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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
I went back to the cave (lepers smile?) and found the cart where it was supposed to be, but it seems to be unavailable (clicking the "hand" icon does nothing) in chapter iii. Ah well, iirc, it matters if you want to be a golden dragon if i remember correctly. I did get the wand, without which you can't really start the lich path
- Funny Stuff - Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it
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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
Pathfinder: WotR Getting to what I suspect is the end of chapter iii. Botched a few quests. Nothing important (for my particular play through). I missed a third part of the silver dragon (Mendelev? Sp?), a quest in the DLC town (Gundrum or some such) is unfinishable. I completed everything else, but the guards will be sick forever now I suppose 🤔 Also completely ignoring Nenio and her nightmare quest. Never felt any interest in the character personality or story anyway 🤷♂️ Doing the first island chain the Treasure Island DLC. Just passing times while leveling up my outposts to bastions. Because I cant remember if they stay bastions when I get to chapter v 🫣 Edit: Running out of enemy armies to destroy, I think I will get under time pressure anyway to progress the story, because you can't keep people happy without killing stuff. Noticed that I had forgotten a tiefling, that i had in my first play through. I wonder what happened to Woljif (sp?)?
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Randommer/Interestinglier/Weirder - now more of everything for the same low price!
When engineers have too much time on their hands... 😁
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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
Pathfinder, wrath of the righteous. I started on the Ivory Tower until I got to a point where an army of angels spawns behind me and a wall prevents me from leaving to the main map again. Something rang a bell in my mind from my very first game (barbarian, trickster, legendary maxed out 40 levels run). I found a previous save and decided to save that part for later (because it sort of begins the end of chapter iii) Visited Molten Scar, a Sarkorian mine, Blackwater (very frustrating, not because of enemies, I know how to zap and coup de grace them), but because the overall ambience is so dark its hard to spot the doors, even if I can open them ☹️ Visited Treebeard (not his real name, an ent garding a puzzle entrance). Took me way too long to work out the puzzle, with the little bridges closing and opening. I worked it out eventually when noticing that the lower of the two rows of "pegs" needs to be activated first, as they do not reset and lower themselves again, once raised i could focus on the patters on the upper row of pegs. Then it wasn't so hard to get the order correct. Screwed over the old chief and handed over the Mongrel tribe to Wenduag. My archer succubus (no way I can spell her name) decided the prison cell should be her new home (no matter how much i tried to convince her that kissing a undead self wont drain my life force) and my Lich wannabe had a conversation with my new Pillar of Skulls. Also, added the corpse of Staunton to the ranks of the guards of my shiny new Ziggurath. Anyone who can tell me what the Arcane Armour feat is good for? Does it work alone or do you need to then take feats in say light armour in addition to? (leveling up as a sorcerer/lich with focus on undead bloodline powers, necromancy/evocation and max spell penetration). Also gave myself sufficient skills to wield a scythe, because it's cool (not very practical)
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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The New All Things Political Topic
A mix of politics and business I suppose, but the sooner someone cracks down hard on AI companies, the better... the privatizing the profit and socializing the cost is getting out of hand. (not that Australia has a particularly good record on data security, but still) Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government we...Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
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The New All Things Political Topic
With a friend like Trump, you don't need external enemies to attack your cities. His pet national guard units and brown shirt cohorts (I think they call themselves "ICE" instead of "SA" now, but its the same thing) are doing their best to attack US cities considered hostile to the regime.
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
I completed the area added to Pathfinder WotR through one of the DLC's (A Sarkorian village). It was nice and fun enough. One puzzle was frustrating though, as Owlcat and I have very different ideas of what times of day are "Dusk" and "Dawn" 😒 Wasted 48 hours of in-game time to find out that Owlcats definition of dawn is around noon time and dusk is middle of the night like between 1 and 5 at night. (I would have though dawn being something between 5 and 9 and dusk being something between 5pm and 9pm, but that definitely wasn't it). A gate where you have to place a rune stone depending on the time of day being just as awful as Nenios quest (which I am completely skipping this time, as I will then live another year extra in real life)
- Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
Making progress in my current game of Pathfinder WOTR. Playing a sorcerer (undead bloodline) and Lich mythic class. I haven't met any of the "notable" enemies yet, but the game feels somewhat more manageable this time. I fell in love with a limited use ability (whose name I can't remember from top of my head), that for a short time lets me ignore opponents magic resistance. It almost feels like cheating 🤭 I am not as far as my first Lich attempt, as I haven't finished building my Ziggurath yet. Also not optimizing my companions according to any min/max guides, just using them for the heck of it. Cool factor being a thing. My succubus archer has a second job singing for the team (bard)
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What are you Playing Now? Volume XX: It all Begins Again
I've had Baldurs Gate 3 in my library for the longest of times now. I just never could get into it. I made a few attempts the last few months. But before I even get to a major settlement, I lose steam (no pun intended, just because I purchased it through GOG). I ended up playing Gary Grigsby's War in Russia instead (yes, an old DosBox enabled game). Then I gave it a second try with a warrior class. Ended up playing several (random map) campaigns of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 instead. After the third try, now with a cleric, I ended the same place, and started a new campaign of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous instead (I never got to play Lich to completion, this time base class is sorcerer instead of wizard). A very charismatic skeleton 😌 Edit: What I am trying to say is, I just don't "get" BG3
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Good Old Games still oldies but goodies
Is it as good as Jagged Alliance 2? In my opinion, not quite. Still a great game though (bought it years ago from GOG) and a steal at this price for fans of it's predecessors. I am still no fan of Master of Orion 3 though. Sadly, it was too much of a departure from the MOO2 formula, JA3 at least tries to stick to its roots