Saturday, August 12, 2023

Baldurs Gate 3 is a Masterpiece and I am only 6 hours in

I have been looking forward to Baldurs gate 3 since it was announced. A combination of Dungeons and Dragons and Divinity Original Sins 2 seemed like a winning combination and it is. Four of us have been playing a new campaign and two sessions in, we have already come to the understanding that there is so much customizability in narrative where different characters can opt to resolve an issue in a wide multitude of ways.

The most interesting story so far is we came upon a spider boss, a giant spider with underlings. It looked like we were going to lose and that we would end up as lunch for the beast. All of a sudden the monky in my party pushed the thing off a precipace on the cliff into what seemed like an unending cavern. While it appeared we had won, we didn't get any experience for killing the thing. The rogue in the party asked if I could pause it because he wanted to try something. He then jumped off the precipace also and fell to his death. However, when landing on the ground, he noticed he fell next to the spider. I then suggested we should use feather fall so that we could gently land next to the body and after a quick restart we did just that. After looting the body, we were set upon by giant scary minotaurs who killed us all. Thats how we ended the last session of the game and I am beyond excited to see what is in store for our party next!!!

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Playing Dominions 5 Again

First of all I have to say that I have loved this game ever since I started playing. There is an indepth god design, magic system, character progression, monsters, research, and item system. You also have a number of different nations with unique units and mechanics. I am playing a 5 player multiplayer game (with 12 AI factions) currently with some of my brother's friends on a discrete server. Because the game is turn based, people can take their turns whenever they have time and then all the actions happen simultaneously after the turns are made. In this particular game, I am playing as EA Niefelheim, who are Frost Giants. My design gives the giants regeneration and though this normally would have meant I had a pretty solid start against independents and other factions, I accidentally had my main army stuck in a cave, frozen, and unable to move out of it. Haha, I will post any fun updates as they happen.