u/Lenin_Fink

Wtf Jaheira. Not that it wasn't hard enough defending Isobel when every time I cast sanctuary on her, instead of doing anything supportive, she straight up went and did her d4 melee attack on anything in reach...

No, Jaheira had to cast sleet of ice or smth stupid like that STRAIGHT UP ON MY PARTY DEFENDING ISOBEL. yk who the only people in the room with two feet on the ground were? MY PARTY

Guess who went prone every subsequent turn? My party. Good for Marcus, I guess.

Isobel gets abandonded, my party gets overrun by about twenty Harpers and Tieflings.

Jaheira survived. Since I was moderately pissed off, I tried to leave her behind. She becomes hostile and finishes my party off.

Thanks very much Jaheira. Next campaign I'll never enter the Inn.

Am a little too much into aesthetics and Shadowheart looks so good in it...

Used her as an OH Monk so far, but I'm open to completely respec. I also thought I wanted to go a bit towards Selunes Spear as well, but I simply can't figure out any builds around the two items that really make sense.

I currently lack an actual support character, I run my Light Cleric more akin to a very aggresive tank.

Does anybody have a good idea?

Cause in my current campaign, its the same stupid avatar cycle repetitively... Its always italian, followed by German, then French, then Italian again.

I turned a good piece of asia catholic but haven't seen a single pope from there.

Best I've had was my rulers grand uncle once, but he was mostly greek still.

I already tried murdering every new pope until one I like comes around, but to no avail so far. I have a feeling the game is randomly generating popes, as their memories are empty and even on console I can't find any connection...

Has got to be one of the biggest missed opportunities. Here comes a cleric of Lathander, absurdly devoted, and gets not just zero unique interactions within the monastery, its lore or its religion, but also has everything to become Dawnmaster themselves and has every reason to dispel with the Githyanki...

but zero interaction. Will have to headcanon all of it

I started about 100 campaigns and only brought three to the finale. I think I have exactly one campaign where I ended Gorsuch and Orin and still didn't have the finale.

I always ended up playing the same thing, some dex/charisma combo. Frankly I always like Magic/Wiz builds the most but I never really liked the gameplay of them. My fighter-officer soldier whatever Background was one of my favourites, but I never really felt like it clicked lore wise.

This is I think my main issue - nothing really ever felt fitting lore wise, my characters didn't really fit the party and their interactions didn't make too much sense. I really once tried to create an character that could vibe with Raphael since he was like one of my favourite antagonists, but the unique interactions were barely there at all.

What are the best/closest interactions in the game? How do I get the most flair? Should I go Selune Cleric for Shadowheart?

Thoughts about GRRM and (potentially) future books

This was originally intended to be comment on another sub but I deleted it on accident.

But I was'nt done with the thought and I feel the following are underrated points when (basedly) critizing GRRM.

The original pitch GRRM sent was for a fairly straight forward trilogy consisting out of three books:

A Game of Thrones, covering the Stark-Lannister War and the subsequent Westeros-internal conflicts, A Dance with Dragons solely rotating around another Targaryen Invasion, and Winds of Winter, dealing with the Invasion of the Others from the North.

GRRM only ever reluctantly added one book to the que everytime he released one (so in this case, at literally every book).

At this point in time, every book including ADWD has served finishing the War of the Five Kings and only begun to set up the follow-up plots for the Targaryen Invasion and the Others Invasion.

By a conservative judgement, I'd say were still about at least one booj of comparable volume to the last few away to even finish the westeros-internal conflicts and Daenerys is still fairly stuck far-away from the Westeros plot. Getting her to Westeros and finishing her arc there feels absolutely impossible even if more than 50 % of all chapters go to Danerys POV within a single book.

Lets shortly dive into theories: one of my favourites is that Littlefinger will sell Sansa to fAegon and he will go north with her, and Daenerys will land in the North and make Stannis and Jon kneel. Daenerys will do Dany things and promise Jon she'll deal with the Others and Stannis just accepts she has a just claim and for whatever reason Melisandre will go with it. Sansa will claim the north for fAegon, Jon for Daenerys, mayhaps Lannisters and Tyrells fuck each other up enough and GRRM sets up all the other Walker-related plots between that, but this is the main thing. Still about a hundred side plots not mentioned but you get the idea.

The benefit of that theory is that is a pretty neat resolution (too neat and short for grrm, but anyways) to the whole Targaryen plot and could happen within a book and its not too unrealistic in terms of chronology for it all to actually work out (fAegon deals with the Lannisters likely with Highgarden and Martell, meanwhile Danerys prepares her landing, Jon is revived and the whole northern conspiracy comes into play, boltons are dealt with, stannis and mance realize who jon is, meanwhike Daenerys lands, she and Jon show up, but oh no, Sansa is there by now!).

The issue are the hundred of side plots, Euron, Greyjoys, Martell among others. The story has been unbraided so far that even if GRRM delegates them all into non-POVs, its Impossible to rebraid them without causing a lot of damage to his own work. It is outright impossible to finish the books in two volumes. Cutting isn't an option anymore.

Frankly I'd say, its at least another four + the intended 2 books. GRRM has repeatedly been unable to take that fact and work with it. At every new book release, he has stupendiously said yeah haven't got it to the point i wanted it to end with, so just one more book, the rest will be complete.

With ADWD, he has officially failed his own pitch that he Postponed at every instance so far and has barely set up the content he wanted to see.

What has likely happened is that he wants to, not unlike the failed tv show, reverse the original order: he will want to deal with the Others Invasion first, then finish up Westeros in Dreams of Spring. But that will again lead to bloat and more and more sideplots while it is Impossible to tie up the current side plots.

I can't even imagine that an ai could based on the full notes, resolutions and complete access to GRRMs thoughts and intetions create a coherent resolution to this story. Best we could hope for is that someday another writer completes side-plot in standalone books based on and limited by GRRMs notes and plot-resolutions, which frankly also looks like the more appropriate medium at this point, given that GRRM is structuring POVs as a chained collection of short stories anyways.

tl;dr GRRM created a story that is Impossible to finish. Even if he released another main-book, this will be one of several that would be required. And at this point, it doesn't have any chance anymore. The best thing we can hope for is that GRRM swallows it at some point and releases a plain book summarizing his intentions, plot resolutions and overall story arcs and endings for his Characters, but abandons the failed medium of the books altogether

My current phone died after a 30cm drop and I think I'm done with flagship racing for the next few years.

I really like the aesthestic and the vibe of fairphone and I really don't have many requirements. I want 5G, WhatsApp, a browser and my notes app, I never used more anyways. I think the fairphone is capable of that. If the batteries survives 24 hours thats great too.

I like to go hiking and I also like having the physical weight of the phone, so its gonna end up in a thick case anyways.

However, I'm a little worried about practicality. The design seems counterintuitive and that physical shift button seems fairly limited in options, and as far as I understand, despite the modularity you can't upgrade the battery to like a battery+, so its "only" good for longetivity.

I would like a phone where I can really go all in in customization, settings and options. Do you think the fairphone works for me?

I checked every store around and none had the phone there. So I'll have to order it blind without testing it first if I go for it.