Dude, who even knows.

23rd June 2023

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Like, I always used to plan too long-term, in Spiderweb games (Exile/Avernum) I’d always clear out the first goblin caves and keep going back to pick up every least valuable loot, like the rocks that weren’t even ranged equippable until after Nethergate, to haul back to town and sell and then buy all the skills the pay-trainer offered up to full before I moved on

Which crosses very productively with the thing where I can game out contemporary trends to tell where they’ll eventually end up

Which is maybe part of how it works out that I am now more amazingly well-positioned than I could ever imagine.

Like, in 1999 I was like “anime, happy hardcore, JRPGs, and Daft Punk is the important stuff going on” and with the benefit of hindsight was I wrong?

Tagged: avernumvibe shift

  1. archaalen said: @kontextmaschine giant friendly taking spiders…
  2. archaalen said: @kontextmaschine you know what’s up. The vahanati are one of my favorite fantasy cultures ever
  3. kontextmaschine said: @archaalen …pressing your way around the ENTIRE perimeter of a void on the minimap…
  4. kontextmaschine said: @archaalen just for being an elaboration of the alternate human/nephilim/slith(/vahnatai) fantasy humanoid species!
  5. archaalen said: Vogel’s games were my life for YEARS. I even tried to incorporate some of his Exile stuff into my D&D campaigns.
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  7. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I mean some of my evaluating my current life and situation as off-the-charts-great might just be the anxiety I was...