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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...

Table of Contents Episode Zero: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Episode One: Be Careful What You Wish For Episode Two: The Road Less Traveled Episode Three: Just Passing Through Episode Four: A New Hope Episode Five: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad Episode Six: Into the Wild Episode Seven: Once More...

I'm thinking about what I would like to run after I finish my current BG Trilogy run. One thing I've never done is solo the whole series as well. From what I've read, any class can basically solo the whole thing, it's just a question of what is one's preferred style. I'm not entirely sure what...

Table of Contents Episode Zero: A New Hope Episode One: Sally Forth Episode Two: Courage Under Fire Episode Three: One Thing Leads to Another Episode Four: A Daring Rescue Episode Five: Foolish Foul and Crazy Cleric Episode Six: Fishing Trip Episode Seven: Another Dead End, or Is It? Episode...

Table of Contents Introduction Episode Zero: From Zero to Hero Episode One: Till We Meet Again Episode Two: Like a Rolling Stone, pt. 1 Episode Two: Like a Rolling Stone, pt. 2 Episode Three: You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth? Episode Four: We're Gonna Need a Montage Episode...

TLDR; I'm planning a RP-oriented run of the full trilogy that I intend to post as a screenshot let's play (SSLP). This play will take a different course than most people I've seen take, partly due to wanting to fit the B-story material in with the A-story and partly due to approaching this game...

Is there a way to adjust column width to a table and I just can't seem to figure it out? I posted a table in a thread and figure the width could be a fraction of it and still be quite readable.

Greetings tavern patrons, I'm planning a roleplay-driven run of Icewind Dale with an old school challenge on the gameplay side. I'll be posting as I go and I'm open to comments and suggestions. We are about to head on an old school D&D adventure. An unknown evil threatens the good (and bad...

Introduction On another forum, someone presented what I thought would be an interesting challenge for Icewind Dale Classic. It's always so tempting to just keep hitting the reroll button, but the challenge was to play with a party of 75-point characters, specifically with the stats of 18, 16...

I'm working out a play log for Icewind Dale that I plan to post, and have an idea as to how to break it up. However, I want to make sure the chunks are appropriately sized (and formatted before I copy/paste them over). So, is there some kind of limit to consider per post? As for the frequency...

I'm quite a ways in on my Icewind Dale Classic run and I have been logging my party's exploits as I go. I did a similar thing for Baldur's Gate runs, and it seemed to work ok. It was formatted as journal entries from Gorion's Ward reflecting on the events they experienced and choices they made...

I might be talking out of my butt. I'm the new kid on the block here and still haven't fully sussed out the vibe and orientation of this place. The people are nice. I figured that one out already. I know there's an emphasis on cRPGs with some trickle over into other genres of video games. There...