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The only time I ever beat Midir was with a faith caster. I used Lightning Arrow and shot him in the head a lot, ran out of healing estus, and kept myself going by being a cheeky bastard and casting heal spells when I had the opening to. I used a mix of Pestilent Mercury, heals, and running around t...

= It's possible the whole blood brother/hand holding scene at the end was a substitute. I can't remember if that happens in the books, or not. It did. The mention it early on--they all cut themselves with a sliver of a Coke bottle for it, and the scars disappear and don't reappear until their memor...

I just finished the first Frank Herbert Dune book, it's an amazing piece of art that covers a diverse array of themes. Man I wish Jodorowsky got to do his Dune movie I have complex feelings on Dune. I can see the importance of it, the sort of ground it broke, and the stuff on Arrakis' ecology was r...

Dark Souls 3: I finally saw Shin Godzilla today, and got reminded that From Software like straight up ripping-off things.

Anyone who's fought Darkeater Midir, does this look familiar to you?

Saw this on twitter yesterday, someone's gathered it up.

Two authors improv a slasher movie

No session this week; scheduling issues. Will have one next week. Sometime I'm going to throw up more detailed incidents.

Try the axe and go for the Kirkhammer. Saw cleaver is nice, but also kinda boring somehow.

SESSION THREE We got a long session in this time. It started with the rogue getting a solo run before the session proper, scouting out a bandit fort/mini-town. He checked out the entrances, ambushed a guard on his way pick up a disguise, and determined there were several ways to set it on fire. Eve...

Session 2 We had our first combat, and it went well. The dicebot didn't try to screw us too hard, and in-game the baddies learned that working for people who are porting excess reality into the place is a bad idea if you're a disposable thug type--getting hurt is messy and painful. One fellow got d...

Has anyone found any hidden gems in the current (2017) steam sale so far? I've been weirdly reluctant to pick up anything this time around. The first three Batman Arkham games are five bucks a pop and worth a play if you never have. Shadow Warrior is about four dollars and it's definitely good fun ...

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE I started playing in a new campaign. It promises to be fun. As the title says...the world's a stage. That is, this little pocket reality is a world made for the explicitly purpose of being a place to watch stories happen. Here's the pitch the document the MC came up with: Th...

I discovered the Travel Guide to Molvania.

It's terrible, but I laughed until I wheezed at some part of this.

Josh_Kablack wrote:

Maxus wrote:Well, I have a specific song recommendation: "Stand my ground" by Tom Petty is a good one to keep yourself from giving up

That is in fact song #2 on the most recent playlist I made for training.

Good man.

Well, I have a specific song recommendation: "Stand my ground" by Tom Petty is a good one to keep yourself from giving up

Ancient History wrote:https://nypost.com/2017/06/01/doctors-w ... r-vaginas/

In other news, after thirty years of not drinking, I'm thinking of starting, for this and other reasons.

Humble Bundle's store has several companies doing a spring sale. Square-Enix, Bandai-Namco, Telltale, Konami, and a few others are all on a steep discount

Basically, does Ryder learn how to delegate? Barring that, does s/he try to be less oblivious than Shepard? ("Spectres have to act on their own because they do stuff that we, the council members have to deny officially if asked, wink wink" "OMG WHY R U SO MEEN!" ) Sort of. You c...

Okay. Mass Effect: Andromeda patched the multiplayer HARD 95% of my criticisms about it are now gone. It is now possible to one-shot mooks. Some of the super-enemies are not quite as cut-throat about the sync-kills. Some damaging powers now do damage you care about. The Crusader shotgun, my mainstay...

France picks Macron

And Macron's campaign evidently threw out some chaff to confuse and keep WikiLeaks busy--bullshit e-mails and fake passwords so Wikileaks dumped a bunch of faked e-mails, or something.

Vive la France.

Stahlseele wrote:i just learned that an old girlfriend of mine has killed herself.
i really wish i liked alcohol right about now . .

I'm sorry, man

Josh_Kablack wrote:Saint's Row II currently free on GOG.

Original Starcraft currently free elsewhere

Gracias

Red-and-blue, definitely. Some friends and I are thinking of being Tech-priests. We'll wear red and some fancy-looking gizmos and move around as a unit fixing people's shit. One person will do the fixing while the others chant the Gospel of Saint Crankshaft and burn incense. If budget allows, o'course

So basically, I should be a sword and board fighter, and not bother with/worry about magic (be it sorcery, miracles, or pyromancy), at least until I really know what I'm doing. Sssort of. Your starting class is just that--your start. Being a Pyromancer has early applications--some of the early boss...

I enjoy that Solomon Kane reads very well as a Reborn from After Sundown with a past life as an African warrior, given his uncanny affinity for Africa. He even has Sands of Time wherein a description of him dodging an attack it suggests in another timeline he would have died. Re: Solomon Movie I'll...