Dadaph is Gaming

Tried Cataclysm for the first time this summer and lvled up this goblin warlock. I quit at lvl 85 because I usually enjoy the journey more than the destination, didn't want to start raiding again (and there were only about 20 active players on my server).

I'm back!

This concept happened somewhat by accident. I was in the process of updating some old mockups. While looking at my original pitch mockups for Ducktales Remastered, I came across an old revamp of Chip & Dale on the NES back in 2014. Given that I had to isolate all the elements to apply the changes, I suddenly had workable game assets and some extra time on my hands. Things just snowballed from there.

One thing I did want to address from the original was to properly show the scale of things. The NES game was all over the place (mouse sized rhinos for example.) So making sure the big robot dogs from the first level where actually appropriately imposing was important. The game also implied you travel to locations by plane, but you never got to see it.

While the mockup is scaled for modern systems, I've composed the music and sound effects using SNES limitations to give it that old Capcom home-console flair.

Winner of Patreon Fanart Poll!

Here is my addition to Mermay! The rulers of the seas, Rån(Rán) and her husband Æge(Ægir). They are both jotuns but I based their design on the Vetter(a collective term for all magical creatures from Scandinavian folklore)Marmennil(Æge) and Margygr(Rån).

Marmennil(Mar = Sea, Mennil = Old man) looks like tiny mermen but they either have the face of an old man(some telling they have the face of a child). They are benevolent and will reward fishers for their kindness. (Like giving them pieces of clothing like a sock, glove, or a hat. They get cold lol) They can see into the future, warn fishers of incoming disasters, and show them good fishing spots.

Æge is a pretty chill fellow. He is mostly known for throwing parties for the Norse gods.

Margygr(Mar = Sea, Gygr = female term for a jotun/troll) is the murderhobo of the sea, and their favorite hobby is drowning young seafarers. They are a bad omen and usually show up before a terrible storm. If they throw a fish in the seafarer's boat it means there will be many casualties or a shipwreck. If she eats the fish there might still be hope for the men.

Rån is the complete opposite of Æge, she views humans as trespassers and uses her net to trap and drown seafarers with the help of her and Æge's nine daughters. Himinglæva, Duva, Blodughadda, Herving, Unn, Ronn, Bylga, Båra and Kolga.(Their names all mean "Wave" lol. They are also all the mothers of Heimdall.)

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Chun-Li (SF6 version)

KANK! was a character I played in D&D5e for about a year. Unfortunately, our group disbanded due to covid, and I miss him dearly.

My Kenku Barbarian was a fun, but challenging character to play. Raised in a clan of thieves, young Kank was always too impatient to learn how to open treasures the proper way. He'd prefer an axe or a crowbar over a lockpick, thus gaining him the name KANK for the sound he made.

He raged so badly over a locked chest one day, the head of the tribe decided to kick him out, telling him to become like SHHH, his grandfather and legendary master burglar, but he'd have to find his way on his own.

I played EQ from 2000 to around 2002 or so(Kunark-Planes of Power, Dadaph on the Luclin server), and I still occasionally pop into both p1999 green and the latest tlp server Yelinak for some casual lvling.

I love the game, story and atmosphere and memories.

This one got WEIRD.

Background story: earlier this year, someone claimed to have found a secret door in the game Nier Automata (which is one of my all time favorite videogames).

A video would show a door in an area of the game that seemed to be built of paper, and the big mystery was of course, what was behind that door?