BG3 – You can be Arctic Druid Angela too Four
Honestly, I had not intended this to be a four-part essay. When I wrote the first post on Arctic Druid's Angela's specs in Baldur's Gate 3, I thought I was done. The
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last Night’s Game – Three Sisters, 3 Chapters
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…
Last Night’s Game – Emberleaf
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…
BG3 – A fix for VPN on my Mac
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…
Last Night’s Game – Micro Moonshine
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…
BG3 – Alternatives to Fly
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…
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