Recent content by Hemlet

Well my absolute favourite has to be Yor: Hunter From The Future: For a trip into unbridled insanity you just can't go wrong with Robo Geisha. Just...just go look it up. Really. Do it.

supergreatfriend: He LP's, demos, and otherwise looks at games that I think most people either ignored or weren't even aware existed. I'm sure as hell I didn't know there was a game called Laser Lords for the Philips CD-I. brickroadbrickroad: Another LPer, started following him because of his...

Mmm...lemme see here... -some seasonal food; Christmas sausage, some nice cheese, etc. -a fuckton of chocolate -a fuckton of alcohol -some alcohol with chocolate in it (it's tasty enough to warrant it's own point) -a Pez dispenser -a can of silly string -some Christmas money -Socks...

I would like to nominate the weapon and armour shop owner from Dragon's Dogma for the crime of running a shop that the player is going to frequently visit and only having one goddamn line of spoken dialogue. "They're master works all you can't go wrong!" "They're master works all you can't...

Righto, I freely admit I skim-read the thread so far and don't readily know if I'm repeating someone else's sentiments or not, but here goes. Between playing a lot of D&D and reading my fair share of fantasy novels, the conclusion I've come to is that Magic in fantasy settings largely takes...

The only times I've had to instigate a timer for combat turns is when I had players who weren't paying attention or had trouble paying attention (large group+a few members with ADHD and the like=it happens), and even then only in mid to high level D&D. It's one thing to re-describe where bandits...

There's enough leather and hair in this metal to be borderline satirical, and I love it. And over here we have a German band imitating Irish accents playing speedfolk music. Annnnd Hocus Pocus by the band Focus, because I post it in every music thread I post in.

For games in general: I ran a weekly game of Dungeons and Dragons for two years. With an average of 4 hours/session and a handful of marathon 10+hour sessions, I'd say the total comes out to around 420 hours. For videogames specifically: Evochron Mercenary on Steam with 317 hours on one file...

Super Mario 64 for me. We had a NES that my Dad had brought home as a novelty, but other than watching him stumble through Metroid or stumbling my own way through Kirby's Adventure, the system just didn't grab me. Yeah it was fun, but there wasn't really enough going on there to hold my 4...

Quite frankly? It wouldn't end well, but I'd do my absolute damndest to go "Old Man Henderson" on everything. Maybe do the sports almanac Back To The Future trope just to rack up some funds before I started fucking everything up as much as I could. I'd probably last all of a week, but holy...

First, I'ma just agree with everything mentioned on this list. Seriously some good stuff mentioned there. Second, I'm sad that no one mentioned The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman yet. 7 books in the series, some of the neatest world-building I've seen in a fantasy series.

Having DM'd for a group that fluctuates between 6 and 10 regular players for almost 2 years now, I've learned a few important things: -When dealing with a larger than average group, don't be afraid to say "alright, and now we're gonna move over to these characters for a bit and find out what...

So apparently my pet turtle just grew to be bigger than I am, and there's a stranger in my shower who is trying to, for some reason, drown a monstrously huge turtle. At it's regular size my turtle can: -swim -hold it's breath for 15-20 minutes at a time -bite down hard enough to take off...

I don't really have a filter for characters I can't play I don't think, seeing as there's been a few D&D and d20 Modern games where I've played as some truly despicable motherfuckers. How despicable you may be asking? Well, for one d20 Modern game, I played as a full blown goddamn Nazi. To this...

Welp, time to add this to my game library and then not play it for the next month or so. I have other games to play and things to do that don't involve being harassed by the "ruin the FTP-noob's day" and "Valve ripped off paying customers waah" crowds. Once those inevitable shenanigans blow over...