Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/09/18 – … but sometimes it is a little early!

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// Please go to Elfia and take pictures. Which bootcamp are you going to?

There’s only one at the moment : the desert war bolt-action bootcamp 😀

// 1) Tell us about your first sessions. 10 points.

My AD&D character was a half-elven crypt ranger (from a Dragon magazine) with a charisma stat of 3 …
I always thought of him having half his faced disfigured with an acid burn or something equally ugly.
And his personality was *eh* not friendly despite being ‘good’.

As a crypt ranger I could ‘sense undead’ (which I imagined was the result of his wound starting to burn … )

Name  : Arnold Rimmerlister …
Think of him as a mix between Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf) and Dirty Harry.
He’s got a real hatred against anything undead … and would do anything to stop such a threat.
He also blamed his parents for the experiment that caused his disfigurement. Actual details were never revealed.

As such I’d probably barely qualify as ‘good’ (the means justify the ends … ).
Neutral because I think it fits a ‘robin hood’ type character who wants to obey the law up until a certain point as it allows for balance to exist.

Status : alive after betraying the party and delivering them to his patron to be used in an experiment involving a magical gate.
(my excuse to run a few adventures as a DM and send them to the old Warhammer world … ). The party survived and found a way back to their own world.

// 2) Have you played it? I watched videos online, seems good.

yep, I’m playing it. The combat isn’t quite as clean and easy as Arkham series, but it definitely makes you feel like spiderman.

The fun part is that if a bad guy is down and you hit him with the web again he gets webbed to the floor (or wall).

Stealth isn’t like Batman, but then spiderman isn’t exactly know for being stealthy so it kind of fits.

The (inevitable) base clearing missions do kind of suck, because stealth only works for the first wave of bad guys. And then there are 5 more (Each with more weapons and more difficult) with zero checkpoints in between. I’ve done only two so far (one was part of the story as a ‘tutorial’) and the fact that a death resets you to the first wave is very annoying.

As you progress you unlock various spider costumes which each have their own special ability. The neat thing is that once unlocked that special ability isn’t tied to the suit, so you’re not stuck wearing something ugly just for the powers. The only bad thing is that most of these powers suck while a few are total overkill.  Best example is my current one : ‘web blossom’.

It sprays webbing all over the place once activated and during the open world crime missions it allows you to stop them in seconds …

// The board game thing? Yeah looks like it could be great. I want a switch, but that was before that news.
No the computer game Civilization (Sid Meier’s Civilization to be precise) although I do realise that there was a Civ boardgame and the computer game has been turned into a boardgame as well. Confusing ? yep.

They showed so few of the actual game that at the moment it is a mere guess as to what they’re doing exactly. The hex grid looked a lot like the current pc version though.

> Is HZD the post apocalpytic game with robot dinos and stuff? Who is doing it? I think I saw this online. Is it Steamforged?

Yes it is, Steamforged are kickstarting the boardgame variant.  The models looks seriously cool. I was thinking of backing it, but then I saw the expected end date and that would not work for me as I’m planning to move ‘soon-ish’ (I want to move closer to my work so I can ride my bike)

// Mutant you say? That’s that Geralt guy?

Yep. To become a ‘witcher’ one has to go through training and drink something that mutates your body.
This is why all witchers have that white hair and are infertile  …
And unlike D&D magic where potions never have side effects (unless they’re cursed) in this setting they always do.

In fact they are so toxic that you can only use a limited amount …