it.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. We watched the first episode last night after dinner and ended up powering through the whole series in a good old fashioned Netflix Binge. Very much an introspective series with lots of monologues (that will be mined for auditions for years). Had a major family death...

When I saw they were doing Avernus as a scripted campaign I was all excited that they were finally embracing higher level stuff...then I saw it started at level 1. This was after Dragon Heist and the whole 'citt destroying' plotline that is meant to be thwarted by a bunch of level 4 nit wits...

This all shows why WOTC was smart to leave 3.5 behind. Such synergies are fundamentally broken as they should ostensibly be forbidden by any rational DM as incompatible with the story but in many cases are not.

Happy they brought the Barren back. Doug Jones is awesome. Kristen Schaal has been in every or nearly every episode this season. I don't mind a bit.

Don't go blaming their complete failure of designing good content or a robust system for 9.+ on 'pronoun people'. That's the same kinda bullshit thinking that got us here in the first place: "Oh if we just get rid of <thing neckbeards don't like> we will be good to go!'

Well they kept to their word. Its BARELY Dec 2021, but its there.

Having a General that can heal is huge. So long as a stack has not been wiped out you can pump cheap heals into it and bring it back up. I essentially have one army with a caster general and two stacks of archers that is my go-to assault force that never suffers any casualties. It's...

Oh sweet merciful... This is not the place for it

There are quite a few builds which the rules happily support that are abjectly terrible for this game. You need to keep in mind that your main fight is against demons/outsiders and plan accordingly. It's also super annoying to get amazing weapons late in the game which no one in the group can...

Dec 17 2021 I Witcher a Merry Christmas and a Happy Jaskier

Got to Act 5 and decided to pause as people say Act 5 is a bit buggy. Maybe I'll start a new run in the meantime as I'm unhappy about a number of my choices coming out of Act IV. I feel like none of the Mythic paths I have unlocked is well suited to my main character (Alchemist Bombardier) and...

Non spoiler way of answering: the voicemails

Watched the first episode. Not too shabby. There were dramatizations to make elements of the story more cinematic, but the overall theme is still very much there and quite epic in scope. Plus Jared Harris could read the damn phonebook and be amazing.

Well this is unexpected. Clearly the BEEB is seeking to hit the reset-button and help the cash-cow regain its footing. I say 'unexpected' but I'm actually at a loss as to what other 'showrunner' could tackle something like this. Most of the really talented folk in the UK are now aligned to...

I have one caster (Nenio because she's hilarious and I can't stand Ember) one healer (Daeran because Oracle healing with the spontaneous rings for offensive options is baller) and then my main is technically a caster, but really just casts buffs and throws bombs. I think when I replay Ill do...

I wish Quick Channel was a thing. Daeran has so many damn things he can do and not enough time to do them

I've turned Nenio into a Metamagic Missile bot. She spends most of her spell slots on various flavor of Magic Missile along with using the +force dagger. I'm most disappointed by Prismatic Spray as it seems to not ever do anything owing to Spell Resistance, Elemental Resistance, Saving Throws...

Hmmm I don't recall that being the issue in Kingmaker.

Overwatch went from a cross-promoted IP that had brand recognition from non-gamers (on account of their product tie-ins and the high quality animated shorts), lots of e-sports promotion etx. to a veritable ghost town in less than a year. Before OW2 was announced it was common to see Overwatch...

The degree to which my people get one-shot is insane. My main tank has an AC of 46 and will still get annihilated in one round of combat owing to the demons having like 6+ melee attacks and never missing. My main combat strategy now is to just combat rez the tank over and over since the...

These are all very fun interpretations and riffs on the concepts of Star Wars. The Village Bride feels like the most 'real' short out of the first 4 inasmuch as it feels like a story that could genuinely exist within the III to IV period. Certainly the production values for all of them are...

I backed this two years ago and went back recently to see the progress. They have done a great job adapting it faithfully and I look forward to being able to play it with people.

Well the current shipping catastrophe has hit a number of Kickstarter projects right where it counts. There is just too much stuff leaving China and headed to the U.S. and essentially nothing making the return trip. People are seeing 4x the previous price for shipping containers if they can...

Kena: Bridge of Spirits came out today and I've seen not a hint of a marketing campaign for it... Kena: Bridge of Spirits promises magic, but can’t deliver much of it Polygon kinda rags on it, but others seem more kind.

In Pathfinder an Oracle is a much better 'cleric' than an actual Cleric by leaps and bounds. Doubly so if you have extra mystery or other things like the ruby ring that give you additional spells. So much of the Cleric spell list are 'in case of...' that you end up prepping lots of crap that...

The show is very faithful to the slot machine

Its the same animation house as Trollhunters. You can see the visual style elements that are consistent with their earlier work, but they have made some significant improvements so that stuff is much more fluid. They also do a great job of having a diverse 'cast' without it being noticeable.

This is the other He-Man series on Netflix. First part dropped today and is very Generation Z focused. The overall aesthetic is very WildStar and I keep thinking 'there has to be a game version of this right??' There are cringe elements, but I do like a couple of the things they did with...

Title: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation Creator: Rob David Cast: Yuri Lowenthal, David Kaye, Grey DeLisle, Antony Del Rio, Kimberly Brooks, Trevor Devall, Judy Alice Lee, Roger Craig Smith, Fred Tatasciore, Ben Diskin, Tom Kenny, Max Mitchell...

Deep cleansing breaths. Take it one step at a time. If it seems too much you can always enable 'auto campaign' and the AI will build bases and do army shit for you. I personally enjoy having my one super squad that just wrecks armies with no casualties thanks to a combo of Fireball and Heal on...

I wanted to watch the rest of this movie... The ending was maddening.

I'm not exactly feeling the majesty of a war between Heaven and the Abyss being waged by tripping. Especially when a good number of those involved either have tree trunk legs or fly.

Is releasing now next year and only for Switch and iOS/Android so it seems to be a suped up mobile title strategy game? No actual gameplay here, but good to see that every voice actor from Overwatch has secured employment while Blizzard continues to melt down...

The different mythic paths and all the types of characters that you can't use (just for lack of space in the group) makes replay attractive.

Oh right. Yeah that's why I blocked it out.

I read the comic during it's original run, but I can't remember how it ended. This is probably not a good thing as evidenced by recently having to review the ending of the third Matrix movie.

Whoever came up with that 'The best presents come with a bow' line needs to be beaten.

I know it's the nature of the title, but fuck these Demons and their 25+ spell resistance on trash + dominate / mind fuck spells along with 32 AC and displacement. Thank the maker for Mythic powers that at least let my tank, who seems to get instagibbed by anything, stay on their feet after...