Augus posted:

the cup noodles sidequest is a masterpiece

Au Revoir Shosanna posted:

yup

Al! posted:

when does barkley 2 come out

uber_stoat posted:

slurp juice.

Nix Panicus posted:

Critical failures on 1s isnt a canon mechanic, and any DM who is killing characters because of 1s is either running a great game where everyone is having fun because they all agreed that critical failures make for higher stakes and fun stories, or they're an rear end in a top hat and bad DM. One of those two. Also, like every other game mechanic, critical failures punish martials more than anyone else because they roll more d20s

Augus posted:

what game is he from

Al! posted:

one ha ha ha two ha ha ha three ha ha ha four ha ha hs. four! thats four orgasms bleh

ex post facho posted:

I did the ffxvi demo and idk, the gradual transition from pixel-sprite / low poly turn based party crpg of my youth to slick anime cgi single character arpg has been weird and off-putting to me.

I want to like it but if the rest of the game is 20 minute cutscenes followed by 5 minutes of arpg button mashing in a small circular arena maybe I should wait for a sale.

whoever called it Devil May Clive got it imo. it feels fun zipping around doing chain dodges and stuff but that's kinda not why I wanted a ff game

ex post facho posted:

Thanks! Also I've watched but never beaten FFX, maybe I'll return to that in the meantime in between checking out echoes.

Lpzie posted:

anyone for some battlebits?

loquacius posted:

They'd need to rebalance some of the side systems imo, simple remaster not enough

Make spheda playable in balance valley at minimum

Truga posted:

Al! posted:

god its been so long since i played dark souls 1 that i had to install a resolution mod to play it

RandolphCarter posted:

looking at a guide to install viva new vegas, my eyes glaze over and I decide to just not play new vegas.

Frog Act posted:

looking forward to the respec guy because I completely forgot finesse existed and built my bard the way I do in NWN which is predicated on a specific intersection of fighter levels and eventually ten Red Dragon Disciple levels, so they focus on STR to maximize melee benefits while drawing free spell bonuses from RDD. there’s no equivalent to that really, though college of valor is obviously close and what I intend to do, so I reckon I need to respec back to something more generically Bard with a high DEX and focus on finesse martial weapons after level 3

is there any circumstance where you’d want to try STR bard? can you multi class effectively? I often like fighter bard for the protection spells, bless/bane, and all the weapon enhancements which don’t require any real casting capacity and considerably improved melee in NWN at least

RandolphCarter posted:

12

Buck Wildman posted:

It's always been badly represented in the video games but yes. tabletop wise being level 10 makes you one of the most powerful people in the setting and 20 is basically a demigod

I think elminster was like level 13 in 3.5

Fuligin posted:

I liked 4e but goons have overhyped it quite a bit over the years. Its obviously true that Larian has put serious work into rebalancing 5e but... ultimately it's still 5e. That thing you like is fifth edition dungeons and dragons.

Mr Hootington posted:

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gradenko_2000 posted:

I've never had a tabletop group get into anything remotely sexual in years of playing D&D and maybe that makes me a prude but it's made BG3 and everyone gushing about how horny it is extremely unrelatable

RandolphCarter posted:

I don’t have to spend a minute casting a dozen buffs before every fight in bg3 so it is infinitely better

Tiler Kiwi posted:

i thought poe 1 was? i bounced off that game after clearing the big dungeon under the castle you get

HerraS posted:

even by rpg standards doo & doo combat is not in any way "deadly as gently caress" lmao

Popy posted:

if ur losing a encounter in DnD just roll better

Tiler Kiwi posted:

who the gently caress wants to be a loving halfling?

Buck Wildman posted:

this has been true since 2e lol

Truga posted:

again, this is just bad campaigns/DMing

if your DM fails to give you challenging encounters there's nothing a ruleset can do to fix it. i guess many people like it because most content out there is built like that tho

pretty sure this is still the case in 5e lol. cat probably does like 2 damage on average and has high dexterity so it starts first and hits with 2 claws and a bite per turn? unless the wizard murders it in first round he's a deadman

Gumball Gumption posted:

Before it's time and would have killed during this modern era where you had a big influx of new people coming into tabletop gaming who mostly had experience with video games

Buck Wildman posted:

and they say there's no point to a video game thread in cspam

Al! posted:

*Perception: Failed* You see a large cauldron full of wriggling small pastries, like the one the illithid planted in your brain.

Halser posted:

speaking of tabletop and dice rolls, has anyone played high level tabletop D&D?

I remember playing Throne of Bhaal, casting Time Stop with Improved Alacrity and dumping my entire spellbook instantly on a group of enemies. Throwing enough dice to resolve the result of 8 Horrid Wiltings and 14 Magic Missiles must take hours

studs n chuds posted:

ive never found a dm willing to run high-level play. we're always starting at level 3 and closing things out by 10-12. its bullshit

Dr Pepper posted:

This is a stupid idea in general because all it does is that if anybody wants to play a fighter they're stuck playing the boring stupid class without anything thay lets actually be fun or useful ecause he's got to be the the "beginner"

Here's what you do for someone new to 4e. You play at level 1. If somehow 4 abilities is too complicated for them then perhaps rpgs aren't for them.