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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • The problem is how few games make playing as a necromancer villain viable or even fun. Playing as a villain is usually just being a dick for absolutely no benefit, and almost no game lets you play a proper necromancer creating an army of the dead.

    The Pathfinder CRPGs (especially Wrath of the Righteous) are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head to do it right. You can turn the entire country into an undead hellscape, and even turn the good advisors into undead to ensure their loyalty rather than missing out on a bunch of content.









  • I’m getting flashbacks to Kangaxx in Baldur’s Gate 2. What do you mean I’m not supposed to fight the optional hidden boss right after completing the tutorial? I don’t care if four out of the six members of my party can’t even scratch him, I’m assembling and fighting that demilich the first second I can!

    It’s a self-inflicted hell that I put myself through every. Single. Time. Just like fighting the ancient red dragon Firkraag when he’s introduced instead of coming back much later as intended.




  • It’s all in how he communicates, not what. He’s an old-school con man, a confidence trickster. That whole style relies on the fact that people are really bad at judging character, and someone who lies with a straight face and never shows an iota of guilt will be believed to be innocent and truthful no matter what evidence is presented against them.

    Combine that with a heavy dose of sunk cost fallacy and an increasingly uneducated and desperate electorate, and it’s easy to see why many follow him despite his near complete lack of articulateness.