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The recent thread about TTRPGs, along with some things happening with my own gaming, along with noticing that there had been a forum game here before has me wondering if there is any interest in doing something like that again. I would run it and use a very simple system anyone can learn in...

I picked up this game a while back. I started it but then was distracted by life and other games. Truth is, I let myself get distracted because I felt like choice had a lot of gravity in this game and I wasn't used to that. I've played a lot of RPGs, but most of them boil down to a series of...

I don't know why, but I suddenly have the urge to do another BG trilogy run (vanilla, no EE, no mods/hacks, just the standard patches). This one solo, and with a thief multi. I can't decide if I want to do it with a Fighter/Thief or a Cleric/Thief. I figure the F/T has the advantage of allowing...

Now I remember why I stopped playing this game back in the day. Technically. it's not a totally blind playthrough since I have dabbled with this game before, but I remembered nothing of the story or gameplay going into it, just that there was something about party combat that really put me off...

A while back, I was posting a BG run with a paladin, Beatrix. Everything was going well and then I was hard locked in level 2 of Durlag's due to some weird glitch with the ward stones. I could have scrapped the rest of the tower, but I wouldn't have felt good about that. I've given it some...

I took a pass on this game back in the day. I mean, I got it, but I didn't get far before I moved on to other things. It seemed like I was in for a good story, but the mechanical gameplay was just kinda janky. The feedback is also not great (e.g. I often can't tell if someone hits or misses an...

Not sure if anyone else is getting this, but I'm getting a weird error when I try to play embedded YT videos. It's jut a grey box with a playback error and code.

Both are on sale at GoG, thinking of picking one up as an xmas gift to myself. I started both back in the day, didn't get far, moved on. It was the same reason for both (janky controls/combat). But, if I only got one, what is the one to get and why?

I just figured I'd start a thread so @m7600 and I can compare notes on our respective Torchlight runs. How is yours going? I traded in my bikini battle babe for this guy: Low level armor, but way more coverage than the ladies get. But, I didn't switch to make a fashions statement. All the...

I've mentioned this before, but I homebrew tabletop (board/rpg/tactical) games as a hobby. I came up with an idea for a game, or at least the mechanics, and I'm not feeling too strongly in any particular direction with how to skin/theme it. The big picture is that the players are civilians in an...

I've been thinking about this more and more as time as gone on. In my early gaming days, I'd just need a good theme and I'd jump into a game. However, these days, I find myself more and more asking, "What am I actually doing in this game"? On one hand, I think it's limiting me as a gamer. But...

I've had this game on my steam wishlist forever. There have been a number of sales, but I was hoping for it to be available at GoG. I did some googling recently and I'm not optimistic it's getting to GoG any time soon. Meanwhile, there's currently a steam sale and a recent post from @m7600 was...

I was reading Antimatter's recent post about top 100 games and it got me thinking of my list of top games and, more importantly, why they are my favorites. One thing I noticed was that none of my top games are there for the combat. It might be the story, other aspects of the gameplay loop, or...

I honestly don't care about the Olympics. Somewhere along the way, when various scandals started happening (maybe around the time of the Tonya Harding thing), I lost interest. However, I'm not wondering about this from a "fan" perspective, but really just general curiosity about the human...

This idea popped into my head while reading the Alesia's Fallout 3 run. I haven't played Fallout in a while, so I guess it's about time for another run. Greetings, fellow wastelanders! I am about to begin a Fallout run that will span multiple games and generations. The concept for the run is...

Context: I'm building my characters for a Fallout series run. Particularly for the first game, I have two builds in mind. One requires dumping Charisma (which actually has virtually no use in the first game), the other involves taking a trait I don't like but having adequate Charisma for the...

So, I'm not posting a SSLP (yet) due to my last three runs stalling out, but I'm working on another trilogy run with the canon party. I'm taking notes and whatnot as I go, so if I actually finish this one, I'll post. However, I need to plan ahead before I even start. I have the slight problem of...

I've been homebrewing tabletop games for decades at this point. It's a fun diversion and my players seem to like it, so why not? In any event, the process has always been the same. I get the spark of an idea ("Wouldn't it be fun to play a game where you ______?") and then start building it. I...

So, here's the thing... This may come as a surprise, but I'm not the smartest guy in the world. When it comes to game design, I don't know everything there is to know. But, this doesn't stop me from exploring the nature of design on a deeper level, which can get pretty heady when looking at...