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Here you stand, two weeks before the Vytal tournament is scheduled to start, facing a new challenge The world around you is encased in a pure darkness meant to keep the outside world from bleeding in. There is silence, though you know that your team is just a room away, waiting nervously to...

What this is? This is a quest set in the Starcraft universe, approximately at the start of Amon's End War. You will take the role of an OC allied commander and join the fight against him. Quest features: 1) This is a narrative-based quest. Numbers, dice-rolls, stat sheets and the like play a...

"Being a king is easy," your father had told you once, "but being a good king may be the hardest task in the world." Objectively speaking, your father was not a very good king. He was fair, honorable, and kind. A good man, by most standards. But he was also a weak and indecisive ruler. His reign...

WESTEROS In the Year, 172 AC, the bells tolled in Kings Landing for the second time in just a year for a king's death. Viserys the Second of His Name had passed after a week of illness and suffering in bed. Now his son, Prince Aegon would ascend to the throne, the fourth Aegon and the 11th king...

Polygon: Humankind is Sega’s innovative new challenger to Civilization

You have always been a die-hard fan of American football. Ever since you were a little kid, you have wanted to be part of the great sport, either as a player or as a coach. Now you have your chance. You just got the paper that would change your life. The Letter that could create so much for...

The Dark Forest We found the first witness orbiting Procyon in an unstable orbit; an ashen planet covered in a web of country sized scars that bit deep into the core. The only planet in the entire system, surrounded by a halo of cometary debries bathed in the harsh white light of Procyon...

Ymir is a game that I just discovered via my brother and am immediately in love with. It's still in early access, so there's an obligatory warning right there. But what is Ymir? It's a city/civilization builder game in the style of Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom et al crossed with a 4x and...

A twilit orb, sometimes considered the sun, sat affixed to the eastern skies. Its lukewarm gaze cascaded over the open plains that stretched westward, tapering off into a sickly glow the farther it reached. From a vantage, one could hear the faint grumbling of a spreading maleficence to the...

The Tapani Sector is located in the Colonies on the Shapani Bypass, a trade route which is an offshoot of the Rimma Trade Route. The sector capital is Procopia, though the world of Tallaan is equally important due to it being the main Imperial regional depot in the Sector. Though Tapani isn't in...

It is the eighteen hundredth year of the Human Diaspora, and the shadow of war once against looms over the islands of civilization. The Second Expansion Sphere is one of the oldest of these islands. Connected directly to the worlds of Old Earth via wormhole and colonized near the dawn of...

Kalina couldn’t believe it, all G&K Personnel had been designated as wanted criminals. But that thought was instantly shoved back into her mind once the alarms went off, blaring throughout the base as the proximity sensors were triggered. The Military was here… Kalina began to check every...

The world of Elysia, a simple world brought down into war and hatred by one empire...The Hadal Empire. The First Elysian War was a brutal war fought from 1895 to 1910, and all of the Hadal Territories were turned into their own countries. But this came with a terrible price, as the conflict had...

Prologue: Auspicious Beginnings 22 BBY You’re a clone. One among three million. You grew up in the same tubes as all your brothers, under the same tutors, and in the same city. Every last one of you was put through the same simulations, given the same training, and the same education. With...

Welcome to Creation In the beginning there were Gods. There was light, and love. And then there was war. This cycle has repeated from time to time. Different kings and different Heavens. Such is the way of things. But this time... This time is different. Apollo, Lord of Olympus...

=]- Vilyusk -[= 13th October 1859 anno Domini Earth - OOC Thread Witch General: Verusha (@Estro ) Intelligence and Recon: Kiril (@Ceslas ) Quartermaster: Gregory (@whydoyoubother ) Breaching your way from one world to another, to seek out the origin of the Vodyanov, who had...

There is no sky. No light. No sound. You have awakened to naught but a formless void, all consuming in its darkness. You twist and turn about in the darkness, hoping to find something, anything on which to orient yourself. Your efforts all prove for naught. You are, for the moment at least...

Cree concerns hammer home why Civ needs to reject its own traditions I'm not sure I fully agree with this article, Civilization is basically a digital board game after all. But I think it does raise points worth of discussion. Do we really want to portray history and humanity as merely a game...

This game as the title said is a 4x game as in (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate), the game is as graphic as a VB program (which it is), the game is complicated too, really really complicated, this is not a game for casual players, the installation in itself is sometimes a challenge, well...

Rising in the East Its always rising in the East IC Thread =}+{= =}+{= It was the year 1859 anno Domini, the 6th October in the Julian calendar and Tsar Nicholas I was clinging on to life and rein even as his breath was getting slower and his royal blood was getting more and more...

Hello, all. This is a renewed version of my Hyrule Dynasty Quest that became defunct due to complexity and IRL complications. After playing Crusader Kings II and becoming more familiar with the mechanics, I have decided to give this another try. This quest takes place starting immediately...

Hello, all, this is a reboot of Aranfan's Hyrule Dynasty Quest, done with his permission. The mechanics should work in largely the same way as his original quest. However, this is my first attempt at running a quest, so I still haven't learned all of the ins-and-outs about how it works. As...

A battle is raging. Snarling lizards are let loose from their chains to charge their foe. A group of dancing men twirl across the field to meet them, their swords bursting into flame. White clad Amazons launch arrows with uncanny precision. And today, the dead fight on both sides. Serpentine...

I saw this during the Ubisoft Conference a few days ago and thought that it looks really interesting. And they just recently did a pretty long demo of it on Nintendo's livestream about even more details of the game (it'll probably another hour or two before Nintendo puts that video up on their...

I've actually sat on this post for about two or three days now, trying to figure out if I wanted to put it in the War Room History and Military Discussion or Computers and Video Gaming. It is a game, true, but Afghanistan '11 (A11) isn't the kind of viscerally thrilling affair of the like...