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The party continues their assault on the Asmoden temple, looking for the infernal engines fueling the tyrant Barzillai Thrune and his guardians. The rogue-wrestler, Guts Clobber, continues their tale. (-GM)

17th of Rova, 4715 AR

Our story begins on the ground… Or rather on a balcony. We just finished our previous fight against the cult of Asmodeus, where over twenty men lay slain at our feet. They would use their will and force others to do their bidding, so they had it coming… Although this endeavor is against a group of hellhounds. The handwraps around my fists tell me so, and purge spirits deemed unworthy (1d6 good damage vs evil aligned). But for now, we can take a breather. From our previous endeavors, we learned that using traditional medicinal techniques takes too long, so we instead brought a magical bag full of potions. Easier to drink a potion than…

Time for our regular quick-fire reviews and impressions of what’s been under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both…

We begin with a bit of both, and the new Winters Expansion DLC for last year’s Retro Arcadia game of the year, Resident Evil Village. I’ve only had a quick go on the new third-person view for the main game so far, but the Shadows of Rose story content was the main reason for getting this. It’s the main game’s protagonist’s almost grown-up daughter back to close her family’s arc in a warped take on some familiar sights. Really nice bit of Resident Evil too, more supernatural than last time out and an enjoyable bit of a stretch as a result, but most of all being back in Castle Dimetrescu and its surrounds just felt like coming home. Not sure…

Growing up, my grandmother was the yard sale queen. She would be out hunting before I even thought of getting out of bed and finding unique treasures and deals. Thanks to her skills, my brother and I got the two consoles that we really started to game on.

For the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on the PlayStation (the OG one) that she found. It came with a handful of games, and honestly, except for three, I can’t tell you what they were. But I can tell you those three.

The original Spyro trilogy. My brother and I wore those discs out. His favorite was the Year of the Dragon, and mine was Ripto’s Rage. My apologies to the original, but I rarely played it.

While I’m a “playing for the fun of it” kind of gamer, my brother is a completionist. I can’t even begin…

When they announced One D&D, the next edition that is beyond editions, I was skeptical. I started calling it 5.5e, because it was supposed to be “backward compatible.” However, now seeing the playtests, and the directions they are wanting it to go, it already does not seem to be backwards compatible, because of the different bonuses from races, backgrounds, how abilities work, etc. In that case, let’s just make the game the Sixth Edition, and be willing to change more.

This is the final article, the Monster Manual, find the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more.

Monsters

There should be a given way to modify monsters for your game. There are a few moments where there is a variant of the monster, and so you can look and figure out how to turn other monsters in that way, but I wish it was more standard.

One place…