Nothing with too many hearty belly laughs, it was abdominal surgery.

I played the first one of these a long, long time ago. Puzzle platformers where you rotate between characters with different abilities to guide them all to a goal. Reminded me a lot of The Lost Vikings, but traditional fantasy and less funny.

I understand there are novels and comics where they both make appearances after their shows, and maybe I read that Wesley is in Picard?

I'm familiar with none of that material, so I'm just curious, does going Pact of the Traveler or Pact of the Wormhole give better spacelock spells?

I think I played whichever one was on my Amiga waaaay back in the day, and whichever one was on PS3 for a bit. I was also a big fan of some of the Might and Magic games, which I feel were something of a bridge between the old dungeon crawlers and something like Morrowind.

Anyway I was thinking of trying one out again. Any recommendations, maybe one with modern QOL features to ease in?

I see there's a remake of Wizardry 1(?) and remasters of the Etrian Odyssey games in the past couple years. I'm also kind of intrigued by Undernauts, which looks like it might throw a little Shin Megami Tensei flavor in?

I played 1-4 back in the day, but my memory of the details is pretty fuzzy. Something something Umbrella releases a new virus like iPhones every few years, something something, somehow Wesker returned.

Anyway, I hear 7 is kind of a soft reboot? Is that a good one to get back into the series with, and not have to know 12 games of plot?

And if 7 is good, does 8/Village follow directly from that without needing too much prior game knowledge?

I finished the main Crown of the Magister campaign and wanted to check out some of the custom ones while I ponder whether to create a new party for Palace of Ice or not.

I downloaded the top 20 or so custom campaigns from the workshop, but so far the first hour or so of the few I've tried haven't been super gripping. I know that's not much to judge them off, but it doesn't help me decide if they're worth continuing with.

Which ones get really good, in your opinion? I have the Unfinished Business mod for max level cap and more classes, but I'm not using the 6-man party option, which I know a few campaigns are tuned for.

I know some of these, like Catherine the Great, are probably not actually true, but I love this song none the less.

I've been replaying a lot of the classics recently, and just like with Combs when I rewatch a Star Trek series, I keep finding myself saying "fuck, that's him too?"

Playing Fallout, there's Jim as the main voice of The Master.

Playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy, there's Jim as Minsc, Gorion, Mulahey, and a bunch of other people.

Taking a break to test out some character builds in Icewind Dale? Fuck me, there's Jim as Hrothgar.

Like I know he's one of the most prolific voice actors, especially of that era, but I didn't realize how entwined he was with that specific genre.