I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with Actual Sabrina for a few weeks now. I've labeled this "playthrough 1/16": Her first playthrough, and my sixteenth. She's new to video games, and to the "Gygaxian" rules systems associated with both BG3 and D&D. To help her out, I pointed her to the "rules tangents" I included in some…
Last night (to be accurate, yesterday afternoon), A, M, and I played the second half of Chapter 2 of Soul Raiders. In that earlier post, I predicted that we were going to lose the game. Unfortunately, that prediction proved accurate. We came close to final victory. However, my character got badly sidetracked in the last third of…
CW: Partial nudity, on the same level as my previous post. The first pictorial is spoiler free. However, there'll be a warning afterwards for content past that. The warnings Now we're entering SPOILER ALERT territory. I'm going discuss more plot elements about the Dark Urge that Tav mentioned. I don't regard Tav's mention of the existence and…
CW: Partial nudity. Kinda. I tried to keep it to the PG-13 level. Also, more Druid Angela stuff, as if you couldn't figure that out from the title. Big surprise! ... Not! If you've read along in this series of essays on creating Arctic Druid Angela in Baldur's Gate 3, as soon as I mentioned the possibility…
If the above exchange was completely cryptic to you, you probably haven't read any of my previous posts on an Arctic Druid build. If so, I suggest you at least skim them (enjoy the fanfic pictures!) starting from the first one. Frost If you read the fifth essay in this series, you're probably not surprised there's a…
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…
Last night was the first time in a while that A, J, M, and I were all able to play a game together. J brought the Royal Collector's Edition of Castles of Mad King Ludwing. A, J, and I had played this before, though it had been years ago; it was M's first time. It was a…
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…
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…
Last night M had other plans and couldn't join the game session. It was just A, J, and I. Be certain that you're all friends before you start playing Perch, or you might not be friends at the end. As I said, it's quite the aggressive game. It was another pleasant evening of gaming!