A picture with a blue border around it is a link. Click on it to learn more. Or forget less. This may be one of those posts that's of interest only to me. I'll try to make it worth the reading anyway, for the pictures if for nothing else. In my previous Baldur's Gate 3 post, I…
I'm writing an article on the Virtual Photography I do to create my fanfic. In the middle of the article, I bring up how easy it is to take screenshots on the PS5: Just hold down the SELECT key. When you play a game using Steam, the equivalent button is F12 on the keyboard. However, that's not…
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Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
Images with blue lines around them are links. Click on them if you'd like some story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
While Baldur's Gate 3 is still the video game that currently commands most of my attention, there's another game I've played occasionally since 2016: No Man's Sky. I've spent about 650 hours in NMS over the past decade. It comes in third in terms of the amount of time I've spent in a single video game, behind…
As I've played and discussed Baldur's Gate 3 with both Real Angela and Actual Sabrina, the subject of "dice checks" often comes up. Their interest comes from different places. Actual Sabrina is new to gaming, and is learning how die-rolling works. Real Angela is an experienced gamer, and wants to understand how a flat bonus compares with…
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…