Been busy lately...
I've been quite busy lately, with my change of job, some "hardware work" on my house and having small holidays. But now that everything is getting normal again, I hope to be back posting frecuently.
This past weeks I've been reading a lot of comic books, some old ones I already had, some bought either in comic stores or in my small trip to Barcelona.
The three most interesting comic books I've read are this:
A world in which mouses live in a medieval society in hidden cities, guarded from cats and other dangers. A group of guardians, seeking trails of a traitor. A DnD-like adventure, with beautiful drawings.
It was a bit short but I liked it anyway.
Warhammer 40.000: Damnation Crusade
My first introduction to Warhammer 40k novels, in this case a graphic novel. It narrates some battles of the Dark Templars Space Marine Chapter against Orcs and Chaos (mostly, few other races appear).
Drawings are ok (but not incredible), but it reminded me of my childhood painting my Dark Angels miniatures. Narrative is "a-la-Warhammer 40k", super-humans blindly fighting for the Emperor with unbreakable faith and courage.
Comic book adaptation of the great novel. I was impressed of how exact text were. Drawings are in black&white but not bad, and help to transmit the fear and hopeless atmosphere of the story.
Recommended if you liked the novel.
Also, this weekend I took from my mother's house my old Gameboy and all the games I had with it. Among them, was one RPG I started but never finished, The Sword of Hope.
The game is a typical turn based, static screen RPG, with battles like Final Fantasy games. Story is typical, enemies are typical and battles are (typically) a bit too often and boring; You either die almost 100% sure or crush the enemies, depending on your level.
The interesting part is, being as limited as the original gameboy was, how developers put on the game a full RPG. I'm finishing it to see how big it is, but right now this are my thoughts:
- Combat is too simple: Attack or use spells (each level you gain more, usually more powerfull ones), or use healing items.
- Enemies are dumb: Sometimes they fight each other, sometimes they even hit themselves with spells, and there is few variety of them.
- Inventory is quite limited too: Just a maximum of 7 of each item (3 bits of data ;), just 255 gold (8 bits of data ;), you can only buy better armor (and I hope swords too later...), and you usually carry at most 2 or 3 special items.
- Level cap is 31 from what I've seen in the www, and you only have dex., stam. hits, mana and resistance points/variables.
Here are some screenshots:
As I said, the game is a bit limited, but excepting the tiring leveling up, fun to play.
Extra: Just released, the Wow Talent Calculator for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion
Tags: Comic Book DnD MMORPG Warhammer 40000 World of Warcraft
Diablo 3 + info about WoW 2nd Expansion
Wow, what a weekend! I went out this friday and just came back few hours ago to find that Diablo III has been finally confirmed to be in development (and looking fantastic), and more info about upcoming Wrath of the Lich King WoW expansion!
Also, I've been playing with the Spore Creature Creator for a while, and I'll probably add a subsection in this blog with both the creatures I design and the selections I made from other people ones (Sporepedia has at the time of writing this post near 1.3 million creatures!!!).
I know it's not an RPG, but I feel this game deserves a space here :)
Roleplaying Session IV: WoW Campaing started
Two weeks ago (yes, I've been lazy, but I'm having small vacations ;) we had another roleplaying session, and went back to WoW RPG.
We've started a campaign, continuing with our characters from the previous one. We've been "trained" to level 3 and given a +1 weapon (same type as we had before the leveling) to keep up with the difficult of the new campaign.
The mission is having to escort a caravan from Ironforge to Azshara (in Kalimdor). The merchants said there were no plans for attacks, but in case it happen we would get an extra gold bonus for the danger.
The caravan contains 6 wagons, some merchants (2-3 per wagon), and two additional bodyguards (an explorer and a rogue), hired too to protect the goods.
We departed from Ironforge, and the first day went without problems. We did shifts to always have at least 2 people guarding the encampment (a circle made with the wagons with a fire in the middle).
Everything was calm until two big bears tried to stole and eat food from one of the wagons.
We killed them before any significant damage to the caravan was done.
Location of the bear attack at night
The second day we crossed the tunnel to Wetlands, increasing our speed and changing shifts to be longer and with more people awake.
At noon, while I was sleeping, the caravan got attacked by a tribe of orcs.
We counted 9 warriors and one shaman. I got up and started dressing my armor (putting on a breast plate is not fast nor easy), while my friends started fighting the orcs.
The battle was very hard, and two of us fall asleep because of the shaman spells, but the invoked wolves of our druid saved the situation and the shaman finally fled (and escaped), all nine orc warriors dead.
Location of the Orc attack to the convoy
On the third day, we managed to arrive to Menethil Harbor, and took some rest on the local inn.
The adventure will continue...
Tags: RPG World of Warcraft
WoW Boardgame first session
This weeekend we had a different roleplaying session, we played for the first time (except for my friend Luiso) the World of Warcraft Boardgame.
We had a great time but the first play can get thought because of the complex rules (until you get the mechanics, then is quite fast to play).
The game needs a BIG table, not counting the Burning Crusade Expansion!
It uses a lot of dice too
Monsters are classic WoW ones, and the detail level is great.
Game quests get harder as you progress
Gaming time will shorten in future plays, but for the first time we spent a full morning (4 hours) and we stopped half-way the game's 30 turns length.
I am really amazed how similar is the game to the computer MMORPG, you really feel as playing a boardgame equivalent and not "another boardgame".
If you want, the rules are in PDF format freely available for download:
Next weekend we'll continue with the WoW RPG roleplaying sessions!
Tags: Boardgames RPG World of Warcraft
WoW Wrath of the Lich King closed Alpha info leaked
Looks like some info about the new WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, has been leaked and there are not only images (of weapons, characters, bosses, maps... even the loading screen!), but even a wiki with more or less detailed info!
It is a bit like an spoiler, but being able to look at Arthas is hard to resist :P
Tags: World of Warcraft
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