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Quote from: chaoticag on December 10, 2022, 08:40:25 am

Kitfox's community manager mentioned that they would be putting some financials up for the sake of being transparent later, but I am pretty much assuming that the numbers the brothers typically post in their monthly reports also is not after tax, then its split between two people, so it wasn't a whole lot of money despite it being a respectable amount.

I'd be interested in the source for that if you remember where it was posted.

Alexandra Orlando mentioned it in episode 4 of the beginner friendly dwarf fortress streams. I'm at work right now but I don't mind digging up a timestamp for it later

Kitfox's community manager mentioned that they would be putting some financials up for the sake of being transparent later, but I am pretty much assuming that the numbers the brothers typically post in their monthly reports also is not after tax, then its split between two people, so it wasn't a whole lot of money despite it being a respectable amount.

If you're noticing a huge change in the amount of time it takes to craft something the culprit is usually workshop clutter. Otherwise crafts seem to take low double digits ticks worth of effort. Generally optimizing logistics is where the time saving really is.

It may be a bug but I managed to get a spell on that wilderness dragon with 25 HD and 30 odd spell resistance.

Aaaand once I'm done with work I'll have to look if it really is on the alchemists spell book for some reason.

Turns out that spell resistance does work, I just managed to get it to work through sheer luck and ignorance.

Having been part of the beta I'm honestly shocked that the game is stable enough to soft lock some of the time instead of every time at least.

I couldn't get as far as Drezen since some bigger bugs were show stoppers earlier in the game for me, but the market square and Drezen maps were the buggiest spots in the game.

Also yeesh, I like the idea of the crusades mechanic, but it's taking a real long while to recruit troops and pyrric victories are too harsh of a set back. And unless I'm missing something the places you can rest to recover from corruption are really limited? I was hoping that at least the forts you take over protect you but either they don't or I'm missing something.

It's very... Pathfinder encounter design. It makes sense in the context of pathfinder to the pathfinder enjoyer, but pathfinder both 1e and 2e and d&d 5e all have their own idiosyncrasies. Resolving outcomes by a flat d20 has been such a big issue that Baldur's gate 3 defaults to an alternative resolution method that's more consistent.

One quality of life feature I would kill for though is percent chance to hit/save/spell penetrate over enemies. I can calculate these by hand but I don't want to feel I have to.

I'll probably try and make a buff casting guide a little later. As for protective luck, later on you can get cackle. Cast protective luck, then cackle, then cast evil eye, then cackle. Bind it to a hot key and you can press it over and over each turn to keep yourself buffed and your enemy debuffed, and you keep your standard action. No idea about the game but the FAQ for pathfinder clarifies you can keep applying different debuffs on the same creature using evil eye, and cackle adds one extra round to the duration, but they should be dead soon I hope

Yes, it's a sword saint magus.

I can't believe I forgot to add this but always cast touch of fatigue on your sword

I've not really been going through a laundry list of buffs here and I've just finished Dresen's liberation. I have the animal enhancements on hand, but since they conflict with head and belt bonuses I'm liable to drop them and they provide a +1 bonus most the time which I can ignore. Protection from alignment conflicts with rings of protection and cloaks of resistance. Seelah can also spend a spell to give everyone her immunity to fear for almost an hour at this point. Delay poison isn't really always on for me since I can't count on everything I fight to have poison. I pop it when something poison vulnerable comes along so I can hit it with stinking cloud or if someone shows as saving against poison in the log. Your millage may vary since I've crafted some lesser restoration potions.

Haste is good, but it's so good I don't mind waiting and seeing to cast it in a fight. Enlarge person is fine, it gives a size bonus but it's not make or break often. I tossed it at Lann early on for the damage. I have greater invisibility because it's invaluable for hitting flat footed creatures. It goes on in the middle of a tough fight and the concealment is a bonus. Prayer also goes on during a fight. Maybe it's because I'm playing turn based here, but it makes more sense to me to cast these in combat than to try and wring out action economy on your casters.

Am I missing anything here?