Getting the notification for the Diablo 3 beta while in the Virgin Islands (granted, for work and all) is quite a good bit of timing. If I was to pick, karmically, when I was going to be in the 100k for the next beta key release, of COURSE it would have be where I was over 2K miles from my gaming rig and could only wince every time I looked at my personal email. Needless to say, I wouldn’t trade it as VI is, for all it’s quirks, and amazing place on the planet–D3 was nice to come home to. Unlike Starcraft 2, the D3 beta loaded FAST, within half and hour it was ready to roll. I haven’t gotten in on it yet, but tonight!
Like I’ve said before: Torchlight 2 is being made to be the game we all want to play while Diablo 3 is the game Blizzard wants to make and will let us play. D3 will have to be played through once, but due to mods and all that madness, Torchlight 2 is the one I think will have the most longevity.
Part 1 of a 3 part series with each of the Epic rulesets (Epic40k, Epic Armageddon, NetEpic). This one is with the ‘failed’ version from 1997: Epic 40K. With reading, I think these are the best set of rules for Epic family, but we’ll see when we bust out the more recent rules which is the best on the table. This is the first time I’ve busted out my 6mm stuff in over 15 years!
I'm mad, blind and there is blood shooting out of my mouth-- just like all the 12 year olds that play DOTA!
Via Steam, if you do a hardware survey AND a “experience with the game” survey you can possibly get a key into the DOTA2 beta. I played it a bit back when it was all shiny new in Warcraft 3, but it’s been a while certainly and I was but a dabbler. On the survey, I had no idea what any of the heroes were actually named and they ask you your top five so -uhhhh. I mostly used the guy that looked like the blind Night Elf from WC3 all the time so I had a top, um, one. That said, if you like the League of Legends and DOTA action, we’re going to get hammered with choices soon as both Valve and Blizzard enter the ring and lets face it in light of Team Fortress 2– Valve’s will be the best.
That said, I never gave Bloodline Champions a go—something that might be worth trying out.
Back in the day, we wee DM’s had all these hardback books for D&D (note this does not have the A in front of it) that we would carry around all over the place in case we needed to look up some arcane fact buried in the largely incomprehensible and inconsistent ruleset that was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. In our 6th grade brains, we thought we were actually playing AD&D, referencing the hardback books and even leaving the Basic D&D books at home from time to time. In reality, however, we were actually playing the Red Box/Blue box basic D&D using the AD&D Monster manual, Fiend Folio and a few tidbits (magic items, psionics (bleh), etc.) from the Players Handbook/Dungeon Masters guide chosen at will because, quite frankly, the AD&D ruleset was pretty much ass compared to basic, and PURE ASS compared to anything modern that was written to a good standard and actually thouroughly playtested. The version I started the game with (blue box) only went to level 3–hence the pathway at that time (before the red box set) was to go AD&D. There was no other choice if you wanted characters over level 3. Yet, even with these massive tomes, we still played with all the Basic D&D rules, literally glossing over the AD&D combat rules in the Dungeon Masters Guide, not just simply ignoring the nuances, but ignoring the entire fundamentals of the AD&D system.
So Wizards of the Coast has announced that it will reprint the old AD&D hardback books in 2012. Though this is an interesting use of the IP, and will go to support the Gygax Memorial fund (Lake Geneva needs a statue of the man somewhere!) what I personally hope it squashes is any nostalgic dreams that AD&D was a good system or even an understandable system, especially compared to the good old Basic D&D that we were actually playing back in the day which lives on in a lot of versions (Labyrinth Lord is my favorite of the bunch) .
Don’t think that your voice/pestering doesn’t matter. Contact your representatives. Talk to people at work. Pester people on the bus/internet/grocery store. It’s worth it and don’t assume that it’s taken care of by others.
if that passes, this is the type of shit that will happen to you.
Ugh. I felt like I painted a lot in December but I didn’t get much done in reality. I meant to get my Bestigor out the door but I only ended up completing three Gor, one Bestigor and my second Chariot (which has a bestigor on it). I couldn’t complete the riders in time for the new year but got close so finished those up last night. The bestigor is a bit messed up. He’s pinned to the floor of the chariot but his left foot is off the ground. Not really noticable but still not ideal. I had to put the driver quite a bit forward but I feel that worked out pretty well.
This January, now half way gone already, is all Bestigor– IF I can keep my dirty dirty paws off my old Epic 40K stuff. I started improving a couple of infantry stands here and there and it turned into fixing up 22 stands of infantry from their rather dismal 1992 paint jobs, and that took a lot of work.
see the floaty foot?crap I can see one of the ears wasn't painted...
