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Read

Although I've been through the PDFs a few times and have two campaigns going with the system, I've mostly just been leafing through the physical books for Land of Eem, now that my backer rewards have arrived. The Sandbox book is taking up most of my attention, as I read around the parts of the map where the parties are currently to see what else I can throw at them.

I'm also trying to prep for the next stage of the Dragonbane campaign, which means I've got to read through the frankly atrocious official adventure book and figure out how to glue it all together in a way that fits with what's happened so far.

Play

Nothing, as per.

GM

I've got a Land of Eem game that took over from my Avatar Legends campaign when that wrapped up, which is going pretty well. I suspect I'll need to push the players into keeping their own notes more, as there are a lot of moving parts in the sandbox and I'd like them to have their own priorities instead of relying on my session writeups. That's even less likely for the on-again-off-again game I've started for the kid and one of his friends, but they're challenging my GMing style in plenty of new ways – mostly by throwing each others' characters under the bus at the first sign of a displeased authority figure. I'm going to have to instil in them the important principle "don't be a grass".

The Dragonbane game is approaching its end; there are still a few loose ends for the party to tie up before they move on the final boss, but they're close enough now that I've read through that dungeon and decided I need to completely redo it myself. I've got some notes for the different areas and now I need to decide how much of it I want to map out for them.

It looks like there might be a form of mouse control.

The glorious, triumphant return of Mario Paint.

I don't know what kind of place Dok thinks the Society is, but we're not exactly Digital fuckin Foundry over here.

And that's a lot of words for someone who says it's "not my concern".

Will we ever just admit graphics are good enough and keep things on the same hardware while making that hardware cheaper with some revisions that have better build quality or aesthetics or so on instead of making CONSOLE 2: WE CATER TO GRAPHICS SNOBS?

Nope.

The original was £280 at release; I'd assume, given increased capabilities and economic conditions etc., we'll be looking at a bit higher for this one. Maybe as much as £350? If it's higher than that, I think they might struggle without some big-name must-have exclusives (and Mario Kart 9 ain't that).