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    Good PnP RPG books for reading

    It was actually the Secret Service that did the raid, they thought it was a handbook for cyber crime lol... and they didn't return the manuscript after the raid, which delayed the book's publication as the author had to resume working from earlier draughts. :negative:
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    Good PnP RPG books for reading

    Any of the GURPS setting books, pick a subject you like and enjoy reading a meticulously researched primer on the topic, condensed into a very readable book that can be enjoyed as a gaming supplement or on its own.
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    RTS essentials

    Love AoE3, especially now that you no longer have to grind to unlock Home City cards in the latest remastered edition. The campaign looks very silly, but I rarely ever touch RTS campaigns so it's not a big deal for me. The setting, the asymetrical faction design, the lush visuals, the addition...
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    RTS essentials

    Warcraft 3 is so reduced in scale because Blizzard had initially envisioned it as a small-scale tactical combat game with RPG-ish elements rather than a classic base-building RTS. It would have been like Myth but with fancy graphics and the Warcraft universe. I remember reading those previews in...
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    RTS essentials

    Thank you for the write-ups, this is pretty interesting.
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    RTS Age of Empires IV - Medieval Again

    Yes, fans were anxious to get a new title in the series prior to the game's announcement. The active playerbase is more a reflection of AoE2's hegemonic status as perpetual RTS juggernaut than any indication of this game's actual qualities or flaws. But also, as a player I don't really see why...
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    RTS Age of Empires IV - Medieval Again

    They made a sequel because the fans demanded it and the company wants to make money, of course, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. Basically this is Age of Empires 2 but with AoE 3 levels of mechanical differentiation between the civs (minus the home city card deck system). If you liked...
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    RTS Age of Empires IV - Medieval Again

    I would say so, yes.
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    RTS Age of Empires IV - Medieval Again

    First impressions of the Xbox port: They cracked the controller interface problem. I might actually prefer playing this on console now. They added a new semi-automation system where you assign resource priorities and newly created villagers will get to work on their own, even building farms...
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    What's your favorite co-op dungeon crawl?

    OSR games usually have good dungeoncrawl procedures and tools to generate dungeons and such. If you're a fan of those kinds of games but are wary of using them for solo/coop because of the old-school fragility of characters in OSR games, you can try these solo rules...
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    Metroid Appreciation Thread

    Just replayed a bit of Metroid Prime, mostly as a way to test emulation on a new Xbox. Man, that game really holds up even today.
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    Incline Damsels, Adventurers, and Dragons Myths of Malignost Long Term Campaign

    Sounds like a cool game, keep on truckin'.
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    Field of Glory II

    Just annihilated a big Roman army as the Parthians. Archers, slingers and skirmishers are not *decisive*, but when you give them horses (mobility) they can cause significant attrition and disorganize the enemy enough for the big hammer blow. And cataphracts are one of the biggest, hammeriest...
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    Company of Heroes 3 - set in the Mediterranean theatre

    It's a pretty decent game but I feel like I'm wasting wasting my time (even more than usual) whenever I play it, since I know in a few months/years it will be much more fleshed out, balanced, etc. I'm also waiting to see whether they actually deliver on their promise for expanded modding...
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    Tactical games of starship combat

    I believe certain games make 3D approaches valuable by implementing weapon arcs and facing-specific armor values, but the point above is generally valid.

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