We’ve started and completed a short campaign, “Scepter Tower of Spellgard”.

It was a fine adventure, one that tested my abilities as a storyteller and my friends as adventurers. One such adventurer, Kal Encestrom, has been fun to tinker with. He is bright, eager, and often overconfident in his abilities. He has twice nearly killed our party in our adventures and twice saved us all. He often solves the troubles that he causes however, leaving us neither completely loving nor hating him.

Our Warlock, Zyrah, I believe it’s spelled, follows us on our adventures for profit and power. They are lead by my own character, the Dragonborn Warlord Akta Wa’ru, who goes by the nickname, “Captain.” Akta is often reckless and foolhardy, much like Kal, but only shows shining moments of brilliance. In our campaign, I couldn’t focus on his own decisions, as I was DMing and knew the answers to all the puzzles, so I enjoyed how Kal solved them. Activiting traps from a distance nearly proved fatal however, as was his attempt to channel Solid Snake, but he always seems to pull through in the end.

Our new adventure is being DM’d by Amanda, Ence’s bride to be. So far her fights have proved challenging, engaging and interesting. Nothing Kal and Akta can’t handle though.

Behold the Book of Pwnage! Now YOU can own the most powerful book in existence!

How can this happen, you ask? How could one such as you own a book such as this? Journey to the new storefront for all things Massive Pwnage, and take the first steps towards obtaining a mind-shattering tome of epic power. Also, shirts.

Two versions of this book are available. The regular version, which is delivered to you straight from the printers, and the fabled Artist Edition, which features signatures from both Locke and myself. The Artist Edition also includes a personalized sketch of your choosing, as long as it is within reason, of course.

Go now and pwn!

E3 is imminent, and I have a few friends attending, so hopefully we’ll get some information right as it comes. While it’s underway, you should keep track of it on Kotaku. I’m looking forward to some more information on the 3DS, as well as the new Kingdom Hearts game. I’ll be sorely disappointed if it’s just the port for KH:Coded.

I’m glad that I’ll now have time to work on some comics, as well as play some new games. I’ll be looking for work this summer while I write, having some pocket cash is never a bad idea during summer gaming season.

What are your plans for this summer?

Power Gig. It looks… not good. The graphics, presentation, and interface just aren’t up to par with Rock Band. But, what it all comes down to is the gameplay, wich is always hard to determine by watching videos.

The one thing Power Gig has going for it (as far as I can tell) is the new guitar. It has strings on it! I have absolutely no idea how this thing works. I mean, I guess the game can detect which frets you’re holding down, but does it matter which string? It does double as a real guitar though, so that’s cool.

All I was thinking while I was watching these videos was “I hope that guitar works with Rock Band.” Oh, and “those drums look TERRIBLE.” They’re just sensors that sit on the floor as you swing your drum sticks around. Yeah, I don’t know.

Boston jokes aside, I’m back.

I’ve been spending the past week prepping to move, something I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading at the same time. It was hard to move into this place, and now I find myself with a mixed feeling of both excitement and homesickness. You see, I came here two summers ago, and I’ve experienced many things, hardship and heartbreak, joy and success, all under this roof. Its just kinda hard to let go.

I can’t bring myself not to post about this, but I discovered a project that’s pretty cool. Osu!, a fan-based project based on the popular Elite Beat Agents, and is named after the original Japanese game, is a pretty neat game. All the beatmaps are user made of course, but some of them are nothing short of awesome. Just search “Don’t Stop Me Now Phoenix Wright” and click the first link, it’s amazing. I’m by no means the best EBA player, but when it came out I played it constantly. Ence and I have a friend who is probably the only person on the planet to have an EBA related injury. A DS Stylus is never supposed to draw blood, but it did. One of the best things about this map is that it’s got an actual failure/success story path system like all real EBA tracks. Depending on how well you are doing, there will be differences in how it plays out. It’s pretty neat.

I hope you all are enjoying the oncoming summer weather, I know that I’ll appreciate some sun.

-Locke