The Game Mage

Documenting one mage's journey to follow his dream and die trying

Distillation

PAX Unplugged 2025 - PAX Metro: The Underground Expedition

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For those of you who were at PAX Unplugged you may have encountered the Line Entertainment team. And if you found us at night, you may have been presented with the opportunity to participate in the Grand Campaign - a distributed adventure narrative told over the course of the weekend. As each story beat progressed attendees were presented with the current situation and a variety of options, each with a custom Difficulty Check (DC) attached.

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Dune 2: Even More Dune

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“It sounds like you might be playing the ghost of a better game that lives inside this one.” – Claude Sonnet 4 Previously: Waking Up to Dune Awakening Part 1: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or, When The Worm Lost its Teeth Okay, so. Uh. I’m still playing Dune: Awakening. Yeah, I also think that’s weird. I’ve never spent so many words explaining why I don’t recommend something only to go on and keep engaging with it.

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Waking Up to Dune Awakening

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Chapter 1: Dune. So hot right now. I’m not going to bury the lede. You probably shouldn’t play Dune: Awakening. The rest of this article is going to be an attempt to explain why, despite my own anti-recommendation, I’m still playing it. You should know that Dune: Awakening is mean as hell. Up to a point that meanness is clearly intentional. It’s a Dune Simulator, and Dune’s world is mean as hell.

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