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What’s better, rolling with a positive modifier or ‘with advantage’? That’s what I was wondering about last time. I already explored the question in enough detail to answer the question about what gloves to wear. But what about other combinations of dice? I’m a game designer, I don’t really care all that much about how…
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I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 lately, a game you’ve probably heard a lot about already. I’ve been surprised at how fiddly and fussy a game it is, and I cannot believe what a massive success it’s been ‘despite’ that. It feels like a thought experiment made real, one positing that players don’t need everything…
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So like I was saying last time, I’ve been playing a lot of the old DS game Pokémon Conquest (2012), and appreciating some unique aspects of its design. Before I was talking about how Pokémon’s shaggy type system lends some interesting complexity to grid-based tactics gameplay. But even so, while I think it’s interesting, I…
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Some time ago I had hacked an old 3DS. It’s a great emulator platform since it can easily play games from the Gameboy through to the GBA, DS and 3DS. But for some reason often when you complete these kinds of little projects you just go, “Wow, now it can play anything!” and then promptly…
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I probably should’ve done this awhile ago- setting up a proper blog I more directly own and host myself. Long overdue, but here it goes! Hosting things you write online should be pretty simple, but in this sort of fallen age of the internet, everything is a bit precarious. I’ve tried a few dedicated platforms,…