Originally Posted by Topgoon
Originally Posted by Grudgebearer
You are completely ignoring the fact that it's Larian's design choices that have made Sin Tee's solo runs possible. The fact that he is stacking all of them to accomplish the feat, has no bearing on the fact that it's Larian's decisions to deviate from the rules so sharply that his exploitations are even possible.

Sin Tee can't pull off what he does in those videos if Larian doesn't homebrew their own 5E rules and slap them on top of the DOS environmental/barrel/surface spam framework, and instead stays closer to 5E rules.

Larian's design choices are merely the current method employed by Sin Tee to solo this game.

It's impossible to prove that the game is not solo-able without this - but I'd put my money on him being able to do it. Especially considering that a closer adherence to the 5E Table Top will simply bring in half a decade of even better thought out cheese from the table top community. 5E is simply too ripe with explolits (i.e. people have come up with ways to solo a 30 CR Tiamat with a level 4 character)

As long as the game offers significant freedom, and there is no DM intervention to moderate meta-gaming, players will likely find a way to solo a single player D&D game. Even PF:KM unfair and IWD2 Heart of Winter Mode, where monster statistics are monstrously skewed, are solo-able.

Every run-through he has, he's exploiting Larian's poor design decisions, and deviations from actual 5E rules. Those systems don't exist to be exploited if Larian doesn't include them.

As to your "Level 4 Insta"kill" Tiamat Cheese", it's dead off the bat if you actually read the post "This is just a thought experiment and not a viable in a real game in any way whatsoever... However..." and then goes on to rely on Wait until you have a Natural 20 on Portent and another that is either Low or High. and Hopefully beat Tiamat on initiative (using the second Portent to help)

That's a far cry from Sin Tee putting multiple videos up of him using Larian's poor design decisions to solo run the game. At this point you just sound like an apologist TBH.

The fact that he's using every broken Larian homebrew rule to do this with a single character, has no bearing on the fact that their homebrew rules, are in fact, broken.

Last edited by Grudgebearer; 18/03/21 03:33 AM.