Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Non-MMO games.
I kickstarted Armikrog a few years back. It’s a point and click adventure in the style of Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and so forth; you solve puzzles by picking stuff up, finding someplace to put it, pressing buttons and so on. You’re not supposed to finish one of these games in a sitting; … Read more
When last the Adventure Company met, we’d tracked some suspicious Cult of the Dragon cultists to a warehouse in which, returning later, we found absolutely nothing suspicious. While in the warehouse, though, we did manage to sign ourselves up as guards to accompany possibly suspicious cargoes right out of Waterdeep to their final destination. Nothing … Read more
It was a grim setting I logged into a couple nights ago. My Godville heroine, Talesia, was dead… and lying next to her was her loyal mount, the double dragon Pinky. Double dragons get smaller the older they get, and Pinky has become quite small. So this wasn’t entirely unexpected. Still, dying now is not … Read more
Totally the trip from Hell. It was supposed to be a 900km or so trip from Salzburg to Luxembourg. Things were going pretty well to begin. Swiftly passed into Germany, flew past München and Strasbourg, and had crossed over into Switzerland on the way to Zurich when my cat decided the computer mouse was now … Read more
Well, until the expansion, anyway. One side benefit of an internet outage (I was without internet for most of the weekend) is that all those single player games I never get around to finishing are suddenly totally available! I was pretty close to the ending of Pillars of Eternity last time I played, working on … Read more