BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Five

Current build Seriously, I had no idea there would be a fifth essay in this series. I even joked about that last time. However, here we are! I'll restate my goal: I'm trying to create the best build I can given the role-playing picture I have of Druid Angela: an Arctic Druid, wielding two staffs, who might…

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Dispatch

I make no secret of my fondness for Telltale-style video games. That is, I like episodic story-telling narrative games with branching outcomes depending on the choices you make. Dispatch is a game from AdHoc Studio. It was developed, at least in part, by people who formerly worked at Telltale. It has the features I like about this…

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Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2

I've procrastinated on completing my playthrough 15 of Baldur's Gate 3. The reason isn't obvious. I'll get into it in a future post. One of my procrastination tools is playing through some of the original BG games: Baldur's Gate (1998), Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000), and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (2001). I'll refer…

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BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Three

Let's take our minds off of Armor Class and Spell Save DC with a story. The events and images are a blend of my most successful Balanced-mode test and the Tactician-mode tests, as I describe in my previous post. A story If something illegal happens within sight of a witness (and there were plenty of civilian witnesses…

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BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Two

This post is a follow-up to my previous post on recreating the character of Arctic Druid Angela. If you're like Guard Wulf and are bored by system stuff, skip ahead to my next post, in which I tell a story using pictures. Originally I wrote this essay and the pictorial as a single post. It got a…

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BG3 – You too can play Arctic Druid Angela

Warning If you're tired of my continual references to Arctic Druid Angela, well, too bad. This post is neither a culmination, catharsis, nor an intended ending to her story. On the other hand, if you're curious about what the fuss is about, you're in the right place! Context When I write up playthrough 15 of Baldur's Gate…

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APA Scans

This post is a follow-up on my earlier blog post on my collection of old amateur magazines (APAs). Thanks to the efforts of a librarian friend of mine, the APAs have been scanned. I've set up a separate page on this site with links to those scans. I won't claim the collection is complete (it's not) nor…

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