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It’s not just that they are all wrong, it’s that they all say the same thing, so clearly the problem is with my specific game, but how can that possibly be?

Like, in the book, they mostly split up Experiences into five categories (which I know is just a suggestion and not a hard and fast ruling, but it’s still a good frame of reference for teaching a new player how Experiences work).

Those five categories given in the book are Backgrounds, Characteristics, Skills, Specialties, and Phrases.

Skills and Specialties are the only ones that have any real overlap for me, so I’m curious how you guys differentiate between the two.

Like, don’t get me wrong, he was always a bad guy, but he was incredibly petty and lowstakes in Jak 2. Yeah, he was Baron Praxis’ right hand man, but that weirdly never really came up in the story. His main source of antagonism towards Jak was very… high-school bully. Over-competitiveness and courting Keira purely to spite Jak. None of that makes Errol a bad character, mind you, it just makes him a very specific kind of villain, and he fulfilled that role perfectly fine in Jak 2.

Fast forward to Jak 3… and he’s now an omnicidal maniac who wants to destroy the world because… fuck Jak, I guess? Man took being Jak’s hater to an absolutely insane degree.

I think the craziest thing is that there’s just no transitional period between one and the other. One minute he’s ’I’m going to beat you at this race and prove I’m better’ and the next he’s a cackling madman gleefully ranting about Armageddon.

Guess an explosion to the face really changes a guy.

Jak X’s story: This character is your rival for this Cup, they will be your most dangerous opponent on the track and the racer you should worry about the most…

Jak X’s gameplay: ASHELIN, WE ARE ON THE SAME FUCKING TEAM!!! ENOUGH WITH THE PEACE MAKERS!!!

Like, say what you want about the gameplay or the empty hub-worlds, is there anyone like me who actually really got into the Initiative, the Kett, the Remnant, the Ryder family drama, the other Pathfinders, etc?

I don’t know, even though it feels like we’re finally at the point where Mass Effect fans are coming around and admitting that Andromeda was not that bad of a game, it still feels like even the people who acknowledge that still feel the need to take the piss out of the story, when I actually thought the story was one of the better parts of the game. Or is that just me?

Completely ignoring all talk of gameplay or quality, this is purely a lore question, but is there any lore reason stated in the game why lombaxes are suddenly all over the place?

(I just finished replaying the quadrilogy so I got Sly on the brain and making it everyone’s problem)

I’ll go first. I definitely ascribe to the headcanon that Henriette is Rioichi’s daughter, and that her birth name is Hanabi Cooper before she changed it after moving to the Caribbean.

Bruce O’Coop was Connor Cooper’s cousin and the original ‘brains’ of his Cooper Gang until Clockwerk got to him, forcing Connor to recruit outside the family and ending up with Dr M. Probably goes a way to explain why Connor was so distant to Dr M. He was still mourning his cousin.

Given the timeline, it just makes sense to me if Otto Van Cooper is Sly’s actual grandfather.

Sir Augustine Cooper is actually one of the more ‘modern’ knights who received the honorific during the industrial age.

Colonel Reid Cooper is a defector. He was deployed to the Australian Frontier War but ended up abandoning his post when he realized the whole war was an excuse to colonize indigenous Australia. He ended up joining with local resistance against his former unit. The whole reason I concocted this convoluted backstory is because he’s the Cooper who developed the Time Stopper technique… which Murray also knows via his Dreamtime training with the Guru. So I like to imagine Reid learned the technique from another Dreamtime Guru, maybe even the Guru’s ancestor.

When I was a little, little kid, I mean three or four years young, my older brother was big into D&D and, like most big brothers, he wanted to share one of his favorite things with me, give us something to bond over. Course, young as I was, he knew that I would not be able to really ‘get’ D&D, so he compromised by literally just… playing pretend with me in our living room, but every once in a while, he’d have me roll a d6 whenever I wanted to do something hard. Fight a bad guy, climb a wall, sail a boat, etc. If I rolled a 4 or higher, I did whatever I wanted to do. It was literally baby’s first LARP, and I’m actually using the term ‘literally’ correctly for once.

And I remember having an absolute blast with that, and I think it’s because it was the first time I really learned that you can ‘fail’ in a game but still have fun, which is always a good lesson for a child to have. Because whenever I rolled lower than a 4, he still managed to keep it about the story and made it so that, no matter how badly I rolled, the story kept going, which I’m only just now kinda realizing I internalized hard into my own DMing style, years later.

Anyway, I’ve been introducing him to Daggerheart off and on, and it just reminded me of that memory. I love my brother, and I hope I get to continue playing games with him for a long, long time.

I managed to find one for armor and weapons, so finding the same for consumables and loot would really help. I know the book says like 1-5 handfuls for Tier 1 equipment, but A, I’m looking for exact pricing, even if it’s only a houserule, not ranges. And B, that specifically refers to armor and weapons, but I’m looking for consumables and loot.

Y’know, as opposed to a minigame boss like Clockwerk and Clock-La or literally just a QTE section with Paradox.

Not really complaining, mind you, I still like the Clockwerk and Clock-La boss fights, I just thought it was a bit of an interesting observation that Dr M is the only one you actually straight up fight, mano e mano.