Never send a minion to do a god's work.

Glory ,'The Killer In Me'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2009 11:39:05 am PDT #1733 of 26133
brillig

God knows how much time I've got into Dungeon Siege II , but Hubby pointed out that I missed half the secondary quests in Act I, so I'll have to do it over. Oh, well, gosh darn. Killing pixels is fun.


Volans - Mar 24, 2009 3:04:43 pm PDT #1734 of 26133
move out and draw fire

I got Fable II for my birthday. Love it so far. Even Captain Curmudgeon (the DH) is now a fan.

Me: We could play co-op. Him: OK. Because it's your birthday. But I'm going to quit when I get all Diablo-ed out.

That was 4 hours of gameplay ago. Now he's making his own character so we don't squander XP while playing co-op.


billytea - Mar 24, 2009 4:44:28 pm PDT #1735 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Hee. I just came across a WotC thread [link] with the following exchange:

In third edition, I created a paragon Half-Dwarf Half-Dragon Half-Tiger raised in the Elemental Plane of Fire by vampire Swordmage-Monks trained to dual-wield large Mercurial Greatswords with Monkey Grip who was instructed by vampire agents of Vecna in the Underdark in necromantic magic. Durgonzelbub, the Spellreaper, was an exalted Iajitsu Master Samurai Barbarian Frenzied Berserker Wizard who specialized in ranged trip-attacks with his poison-barbed knife-whip and had taken the vow of poverty. Through the cunning use of feats and magic items, he could crit on a 12. He wore a buckler on both wrists and carried a bag of holding filled with trained dire boars that would charge any enemies they saw whenever they were let out of the bag.

He was on a never-ending quest to find his lover, whose soul was trapped in an enchanted gem known as the Soulgem which had been carried by the Dark Lords of Darkness into the Underdark. Only by uniting the eight heads of the Octophallice, each corresponding to a different dragon variety and containing powers of those dragon's respective elements, could Durgonzelbub ever hope to defeat Octophall, the eight-headed dragon whom Tiamat calls Master, and learn the secret to restoring his lover's soul from its prison and prevent the invasion of the material plane by the Two-Eyed Beholder Lords.

This is how I convinced my friends that it was time to just play the game and stop multi-classing every freaking level.

This paragraph just won the internet.

Thanks. I modeled the character after Drizzt.


Volans - Mar 26, 2009 4:15:11 am PDT #1736 of 26133
move out and draw fire

That is a thing of beauty.


Laga - Mar 31, 2009 6:58:09 pm PDT #1737 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm in the wii shopping channel. I'm leaning towards Wonder Boy, a game I spent way too much money on in college. Have you bought any favorite old games for your wii? Did you end up disappointed?


Gudanov - Apr 01, 2009 5:43:17 am PDT #1738 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping

Legends of Zork

Zork is back. Don't know a thing about it though, just that I remember the old infocomm games and their great packaging.


Polter-Cow - Apr 01, 2009 7:25:11 am PDT #1739 of 26133
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Woooo.

Hee, Zwitter.


Laga - Apr 01, 2009 8:56:48 am PDT #1740 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I think I spent about 5 hours playing Toejam & Earl last night.


Polter-Cow - Apr 01, 2009 8:58:39 am PDT #1741 of 26133
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Awesome! The first game or the second? You know that's where "Polter-Cow" came from, right?


Laga - Apr 01, 2009 10:08:30 am PDT #1742 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I did not know that! Of course it seems so obvious now. I played the first one all last night. I might have to download the second one now.