Ranking of Kings is a show that, frankly, I missed the boat on. It was a show that everyone on AniTwitter, everyone on the anime podcasts I listened to were praising to high heavens, but I pushed off watching it. Until now. Now I’ve finally watched it and it’s time to give the show the consideration it deserves.
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We continue to contend with tricky map layouts and ranged attackers.
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We reach the final guardian of this dungeon.
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We now come to the worst novels in the Star Wars Legends timeline we’ve covered so far.
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We finally clear out the undead and open a path to the end of the dungeon.
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We finally turn the fight around, though we still have a Bewitched party member.
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Previously I have read and reviewed Playing at the World, the book about how Dungeons & Dragons came to be. Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons, is one of two follow up-books by Jon Peterson essentially about how Roleplaying Games went out of the hands of Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson. In the case of Game Wizards, it’s about how Gary & Dave lost their control over the game, through hubris and arrogance.
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These have been a stressful few years, so certainly, now has been a great time for some nice healing anime, so among the ones I’ve been watching has been Barakamon – a very chill series about life in a rural Japanese town.
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Faced with Bewitched party members, I move back to cheats.
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The monsters close with the party, and unleash status effects.
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So, I had COVID-19, which is going to screw with my schedule, so I give some quick thoughts on my experiences.
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This time (among the various critters), we face a Dagon-class monster.
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We finish off our next fight, opening the path to the next dungeon level.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 215 – Dragons Again IV”So, the climate in Oregon is acting like it was 2 years ago when everything was on fire again – Portland General Electric is doing targeted power outages in some areas to prevent wildfires, and we are encountering wildfires on the edges of the Portland Metro area – as of this writing, there is a brush fire that recently started in Milo McIver State Park … Continue reading Quick Update: Wildfire Season
Time to move on to a Star Wars book that isn’t actually terrible, as I take a look at the next Young Jedi Knights anthology.
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The fight swings in our favor, but not without some real difficulty with these status effects.
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Not only do they have enemies that can use AOE poison attacks, but we also are introduced to the Bewitched status effect.
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We have another sequel to a SNES game this issue, with Starfox 64.
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We face off with a few dragons, and forgot to bring any of our Dragoons.
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We finally conclude this battle so we can move on to the next area.
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This weekend is Worldcon, and several weeks before the convention (basically the week before I got COVID), I finished reading the last of the novels that were up for Hugo Awards that weren’t part of a series that I hadn’t already started reading – She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan – a novel inspired by wuxia fiction, inspired by the rise of the Hongwu Emperor. It’s an… interesting book, but one which had some points that I stumbled over.
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Things start going better, as we turn the fight around.
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We try to get Azelstan to some tarot cards for the stat buffs.
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I’m putting the next installment of the Nintendo Power Retrospectives back a week to review another of this year’s Hugo Nominees before this year’s Worldcon (though after the voting deadline).
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