![]() Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium.Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there.Tactical Adventures, however, have created a setting of their own that explicitly tries to capture the feel of a tabletop RPG with graphical dice and grid-based battlegrounds. Sure, people manage to do it online these days through services like Roll20, but then you're introducing a host of issues that we're already familiar with from the workplace – Zoom fatigue, anyone? Fortunately, a small Parisian studio, Tactical Adventures, has been busily working away on a solution to all these problems since 2019 and on 27 May self-released 1.0 of Solasta: Crown of the Magister, "created and written," they say, "by lifelong fans of pen-and-paper RPGs."ĭungeons & Dragons video games are nothing new, but Bioware and Black Isle's entries ( Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights) took place in the proprietary Forgotten Realms campaign setting (Faerûn) and, though built on the rulesets of the time, dice rolls were simulated in the background. No doubt a result of lockdown-induced cabin fever, I found myself recently pining for those halcyon days of ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws but faced one insurmountable obstacle – I have no friends, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to see them to organise a new campaign because of the will-they-won't-they coronavirus restrictions. We're talking, of course, about Dungeons & Dragons and related pen-and-paper tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs). This is a nerd publication so we're sure more than a few of you losers spent youthful evenings huddled around a table while your mate did his best "lusty elven tavern wench" impression. 2) Don't buy a case with any glass in it. Key learnings: 1) Open-air computing does wonders for cooling but it's not worth the occasional microscopic shard of glass in your foot. As I gently, and I really do mean gently, placed the stupid glass panel from the side of my tower onto the tiled kitchen floor, it exploded into hundreds of thousands of tiny shards. However, this wasn't before I reseated the GPU and RAM – because… I don't even know. As a last resort, and holding out hope for a software-based solution, I stripped out every display driver and let Windows sort itself out. All the games I've tried are installed on the second SSD, could it be a corrupt disk? Also brand new but not inconceivable. The errors didn't point to a precise problem so I spent every second I wasn't editing Register copy experimenting, trying to exhaust all avenues to prevent hauling the computer off to someone much better at this stuff than me.įaulty power supply? It's brand new. Event Viewer was throwing volmgr 161 (inability to create dump files) then Kernel-Power 41 (Windows hasn't the foggiest why it rebooted), no BSOD. ![]() I was, as you can probably imagine with a rig that cost more than my monthly salary, utterly horrified. Before we get into it, quick story: I wasn't sure if I'd make this deadline because I came back from holiday to find my PC had acquired a fondness for crashing then rebooting anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour into playing something. The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column.
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