The timeline and venue’s have been announced, they have also have a web site; Team Inneos, the UK boat is the challenger of record.
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Watching Critical Role
I really enjoyed the first two series of critical role, and have also watched a bunch of the one offs and mini-series. I watched on youtube, not on the real-time streaming service and found it useful to have series of resources to hand to help understand the rules of the game. I made a page,…
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Rise of Empires
It’s not the easiest game to learn; here are my notes and links.
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Modals & NWN Test
This page was built to test the required code to get the hint modals working on The Harp & Chrysanthemum page. It contains the three modals, which do not display until racked up and down. This has been tested on Firefox and is usable, and on Opera, which behaves oddly, and still requires to be…
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On the WOTC OGL
Wizards of the Coast are looking to earn more money from their D&D assets, this has led to some 3rd party creators to worry about their right of access to the rules which had been available to them via WotC Open Gaming Licence OGL 1.0a. The similarity with the software industry’s open source wars and…
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ANNO 1880
Xmas us coming, I was on Steam and found ANNO 1880 which looks beautiful, at least in stills. Currently on offer for a very reasonable price. What do others say? I have a look at some reviews. …
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Military Assistance Command, a game
A solo, narrative game, reminiscent of Junta’s themes called MAC.
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More NWN2, the Pool of Radiance
Another NWN2 game, this time the Pool of Radiance. No notes yet!
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NWN2 and W10 (2020)
I have a new windows laptop and need to bring my NWN2 game forward from the old machine; both are windows 10, although the new one is 64 bit. I wanted to economise the build’s storage space this time and had to overcome what looks like a 32/64 bit pragma problem; here is what I…
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NWN2 important buttons
I have written about hacking NWN2 in a couple of places on this wiki. This note gathers them together and documents quick save and print screen, and now the following controls. Enjoy!
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A persistent world
Can I make and use an NWN virtual world a.k.a. persitant world as a conference feature on one of the cloud providers? It’d be fun. I probably should check client licencing to see if it’s worth it because the client software isn’t small; maybe I could RDP onto it. Anywhere, here are my notes.
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Hero Wars
Originally attracted by the dungeon puzzles, I became hooked. A fantasy setting … complex character management mechanics. But I became bored with it; there’s insufficient agency in levelling up, and/or even party membership selection. I gave up with this. I have kept my links & notes online …
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Class Wargames & the ECW
I have been/am still reading Richard Barbrook’s book, “Class Wargames”. Among its many fascinating themes is his study of the collapse of democratic military forces into dictatorship.He name checks Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture & the Russian Revolution. I wonder why he didn’t start earlier with the English Civil War, it would seem to me to be…
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Baldurdash 301
This was the original and first unofficial fixpack for the Baldur’s Gate family of games. I refer to it in this wiki on a couple of my BG2 articles. It has now moved and can be found at Gibberlings 3 and has been renamed “fixpack”. The old site is available at the wayback machine.
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NWN2: the Harp & the Chrysanthemum
I decided to play this. I downloaded it from its home page but the game has been updated. Here are my notes, which talks a bit about version control but also includes some hints. For more, including the play hints, see below/overleaf.
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