>>555634274
Let's you stack inflame and heal yourself while also stacking poise.

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>>555668785
seems kinda pointless to even try, since the real one looks like this.

and shiiiieeeet i didnt realize the electric jackhammers had a 33 tile extension cord. i never bothered ever collecting/using them because i thought youd have to do some annoying shit to recharge them. you can just hook it to the dash of any car, fuggg

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>>555669514
oops. and good fuckin lord the minicooper version is ugly

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>>555669657
Mini coopers look terrible in general.
I'll never know how they managed to fuck up such an iconic design.
Not to mention they aren't even small.

Ultima Ratio Regum

>>555669514
>you can just hook it to the dash of any car
Just don't do this in real life unless your battery is rated for it. I can't even hook a phone charger up to my console much less a laptop charger or jackhammer without permanently draining the battery.

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Here i am over a month in game and 45 real life hours.
CLG is a very slow burn but i like the challenge.
My character is eating mutant meat a lot and i think its making him sick. He is losing weight and there are messages like "your body is struggling.", yet when i wake up it says stuff like "you spring up full of energy ready for anything."
Crafted a hand crossbow, not worth, shotbow is still better with cheaper ammo.
Got a wind turbine on my house, doesnt power enough for the freezers though so i still rely on gas.
My limiting factors are flour (none), solder, welding rods and gasoline.

i was using an army helmet i found with nvgs, then found a better conditon one, took the nvgs off, and now...i cant insert it back into either one? am i doin it wrong or something?

also who got
>>555668888

Devils Sphincter

>>555673204
Are you playing DDA/CLG? Do you have the "inserting things into other, different things" proficiency and its 12 prerequisites? Have they made it so one of those is chargen only?

>>555673204
In TLG? Does in normally have the nogs held inside a pocket in the helmet or something?

>>555675867
oh i think i might of done it the wrong order, it worked this time.

>>555675754
lmao grim

>>555656173
Even if you don't intend to make farmers farm all of your crops for you, they're still always invaluable to have around because the job gardening/farming passively increases the soil fertility of your homestead, allowing you to plant more crops before you start getting the dreaded (too withered to be harvested)

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rftf?

>>555668897
>29 Jan 2026 - Shadow of the Wyrm v1.9.1 released
version 1.7.2 worked perfectly on my machine, but neither 1.8.4 nor 1.9.1 work. The game doesn't even start just shows the splash screen and then crashes.
I can only assume the dev only tests the game on linux and not on Windows.

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ascii roguelike
tactical combat, weird
demo next week

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>>555691956
>playing the worst branch
At least try TLG, if you can't stomach BN.

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Is there any way to craft the (explosives) component in Quasimorph?
It feels incredibly silly being able to unlock the grenade recipes, but the only way I've found to make grenades is to... dismantle grenades?
Seems fairly redundant since every other recipe in the game seems fairly forgiving with how to obtain materials within in given category, dismantling less useful energy weapons allows you to craft your own suited up weapons, same with armor, but grenades seem like this weird redundant thing, why would you dismantle grenades in place of using them? and even when there's the less useful makeshift bombs, thats still an entirely valuable inventory slot for something that might not even drop more than once or twice in the entire mission

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Rogue mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkyIlKnMErM

>>555693050
Haven't seen one but the fire nades don't use them at all and they're my most used type. I dismantle mines which use 3 explosives when crafted.

>>555672372
Is it a game yet?

>>555693442
I've never like the premise in the epyx manual where its the same character dying over and over again.

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lel someones a bit salty

>>555698554
They don't even bother with that excuse any more.

>>555698554
"crazy" cataclysm? more like "truth" cataclysm

Baby nights babies are crying at Lord Kevin's superiority again I see.

>>555708929
>Lord Kevin
How embarrassing.

>>555665747
>Uhh what do i do with 2000 units of *hic* 1998 units of wine?
distill it into ethanol and convert that into neoprene patches, dynamite, and biodiesel

>>555709435
My first thought was why can't you just drink all 2000 units of wine and why doesn't the game have a system setup to handle all of that?
Why introduce mass quantities of alcohol if you can't overindulge? dunno.

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>>555667093
I bought it for Sseth's review naturally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WpNEt51UU
i'm beginning to suspect the grind to do crazy shit is more than i want to endure. it was only 20 bucks and i admire single devs that work like maniacs, because i myself have no such discipline.
>2 star question captcha fml

What's lowkey the most chopped unc skibidi 67 ahh rouge-like? :skull:

>>555691956
>Exodii
wuts that
double i's, in Latin that would be "Ecks-o-dee-eye"

>>555698554
>>555699332
That particular line has been in for many years, about as long as Crazy Cataclysm has existed.

Damn. He really did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkyIlKnMErM

*shits on ur thread*

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>>555716845
They're humans from a parallel reality that was killed by a zombie apocalypse earlier and they've been hopping from reality to reality for probably generations, trying to stay ahead of it. They're responsible for most or all of the bionics found in DDA. They have the dumbest faction name I have ever seen in a video game. If you're too fancy to just call them "exiles", then how about "exodes"? They're supposed to speak English, more or less.

>>555733606
exodii sounds exotic, of course. rule of cool. the faction sounds retarded though. cdda is not the zombie apocalypse, it's the everything apocalypse, and it's all because our scientists got out over their skies and opened portals to other realities, where horrors exist. that's the lore i remember.
what i remember when i got into the game, the cdda lore was that technology has gotten super advanced, far enough that a bunch of technocrats could destroy the world. which they do. a prescient tale of caution for present times, as they ACTUALLY try to instantiate the digital go, irl..

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>>555737319
>digital go
digital god*

>>555711510
is there something stopping you from getting blackout drunk in cata?

>>555737319
>the cdda lore was that technology has gotten super advanced, far enough that a bunch of technocrats could destroy the world
Part of the DDA anti-fun pogrom has been to remove all that futuristic tech and give it to the exodii, because the baseline of DDA is now supposed to be our real world, and the only thing the labs invented was portal tech, everything else comes after.

One thing i like about cata is how all skills are useful.
Topic of discussion came up playing zomboid with a friend. Pottery, masonry, carving, GLASSMAKING!? like we dont need those skills, and what do they do? Electronics is useless beyond level 1 because then you know how to hotwire cars.
Meanwhile in cata.
>Science skill allows you to make bombs and convert bodies into fuel
>Electronics is used for car battery powered noise makers that draw a whole city block, and remote controls for remote detonation explosives.
>Archery
>Computers allows you to hack safes to get the loot inside. Admittedly i think the skill is lacking
>Survival skill allows you to use more out of the random things you find in the world.
>Food preperation that isnt just stir fries and roasts, we making cheese, alcohols and exotic dishes.
And all the fine details come under proficiencies which just increase skill and speed. Carving prof? get yourself a nice speed bonus. Pottery? speed+xp.

Anyway train of thought and rant over.

>>555748921
>Pottery, masonry, carving, GLASSMAKING!? like we dont need those skills, and what do they do? Electronics is useless beyond level 1 because then you know how to hotwire cars.
This is exactly how it works in real life though. If your main concern is realism then that's how you should do it in cata. All of those skills are worthless in the modern day and especially in the post apocalypse when there are a million billion identical pots and a million billion empty buildings made of bricks you can just take. The only exception I can see is if you had a very advanced chemistry system in the game for which you needed specifically sized beakers and you couldn't think of an easy way to get them in a rural area.

If you want a FUN solution that almost necessarily means giving up alot of realism. zomboid went for realism and IMO had to give up alot of fun to do so.

>>555739805
you might suffer depressant overdose and just stop breathing and die but I've never gone ham to find out
I have had a stimulant overdose and had my heart explode in search of an extra int point for bionic installation on the other hand

>>555749601
>All of those skills are worthless in the modern day and especially in the post apocalypse when there are a million billion identical pots and a million billion empty buildings made of bricks you can just take.
this, when you think about the sheer amount of stuff means being the last guy on earth or at least in your neighborhood makes you incredibly rich. think of how much shit is in a store. walk into a home depot if you have never been; they are temples to hardware.

of course if the civil unrest has been going on for months, and supply chains were frozen for weeks before everything collapsed, then it's possible a lot of hoarding and looting has depleted local stores. in Project Zomboid things go to shit real fast, i forget what the timeline in cata is. if it's over in a couple days, you could probably walk into a fully stocked walmart.
i think Cata should have more loot, but one of the devs in DDA thinks the game is fun if you have to scrounge for a spoon.

>>555754661
>one of the devs in DDA thinks the game is fun if you have to scrounge for a spoon.
Thankfully god gave us racial slurs and apatite to solve these problems.

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Is it the mutant meat or what is causing this? My character isnt eating any grains or carbs.

>>555754967
>apatite
... minerals?

>>555755180
have you tried eating some carbs? carbohydrates are after all energy...

>>555755583
I got a headache after this too, thats concerning, never had one of them before...
I have barely any carbs, to my name i have 2 potatoes and 16 corn flour. Alongside 400 mutant meat and its the season for berries.

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Wow, so if you actually manage to take down the Omega Sentinel you just die anyway? Fucking lame.

>>555756338
if you ain't getting a balanced diet that's your problem most likely
cata can be unforgiving with nutrition depending on version and if vitamins are disabled or not.

>>555761172

>>555718265
i imagined so, ive just never played crazy cata. gotta wonder who sean is, must be someone who really pissed him off lel

Ayo, I just watched the 'lore video from Friday. This Rogue game sounds real funny. Are there any cute girl Japanese vtubers playing it, so I don't have to?

Intermission.

>>555761556
Play Elin
I am playing Elin and am ronery

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god damn it. i drove so far only for it to be this

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wait WHAT. so now the bridge behind me is a level higher, i just transported to a lower level and im fucking trapped?

>>555774910
Might be time to debug-mode. Map editor can open you a path

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>>555774978
actually it worked out. turns out its not a dead end like i was expecting, tacoma was there and it connects right back to the path back home. its a little annoying that i cant "go back" without debugging, i was planning to explore all that shit to the right, but eh, ill take it

i also thought i was in the air still, that was ground level. sledgehammered the guard rail, moved the garbage and just drove onto the grass

>>555774910
lmao where did my bike go in this picture

Got banned in Xbox Live, roguelikes for that feel?

>>555761172
Elin absolutely can be one of those games, it's incredibly accessible and easy to get into, but it also does a very good job of pulling you deeper into the rabbithole by not showing you all of the mechanics at once and instead letting you fall into that slippery slope much later on. I often found myself with a wikia page open to consult homestead stuff when I was playing a few months ago

the HWP gun in cdda seems cheap and unfair. imma just not use it

>>555780043
It's not any better than normal guns, worse in fact.
Unless you really enjoy the caliber swapping gimmick. And even then it's arguably better to carry multiple guns.

Hub armor, however, is better than anything in vanilla DDA.

>>555780550
its op because of it being so easy and quick to find 100 round 5.56 drum mags and 60 rounds 7.62 drum mags. raid one military base and you get 25,000 5.56 and 5,000 7,62 and you can just full spammy

>>555781329
Are they now?
Last I played DDA, the bigger HWP mags were gated behind lengthy and buggy hub mission chain that's not worth your time.
Not that it makes a big difference, a modded rifle with better recoil control plus a bunch of quickly accessible stanag mags is faster for accurate sustained fire including mag changes. In case you haven't already found stanag-compatible drug mags by the time you're done with hub stuff.

>>555781996
you can buy them the second you unlock the hwp. you can just sell the dinky 60 round mags right back to them and swap them on the spot

>>555755180
>I am eating nothing but toxic meat from a freakish giant insect and I feel a bit bad, whatever could be the problem?

>>555783058
>I am eating nothing but toxic meat from a freakish giant insect
i mean we've all had taco bell

>>555755180
>>555784423
actually its a different more recent change, guess he doesnt know. how attached to this character are you?

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>>555784423

>>555784504
>>555784541
Uhh please elaborate...
I'm playing CLG version from jan 6th.

>>555784642
I just thought the Taco Bell joke was funny. I think the other guy is trolling you a little bit.

I checked the CLG source code for you, and the message only means you're not getting enough calories.

wait, have the double barrel shotguns ALWAYS been able to be set to single or both barrels? holy neato, i wonder if that means i can load it slug/buck or buck/dragons breath and itll do both. if yes, that makes it actually kinda a cool holdout gun, a howdah pistol basically

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>>555785023
yes

>>555785023
>i wonder if that means i can load it slug/buck or buck/dragons breath and itll do both
Nope, can't load different ammo types at once.

>>555785651
just tested it, you can. fired a slug and dragons breath at the same time.

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>>555786287

>>555786287
Huh, that's cool. It doesn't work in BN, but I often wish it did.
Can you also load different ammo types in revolvers, or regular gun magazines, or is it just the shotgun?

>>555786348
a double barrel was my hulk emergency gun a million deaths ago.

>>555786402
>doesn't work in BN
Many such cases

>>555786402
im assuming you can, im constantly loading a mix of .223, 5.56, and 5.56 reloaded into the same magazine.

>>555745653
and mutagen. and teleportation. and cyborgs. those are still in the labs, the new ones even. i dont get the complaint, the change made it EASIER to get that future tech shit, just find the refugee camp

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>>555784642
okay waited long enough, yeah i was just fucking with you

>>555788379
I just saw a zombie hulk get mutated into a skeletal juggernaut thanks to a zombie master, and you're out here making me worry about toxins in my food.
Will a molotov + noisemaker do the trick for a juggernaut?

>>555787895
The complaint isn't about difficulty, it's about dull alterations to the lore.

>>555787895
My complaint is that the name "exodii" is fucking stupid.

>>555792906
are you really that petty?
just rename them then
what's your name for them?

>>555762637

Women cannot handle Rogue.

>>555793081
can confirm.

t. woman

>>555795961
No women in /rlg/

>>555774910
>>555774771
I've had nightmares about this and the only way to get back was to drive my car along a series of fenceposts. Nothing to do with cataclysm ofc.

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I feel like I'm on to something but not quite there.

https://youtu.be/JkyIlKnMErM
the mandalorian interpretation

need more hot sweaty sex with Alonso that leaves my character's mutant pussy clenching in desperate heat for yet another breeding session with the most virile male member that has ever breached it...

>>555692416
Tell us more.

>>555818334
>>555762637

>>555825120
It's pretty far along. Closer to the end than the beginning. Preparing for a Monday reveal.

>>555692416
What is this a backrooms roguelike lol
I'd play the shit out of that

>>555774771
what happened here?

>>555791164
Its now a kevlar hulk.
>Immune to fire
>Used a quicksave to find out it's immune to grenades
>Must be immune to bullets
>Can push my spikey car out of the road
So its an unstoppable force?

Are there any other roguelikes aside from Incursion where you can play a sneaky cunt and you get XP awarded for reaching the stairs for each enemy you avoided and didn't notice you?

>>555838987
They're not stab-proof, get a spear and some bear traps maybe?

>>555838987
kevlar hulks are pretty bad but they're not immune to coilguns or rifle rounds, just pistol rounds
it may depend on your fork

>>555838921
mapgen bug
not sure which fork

>>555839114
Shadowed is literally this
Sil/SilQ but you still get more xp from kills
Infra Arcana I think? Haven't played in forever

>>555839114
Cogmind rewards stealth a lot, it's a better strategy than combat most of the time. There's no XP in the game, but basically you get to preserve your items (which are also your health bar), the food clock is slower, and you have way more sensor info to make decisions with. You know where exits are, you know where enemies are, you can map out the surrounding walls, etc. Doesn't even technically have a stealth mechanic, you're just so aware that you can dodge patrols and dig through just the right places so nobody ever comes into line of sight with you.

>>555839279
i've definitely killed them before, but i forgot what i used.
can you still dig pits and trap them? any mi-gos around you can kite to tie him up?

>>555838987
Just drive over it a few more times

>>555842109
>can you still dig pits and trap them?
That would take too much time.
>any mi-gos around you can kite to tie him up?
Hey... local wildlife is an option. There's bound to be some ants or wasps nearby.
The only time ive killed something close was a skeletal juggernaut, and it took a magdump of 5.56, in a 1v1 interior corridor. This is kevlar outside with still loads more zombies about.

>>555838987
>>555842304
Update:
Died in 1 hit to spiked ram at 51kmph.
Now the huge issue is there are about 200 corpses that need pulping and i cant pulpe them fast enough with 2 additional followers before they start to rise again.

kevlar hulks are lame
just like shoot them
they're not even a dps check like various regenerators from shoggoths to sludgecrawlers

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This place is a mess. All for what, a hardware store and apartment block? I think i might just leave.

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>>555844205
with how many enemies CDDA has, it's almost never worth going into a city unless you have a specific goal in mind

imagine how long it would take me to clear this shit.

>>555843285
Run them over

I need some booze

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how do i know if my crops are ready? the mushrooms look like normal map mushrooms, but i think the tomato plant is supposed to show fruit. and i have no idea about pasture.

I had forgotten how everything is more fun with friends.

>>555854090
There's a reason coop slop had it's hayday

>>555854048
If I recall it say "mature" when ready to harvest. Mushrooms take only a single day to grow.

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>>555859221
thanks, i tried hitting a mushroom and it did indeed yield one. i'll have to make a scythe though for seeds.

unrelated, does anyone understand what stat potential is or how it works? the documentation for this game is underwhelming.

>>555842392
kevlar hulks are not that much more dangerous than skeletal juggernauts, I've killed them with melee in BN but it's unadvisable without power armor, good stats, and barbaran montante
without the unnerfed melee and cracked martial arts in BN I don't think it'll work

>>555862314
Potential is how fast you accumulate experience, It's an experience multiplier that makes you earn EXP faster the higher your potential is, and gets used up a little with every level. (I don't know the exact formula.) The base values are determined by your race and class combination, then increased by feats, food, and following a God.
There are skill trainers in every town that increase your potential for platinum coins. This doesn't increase your level directly but instead gives you a big multiplier, you get platinum coins by completing quests or rare drops from dungeons and special animals.

>>555868807
>I've killed them with melee in BN but it's unadvisable without power armor, good stats, and barbaran montante
The only thing you need is kinetic shock absorbers, decent dmg and possibly some decentish armour so it doesn't bleed you

did i miss some update for regular cdda? when using @ to look at my characters info, going to skills and trying to hit enter to turn off driving, nothing happens. i cant disable any of my skills

>>555874091
Wouldn't surprise me if the ability to do that was removed.

Top 10 roguelikes of 2026?

>>555838987
>>555839279
You CAN kill a Kevlar Hulk with a coilgun, but it'll take between 100 and 150 nails.
It's also not actually immune to fire, just resistant.
If you manage to find (or make) a laser weapon, those work really well.

>>555874091
>>555881658
Did they finally fix the shitty learning focus system or something?
That's been on the agenda for years.

>>555891237
im not sure. i generally dont pay attention to that at all and havent noticed it recently, so maybe. it only got my attention on my last guy because he was too depressed to do anything. couldnt get it to reverse at all, so i dont actually think it was driving killing focus. the sweet catalyscm mod was grinding shit to a halt so i ditched that run. ill see if it pops up agian.

in general, the advanced smart watch has to be the best book storage system so far, yeah? its waterproof, and its the smallest/lightest object outside of having some bionic

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Some slight modifications later and we have a survivor hopper truck.

any good soup forks? I liked kimchi but it's dead

>>555892408
reading a book on a watch screen sounds like fucking hell

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*sweats*

>>555892408
Best book storage is a laptop inside your deathmobile, backed up to external storage.
Everything except the bionics are vulnerable to losing all data from high tier electric zombies' EMP. Waterproofing is not a big deal, waterproof phone cases are common enough.

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after 5 attempts i have figured out how to build a summoner (idk what im doing something about my build causes 70% on the enemies to blow up when i enter the room)

>>555896000
>after 5 attempts i have figured out how to build a summoner
Anon, summoners are one of the easiest early cycle builds...

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>>555896528
>one of the easiest early cycle builds.
does this mean i cant use it in the later harder cycles? it was fun.

>>555894653
its the year 2018 plus 8 years already boomer, just get siri to read it out gosh fr fr no cap.

yeah it would suck.

>>555895386
yeah i know the emp stuff, i mean if your gonna carry something with you to scan books, might as well be the smallest thing. ive never bothered with it, but apparently the folders and paper? you can just write the recipes down and have an emp proof storage as well. i bet youd have to have a pen or maybe use pens as ammo, which would be balls

>>555897141
You can do cycle 32 summoner builds but they are not as easy as other builds.
Summons do not scale to the same degree that enemies do.

>>555900426
"i bristle" oh myyy goddddd. but check this out. its just something i remembered trying out, they figure that 50% of the time you spend trying to read sentences is moving your eyes and tracking the sentence, so if you use an app to make each word appear in the same spot, centered, you can double your reading speed. i already do 600 wpm, so i can do like 1000 wpm, but at 600 wpm im already at my limit of retention so its not really useful. but its cool to see/try
https://spritz.com/
dont give them any money, theres free ones, this just has links to the mobile versions to try

>>555902368
interesting, but i still don't like it.
but i like it more than I like these FUCKING CAPTCHAS GOD DAMN IT i am so tired of counting star points.

Wrestling roguelike doko

>>555903928
Dwarf fortress?

>>555902880
the stars always have the same numbers of points and are never the difference

>>555902880
ownfault
Stop getting banned or otherwise deleting your cookies

>>555902368
>i already do 600 wpm
Speedreaders need tossing in a woodchipper.

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Time flies

>>555912356
RL with star autism?

>>555911264
I mean a non-fantasy one

>>555897141
>I don't know why this build works
Too lazy to open Achra and check rn
Pretty sure either the staff or maybe the hat do damage on meditate gain, star cult gives you +meditate on summon. Crystal Rod replicates that at recursively lower range.
So you enter, spawn ten dudes and do something like 80 damage instances (160 if Ragna Wrap is Astral to Fire, which I'm pretty sure it is) and Willpower+Meditate means your Ragna Wraps "50% redeal" is actually INCREASING in damage

Anyways, summon builds are quite strong in Cycle 32, just that their weaknesses are more amplified and many summons that were "interesting" in single digit cycles are borderline useless. Typically you're more abusing triggers and debuff procs with your summons- But those would be VERY strong in lower cycles anyways, y'know what I'm saying?

>>555914632
I remember posting in here back when DCSS was still actually playable. Back when you had to play a mummy when you didn't want to eat.

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That was interesting.

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>>555943650
>dual wielding

Dual wielding makes logical sense, why wield a sword when you can attack more?

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>>555947509
Yes, while following Pallas too.
Here, admire the speed I had while fighting the horror giant.

>>555925881
Cataclysm: TLG with unarmed build

roguelike with realistic shield combat?

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Ohayou gozaimasu, /rlg/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's play our best today!

You are lucky! Full moon tonight.

>>555948474
That prestige is pretty busted for speed. You can even use strength as a dump stat since you can gain speed more than freeze or entangle can reduce your speed.

>>555966052
We're getting gay married straight style BTW.

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>>555971880
this game is really starting to piss me off

it's hard being a skellington

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Finally managed to do an eye build
>no shot cd trinket in 20 floors

>log into /rlg/
>it's an achra and cdda episode again
roguelikes are dead

>>555981461
>roguelikes are dead
Maybe you should join them!

>>555980264
congrats, I could never get one to work
it's too fucking weak without all the stars aligning

fuckmybacklike

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>impossible to go over 1 million repulsion
fuck this game, I built exponential growth I want exponential growth

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>>555991002
Funnily enough I considered it a failed run until realm 14, it was hard carried by the slimed vest that spawns a slime on getting hit and the high HP slimed pet. The secret ingredient is the skill that fears enemies hit by your eye spells, late game is just pic rel, enemies running in fear uselessly while you stand in a corner mashing 5.
Both Ion Tentacles and Floating Eye are completely unnecessary and I took them because they have upgrades that makes them stronger from your eye spells, Pyrostatic Curse I took in ream 21 just to spend SP. The true hardhitters of eye spells are
>Eye of Fire with recast on kill upgrade
Carries your early game, pick realms where you can oneshot the enemy
>Eye of Ice with the upgrade that lets you have multiple of it up at the same time
Pure increase in eye hits per turn, meaning fear procs. Recasting it both increases the amount and resets the duration, so stack it.
>Eye of Rage with the upgrade that spreads it to nearby enemies
Makes a joke out of clustered enemies, bone shamblers just stop mattering. If every enemy is next to another, then every enemy gets berserked
>Eye of Blood with the 'hit everything in line of sight' upgrade
Replaces your Eye of Fire late game as a fodder cleaner and your goto heal, the increase in hit cd and the steep SP cost are painful but worth it. It SHOULD also proc fear on every single enemy you can see but sometimes it didn't in my game, maybe I'm wrong and they were later spawns. Worth it regardless.
That just leaves the Eye of Lightning which does fuckall sans being a +1 to fear procs per turn. The upgrade that makes it cast Thunderstrike should in theory make it very strong, stunlocking enemies and keeping you safe, but I didn't take it because I gave up on the run and then forgot to upgrade lmao.
Feels like a really solid build if optimized, I'm going to try again with these insights.

>>555960662
dredmor

Cataclysm DDA's total free and open character creation is really unappealing to a newfag. There needs to be at least some kind of a guardrail system/ mode.

>>556003247
Now I'm curious what kind of damage you are throwing around on that.

>>556007601
Oh, they've finally done that?
The truth is Cata's character systems are so loose there is point trying to balance them for minmaxers.
Just pick whatever backgrounds and traits you want. Like. actually role-play not roll-play.
As for the numerical stats, 8 used to be the norm for characters with limited point pools. 10 was really good. Going much higher than that was not feasible during character creation.

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>>555981461
>pic related
>in 2026
Get a grip, my dude

>>556011605
Image macros are redditcore now, time to sleep grandpalike

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>>556017912
They can take my image macros when they pry them from my cold, dead hands

goddamn it this whole time ive been smashing the billboards/message boards at trailheads to get to the trail maps, when you can just (e) interact and read them without smashing them

>>556005096
Yeah, just did another run. If you don't get Balor's Eye Staff you will be doing 0 damage later from eyes, but since you have many different damage types, invest in skills that trigger off of dealing a certain damage type, you will create repeats easily. Feel a bit bad since I had so many pets and summons and it didn't feel like an eye run, but no idea how you can win in RF2 without minions in general.
Also Eye of Lightning with Thunderstrike is very nice, if you take Thunderstrike itself and make it do Holy you will not have to worry about source of Holy damage without skills.

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i like how most of the books in the game are just real books

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"just for fun"

Proudest win was fighter mummy back when dcss was playable, you could basically get the gold rune for free if you played mummy. Has anyone played kimchi? I'm to understand the Koreans fixed everything the fag devs broke and reintroduced rods, lost races, hunger, ect. But nobody seems to have play d it and I don't speak moonrunes

>>556007649
Didn't take a cap, but with multiple levels of master repulsion, I think you can guess.

>>556011605
He's asking you to like more things.

>>556019731
>no idea how you can win in RF2 without minions in general
I do think it's harder, but by no means impossible. If your issue is surviving, Word of Chaos will support pretty much any build. If your issue is spell charges, you just gotta find more synergies to blow shit up. Until a recent change, I think silver spear was a pretty reliable one spell win just due to how it interacts with certain mechanics.

>>555709203
>googoogaga kewin bad wwaaaaaaah

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>lord kevin
lol

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>>556034096
His excellency, lord of all cataclysm.

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>>556027576
Yeah, I've done repulsion builds before but yours had a decent amount of meditation too so I just just curious how much that boosted it.
They are pretty hard to top, I think the only one I had come close was some weird ice/plague one.

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>>556037294
Ah no, it was just straight up ice.

>>556027146
That's the issue right there.

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>>556027146
I am also interested in Kimchi. Also my one and only win was with a Deep Dwarf of Trog wielding a vampiric great axe.

>>556032928
To tell you the truth I'm more confused how you are meant to deal damage in any late realm. The enemy HP scales much harder than damage spells and items, and you have limited charges. Minions are basically free damage, slime variants are infinite supply even, to not mention spawners
Granted I'm a retard who played a few runs learning the game, seeing eye spells and doubling down my autism into making them work..

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>coast guard patrol boat just floating on a lake
Neat

>dream of a tooth falling out
>reach for in irl
>it's still there
>reach for it in the dream again
>it's gone
roguelikes for that feel?

>>556067654
>To tell you the truth I'm more confused how you are meant to deal damage in any late realm.
It's pretty common to wind up with Prince of Ruin, Starfire, Cracklevoid, and a damage redeal hat. Chain reactions do a lot of heavy lifting. What you have access to in terms of passives depends on your element though.

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So I'm getting the hang of Elin, but I don't really know how to proceed. Right now I'm just dropping into the dungeons and selling all the crap. Storage is a huge problem. idk what to keep and what to sell, so I'm hoarding a lot of resources i don't have a use for. then i go to town and seduce and whore until i run out of stamina.
i STILL don't have a musical instrument.

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>>555692416
As promised
Welcome to Hanwu Divinity College

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Is One Way Heroics a roguelike?

>>556086489
yeah

>>556085187
Cool

>>556067654
It's all about synergies and chains, like anon said. Something like Prince of Ruin alone can deal with a bunch of bone shambler spam and the like. Something like Disintegrator helps deal with a bunch of shields. And of course you can prioritize spawners and summoners to cut down on attrition.

QRD on the not Star Trek roguelike? I was searching the archive and saw some people said it was cool, while others were making fun of it for AI sloppa background art.

>>556090453
not really related; but i remember playing a Star Trek game that was entirely HTML based. it was honestly very ahead of it's time. i never got super into the mechanics because i was like 9, but you commanded a ship, flew around doing missions and killing klingons and romulans.
god damn that was almost years ago.
i am so old.

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>>556093349
>30* years
wtf typos

>>556079923
i now have over 100 potential in every attribute
i feel like succubus is insanely powerful. being a degenerate whore and rapist of sleeping people is OP.

I thought it might be fun if the I changed xerocs to run away when they're at low health and then redisguise themselves when they're out of the players sight.

I can't really progress in CLG.
>No flour for bread, wheat is still growing goddamn
>No welding rods anymore
>Limited solder
>No sawge and die set, no anvil
>No random mining materials that are useful.
>Huge towns full of hulks all around.
I do have access to the evac shelter though, the only named spot ive found.

>>556099282
>xerocs

Someone calling a mimic a xeroc in 2026? What is this?

just realised that vormithrax probably wont ever go back to cdda because the experimentals completely gutted the settings. the only thing you can change in world generation is
>3 settings for city density
thats it. no more zombie evolution, no more spawn, dates, speed, nothing

>>556103991
CDDA sucks, Bright Nights is where it's at

>>556101746
>>No flour for bread, wheat is still growing goddamn
>>No welding rods anymore
>>Limited solder
>>No sawge and die set, no anvil
it's an infinite procedural game. you need to get out there. stop trying to fight hulks. avoid them. dive into houses, grab the goods, get out. run. cheese. kite. be fearless. take Parkour next time.

>>556104327
also just one thing
>No flour for bread, wheat is still growing
i've never grown crops. cattails. find a swamp and pick them.

>>556102723
Well yeah M is already used for medusas. this is /rlg/ my friend

Achra kinda seems like slop. I nearly won first try not knowing how anything works lol. I picked the fatty, did nothing but level strength, sacrificed basically every item, chose sickness, poison, corrosive for my abilities, and then I changed my class into a sickness monk or whatever. I guess that's the appeal?

>>556104306
god no im never going back to when the game didnt tell you how long breaking a door down would take and making terrain searchable in the v menu

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>>556106259
Plague monk ass build

>>556106259
90% of it is builds, yeah. But also on low cycles pretty much anything will work out. Once shit starts scaling and you have to worry about max speed dudes that can one shot you then you gotta start actually thinking.

>>556078842
>>556086991
I'll give it a shot, my brain just remembers situations like the warlocks instantly filling up the map with spawns and blanks out.

>>556079923
derphy and port kapul have junk merchants that will usually have a instrument for sale. Palmia has a nice bias to musical quests at its request boards. That should get you started nicely as a pianist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAFYOUoiEI

>>556079923
Just nick a mic off the church, they should be light enough. There's nothign wrong with hoarding, just set your autodump filters so it;s not a yuge mess.

>>556101746
If I recall there's a pipeline from cattails to four so if you've got a nearby swamp...

>>556103991
The code still uses the same values and they're present in the config files (as opposed to hardcoded)
They're just trying to hide options from casual end-users (>casual roguelike player lol lmao) for some retarded reason.

>>556106259
>won first try not knowing how anything works lol
That was my experience with dredmor.

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i must have done something wrong because i was able to kill everyone else but i was just tickling him.

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2nd attempt. This felt a little too OP considering how easy it was to slap together lol.

>>556104306
>buggy nights

>>556108584
There are absolutely situations like that, you just need to ensure your build can handle them. For example if the fodder is 5 hp then with disintegrator you just need to do 200 direct damage and you can clear out a whole screen.

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>>556123801
If you're relying on minion damage it could be that they got hit with too much sickness. Plus he's got an aoe attack.

Chat I feel more inspired than ever for my ragulike
Pray for my soul chat so I don't die in my sleep tonight

Having trouble with cdda innawoods.
Problem is basically this:
Fabric cutting is a retarded tool skill, which hard locks even the most basic fabric crafts behind metallurgy, which is just absurd.
Leather tanning isn't discoverable so players are ALL left pulling their hair out guessing which skill, tool or build is needed to tan Leather. And this just fucks up the early game for every new player.
Applied science, the last skill you'd expect, is unobtainium because there aren't many practices or level 1+2 crafts, and there's a clear order of operations issue here.

Every player will fail, every single time. Can't get to applied science early enough, can't craft leather, can't cut cloth. If you don't start with applied science you are walking dead

Easy fix:
Curing a number of hides (assume survival 3) will discover tanning, failure rate of tanning dependent on applied science, survival, so you can rush it at the cost of wasted cure hide.
Basic clothing out of raw hide/tained hide.

Fabric cutting gets more levels, so any blade has at least 1 fabric cutting. All knives can cut cloth. So can broken glass, sharp rocks. There's a technique where you basically abraid the cloth on a field stone to get exact cuts. Time taken dependent on the strength of the cloth.

Also still having the issue with camp followers sprinting off the map for no reason. When assigned camp roles, they just flee into the distance, never to be seen again.

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Found this baby at a military helipad.

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I always flub at the third rune. I think I'm reasonably strong, but where am I supposed to go now? On top of being bad I also just updated from 0.28 (!) so I don't know much of what's up

I'm using a summons setup with death channel + martyr knell + freezing cloud + sometimes cactus guy and mana viper when I need them

>>556146986
Pretty simple to cheese TRJ if you've got a torment scroll + immolation scroll and some ranged damage (like evokables since you're gnoll). Just try to have some extra resists on so you don't get chunked as much in the process. Vaults are probably the worst option for you, rElec is nice to have there and there's a bunch of stuff that summons just don't deal with fast enough imo. Abyss has been fairly easy for me the last few times I've tried, but maybe that's just luck. Try to boost sustain if you can. That berserk will be annoying there though.

Is investing bugged? (Elona+ Custom-GX) I just tried 'invest x 50' in a shop with superb charisma and 400% skill level, however I didn't get any increase in the investing skill.

>>556126267
What's the matter, Kevin? Is it that people laughed at you for pushing the "Baby Nights" thing in previous threads, so now you're trying a new meme on for size?

>>556153383
I doubt it's actually Kevin but there is definitely at least one DDA dev that lurks here.

>>556153979
>I doubt it's actually Kevin
What do you mean, of course it is! It's always Kevin!

Just passing here to say that if you like Nethack, you should consider checking out Dnethack, it adds a lot of good, elaborate custom content to the game, together with nice QOL tweaks, like auto-unlock and freely swapping places with peaceful monsters. It's currently my favorite Nethack variant.

>>556156312
Neat, I'll check it out

>>556121861
>Cattails rhizomes>starch>flour
This might work. It's time consuming, but i have a follower.

>>556146728
congrats on your super electric motor, those are very rare

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>>556162135
I managed to fix the motor, but the reactor's going to take a bit more work.
It flies on battery power, but the range is a bit limited. This is while accelerating, at a responsible 200 km/h cruise speed I get 12 minutes. Which isn't even bad in Cataclysm terms, that's like 40 kilometers.
I guess I could also install the super motor into a different vehicle, but I'm not sure what could possibly get that's cooler than an assault helicopter.

>>556163280
I don't think it matters now that they've removed the limit on number of engines, but it used to be important if you wanted to have decent acceleration in an electric deathmobile while also having a large 1 cylinder generator as backup
but now you can just install two enhanced electric engines and a generator and be fine so who cares

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This should hopefully be the last race course I need scavenge, at least unless I decide to go complete ridiculous with the size of the blimp.

>>556124829
The real game starts at cycle 32.

Cazador

>>556106259
It gets harder as you go along, to an extent. I'm currently on cycle 18 and it's kicking my shit in.
A bit part of it is that I refuse to play a class combo I haven't won with due to autism, though. Some starts are a lot easier than others. fuck Imp

i need sleep

>>556204243
sleep when you're dead.

>>556163280
I really with auto drive speed limit could be upped.
Its either 19kmph fuel and time draining pace, or me pressing:
>5555555555555
With a sore finger till i get somewhere

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Got my 2nd win by the skin of my teeth. What if I teleported some times with my minion spam?
>inb4 why guard
I panicked cuz the final boss was taking me down to 10% of my HP over and over. The spell that teleports you to the closest enemy was honestly pretty suicidal. If I ever do another one of these I'll just spam the meditation wizards. Way less risky.

>>556216992
>he doesn't strip naked, close his eyes, and let astrohunting take the wheel
not a true astral fan

>>556214342
can't you hold down the button?

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I think Achra had me the second the trve dungeon synth started playing.

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oh my...

Getting back into C:DDA after a hiatus
>last updated build was late December 2024
So a bit over a year... it appears we are still on "Herbert".
Any interesting things added since this? I play on experimental. I see people talk about forks more than ever but I think I'm gonna stick with DDA for a bit longer before I check those out.

My CLG is getting laggy now in my base. Is it the number of items in 2 tiles, the 2 NPCs i have, or is there somethign else going on nearby?

>>556224332
Havent been on DDA for a while, last i played was 0.H
From the threads ive browsed, seems car tires get fucked now driving over stuff.

>>556225874
Hope they aren't fucked up too easily. I like to find barely working cars and run them into crowds of zombies before bailing
also what is the best martial arts for melee and best for unarmed? I always liked this games martial art systems

>>556226409
Fencing, niten ichi ryu and medieval swordsmanship are amazing, but only after you get a fancy sword. Silat and eskrima are viable both early and late game, and silat is probably better.

>>556227632
i prefer the staff one. uses quarterstaffs or a bo (japanese quarterstaff). every coat rack in the game can be disassembled for a long stick, which can be turned into a quarterstaff... all you need is a knife. use it until it breaks and make another.
that staff martial art has lots of dodging and blocking, sometimes i feel invincible using it.

>random is always a female character
Reeeeeee

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>>555692416
L-link?

In DCSS, what race/class combos should I play as a beginner aside MiBe? Been giving the game a try and I really like it so far.

>>556169245
you're getting so lucky with this shit lol
I found my blimp in the parking lot of a stadium
so that's two places we can see blimps now
>>556214342
I set my auto drive speed to 60 mph (100 km/h)
it's in the debug menu in the options, maximum auto drive speed 15

>>556218120
it's much slower than autodrive

>>556262884
For a spellcaster, Gnoll is great. Ice Elementalist or Forgewright are current popular choices I think. Ash is a strong choice for it, though idk if it's good for a newbie.

>>556248209
Monster Lily

>>556263732
What about ranged, is MiHu fine? Or Spriggan instead?

>>556264154
Spriggan is good, you'll learn to just run away from trouble.

>>556264476
Aight, thanks.

>>556263256
I dont see it, is it only in the experimental DDA branch?

>>556214342
>or me pressing
You can also set time to autoadvance when driving.
Very comfy, I like it better than afk autodriving

>>556267640
I play Bright Nights, if you don't have it maybe you should consider swapping

>>556235880
Cultivation games are roguelikes now?

>>556279202
Everything's a roguelike if you put your mind to it. Isn't that what the old people used to say?

>>556279587
No, the old saying is NOT A ROGUELIKE

>>556280136
That's not a rock fact.

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Not sure Zin would approve of this one.

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>>556284786
xom runs are always good though

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>>556285697

>>556262884
Cj is really forgiving, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast is incredibly good especially for beginners and doubly so with Vehument giving it a range buff. IE is often recommended and is a bit better but you need to know the game a little bit more to make full use of it. Cj you can just blast IMB until you finish Lair/Orc/D:15 and you find or get gifted a conjuration spell you can win with (fireball/starbust, arcjolt, bombard).

>>556146986
If you're playing trunk they made slime a lot harder, I think most characters will want to stairdance vaults now.

livelike

rogueesque

>>556279587
you're a roguelike

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Third win. Blood for the blood god.

There's a sad lack of party-based RPG roguelikes, Darkest Dungeon is the only big one I can think of but I don't really care for it

>>556309943
I'm making one right now

>>556309943
Elin

>>556311001
Oh fuck yeah this looks awesome, thanks

Should I replay another run of TLG or play bright nights?

>>556312138
is your room clean?

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christ, finally

I had to cave on doing all-new combos for each run. I got to the King with the drake god a few times but just couldn't make it happen. It was still dicey, here, but I made it.

Time for Skeleton.

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Fawdaa Projection build. It kites for you by teleporting all around the arena. Inuqqa damage scales by intentionally being overencumbered and freezing yourself. Armor from freeze stacks too.

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My build ideas are starting to become a bit unhinged in Achra. I've created a personal Iron Dome of sorts. Except it's made out of exploding corpses and it even uses renewable energy. The Cadaver Dome if you will.

>>556323260
>he hadn't taken the allysacrificepill yet
You're about to find out, son

>>556312138
wash your penis and then play bright nights

>>556311518
Never mind I forgot I don't have menu game autism

>Construct my own monowheel horse drawn chariot
>No petrol usage
>No food usage
Soo whats the drawback? Because this seems like a great way to get around without cargo.

>>556327729
>horse drawn
>No food usage
What kind of cddatardation is this?

>>556327965
Well i dont know i've only had the chariot for an hour and barely taken it for a ride.
Horses themselves in CLG dont consume any food unless you want them to have milk. NPCs dont comsume any either unless its a camp mission you assigned them.

>>556327729
It will attract zombies.

So uhh how is the Saurian not the most busted shit in Achra?
>what if we just made it so one of the three major skills is given to you for free
>but wait there's a catch
>we're ONLY gonna give also give you a poison ranged attack and pretty good resistances
lol. That shit would still be playable if it said something like
>start with 1/1 hp
>you can't increase it through leveling

>>556079923
i've started playing music, i made a lute. sometimes when i play it just aborts right after i start. at some point i'll be able to keep playing indefinitely, right?

i also got stoned to death in the Mysilia pub, very cool.

>>556327965
It grazes ok

I never got over the age old wisdom of, "learn to kill dudes, then not die to dudes". It's as ingrained in my brain as "just pick a top tier".

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>>556340614
>check archive
Nobody has ever said this
>ask grok
Says nobody has ever said this

Bros...
I'm NOT CRAZY. This is actually a Mandela effect right now.