#ressicle

i'm gonna be honest i thought i was done last night, but turns out i had the time and energy today to sneak in a couple more attacks!!

Ophelia the cool punk vigilante with portal powers for @leporidaisical !

Aaaaa welcome back!

I’m basically the inverse of you— the games were my introduction and now I’m trying to plunge into the 5e books 👀 I bought a corebook and two additional ones and I’m slowly carving through it and I’m very excited :]

Oh absolutely the games are worth it— I’ve only played Dragonfall and Hong Kong and not Returns, so I can’t speak for Returns, but the writing on the other two have made them rank among my top favorite games. I think Hong Kong is my favorite of the two, but just barely, because both are very good.

It’s always going to be difficult to emulate a ttrpg experience, since games will lack the complete freedom of choice you get in person, but both games give you lots of choices both in missions, the main story (with multiple endings), your parties, and even your backstory. It gives you plenty of role play moments that both effect the story and moments that don’t, but give you input and personality anyway.

Missions never felt overtly linear to me— there’s lots of options based on who in the party you bring and your own stats, and combat is fun and has enjoyable strategy, but also avoidable on some missions.

I was always excited to come back from a mission because there would be new Shadownet BBS posts and new dialogue with the NPCs back at the hub, and all of it is rich in character and lore (especially Hong Kong, but Dragonfall is good for it too).

They just feel very rich in story and character and it’s a blast both to play and replay. I loved it enough to get a soundtrack on vinyl akabdksjsns

Hong Kong is a great one to start with— there can be some jank in any of the games sometimes around combat balance, but honestly it’s more of a nuisance than anything. HK has my favorite setting and incredible character interactions and stories, and I definitely recommend talking to everyone and always checking Shadownet after each outting.

I feel like Dragonfall is a bit shorter, and it came before HK, so HK ironed out a few more of the kinks in gameplay, but both are very darn good and I’d happily recommend them both :] they’re also pretty replayable IMO, which is a nice bonus!

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