Lord of the Rings

2024 was a great year for RPGs. I didn’t play all the ones I wanted, but the ones I did play were pretty incredible.

We didn’t find much in our latest dive into the local retro game store scene, but we’d found a couple things. Mostly.

Snowblind Studios’ swan song might have been the best RPG they ever made.

Loved Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms. Snowblind’s next game was Justice League Heroes. Can it be just as good? Better?

Story and picture were generated by AI. Prompts by me. What if a modern teenager isekai’d herself into the Lord of the Rings?

I shuffled through the Gameboy Advance discount bins at some local retro game stores, and this is what I came away with.

It’s creator appreciation week, and I’m appreciating the creation myths of the most popular MMOs in the world!

Here we go again. The top 38 MMOs in the last 30 days in the USA, as reported by Google Trends.

I don’t even know if that title makes any sense. Anyway. A bunch of the prompts from the past week have dealt, in some way, with content creation. A lot of people have disagreed with my interpretation of that task as a method of drawing people to a website for the purpose of monetizing them in some way and getting your message and your content seen by those who’d enjoy seeing it. ...

Last year for my birthday, Kasul got me a huge, mysteriously heavy box and refused to say what was inside. Anticipation was killing me. When my birthday came, I opened it up and it was absolutely full of Fantasy Flight Games’ Game of Thrones, the Card Game stuff. The base game, custom card holders for each noble house, every expansion, box after box of stuff. It was more than a little overwhelming. We were, at the time, working our way through the Gloomhaven main campaign and didn’t have time for new games. Just after we finished with Gloomhaven, the pandemic happened, crushing our family game night for months. ...