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…
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…
When I heard we'd be playing a game called Three Sisters, a line immediately flashed into my head: Ta ra ra boom de yay, sit on a stone I may. This has nothing to do with the board game Three Sisters. It's a line from Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters, Act 4, though translations from the Russian…
Background and goals After the emotional train wreck of my previous evil playthrough, I wanted to do one that was light and bubbly — so I decided to play as the terminally ill character! For this playthrough, I added the goal of collecting all the teddy bears in the game. Partially because I need to give myself…
I join A, M, and J on most Friday nights for a game night, so my "last night" recap is normally typed on Saturday. I'm typing this on a Sunday. Am I a liar? Well, maybe. But not this time. We continued to play Emberleaf until 1AM, technically into Saturday. From a certain perspective, that game still…
In a post in which I wrote about problems I had running Baldur's Gate 3 on my Mac, I described a problem I had with running the program while also running VPN. I went through network traces and whatnot to try to track down the problem, with no success. Larian released Hotfix #34 for BG3 about a…
J couldn't make it last night, so we invited a different gamer whom we all knew. He and A shared the same first initial ("A", in case you hadn't guessed). So I'll refer to the original A as A0 and the other as A1. The game we played was Micro Moonshine. The players are running illegal liquor…
Minor spoilers follow. If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 before, you might want to consider not reading this post until after your first playthrough. This post records some notes I made during a conversation with Real Angela. Roughly half-way through the game, characters have the option to gain advanced powers. Of these powers, by far the…
We played Soul Raiders again last night. If you're interested, I strongly advise you to look at my write-up of our previous game. That essay has a much better presentation of the game than what I have here. This is the first time we've played the game in which we could not complete the chapter in a…
Well, here we are. When I was going through my first two playthroughs, I kept telling Bill that I would not do an evil playthrough because I don’t like them. But there is the option for “Dark Urge” as an origin character (still a Tav, but with a different storyline than the ones we’ve seen before) and…