#but it was a slog of a combat

[bijesperfahey]

Trying not to dwell on it but I'm still so fucking (petty) upset

Played DND with some coworkers last night and one of the girls not only showed up half an hour late but didn't actually prep her character like we were all told to

So her bard didn't have spells

And then when. 2 hours in she was like 'wait i should have spells' after I'd gone down THREE TIME she still didn't pick a fucking healing spell despite me saying 'oh yeah if you take that you could bring me or 'other coworker' back up'

My DM ended up ruling (since I was apparently the only healer) that if you rolled 3 successes you could come back up to 1 hp

I ended up going down 5 times during the fucking session and ended the session unconscious and am honestly probably not going back if next month goes the same way

[thatoneblogthere]

Advice wanted on dealing with Combat Slog

What I mean by combat slog is often a traditional D&D or Pathfinder (can be other systems too, frequently turn-based with larger numbers of combatants) combat encounter will be fun at first, but after a number of encounters, I am doing a routine attack sequence and then stuck waiting for the party or enemies to do their turns.

I want to be able to say this is an attitude problem, and it might be, but I’ve always felt this more acutely when playing rpg video games, thinking of games like Pathfinder: Kingmaker, WotR, Rogue Trader, Baldur’s Gate 3, hell even my beloved Pillars of Eternity. But I also feel it playing D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, etc., with friends too.

Despite being the sort of person who will sit down and have fun making character builds specialized for combat, maybe I just don’t enjoy traditional combat that much.

Often it feels like combats are present as a time fill to prevent from getting to something interesting too quickly, especially egregious when having to fight through a number of distinct groups of enemies to be able to continue a conversation, that once again leads to more combat encounters.

Anyone else have this problem or have any advice?

[kyriathanatos]

been replaying control slowly and taking my time and i just realized why the floppy disk (telekinesis power) works the way it does. it was seen as an object that had the capability to launch world ending levels of danger (in this case, nukes) and thus was imbued with that cultural idea, giving it the ability to launch objects. did not realize that the first time i played!

[gigginox]

i havent played dai in weeks i do Not want to finish that game

[parasitoidism]

interestd to see how they improve things in raidou 2 tho i'll prob get to it after sj

[liaratisoni]

Love running around in Veilguard just breaking pots and crates with my orb and dagger, it reminds me of Kingdoms of Amalur, which is one of my favourite games! The fast-paced action-based combat is another similarity that I really like.

[eurekq]

That veilguard high level combat spotlight looked so GOOD. I know people were dunking on them for saying this is the first da game with fun combat but honestly I kind of believe them

[asleepinawell]

had mixed feelings about this game (mostly in terms of gameplay and some of the later levels) but i got to jiggle the kitty so it was worth it

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

Ok real talk, looking for advice from other DnD’ers... at what point do you just nuke your character?

Rant/more info in tags.

[lone-sk]

I've been trying to get back into Alan Wake II, but I feel like the developers don't understand that the point of having a clunky, unsatisfying combat system with limited ammo is to force the player to pick and choose their battles. It kinda crumbles when have all these long combat sections with tons of ammo pickups, because you remove that element of strategy.

[000png]

I feel like I don't even like h** that much as a game yet here I am grinding shit for a fictional man OTL

[vespertine-legacy]

Finally finished the base story on GW2 on one of my characters!

[unsettlingcreature]

i have baldur's gate 3 at home...................

[chaosintheavenue]

Welp, I somehow almost managed to accidentally romance Tree!Beckett hgfdfghgf

[raven]

heres my review of pathfinder: wrath of the righteous: if you have a spell slot based game and not a cooldown based game, you need it to be turn based. period. but in this game, there are too many enemies and too many encounters to feasibly do the game turn based. i understand that you can turn it on and off but the overall length of the game makes it so that i would rather just turn it on easy and do rtwp than do turn based for a single battle. The compromise makes both styles not work. Also you cant relearn just your spells you have to respec the ENTIRE CHARACTER which FUCKING SUCKS. The end. I will be playing divinity original sin 2 next and maybe by the time i finish that baldurs gate 3 will be out

[daddopenguin]

The more I think about Veilguard the more I'm glad Old Republic is with another studio now.... I rather risk a shutdown over YA novel writing that removes player choice agency and having them matter in future installments...