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Hey There

Well I'm back to D2/LoD again after a foray into, gasp, other games.

Played Travian for a while. A very fun game. But it's quite insidious. It 
starts off as simple and quite slow, but it grows and takes up more and more 
of your time. Till it pushes out all your other gaming time and starts 
taking time away from real world activities. I was running an alliance with 
almost 200 members. We were late starters to the world so we were far out 
classed by the major powers of the world. But the world was so evenly 
divided that we were in a power position. I ended up spending the vast 
majority of my time running the alliance and playing world politics, and 
didn't have time to actually play my cities and properly manage my armies. 
And RL was being neglected. So I transferred my account to someone else in 
the alliance and walked away clod turkey. Overall it was a VERY good time, 
but just too much of a time commitment to continue.

I then moved to Civilization III. An old game, but I had never tried the Civ 
series. It is another good game. A turn based simulation rather than a Real 
Time Simulation like Starcraft/Warcraft. But it's more diplomacy and 
culturally driven than a pure wargame, so it's not exactly my cup of tea. I 
like a more hardcore wargame. But I still enjoy it. I just play a Communist 
government and wage constant war.

So I came back to a comfortable old friend. And I was quite happily amazed 
to see that I could recover all my expired characters. Something new? It's 
wonderful because I had just re-established the basics in the new ladder 
before I wandered off. I have a MF Sorc to run Hell Mephy for items, a 
Trapper to run Keys, a Skellimancer to turn Keys into Organs, a Smiter to 
hunt Clones and run UT, and the usual slaves; Chanter and BO Barb. So with 
all the basics I get to come back and play fun toons. So I started a Bowler. 
I played one with Spook and Cinna last ladder, and he was a blast, so I want 
to try to Guardian one now. I blasted him through Normal and started to 
actually play him in NM. A1 went well, no real problems. The little monsters 
take multiple hits from my Boulders and generally die with 1 or 2. Bigger 
monsters take more, but with a merc and Grizzly to keep them busy it's no 
problem. I'm sure by late NM early Hell it's going to get tough, but that's 
what I'm looking for.

So it's good to be back to D2/LoD, and it's good to see most of the usual 
suspects still posting here. If anyone is playing EHCL, give me a yell and 
I'll keep an eye out for you. I've run into Art a few times already.

Regards-
Mark
Bongo Fury