User blog:Hashimashadoo/Latest Developments April 3rd 2016

Just managed to get my grubby little mitts on almost all of the back-issues of Polyhedron magazine save for #9. I had several of them before but now I have access to pretty much every piece of Realmslore held within.

I'm supposed to also be getting a new laptop tomorrow that should actually be capable of running my copy of Sword Coast Legends that I've not been able to play since I got it as a Christmas present. I have started on Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear already however - it's good, if a bit buggy. The new User Interface has some problems and the AI of some enemies and NPCs leaves a lot to be desired but I'm sure that will be sorted in the first couple of rounds of patches.

I've also kept involved with tabletop gaming. I've been chairman of my local gaming club for five months now and despite lots of problems that hit us all at once, I've been both dealing with them and running the Pathfinder Carrion Crown adventure path for several of our members. A buddy of mine (and lurker on this wiki) is trying his hand at GMing as well and is doing a brilliant job of it, however, my attempts at 5th edition D&D DMing have not met with the same success - PC deaths are far too common (which, to be fair, is their fault as much as mine) so there's not been much desire to begin a proper 5th edition campaign yet.

Despite my contract at work ending a couple of weeks ago, the library is trying to make my volunteer position with them a little more permanent and we'll be working on that over the next 2 months while I search for a new job. This is pretty good news because whenever it's slow at the library, I'm free to come do some work here.