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So a couple of years ago I backed a project on Kickstarter, for a deck of cards that would supplement TTRPG play. The project itself doesn’t matter, I’ve backed many such projects over the years, and they aren’t to blame for what happened here, so they will remain nameless. The main thing that matters is that their creator was based out of Canada, and I’m in the United States. Anyway, the…

So I just have to discuss something today, that frankly has me a little… confused. “Lord of the Rings Online” is an MMORPG that has been running for a very long time, since 2007. While it still has its fans, LOTRO has pretty much seen its days in the sun pass long ago, although to be fair Daybreak continues to develop new content for the game. This is an elder MMO, no doubt about it. So why is…

My wife and I have been using our 2nd generation Nintendo Switches for several years, when we need a gaming device on-the-go (road trips, camping, etc), but that device is getting a bit long in the tooth. I was looking to get her a Switch 2, since she really likes the Nintendo platform, and I was eyeing a Steam Deck for my own use. Well, so much for that. While Nintendo increased the price of…

It’s Memorial Day here in America, which means the (unofficial) start of Summer! As such, many people celebrate by taking a long weekend vacation, often their first camping trip of the year. That said, many of these folks – perhaps yourself, as well – enjoy playing a tabletop roleplaying game now and again. Often while on vacation, even. But when the desire to play a TTRPG runs afowl of one’s…

Let’s get one thing straight: I like sports, at least for the most part. I’m not a huge fan of baseball or soccer, but I love football (American), I used to be an avid basketball fan, and I’ve been known to watch hockey with great interest. So when I ask this, know that it isn’t from the view of someone who just hates sports in general: Why do sports video games suck so very, very much? I…

What is going on in the tabletop roleplaying game scene? I get it that “Dungeons & Dragons” is the biggest TTRPG in the world, and has been for a very long time. And I also get that it will garner a lot of TTRPG media coverage, as that’s just the nature of the beast. But… Here’s my problem with this. I have been scouring various “news” websites that cover TTRPGs, and while I do see occasional…

So I used to be an avid player of various Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games (MMORPGs), starting with “Anarchy Online in 2004, and encompassing dozens of other games over the next 15 years or so. But a lot of that fell by the wayside with my heart surgery in 2020, although my love for this genre of games has never died. One of the games I played the most was “World of Warcraft”. It…

So recently Crimson Flyboy on YouTube released a rather informative video, which discussed a major problem with “Starfield”: The Pointer Handle Limit. Not to get too far into the weeds on this here, but the basics of the problem break down like this: “Starfield” uses Pointers to connect to and track every object in a given area (spaceship, city zone, point of interest, etc). The game has a…

So Bethesda dropped the newest story DLC(“Terran Armada”) for “Starfield” just over a month ago, alongside the latest content update (“Free lanes”), so now seemed like a good time to give my thoughts on the subject… again, as I’ve already dropped a review previously of this content. My main goal here is to discuss how well the content is holding up, the modding situation, and that sort of…

So I’d really like to upgrade my newish laptop computer. I want to add in more DDR4 RAM (from 16gb to 32 or possibly 64gb), and add a separate M.2 SSD (1TB or larger), because what it came with is fine, but I want to future-proof this bad-boy, and give me plenty of room for gaming and content creation. Yeah, about that… AI companies have been buying up all of the RAM and SSD memory of late, and…

So I’ve mentioned before that I’m considering doing some form of tabletop roleplaying Actual-Play podcast again. Ever since I stopped my old solo show about 18 months ago I have missed it, and once my voice healed from the damage I had wrought from doing two podcasts every weekend, I’ve wanted to come back. But the question is, what format should I use? I’m inclined to do an audio podcast,…

Imagine my surprise the other morning, when I turned on my Xbox Series X to knock out a little bit of gaming, only to see a game being updated. That game being “Brotato”, of all things! You see, not that long ago “Brotato” was updated to include the “New Dawn” content, which put the Console version of the game only one update behind the PC version of the game. Consoles and the Mobile version of…

So I have this new laptop, which I have been using for livestreaming, and playing “Starfield”, “Avowed”, and many other games on and off of stream. But that got me thinking: If it’ll crush “Starfield” and other modern games, what shenanigans could I do with emulating retro games on this rig? So I’m going to try just that. Now I’m sure I’m not the first, and certainly not the last, to try…

As Gamers, we are all aware of how much “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) has affected our hobby over the last few years. Also, I’m sure we are mostly aware that these AI aren’t really AI in a classic sense, as they are only Large Language Models (LLMs), that basically take prompts you enter into them and use information they have scraped off of the Internet to spit out something approximating what…

… you can keep your weed (and other drugs) at home, if you want to play at my table! So today is 420 (BLAZE IT!), and since this is basically a Stoner Holiday, I thought we should discuss a little “Table Etiquette”, so to speak. I know a lot of people who enjoy some recreational drugs and alcohol, and thus over the years I have had to deal with many drunk or stoned players at my table, as the…

Look, as you may already know, I’m an old-school Tabletop Roleplaying guy. Been in the hobby in some form or another since the late 1970’s, “Forever DM”, I have over 300 TTRPGs in my collection, more dice than I can count, and so on. In short, I have all the gear, including a custom-built, carved wooden gamemaster’s screen. One can get by with only a minimal amount of TTRPG gear… Only a single…

So Twitch has been my home for Livestreaming video content for literally years, ever since the first Adpocalypse, when YouTube decided I was too small of a creator to bother paying the few pennies I was making there anymore. Anyway, things change, life changes, and despite not being considered an actual creator by YouTube, I have been uploading my Video-on-Demand livestreams from Twitch to…