darkmario777

DEDEDE HE'S THE KING OF THE SHOW

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@DarkSalxm Staraptor remains the GOAT

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@Figment_Jedi @1bridgeyboo @Diegtwoof18 Just checked Japan website, they hurl sliding blocks, referencing their Super Star attacks and their original game’s block pushing gameplay - starting small and then tossing a large one. Looks like the blocks autotarget the first potential person on the track ahead?

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@Figment_Jedi @1bridgeyboo @Diegtwoof18 Yeah, and their role in Kirby’s Dream Land/Super Star was as a cameo from their series more than anything else.

As such, the main place where they had any Kirby-specific lore was during Right Back At Ya as a result. Neat stuff!

(I do wonder what their special pulls from?)

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@1bridgeyboo @Diegtwoof18 eating my crumbs of characters who had slightly more relevance in the anime than the series. Looking at you lololo and lalala

Plus the “these are the last riders we will show you” leaves hope that there might be a secret or two stowed away

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@1bridgeyboo This does a great job of capturing the Kirby 64 look for her in a way I feel that her Star Allies appearance doesn’t exactly match, especially the top right and bottom left poses/expressions. Fantastic work!

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@1bridgeyboo Nah the anime is great! I especially see a lot of people deriding Dedede’s characterization but honestly it makes a decent bit of sense for the era of games the anime mostly pulls from (read: Kirby’s Adventure)

and also insert two cakes image here with game and anime dedede.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai @DomHeroEllis Thoughts on AOE abilities? They seem particularly nasty in this case, since they can potentially and likely clear out a high-level spell’s worth of summoned thralls at once, also alerting the enemy to their frailty relatively quick.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai For this reason, Conceal Spell is probably one of their more useful tools, thanks to the fact it can mask their setup for a bit. However, having a general casting feat be an unusually powerful option in a sea of More Focus Spells is… not personally interesting design-wise.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai Perhaps, but I feel like that also changes over the course of the fight. Once they attack and discover the thralls are wafer-thin in terms of defense, alongside that the necromancer presumably creates more right after, they’re probably gunning for the maker in less than a turn.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai For one, this class has no support for the creation of longer-term undead minions, or even ways to bolster summon monster or obtain an undead companion - combined with a 2-slot per rank casting array, and it feels like the classic necromancer experience exists better elsewhere.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai What makes this go from great to okay to bad in my opinion is that the class has too many options vying for Focus Points, too little regeneration for them (even with the thrall consume) and also doesn’t particularly jive with the methodical idea of the Golarion necromancer.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@TiredActor I’ll give it a shot. A-5AM?

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@tentakrool @mformultiverse He survived in my run and his jailers were killed, but he lost an arm and is the lone being now trapped within that wing of Runeforge. Fortunately the water mephits from the greed wing keep him company, and none of the remaining wings have any interest in doing him harm.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@NSeanchai Not to mention that summons themselves can be powerful buff tools - a protoceratops makes for a mean extra AC buff to a bunched-up Level 5 party and provides some free damage mitigation while also being a decently solid offensive threat for its level.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@Fenrirs_Chosen Seems they’ve still been bugfixing on the Pathfinder Discord, and they announced the end of the first theme contest, so I think their radio silence is more of an attempt to dial back from the response that the Player Core delay got.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@paizo The nastiest PC death I’ve inflicted would go to a drow summoner in a 1e party of mine, who cleared out most of an encounter with wizard simulacra only for them to desperately start using phantasmal killer. On the last possible spell he had to save against, he rolled two nat 1s…

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@paizo One of my Pathfinder 1e players was playing a human inquisitor of Milani chasing a wild, angry boar. He caught it only for it to proceed to charge crit him and knock him down in one hit… while nobody else nearby had healing available. He died, but came back with a corruption.

[darkmario777 @darkmario7771]

@paizo In Starfinder, I played a witchwarper witchwyrd who died facing what was either a scorpion-tailed undead or bone devil. Can’t remember specifics, but he failed to use his defensive spells property and got pinned to the floor by the tail through his chest. He died, but got better.