Banquo

"The dead should be allowed to rest."

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

A screen of Cladun X3 featuring a party of a D&D game I run.

A screen of Cladun X3 featuring an Avalanche Beaklon from Monster Rancher and a few assorted D&D characters.

A screen of Cladun X3 featuring my own character and a few monsters from Dragon Quest: a devil glass, a gold slime, and Dragonlord.

Been playing a lot of Cladun X3, but I feel like I just can't get online to work without putting in specific addresses. If you've got it and want to download a few random D&D folks or Dragon Quest monsters, mine's at 9682-7428. I'll happily take a code if you've got one.

heard a cool game came out today

totally not bias

had an absolute blast as part of the TL team on this one. was really excited to come back after working on the first one.

it's big, it's weird, it's swinging for the fences.

happpppppy launch day!

I just discovered this place for the first time like a month ago and it revs up some kind of a hunter-gatherer mode

I have 3 types of TTRPG characters:

*Grandpa Haunted By Past Failure

*Easygoing Nihilist Martyrs

*Guy who is Leafy, Metallic, or Both

N64 Level 1's

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

I'd be remiss not to recommend one of the Monster Ranchers. Ultra Kaiju on the Switch is one of the most beginner-friendly.

huh... what's that sound? it kinda sounds like someone being sung

what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your rarohire rochi terochichimomo

Sitting down and considering fantasy species archetypes I'd put in a completely self-indulgent worldbuilding project built entirely to my preferences. Orcs get in free, obviously, but there's definitely gotta be a Plant Guy and a Construct guy. Maybe both at once. PF2's "conrasu" sound so cool.

I feel it, albeit more northerly.

Several Fire Emblems new and old go that route to varying degrees of success. I'd also tried the Agarest War series after hearing that generational progression was a defining feature, but unfortunately that one didn't grab me enough to reach that point. Plus there's always stuff like Crusader Kings.

some Asura's Wrath shenanigans here

Seriously!? I must have fallen off the Wii U version before getting to it... Yet another reason to get the Switch one coming up, then.

A screenshot of a custom Accessory unit from Freedom Wars Remastered, with various custom dialogue marking her as an original character and indicating the high level of customization in the game.

Allowing you to write your own custom combat barks and callouts is one of the coolest things a game can do. All the more incredible when it actually vocalizes them as written in the audio, as it does in Freedom Wars.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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Happy 2025. May your efforts strengthen, relieve and inspire those around you.

happy new years everyone <3

mood?? or something

this musical timing was not on purpose, but it cracked me up (especially with that pose)

A screenshot from the game Baroque. A character called "The Coffin Man" tells the player: "Making dungeons is hard, so please look forward to trying it goddammit."

I should open every D&D session like this

(Reinhard's character selection quote--objectively, randomized tutorial text--was "Take the bow from an archer, and he can fight no longer." But knowing what happened at Ziekden Fortress, Reinhard himself being an archer--his story became as clear as if Square themselves had told it to me.)

For me this is the seed at the heart of games with custom characters--or even individual mechanics, like the enemy soldiers of Final Fantasy Tactics, randomly named from a huge pool, who can be Talked into joining you.

What was that conversation? What made Reinhard the archer turn away at Ziekden?

In my experience, games that give you tools to tell yourself stories can be just as memorable and powerful as games built entirely around more direct storytelling.

(frantically taking notes)