I’ve been away a while. It’s kind of become a thing. First I was traveling, and then not playing games, and then traveling again, and then playing games on different consoles, so there weren’t tonnes of badges to be found. Then, at long last, I started getting badges again, only to discover that I didn’t have the time to update. So that sucked. But anyhow, here we go, back in the saddle again. I’ve been trying out some new games lately– a few of the cheaper games on Steam that have interesting premises that aren’t the same tired thing over and over again.
The first new game that I tried is Knights of Pen and Paper, which is part standard cute RPG, except that it’s pretty damned meta. You actually play a team of role-players playing characters. You get bonuses, depending on who’s playing (the pizza guy will play for half as much money as the others), and then you sit down in front of the DM and do various quests and tasks to level up. The layout looks pretty much like this, throughout the game, with different backdrops denoting where you are (and monsters, if you’re fighting them at the time).
Cute, huh? At the very least, it’s a game design that hasn’t been done to death, so there’s that. From left to right, that’s my cleric, paladin, rogue, druid, and wizard.
Okay, so… badges. The first ones that you’re going to get are going to come roughly somewhere around the same time. There’s the badge for hitting level 5, which you do by completing quests and smiting baddies and the like:
And then the badge that you get for killing an elite monster. I think that my first one was a super-sized mushroom or rat or something. It was a while ago. At any rate, they appear naturally as part of questlines– if you follow the basic quests, you’ll hit this guy pretty early on.
So… that’s it for Knights of Pen and Paper for today– stay tuned for more updates about this game (and many others)!
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