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An Adventurer is You!
I'm late to this one. Too bad.
About a week ago, I discovered a flash RPG spoof game called Kingdom of Loathing. I wish I'd found it earlier - it's been around awhile, and the most advanced characters are level 60-something.
It's really well done. As a straight-up RPG, you create a character, advance levels, undertake quests, loot and sell, get familiars... reasonably simple interface, somewhat repetitive but not, I've found, boring.
But it's also a spoof. The character classes include "Accordion Thief", "Seal Clubber", and "Pastamancer". You get points in stats like Muscleboundness, Sarcasm, and Smarm. You fight orc sorcerers' apprentices' apprentices, and possessed cans of tomatoes, and animated asparagus that make your blood smell funny when they hit you.
The currency is meat. Meat! How can you not like the concept of lugging around steaks to pay for things?
Anyway, it's a timesuck and I should feel grateful that you only get a certain number of adventures per day.
I should - but I don't. I want to go back and keep playing, so I can complete the quest to rid the Typical Tavern of its rat problem and advance my Seal Clubber to level 5, and clean out the Bat Hole, and...
Edited to add: fixed the link so it works now.
About a week ago, I discovered a flash RPG spoof game called Kingdom of Loathing. I wish I'd found it earlier - it's been around awhile, and the most advanced characters are level 60-something.
It's really well done. As a straight-up RPG, you create a character, advance levels, undertake quests, loot and sell, get familiars... reasonably simple interface, somewhat repetitive but not, I've found, boring.
But it's also a spoof. The character classes include "Accordion Thief", "Seal Clubber", and "Pastamancer". You get points in stats like Muscleboundness, Sarcasm, and Smarm. You fight orc sorcerers' apprentices' apprentices, and possessed cans of tomatoes, and animated asparagus that make your blood smell funny when they hit you.
The currency is meat. Meat! How can you not like the concept of lugging around steaks to pay for things?
Anyway, it's a timesuck and I should feel grateful that you only get a certain number of adventures per day.
I should - but I don't. I want to go back and keep playing, so I can complete the quest to rid the Typical Tavern of its rat problem and advance my Seal Clubber to level 5, and clean out the Bat Hole, and...
Edited to add: fixed the link so it works now.