u/der_kluge

I'm wrapping up my 5e campaign after almost 2 years, and so I'm thinking this could be a good time to switch over to Nimble. I have the 1.0 PDF from the kickstarter - just anxiously awaiting those books when they're finally released.

But I'd like to maybe run a one-shot with the Nimble rules to let my players get a feel for the ruleset. Are they pregens available somewhere, and also a simple one-shot scenario that might illustrate some of the rules? I can also run some random Dungeon module that I like, but just curious if there's an actual Nimble module available for that purpose?

I wanted to put together a bit of a guide for players of this game. If you plan on playing to "end game" (whatever that actually is) there are pitfalls you want to avoid.

I've grinded this game for over 2.5 years. And by grinded, I mean, played every day and spent hours in the game every day.

I've completed ALL research. All of my cookies are level 100. All of my cookie candy is at least level 20. I have all the special cookies at 5* promotion. Every cookie has a fully attuned, max-level Legendary Beascuit (many of them more than one). I'm in the top 1200 players by prosperity score. I've 3-starred 100% of Beast Yeast levels.

That's tip #1 - play a LOT. If you really want to maximize the amount of resources you get, you have to do EVERYTHING. Do all the tasks, keep your resources high - constantly build stuff. Expand your storage. Do the mining expeditions. Ship out the boats. Send out the trains. All of it. All the time. If your hot-air balloon, or your mine carts, or your trains, or your boats are idle, you're not maximizing things.

Tip #2 - Don't invest in cookies that aren't worth it. I would recommend not promotion cookie level or skill for common and rare cookies beyond level 40. After that, they require premium resources, and that's far too valuable to waste. There's also a plethora of Epic cookies Familiarize yourself with cookie tier lists. Prophet, Carol, Fig, Moon Rabbit, Olive, Werewolf, Eclair, and a whole bunch of others NEVER get used. You could choose not to invest in these and it would mean resources you can devote to cookies that actually matter.

Tip #3 - Certain resources are very rare. Legendary Essences (the shiny blue crystals) are required to take an Epic cookie to 5*, and legendary, Witch, special and Dragon cookies require many more of these for promotions as well. There exists a kind of "wall" in this game where you'll stop having enough of these to do promotions. I would recommend buying them in any shop when you can. A lot of these cookies will promote at the same time. And I spent months trying to acquire as much of these as I could to promote everything. At one time, I had about 8-9 cookies waiting for promotions. The best way to get these is to farm Master Story levels that drop Cookie soulcores. The rates aren't high, but if you're following tip #1 - you'll get a lot of attempts per day.

Tip #4 - Cookie candy crystals are also similarly rare. Don't do what I did - I promoted all of my candy cookies to level 20 candy. Impressive, sure, but now I don't have enough purple crystals to promote Frost Queen to 30. So, while it might feel like there's an abundance of these crystals, taking the Legendary cookies to level 30 sucks up a LOT of these crystals. Use your judgement here.

Anyway, those are my tips. There's a bunch of other stuff I could add, but this would get very long. Feel free to AMA.