So, it seems that BOTW has "point of no return" progression mechanics... Monster variants start to appear at certain points of progression throughout the game (not sure if it's related to levelling up or story progression) which makes the collection of the Hyrule Compendium entries nigh-impossible.
The only way once you pass that point is to buy them from an in-game vendor.
Yeah, you would think they would understand that for those who want to collect that data,... Taking the ability to do so away entirely and hiding it behind a shop is not what they want
Having a shop you can fill out stuff you missed is great, forcing people to be unable to find something in the field for themselves isn't
The little annoying things about BotW, from my perspective, seem to all involve good ideas that they took too far
It's cool if you can see new monsters later in the game, but taking away older ones seems weird
Especially specifically in this case
I will say, it looks like a great game for what it is
It's Zelda with open world stuff that mostly makes sense
It's still got bosses and dungeons and items to find
I just don't like some of thier design or mechanics decisions
The weapon breakage is ever always a great excuse for me not to play it
You definitely get used to it. I for one have actually started hoarding weapons... somehow. Every enemy drops a weapon, and as the game progresses, enemies level up, which means they also carry better weapons for you to take.
@Ben Yeah I found it disconcerting only at first. And only in rare cases afterwords. But really the game is more than good enough to make the issue not impactful IMO
I currently have 4 Savage Lynel Crushers, 3 Royal Claymores, a couple of spears and some gimmicky weapons (korok leaf and sledgehammer) for when I need them.
@Rubiksmoose Yeah. There was one point where I somehow ended up with nothing... can't remember how it happened, so I had to go back top the Plateau to get a few basic weapons to work my way back up again.
That said, weapons spawn regularly, and when you're late game, you can frequently re-visit Hyrule castle to stock up on weapons there.
It appears to be a nuisance, I for one am usually a bit OCD when it comes to weapon durability, hoarding equipment, etc (I played a lot of Dark Souls)... but you quickly move past it.
Indeed. I had a friend that would often jump between multiple games frequently... I have issues with remembering the controls (motor control takes over)
@Miniman That's the key for the DLC. The pendant is meant to be broken (if that's why you're asking), but the reason for it's placement is just level appropriate. The DLC is levelled to for mid-late game progression, as it deals with a lot of references that already exist in the game (Sif and Artorias primarily).
@Ben You reckon? There's lore behind the crystal golems with Sieglinde and Dusk, there's lore behind the placement of every channeler outside the archives...you really reckon the pendant is just arbitrary?
The only link that might be drawn is the connection to Seath. He is the one that created the Crystal Golems, and imprisoned Lady What's-Her-Face in the swamp.
As a side note, I've made good progress with Nioh - definitely worth playing for Dark Souls fans, so if you're looking for another game in that genre, I'd be comfortable recommending it
In truth, Not everything does have a lore explanation. Chester, for example is very vague. There are theories, but nothing hard to place where/when he came from. I even thought he might be from Bloodborne. But the only connection people have been able to make is that he came from Carim. Other than that...
@Ben I'd argue that not all of the lore explanations are deducible from the information available, personally. I have no doubt there is some background behind Chester, we just have no idea what it is.
You know... I can really see why splitting the party can cause some balancing issues. Look at the Fellowship, for example. Gandalf Takes on the Balrog alone, comes back overlevelled.
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Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli do a decent amount of work, just hacking away at the plebs.. they can hold their own.
Merry and Pippin have a go, and by then end they get some gear to make sure they don't get shanked... and Sam does a bit... gets to do a little bit of levelling...
But Frodo... Geez. You can see why he nearly dies 5 times.
I did just watch a random video that popped up in my Youtube recs about how Japanese people tend to insult each other. Even though it wasn't anything I didn't already know, really... it totally counts. :P
@Rubiksmoose Yeah, not in the same sense English does. That was one thing highlighted in the video (NSFW, quite a few English swears in there). The only direct insults he came across, in his own experience and watching as many videos he could find, were baka, bakatere, and aho.
But, yeah, the real way you generally insult somebody is by addressing them improperly and speaking to them too casually.
@Miniman Yeah that is indeed interesting. I'm very very novice level, but I'm getting to the point where I can tell when people are being very polite or very crude by how they conjugate their words (in very simple sentences).
One thing to note, if you're using anime as a learning tool, is that anime characters usually speak super casually and often way more rudely than real people would be, heh. They don't really speak like real people.
@Rubiksmoose I was so proud of myself when I was able to tell without too much trouble that a piece of fanart for a series I like was about one character wishing the other a happy birthday. :,v
There's also a blog I follow that posts scanned pages out of Pokemon children's books they've collected. Being able to painstakingly make out text written for tiny children is nonetheless a nice feeling. :v
@Pixie I've attempted to play Pokemon in Japanese actually, but I often just get tired and blow through the text. Because you know its Pokemon, and it doesn't really matter what people are saying lol.
@Pixie It is a LOT of hiragana. And honestly it gets very tiring. The problem I had was that I didn't have a lot of reason to actually try most of the time besides wanting to learn. So it didn't work out that great for me.
I feel like I have game prep ideas at work all day long, but, assuming I don't immediately fall asleep when I get home... I wind up drawing a blank. Where, precisely, are all those ideas I couldn't write down? :P
@Pixie I figure that the ideas which get away from one person, float around until they find a more compatible brain, and that's where epiphanies come from.
The other way planning tends to go... Me: I need to briefly detail this tavern. That's it right now. Really. The rest can come later. Brain: Okay cool so the elven keep your PCs may not even go to has spider problems in their orchard, which occasionally supplies the town with fruit because it's much closer than the fertile farmland in the southeast part of the nation- Me: Tavern. Brain: Also the capital city on the other side of the country which your PCs probably aren't visiting at all is nestled into the mountains overlooking the sea which gave it a defensive edge that helped stave off an…
For anyone who's interested, an update on my RPG activities... the 3.5 game I'm running has suffered from Real Life - a lot of player illnesses, car breakdowns, and other such emergencies have meant that I've only run a couple of sessions since Feb. And both of those were with half the group, so the new module didn't get started... leaving me to (badly) ad-lib a random encounter. On the other side of the table, my wife has run a couple of sessions of 5e for me & the (not-so-) little one. She's only skimmed the rules, so I was the designated rules lawyer. Went quite well.
The 5e games I'm in have been rather sporadic due to similar RL sufferings, but it might pick back up soon. The GMs for said games also moved back (well, one moving back, the other moving with him) to my city, so there is a chance for... gasp... real life gaming in my future.
The thing I really don't like about T&T is the combat system. There's no separate attack & damage rolls. All combatants roll their attack dice + bonuses (depending on stats & weapons); each side's results are totalled; the losers take damage equal to the difference between the rolls.
Which means that it's very hard to take out individuals in a melee, unless you can somehow single them out.
Heh, it happens. Now that my friends are done moving, I think the biggest thing right now is one of the players is working six days a week, which is pretty rough on them.
True. One of the things I do at work is check in magazines, including stuff like Prevention, and every time I see a headline about how sleep loss causes this or that, I'm like, "Please stop reminding me," lol.
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That Shapechange question - I find it hilarious that we all answered at the same time, that we all clearly thought 'I should provide an example fo a spell where reagents are consumed for comparision' and that we all thought 'some sort of resurrection spell would be an obvious example' and then that we all chose different ones, Revivify, Reincarnate and Raise Dead have all been quoted.
Can we get What about the ranger keeps making it weak? closed at the very least until the question is clarified/fixed up? I think that what OP is aiming for is actually much too broad and the question should be closed anyways. But even if you disagree with that, the question is very unclear right now.
It's actually a very interesting question - the history of the Ranger in D&D goes back a long way, and covers a lot of changes. There are plenty of good answers to it out there on the Internet already, there's no reason we couldn't have some here.
@Miniman But it really seems too broad. Specifically they want the history to explain why the current ranger is weak. Which, currently, is not even really a well-supported claim in the question.
@Miniman I agree it is interesting, but I don't think it is feasible or acceptable in its current scope.
Really the question is asking "Why is the 5e Ranger weak?" And that is not really a question we can answer insofar as "why" means "how did the design end up like this?". We can answer "what mechanically makes the Ranger weaker than other 5e classes" much better.
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well the ambiguity comes from weapon damage vs attack damage. plain English would equate them. ie it would be reasonable for someone to think that a sword that does electric damage has weapon/attack damage and bonus damage and then read that bonus damage isn't doubled
@trogdor No, it's 5e but the lingo's useful. (I don't feel like there's a set term in 5e for things like ki points, action surges, sorcery points... those things you can use a set number of per day and which recharge on rests.)
anyway, on to my next question... I have a Bard, that I allow to create a *Ring of Disguise*(based on disguise self). He seems to be planning to use it to impersonate a member of a closed group of cultists. Obviously disguise self would make him look like the cultist, but what other checks should he make to impersonate a person he's seen but does not know?
I think it went like: first turn distracting strike, commander's strike to get the rogue's advantaged 10d6 attack, crit, 4th attack for free from GWM. Action surge, three more attacks all hit (two more precision dice). Something like 150 damage, having used 4 of 6 superiority dice, bonus action, and the rogue's reaction, maybe a luck die, too. Rogue's turn is bonus action hide then sneak attack, 45 damage. Pit fiend almost takes out the rogue in one turn. Second turn 4 attacks (war priest) all hit (channel divinity and another precision die), something like 100 damage.
@doppelgreener I did! I printed the transcript from a year ago and handed it to them. They were as unamused (though, in think, secretly appreciative) as one might expect!
I have a challenge for D&D DMs: have a magical creature give your players' characters a difficult and arduous quest, offering great and bountiful treasure in reward (they won't say what). When they complete it and return the creature explains to them cheerfully and completely unironically that the treasure was the friendships they have forged. (Then, out of interest, tell us how they responded and whether they did a violence upon the creature in response.)
@doppelgreener Well, the NPC said, unironically, that their friendships were the reward. And she went on and on and on talking about her old adventuring friends, detailing old stories, &c. &c. &c. After a minute or so of the players waiting awkwardly for the other shoe to drop I handed out the transcripts.
@NautArch Yes, hence my followup message regarding adjusting the DC. So the minimum (baseline) DC would be the NPCs' passive insight, and then the GM could adjust accordingly. Maybe add anywhere from +2 to +5.
These are cultists who are aware that illusory magic such as Disguise Self exists. The premise of "Hey I'm your friend and my voice sounds funny because I have a cold and I accidentally forgot our secret handshake, and today I feel like asking a bunch of questions I've never asked before" is much less believable by comparison.
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