Spam Spam Spam Humbug 99 – Board Games, Ultima, and Other Things
This is something of a mystery episode, but the discussion at least starts out focusing on board games, and attempts to adapt Ultima as one.
This is something of a mystery episode, but the discussion at least starts out focusing on board games, and attempts to adapt Ultima as one.
K.G. Orphanides has published a long interview with Joe Garrity, he of Origin Museum fame, on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Rumours have been circulating that Microsoft might be looking at buying up EA. Or Valve. Or the PUBG developers.
As its projected launch approaches, Portalarium are busily tuning Shroud of the Avatar’s systems and difficulty.
Quest chains and narrative storylines are commonplace in MMORPGs now, but do the inclusion of these elements break the group play experience? Also, Shroud of the Avatar is slated, possibly, for launch this March.
Felipe Pepe has announced the release date for The CRPG Book. It will be available on February 5th!
ChicagoWiz is hosting, using Roll20 and Discord, tabletop gaming sessions with an Ultima theme, using his Siege Perilous RPG framework.
There’s now an Ultima Dragons community on Twitch.
What better way to kick off a new year of Spam Spam Spam Humbug than to do a “live” recording at a meetup of Ultima Dragons?
In which we explore headcanon, what-if scenarios about Sosarian and Britannia history, and even where some Ultima games themselves took canon in a different direction.
A previously unpublished 2014 interview with Richard Garriott, in which he discusses Ultima 9, Ultima X, Shroud of the Avatar, and other things besides.