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So, here's the situation. I game on a gaming laptop (Lenovo Legion 5) that I bought just months before COVID. This laptop probably got me through COVID relatively sane. I mean, I had/have the wife and kids, but let's be honest, the impact of family on sanity can be a little mixed (and I'm being...

So, the main issue I'm having with my gaming laptop is that the keyboard is falling apart on me. In its defense, the thing is 6 years old and has been a solid performer otherwise. Especially with the cost of RAM and the great shape it still is in, repair is the obvious answer. I've been...

I have been having a hard time finding gaming challenges to challenge me, but then GoG delivered a possibility in a summer sale. I had heard about this game some time back. I'm surprised it's already 10 years old. Did I really sleep on this one for so long? This is next level patient gaming...

I'm currently working on a run of Icewind Dale and already have a concept for my next run. However, I know if I do two IWD runs back to back, despite how much I love the game, I will totally burn out. I'm looking for a "palette cleanser" to play between the runs. I've kinda been poking around...

@O_Bruce's recent thread has me inspired to give IWD another go. But, I'm not going to steal your thunder, O_Bruce. I am playing classic, not enhanced, and I have a very different concept in mind. IWD is my favorite IE game, especially with regards to its fidelity to the source system. Unlike...

Warning: extreme hyperanalytical nerdery to follow. As I mentioned in another thread, I had this conversation with chatGPT about the BG trilogy and picking a class for the canon party. I would say that what the bot offered wasn't terrible, but I did have to explain some concepts, both...

I've had to put my solo Cleric/Thief run on hiatus. As far as I know, I'm soft locked at Duchal Palace until I can figure out a new strategy. But, this has me thinking more about the game in general and my prior 0/5 review. If I'm being fair, I could have been a little more fair about it. I will...

We're talking about this guy. I started to post a solo run in the candlekeep annex with a vanilla thief, but it just didn't work out. He just wasn't competent enough for backstabs. Granted, part of this was RNGesus messing with me, but even still, there was a LOT of whiffing. Yeah, these are...

People where I work are worried about AI. I'm not. I read at least one article a day about it and have noticed over time that the general media has transitioned from gloom and doom for the economy to an increasing proportion of how little of a solution AI is. Everything from how AI is...

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...