Thanks to Wizards of the Coast’s insane release schedule we are only three months into the year and there are already two sets out with a third coming in April. To be honest neither of the two sets released so far this year interested me that much. The first set Lorwyn Eclipsed left me entirely cold. I have no interest in the plane. I’ve no interest in it’s aesthetics. I did pick up the Auntie Ool -1/-1 counters precon deck. I like counter decks and I hadn’t played with a -1/-1 deck before. But after seeing it played at Commander night I went off the idea entirely. It looks just fucking annoying to play against and I don’t really want to inflict that on people. Other than that deck I only bought a few singles, around eight or nine, to update my existing decks. None of the other legendaries really make me want to build a deck around them.
Read MoreCategory: game/play
This is probably going to consist mostly of me whinging about whatever rpg’s Im currently running, playing in or planning to run. Though conceptually its meant to cover all aspects of gaming which I indulge in. So we’ll see how it goes.
Best of 2024 – Videogames
In terms of gaming this year was outside my expectations. At the beginning of the year there was a decent list of games that I was hotly anticipating e.g. Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Persona 3 Reload, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Black Myth Wukong, Final Fantasy 16’s PC Port, Metaphor Refantazio, etc. However, not only did I not play any of those games I didn’t even buy any of them (if you are thinking, “No shit, why would you buy a game you weren’t going to play straight away?” then congratulations on not having a Steam library). Instead the majority of my gaming time was spent on playing new content for older games I owned or getting absorbed in new indie games that hadn’t even been on my radar.
Read MoreA few thoughts on the survival game genre
I’ve been Goldilocksing my way through survival games and I think perhaps the genre is not for me. Subnautica is about the only one I enjoyed. I think my main problem with the genre is a problem with the central drive of the games, the survival.
Continue ReadingDisco Elysium – My Brief Thoughts
I finished Disco Elysium yesterday and wanted to have a bit of a think about it before putting my pen to paper as it were. I’ve tried to keep it brief but in the interest of even further brevity. It’s very good but has some big flaws. I’d very much recommend checking it out.
CONTINUE READINg…Devil May Cry 5 – My Brief Thoughts
Well its been nearly a year to the day since I posted anything on my blog. I don’t really have anything to say but I might as well get some use out of it and my brief thoughts upon completing Devil May Cry 5 are a bit long for twitter. So here we are.
CONTINUE READINg…Hexcrawl High: Adventurus Interrptus
Only the strongest of campaigns can weather the storm of Christmas and New Year breaks and sadly mine ran aground on the jagged rocks of too long a break and D&D fatigue. Which is a pity as I think the lost city the PC’s were about to reach would have been pretty fun. Continue reading…
Hexcrawl High: I’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the sky
Well it seems that the campaign will stagger on for a bit longer yet. Which is good as the plan for this weeks session didn’t really coalesce as planned. But what can one do when a random dragon shows up? Continue reading…
Hexcrawl High: Lost a friend but kept his memory
Well its been three weeks or so since my last post and we’ve managed to run two more sessions during that time. As it turned out I didn’t really need to worry about the kingdom building rules as the players have yet to properly engage with them. That should hopefully take place during this weeks session which barring misfortune will be on Thursday night. Continue reading…
Hexcrawl High: John Denver didn’t sing any songs about kingdom building mechanics
So we started the current campaign back in the first week of September. In the nine weeks since we’ve had six sessions. Which is probably pretty good considering the general scheduling complications endemic to adult roleplaying i.e. roleplaying games played by adults not sexy times pretending you’re a broken down car and your girlfriend is pervasive rust. Anyhow, in the last session the players hit level five and thus entered what D&D 5th edition loosely considers “Tier 2”. Continue reading…
Hexcrawl High: They say that he got crazy once
Well it’s been a month since I last posted about the D&D campaign I’m currently playing. In that month we had two more sessions and then unfortunately the archenemy of adult hobbies, scheduling, reared its ugly head. But we’re resuming play this Thursday. Assuming we can play regularly then I think by the end of October we may be ready to transition to the “second stage” of the campaign I had planned. But now I’m not sure if we will. Continue reading…