Robin Lee Powell's Amusements Page

• Presents I'd Like To Recieve, which is actually a ThingsIWant.com wishlist now.
• Pictures from an Icehouse tournament I participated in.
• I have no idea why I put this together, but here's a list of techno music that I consider to be good. Note that it links to the mp3s on my machine; it is illegal to use those links if you do not already own the music (and maybe even then).
• Pictures of a lovely sunset that occured near me in the year of 2001. I think.

Computer Games

I play a lot of computer games and console games (consoles being things like the PlayStation and GameCube).

I have a list of arcade video games that I'm working through and moving ones I remember liking to the top.

Some of my all-time favorites:

• Planescape: Torment, pretty much my favorite game of all time. I almost cried in places; it's that good as a role playing gome.
• Total Annihilation, a close second. Ignore the fact that the site appears to be live; it's not. The company is defunct. Total Annihilation has an amazing soundtrack, by Jeremy Soule. Now if he could just get someone to write him a web page that doesn't hate most browsers...
• The Bard's Tale, the first one in particular.

• I adored Populus and Populus II. The latter has probably taken up more of my time than any other single game to this day, although Total Annihilation and Diablo II or up there as well.

  PowerMonger was also very good.

• It is worth noting that I was highly disappointed by Black And White; same designer, same concept. The basic issues appear to be that the campaign game kept punishing you for success, and there were only like 5 skirmish maps. Maybe less.

  If Black & White had shipped with a random land generator, or a hundred lands, or something like that, so I could have just played and played and played like I did with Populus and Populus II, it might very well have been my favorite game of all time.

  To be fair, I haven't tried the Creature Isle expansion yet.

• Morrowind is gorgeous and very immersive. The problem is that, since your character can do anything and be anyone, I didn't really develop quite the same emotional investment in the storyline that I did in Planescape: Torment. Still a very, very good roleplaying game, though. I haven't yet tried the Tribunal expansion. This is also a Jeremy Soule game, and the title track in particular is more superb than any human-made music has a right to be.
• Eternal Darkness for the game cube.

Stuff I've Done WRT Computer Games

• I've created a page of Total Annihilation Information. In particular, it has unit and weapon data for all of the orgiinal TA units and many new ones as well.

Historical

• A consulting form I wrote to give to people who sent me spam.
• A moron who ripped me off on E-bay.
• I am Turgul, as well as a builders (Luna, or Crinos_Bldr and Lemesech_Bldr), all from the shadow of Crinos (those are the official Crinos pages) on Amber MUSH. I don't really play there anymore, though.

• I used to work on Stargrunt 40,000, a system to convert Warhammer 40,000 army lists into something that will work with the (vastly superiour) Stargrunt rules system. More information on Stargrunt and related games can be found at Ground Zero Games. Absolutely phenomenal rules systems, these games. I also have constructed an errata page for the Stargrunt II rules based on some correspondence with the author.

  These aren't likely to be updated in the near future because I lost a bunch of miniatures in the move to California, including all the painted ones but one (OK, so there were only like 5, but still) so now I'm really bitter.

  Update: As it turns out, I seem to have found most of the miniatures I thought I was missing. I still haven't found time to play, or anyone to play with, but who knows what the future holds.

• I used to play Games Workshop games and boycott their products. See above.