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Started RPG Winter 2025

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Still on Coriolis: The Great Dark, mostly flipping back and forth between three different books to get a grip on the Flowers of Algorab campaign with a vague idea of running at least the first chapter. Still not totally convinced by the mechanics, but hopefully the VTT will handle a lot of the heavy lifting on the crunchier interactions.

Play

As usual, not getting to sit on the other side of the GM screen these days. :sob:

GM

I could run Land of Eem forever, I think; the sandbox has just so much stuff that I've barely scratched the surface across two different (simultaneous) campaigns. The two parties have overlapped a handful of locations, but their interests and approaches have been so different that I'm sure I could run a third group through the same places and see things go in completely different directions. I'm not used to prepared material at all, really, but definitely haven't run with something this deep, broad and flexible before.

Posted in Your Games Completed of 2025

Done with Outer Worlds now, too. Really appreciate all the QoL improvements for the sequel, but that core of wandering round with your pals, fixing (or causing) problems for various flavours of zealous sociopath is rock solid.

I'm not as interested in another go at it as I am with the sequel, though—probably because my experiences in OW2 made me much more deliberate in my character choices so there's less of a sense of "should have done that differently".

I have, of course, immediately restarted the sequel with the intent of a heavily speech-focused build and a strong anti-corporate approach, so we'll set how that plays out.

Posted in PWB December

Play

Hot on the heels of finishing off Outer Worlds 2, I've immediately gone back to The Outer Worlds, which seems much larger than its reputation had led me to believe. There are at least two planets on the system map I've not even unlocked yet, and I've not been a slouch about missions. It's not quite as good as the sequel, mechanically—there are so many quality-of-life improvements in the UI alone—but the world and the characters are top-notch.

There's a game preview (read: early access build) of Whiskerwoods on the PC GamePass which had seemed right up my Timberborn-loving street, but it's a little clunkier and more opaque in its systems and I'm struggling a bit to juggle all its demands.

Want

Really curious to see a price point for the Gabecube to either tip me over into an impulse purchase or laugh heartily and write off the idea of ever getting one.

Posted in Your Games Completed of 2025

Credits rolled on Outer Worlds 2. That was a fun time!

There's no New Game Plus, which is a little disappointing but given I'd hit the max level cap several missions before the point-of-no-return I don't know what I'd get out of it. If I was to replay it (which, honestly, I might) I'd probably focus a bit more on specific areas rather than the jack-of-all-skills approach I took this time—and probably be a bit more principled than trying to make peace at all costs.

Posted in Steam Machine / GabeCube

While I'm curious about the λbox (most of my PC gaming is on the lower-end of the graphics spectrum anyway, so the lesser graphical oomph isn't a dealbreaker, depending on price, obviously), I am very intrigued by the controller. The first-version Steam Controller was an interesting curiosity but ultimately a failure and not that nice to use. I'm guessing that their Steam Deck experience has taught them a lot about improving the button layout and the general feel of the thing. And if it means I can play Timberborn on the sofa, even streaming onto the Steam Machine I still have, then I'm in.