Incognito wrote: Yes, but this is a design problem with the game.
The difficulty levels. The way runs are organized. The way tickets are sold.
Telling veteran players who have spent lots on tokens to just "suck it up" and to sacrifice their own enjoyment on behalf of the newbies - that is not a very satisfying mentality, which is the direction you and Kirk seem to be trending towards....
I guess I am just damned if I do... and damned if I don’t. I am 99.99% certain I am the monk who apparently ruined your run... and I take offense at what you “remembered” about what happened, even rewriting history a bit.
First, I did that run at least six times to ensure solving the puzzles, and one puzzle I finally solved on my third run and one of the others on my fifth run. I guess I am just stupid... not able to solve the puzzles the first time.
I did my best to help the party out... I feel I didn’t spoil the puzzles I had already solved and only helped out on those puzzles when asked. I would rather take the push damage than spoil the puzzle.
In the giant room, my recollection is only one player died (not two) and the Paladin sacrificed to save him... not two deaths (but I may be mistaken on that accord). Else how did we rez the other dead player? I don’t remember any mushrooms or potions of death’s door being used.
The complaint about my over powered tokens? Didn’t the entire party benefit? I carry ten charms of Avarice, ten Ioun Stones of the Silver Nugget, and ten Charms of Awakened Synergy. I thought I let everyone decide whether or not they wanted to borrow those tokens... which everyone did... giving everyone 18 treasure tokens instead of ony 3. Plus ten more hp and ten on our initiative rolls. How many more would have died in said giant battle without those ten more hp?
I thought you and the others were grateful... unlike some people, I won’t accept “tribute” or “tax” in lending them (some demand half the treasure pulls back for themselves from everyone who borrowed them).... giving essentially SIX TIMES the treasure pulls. Do you even know what those tokens you borrowed were worth? A CoA sells for $1400 quickly... times ten is fourteen thousand dollars! Plus another thousand for the 10 Ioun Stones, and $400 each for the charms of Awakened Synergy each totals $19,000. I am truly sorry you feel I was too over powered and should not have used the tokens I legitimately obtained.
Yes, I am heavily invested in the game... I love it, one of my few releases to decompress from my busy and stressful life (I even fly up from Buenos Aires, Argentina to play!).
I feel I didn’t push Nightmare, only said with what everyone had we could do hardcore and I didn’t push after the first player said they wanted normal.
I am sorry to have ruined your run... but if I hadn’t taken out the giant and we had deaths already, maybe a TPK might have occurred, making it so you wouldn’t see the last two rooms, but we will never know now, will we?
I feel that I didn’t force the lending of the tokens on you, but if you feel I did, I am truly and honestly sorry.
I guess I will just never offer to lend my treasure enhancers again... and just shut up and stay quiet in the corner, pulling my punches, letting the newbies and you take out the monsters. It is the puzzles that I really enjoy trying to solve! Which True Grind has none of!
I paid the same amount of money you paid to play that run... but now you feel I shouldn’t play? I do get a bit Intense... usually dress up a bit and try to add some role-play to the game. You feel I shouldn’t use the tokens I have transmuted or pulled from the treasure box? I tried to buy out all ten tickets to more runs so this wouldn’t happen, but unfortunately between myself, my brother, and two sons, we only were able to purchase a single run completely so we had to do “pickup games” instead.
Again, I am sorry you feel I ruined the “casual players” run... I am glad you brought this up... I thought I was a good ambassador for the game, helping out players. But now I see from your concerned comments and the other experienced players comments that that is not the case. It was not my intent to spoil anything.
So, in order to not ruin other people’s experiences, I hereby commit to never lend my tokens to others ever again, to stay my hand in combat if I am “over powered”, and sit in the corner in puzzle rooms I have already solved not letting out even a peep to ensure I don’t ruin the puzzle for others. This goes for all my tokens, not just the TE’s..
It will be nice to get some cash out of my tokens... I guess I only need a single CoA for myself... I know I can get at least $17,000 for the nine CoA’s, nine ISSN’s, and nine CoAS’s.
Again, I am truly sorry for ruining your’s and your friends’ experience on this run... that honestly was not my intent. Like I said at the beginning, I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I don’t... I just can’t win.
I am very disillusioned seeing how many other people agree with you saying I should cripple myself and not participate fully. I thought I was doing good in making the game fun for others, but now see I was dead wrong, doing the exact opposite.