Breaking it all Down

Posted on July 29, 2017July 13, 2017 by Alexander Case

Adventure Review: B2 – The Keep on the Borderlands

Keep on the Borderlands is a lot of people’s first experience with a pre-written D&D adventure. While it isn’t the first published D&D adventure, or even the first 1st Level D&D Adventure, it’s one of the first ones with a drawn out map and wilderness environment combined, and many people’s first D&D adventure – including mine. Since the first time I’ve played the adventure, I’ve played many more RPGs in a multitude of systems, and had an opportunity to GM a couple times. So, I’m revisiting the adventure. Read more

Posted on July 28, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 69 – H-047C “Vault” II

We finish up the “Vault” and get the Remnant Tiller online. Read more

Posted on July 27, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 68 – H-047C “Vault” I

We do our first attempt at the H-047C Vault, before we get our butts kicked. Read more

Posted on July 26, 2017February 16, 2025 by Alexander Case

Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 69

This time we’re covering issue #52 of Nintendo Power for September of 1993! Read more

Posted on July 25, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 67 – Chatting with Vetra

After the loyalty mission, we do some business aboard ship and chat with Vetra. Read more

Posted on July 24, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 66 – Vetra’s Loyalty Mission

We’ve arrived at the place where the hostages are being kept, but there’s something more to this than we suspected going in. Read more

Posted on July 23, 2017July 5, 2017 by Alexander Case

Video Game Review: Final Fantasy III (DS)

Final Fantasy III had never gotten an official US release prior to the release of the DS remake of the game. The Famicom version had received an unofficial fan-translation, but there was no way to play it legally, until the DS release of the game. Even the somewhat controversial sophomore outing of the series had gotten by that point two updated remakes, for the Playstation as part of the Final Fantasy Origins collection, and for the GBA as part of Dawn of Souls. Read more

Posted on July 22, 2017June 22, 2017 by Alexander Case

Anime Review: Dallos

Dallos is an anime that reminds me a lot of what got me into anime in the first place. I came into anime as a fan of science fiction and fantasy, and I came in through OVAs and films like Akira, Demon City Shinjuku, Ghost in the Shell, and Record of Lodoss War. So, when I found out that Dallos, an anime considered to be the first OVA (or one of the first alongside the Cream Lemon series), and which was directed by Mamoru Oshii (who also directed Ghost in the Shell and Angel’s Egg – which I’ve previously reviewed), had been licensed by Discotek Media, and later made available for streaming on Crunchyroll, I put it on my to-watch list. Read more

Posted on July 21, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 65 – Exploring H-047C

We head to H-047C for Vetra’s loyalty mission, and explore some of the planet on the way to the site. Read more

Posted on July 20, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 64 – The Course to Kadara

We make our way to Kadara, exploring a few systems on the way there. Read more

Posted on July 19, 2017June 26, 2017 by Alexander Case

Vlog: E3 2017 Sold & Unsold

This time I’m doing a one-month belated-due-to-technical difficulties Vlog ( Vlog because I don’t want to get clobbered under ContentID) of my thoughts on the 5 things I was sold and unsold on from this last E3. Read more

Posted on July 18, 2017July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 63 – The Lower Decks

After leaving Aya, we talk to a bunch of the crew members. Read more

Posted on July 17, 2017June 26, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 62 – Exploring Aya

After having rescued the Moshae, we are finally able to return to Aya and explore the city on our own. Read more

Posted on July 16, 2017June 22, 2017 by Alexander Case

Documentary Review: Sgt. Pepper’s Musical Revolution

It’s been a while since I did a review of a music documentary – the last one that comes immediately to mind is a documentary review on the career of Pink Floyd. Well, this year is the year that the Beatles concept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band has it’s 50th anniversary, and the BBC did a documentary on the album, which also broadcast on PBS, which is where I saw it. Read more

Posted on July 15, 2017June 21, 2017 by Alexander Case

Book Review: Log Horizon Book 2 – The Knights of Camelot

When I reviewed the first Log Horizon book, I mentioned that were a few plot concepts that were set up in the next book in the series – a general malaise filling Akiba, along with the state of food in the world – and in turn a new discovery by Nyanta related to that. With the second installment of the series, the book dives further into that, and shifts genres somewhat. Read more

Posted on July 14, 2017June 26, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 61 – Counseling Session

That last mission ended on a very heavy note, so it’s time to sit and talk with the crew. Read more

Posted on July 13, 2017June 26, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 60 – Resistance Isn’t Futile

The time has come to rescue the Moshae – so we head off with a team to get her out. Read more

Posted on July 12, 2017June 21, 2017 by Alexander Case

Legends of the Force: Episode X – Tales of the Jedi Part I

This time we travel into the ancient past of the Star Wars universe with Tales of the Jedi. Read more

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 59 – Voeld Again

We head back to Voeld to prepare for a hostage rescue, and get lost inside a base. Read more

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Alexander Case

Let’s Play Mass Effect Andromeda: Part 58 – Something’s Fishy

We discover that there was more to the founding of the Andromeda Initiative than we first thought. Read more

Posted on July 9, 2017June 9, 2017 by Alexander Case

Book Review: Deities and Demigods (1980)

Probably one of the first sourcebooks put out for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was Deities and Demigods, a book with a collection of beings that would provide something for your Cleric to be, well, a cleric of. However, it doesn’t really hold up very well, particularly compared to later deity books for later editions of AD&D and D&D. Read more

Posted on July 8, 2017June 9, 2017 by Alexander Case