@Miniman strangely, my brother played Bastion and it just didn't quite look like my kind of game but he loved it, and then Transistor came out and I was like "I should pick that up sometime because it looks more up my alley" but it just never happened
@V2Blast it's free which is great, but the opportunity cost of a whole third platform just for it isn't worth it to me
I beat Bastion. Started Transistor a while back but didn't get that far in
also yeah, Stardew Valley is a solid relaxing game. I got into Harvest Moon back in the GBA days when I played HM: Friends of Mineral Town on an emulator
for some reason I spend a lot of time literally just keeping the farm itself up and I am usually satisfied with that
it's not all I have done but it is all I have done on some ingame days
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@trogdor I loved Bastion but I didn't get into Transistor as much.
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@trogdor I love the idea of games like Stardew Valley but then I get overwhelmed with figuring out what I need to do and how to optimize it and how to remember what needs doing from one day to the next
I listened to part of a Sundown playtest today and now I'm back to thinking about hacking together my own system out of my favorites bits of everything.
@V2Blast Hades is... basically Transistor's performance tests, but an entire game of them? Which is extremely my jam. And also somehow Supergiant haven't stopped connecting on worldbuilding even in a roguelike.
Even starting from an extremely known story point I'm enjoying these character interactions.
@Ash basically, at least for Stardew Valley itself, which is the only game like this I have ever played more than a couple hours of, planting crops is the only thing that commits you to doing something later, and even then you only have to check what you have planned yourself, I only use like an 8th of my farm for it and I use maybe twice as much on barns and trees
You can use a very small area to make money if you don't care about doing anything other than selling what you grow
When I started I used even less land and I still made enough to get the money sink items I wanted at the pace I wanted
I like it a lot, and it's honestly the most relaxing game I have
And there is a lot you can do in the game but it's all optional
Even planting stuff
You could spend the whole game fishing or cutting down trees or harvesting from orchards (although for that last one you need enough to buy fruit trees so that takes a little longer to start)
I'm looking for a spell which a spell caster would cast to permanently light a torch in their home. Or, maybe a hired arcanist would go around town at sundown to light the street lamps until the morning.
I'm certain I've seen an 'eternal flame' or similar spell around. Unfortunately, but Googlin...
@Miniman No, it's a more actiony combat system like Bastion was. But the way you evolve over the course of a run is very much Transistor's performance mode.
Rock Gnomes have the following racial trait (PHB, p. 37):
Artificer’s Lore
Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to magic items, alchemical objects, or technological devices, you can add twice your proficiency bonus, instead of any proficiency bonus you normally apply...
@Ash yeah I never tried Harvest Moon, I probably wouldn't like it as much, and AC was fun but the whole "we are gonna force you into a massive loan" thing turned me off of it
The few spells you can cast with this aren't too likely to explode things outside of combat, and you still have to pay upkeep on them anyway.
(there's a few items they gave as examples that give you a certain amount of free maintenance, but there's no power that grants it...)
(and there's no directive on whether it stacks or not!)
(they did, at least, make a rule, in an entirely different book, that says you can only use so much presence worth of items before you start running into chances of things not working or worse (at higher levels))
Backstory: I’m currently working on a level 20 character build for a one shot I’m doing, I want to play a level 15 Beast Master Ranger/ level 5 Divine Soul Sorcerer. By doing such I’m giving Myself access to a slew of good spells that interact with the Share Spells feature.
Scenario: (Allowing t...
On D&DBeyond, I've found this homebrew Kuo-toa race. There are others, even on D&DByeond, but this is the one that seems to most closely adhere to how the Kuo-toa appear in the Monster Manual (or their D&DBeyond stat block).
I'll reproduce the racial traits and such here:
Otherworldly Percep...
Some of these Positive Whoniverse prompts would be great starters for Doctor Who games:
Your phone rings. You answer.
A companion is on the other end of the phone and they need help.
Who is calling you, what's happened and how do you help?
This is going to be an early boss for my upcoming campaign. I have 7 5th level players, and this fight is meant to challenge them quite a bit. There will also be a few minions.
The story is that this quagoth found a dying dryad and consumed her heart, this made him a sorcerer as well as giving ...
Mordenkainen's Sword seems to be under powered for a 7th level spell, it only does 3d10 damage and while admittedly it can do this damage every round for 1 minute, it still just seems to not be that much damage for a spell of it's level.
So is it just me or is it not a very good spell?
Rock Gnomes have the following racial trait (PHB, p. 37):
Artificer’s Lore
Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to magic items, alchemical objects, or technological devices, you can add twice your proficiency bonus, instead of any proficiency bonus you normally apply...
This is going to be an early boss for my upcoming campaign. I have 7 5th level players, and this fight is meant to challenge them quite a bit. There will also be a few minions.
The story is that this quagoth found a dying dryad and consumed her heart, this made him a sorcerer as well as giving ...
Mordenkainen's Sword seems to be under powered for a 7th level spell, it only does 3d10 damage and while admittedly it can do this damage every round for 1 minute, it still just seems to not be that much damage for a spell of it's level.
So is it just me or is it not a very good spell?
