In all honesty though, I am exhausted haha. No idea why but it's only 10am and I'm seriously considering a long nap
and by "seriously considering", I suppose I mean "contemplating how long I can hide in the printer room at work with the lights off without arousing suspicion"
I don't know if I can say Warcraft is one of my favourite games, because I don't actually especially love its gameplay. But as an engine for custom maps...oooooooh, yeah.
Verifiable, the coffee, it does nothing. :v (Though I have to be a killjoy and say a lot of narcoleptic people can drive just fine and in many places it isn't a barrier to obtaining a license, but for those who can't, it impacts their adult life immensely, so I was kind of pulled in two directions when reading this.)
The kind of games you're describing are likely magnitudes worse than what I'm frustrating myself with right now, but I'm trying to find all the gems in Mad Father without a guide. I only have three left, but I feel like I've interacted with almost everything in almost any way I can think of... but I'm stubborn. :P
@trogdor It's a horror RPG with exploration, but the maps aren't all that large, I cleared the main game in 3 hours taking my time, heh. Like I said, likely to be magnitudes less.
@trogdor Yes, absolutely. It's interesting, now that I think about it - normally I enjoy the early parts of a game more than the later, but it was definitely the reverse for HK.
Once you have the important movement abilities and can just explore wherever you want, it feels a lot more joyful.
@trogdor Haha, yeah, I'm not putting it down, I just realize I'm doing it to myself. But I like finding things on my own, so it's cool. I'll find them or I won't. :v
My friend is a teacher, and has said that he can attend our game if he can bring some work with him. We suggested marking by rolling a d100 to make things a bit easier
@trogdor Oh, I'm not saying that the early bits aren't great. Just that, once you're exploring freely rather than being limited by not having X ability, I found it was much less frustrating and more fun.
There are a lot of Japanese horror games (and western games inspired by them) made in programs like Wolf RPG Editor or RPG Maker, but it's really interesting to see what people do with the somewhat constrained format.
@trogdor There's abilities like the one that gets you past those shadow walls, but those don't really change how you move around, just let you get past a specific type of obstacle.
That's one thing I really like about Ori - almost every ability is genuinely useful, not just required for specific things. Except wallclimb, charged burst, and light grenade.
As strange as it might sound, I actually got more frustrated with Ori than Hollow Knight
It's still a good game and I want to finish it, but I feel like every time I got stuck was because of a new puzzle that didn't build from a previous thing
I can't even count how many times I sat there for a minute going "what am I supposed to do here? Oh wait I can float/whatever move obviously works here"
That's not technically the games fault but They could have made a couple fewer moves
@Tiggerous Seems fine to me. We get questions of that form all of the time - 'are there rules, if not what is best practice and why'. Asking for others' experience of best practice in a given scenario should not be marked as primarily opinion based
I think the first bolded question is good and the second one is opinion-based. While I'm sure there0s way to rework it into something good (e.g. by asking about "how do I do this thing" instead of "how do you do this thing"), I feel like it should be a separate question informed by the results of the first one. So, unless you're in a hurry, I'd cut out the last two paragraphs.
Usually, people who answer "no, there isn't a random weapon table" will also want to tell you how they solve the problem anyway.
my personal opinion (ha) is that things are moving towards being too pedantic in the wording of some questions, but I don't know if that is something other people feel as well
there appears to be a small core of very active users who edit and VTC questions based on their (imo overly strict) views on what counts as primarily opinion based. As the size of that core is in excess of the number of votes needed to close a question, they often have enough clout to close questions based on their interpretation. I've recently deliberately started taking a more proactive stance in voting to reopen those I disagree with because of this
That's good! You can also open meta questions to address specific cases that you think need the attention, or where the dialogue will help reduce the pedantry.
I do not believe your question is opinion based, nor do I think its necessary to split into two questions. Where questions are extremely closely linked such as your case, its fine to include them in the same question. There are loads and loads of similar examples
By the way, I don't think that second part is opinion based, I've been expressing myself poorly. I'ts only going to have no discernible method of determining which answer is the best one.
Well it has no discernible method if people just throw out 'idea generation' style answers. But if people provide answers backed up by personal experience that they've tried and tested then I think it could be OK.
That's why I specifically asked 'what techniques for assigning these sorts of items have you found to work well in your own game?' and not just how do you think I should resolve this.
Unofortunately both of the first two answers seem to be idea generation.
Here's where I argue that telling them "provide me your methods that will work in my case" is better than a generic "tell me your ways, I'll see if they apply". It requires answerers to be more useful (hopefully).
@Tiggerous that is key. Just because answers are poor, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a problem with the question. We seem to be having a resurgence of the problem with people throwing out ideas with no back-up to them. Its something that seems to come and go over time
> It's important to ["back it up,"](http://meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/q/3204/4398) so answers should cite experience or other practical support of the concept.
> Please avoid untested speculation.
> Please [edit] in sources for your information.
> The Stack wants answers which connect all the dots, without leaving anything as an exercise for the reader.
@SirCinnamon issue with it was reaction for free to deal damage. And putting your spores out on the battlemap made it very easy for grapples and spellcasters to build up tons of damage.
@SirCinnamon I thought that would limit it's power at first glance but what happens in practice is your spores and cantrips do work on non-poision-immune enemies and then you have all your spell slots for those that are immune. Unless your playing an entire campaign against constructs it's still very good
@SirCinnamon agreed. And I'm actually glad they didn't do plant based combat wild shape like people though it was going to be. Firstly, there arent many plants and they are very confusing traits from a PC perspective (like what would gas spore do lol)
@Rubiksmoose I mean they were probably experimenting (that's what UA was for) but I hope they realized it didn't really add anything to the subclass. (At least this person put some feedback about the weirdness)
@Rubiksmoose as a non-moon druid, how often are you taking opportunity attacks?
@DavidCoffron That is very fair. Probably not that often, but it is a bit of a cost. Not arguing that it isn't worth it most of the time likely for them though.
@DavidCoffron Well maybe I could lend you some, my bard doesn't use them all that often. Only for inspiration, but I am much more inclined to use cutting words
