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modding is great when it fixes mistakes never fixed by the original devs. especially Kotor has a ton a fixes and restored content. Playing games as intended on release is great if the product you got was actually finished, and sadly we just dont have that happen enough in the industry

I finished kotor 2 moded few weeks ago but only with the restored content and what you said is true, I am now wondering how the game looked like without it and now there is no reason for me to replay it, with just less staff in it.. I really liked the game though, grey early and Dark Side mid and late game was really interesting to me it had force psychology done really well I spent long minutes for some choices and wanted to comeback to see other reactions to other responses. Thank you for the video, I will use it for my moded Kotor 1 playthrough!

LET'S HEAR IT FOR COMMAND AND CONQUER MODDING!! <3 That was my intro into modding and going further into Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, excellent games to get into modding for - not just installing and playing them but also making them. If you haven't done so, you really should go play the Mental Omega modification for Yuri's Revenge. It might as well be a whole new RA2.5 with a bunch of advanced features. As for modding broadly, I do find it's a great way to breath life into games you've already experienced a great deal of. There's also a sort of "is this a good game to speedrun?" element to it where some games are more suited to modding than others, with more sandbox-style games generally being better suited to it. You mentioned Bethesda games but also games like Rimworld and Minecraft have very lively modding communities. Difficulty of modding and overall popularity play a role in that but that doesn't tell the whole story. I've found that the more games I try mods with, the more I've gotten a sense for when a game has room for mods and when less is more.

Great video, enjoyed the focus on the niche KOTOR mod community.

Yeah, the wild attempts to classify video games bother me. Marketers seem pretty free in the terms they use, and we tend to just go with it. Terms like "RPG" mean very little and related mechanics appear everywhere. I think the industry could do with some standards in that regard.

Kotor is a wonderful game. I play it every few years.

Well, it's no secret that I love Morrowind mods, and I've played with a few Diablo 2 mods (Median anyone? It's been a LONG time). I think they work best when the underlying game is solid and the mods add content or bring the game up to today's standard in terms of quality of life.

I THOUGHT THAT SAID 'MAKE A WISH' AT FIRST AND I GOT CONSERNED

It's the classic "poor table communication" problem. The players think they're playing a game about building characters, the GM thinks he's playing a game to tell a specific story. The GM needs to communicate intentions and adjust to taste. If you do that appropriately, anything can work. I think it would be fun to allow characters to die and turn into various types of Undead. Maybe the quest is to cure it, or to learn to survive in that form. Etc. I remember a campaign called Ghostwalk that I never ran for 3.5 that looked cool in this regard.

This is kinda like needing too much money to date well.

"I'm going to go and do something else for forty five minutes while my ship travels" is pretty much the reality of space travel... aside from multiple orders of magnitude more merciful xD

I'm not sure I'd count "turned to stone" as "unharmed" or even "alive"

Sorry about the poor audio quality on Alex's line on this one, not sure why/how that happened, but will doubly check to make sure it's fixed for next weeks show (s) - (we record these in batches of 3 so this ones gonna hurt)

How does a game master even DO this without planning it in advance and already having a solution?!

A group of vengeance paladins with war domain clerics come by to hunt a group of demons that are causing chaos in the region. They talk to the one player and turn the party back with greater restoration because they can help them with the hunt. They leave the rest of town turned to stone as they do not have enough spell slots and can't save everyone. They tell you to join them at their local fort if you now seek vengeance for the greater good. New quest and the fort is their new town. Vengeance arc is starting...

They shouldn’t have written themselves into this corner without an exit plan. The DM chose how to interpret the wish. Why choose an interpretation that they can’t handle?

Wave the save vs death of course, the deal was alive and unharmed, so them dying to it makes no sense. I think what i would do is work with the remaining player between sessions to figiure out what they are doing. Minimal rules or anything, just lay out the broad strokes of what they do and the adventure, or adventures, they go on to restore their freinds. Thwn, next session starts with a time skip, the party was frozen for weeks, month, maybe years, and they are restored by the now grizled partymember that wasnt, who has finally restored them through great effort. The party member might have a couple levels to show for all that they went through, maybe a scar or two. This would also be a great place for a new pc to come in as someone that the lone party member met and teamed up with.

The wish was for them to be "alive and unharmed" so I'd waive the save vs death. I'll would ask for the survivor adventurer to tell how he would solve this, and the next session would start with him having just done that and rescuing his companions, so this way there's no play time lost with all of them unable to play.

3.5 and 3e are both third edition, one is just the revised third edition rules. 3.5 had a lot more books and years than before the revision, and most of the changes were small simplifications or only clarifying wording or describing the same mechanics more clearly. There's just not as much to say about pre-revision third edition.

Easier answer: Deck Of Many Things. Undo the fate. Just stack the deck for the players, and dont tell them. Easy out.

I agree with all of this! Personally not a fan of the background music with this video but I did sub!

Just experienced this in Superliminal. Great short game, especially if you’re high

people with busy lives or jobs.. -GEWT em GET em tell em. People who been playing hella games and variety and value content rich and mlg content. - Tell em, Tell em if you aint FGC,niooh or doom you asint worth 100 hours

I personally prefer shorter games. 20 hours is usually the most I want to spend on most games. There are some exceptions. But most super long games are like long TV series. Full of unnecessary bloat. Some of the best games I've ever played were 5 hours or less even

Too much whelm will do that.

Dredge was great - not too long (though not as short as Exit 8) but very high quality. It does exactly what it wants to do.

So part of the reason I tend to GM in tabletop games is that I like playing villains over heroes. They're a good medium for exploring subjects like fear and it's effects, and how otherwise good people are twisted to do terrible things. Heroes are just less interesting to me, but I do think that part of creating an interesting character is adding depth. Show how they could have been a villain, but didn't follow that path. Give them motivations that are easier to achieve through nefarious means. Tempt them. I think that helps.

its true that short games can be good but the problem is you spend like an hour or two on them when they have a decent chance on being overpriced

You can still only sneak attack once per turn but if rogue takes sentinel or makes opportunity attack and had attacked with vex weapon could then attack with advantage on the reaction on the other creatures turn thus adding speak attack on its turn

I think mods are kind of like those “seen on TV” products. Some people scratch their head and think “who the heck would need that?” And others think “oh my god, my life will change for the better.” I think it really doesn’t matter that mods exist or break games, it just matters if it can give people a chance to have fun or be challenged or be engaged. Like basically what do people get out of it? Anyways, great podcast, you guys sound exactly the same to me and that’s funny to me.

green hell is probably one of the easiest survival games ive played

These guys look knackered

Green Hell got every minute of my play time for about 3-4 weeks. Was a great time

I'm very off and on about mods. I love them for games where I really, really want more and nothing else is being made. Morrowind's a good example. Tamriel Rebuilt and similar projects are just amazing.

Is this original content or just another ai/copy cat content mill? Because the great production quality and editing dont match with the sub amount :/

The Long Dark is similar to Gree hell in the extreme survival genre. Long Dark isnt as complex but with its own twist of being in extreme cold conditions. Requiring the maintenance of food, water and heat. Beautiful art style, good story, and slow pace methodical game play

Ive heard bits about this game before but never really looked into it until watching this video. You inspired me to give it a chance and i actually bought it before the video even ended lol

I like the idea of "claimed" property. Maybe the world is a ruin (post-apocalyptic), or the land is uninhabited (unsettled world). Maybe the borders are a little fuzzy and your neighbors want to "share"? What about a post-apocalyptic downtown area where you can claim an old commercial building and maybe even run a new business out of it?

I've never cared for this trope - the idea of "fate" and "destiny" always feel wrong. It can be done well - see Star Wars wherein Anakin is the chosen one, but it isn't necessarily *good*. That said, I don't think I would use it in a tabletop game. If a player wanted to be "chosen" for something, I'd probably tell them about a prophecy and give them the opportunity to fulfill it, but I wouldn't force it at all. And I would limit the scope so the other players have similarly important tasks if desired.

Shamanism is more like a fantasy Druid that a Druid actually would be. From all around the world collecting lore Shamans are responsible for: . Community leadership . Divination . Connection with spirits and the spiritual realm . Said to predict the weather and sometimes even can control it . Detection of Poisons & Disease with the ability to cure Poisons & Disease . Removal of Curses . Morphing into animals or a hybrid of man & beast . Healing, physical; mental; emotional; spiritual . The ability to bless harvests or call upon the Gods to bless a harvest . The ability to communicate with Gods . The ability to control elements as they exist in their natural state (not creating them from no where) . Communicating with nature, plants; animals, etc . Request aid from nature, usually in the form of animals . Some can even perform Curses . Shamans make a variety of items that can be beneficial to someone -- Alchemy, trinkets, fetishes, totems, talismans, luck charms, etc Honestly, I have no idea who Astrology and Plant Medicine became what we know as the Druid today. All-in-all, we should drop the Druid for the far superior, and more wide spread throughout the world in both history & lore Shaman.

At home in front of my computer is a good place to be stranded. 😂

A prehistoric wizard, instead of having a spellbook, their familiar (maybe more than one?) whispers their daily spells to them as they sleep and must make alliances with spirits and arcane creatures that will cast spells for him or loan him specific abilities and powers. Sort of warlocky I know, but the idea is each spirit only gives you one spell so it's not as intense a relationship as a warlock and their patron. Hell if a GM wanted to, you could get into how the two groups split with the invention of writing.

Thumbs up for the thumbnail image alone.

Woah, what a cool topic!

conjure animals - having control over animals would fit very well to a stoneage magicuser plant growth - again having a connection to nature would fit the theme cloud kill, fog cloud and similar spells: Could be achieved by magic, but could also be some natural incrediants combined bythe shaman to create the clouds commune - this one would be my idea for the shaman talking to the spirits

Shaman would be the catch all for spellcasters. And the knowledge of it would be less advanced than the usual d&d setting

Shamen are Druids.

I kinda see two ways to go about it, and maybe two different classes or 2 halves of the progression of the shaman class. 1 way or the first half is the natural phenomena - its very clever and there's tons of interesting things in nature that we take for granted that would spook a caveman. You'd have to be more strict with materials for the spells ofc. But stuff like using kindling and flint to create fire, medicinal herbs to create healing magic and even "illusions" with smoke and echoes. This would represent the lower end of the magic in the setting or the magic that wizaard-analogues have access to. The 2nd half is the scary nasty stuff where you're calling on the power of actual gods, demons and primordials to give you power. Conan style "Magic is inherently corrupting and evil", and the rare few shamans who wield this true power are terrifying legends of the pre-historic. So this would be the 2nd half of the magic progression where a player stumbled into some dark altar or something, or a warlock-analogue where they were contacted by some outer god. Of course there's always the Dragonlance idea of having there being clerics in the setting but no "true" clerics. So the player begins as a regular shaman pulling his medicine man thing while worshiping a silent god, then once he reaches a certain level or milestone, the god lends them their aid in recognition of their fealty, giving them real miracles and cleric spells. So that's a third class or third split for the Shaman.

You'll need a stoneage artificer to make a bow or a boomerang

1. magic pebbles 2. conjure spark 3. summon grug Grugmancery yes please. All dice should be knucklebones. Healing is a combination of rubbing "magical" dirt and spit on a wound.