After I finished Fallout: New Vegas, I began playing the add-ons. I completed the following add-ons in the order they were originally released. The brief descriptions are from the developer.

1. Dead Money - Play your cards right to recover the legendary treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino.
2. Honest Hearts - An expedition into the unspoiled wilderness of Utah's Zion National Park goes horribly wrong when your caravan is ambushed by a tribal raiding band.
3. Old World Blues - Recover technology of the Pre-War era and use them to help save all of Science!
4. Lonesome Road - Make one last journey into the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide to find answers.

Dead Money was decent but frustrating. There were so many ways to die. You are captured and outfitted with a slave collar, which can detonate and blow your head off. Many of the areas around the Sierra Madre Casino are littered with bear traps and other nasty traps. It was ok but not my favorite. I thought Honest Hearts had a lot of promise. The setting of Zion National Park provided some wonderful scenery. There was a tribal war and a conflict between a New Canaanite missionary and someone called the Burned Man. Unfortunately, I think I accidentally killed a key character and eliminated several quests as a consequence. It was over quite prematurely. Old World Blues was a good change of pace. Once again, the Courier is abducted to start the story. It is light-hearted at times with a campy old science fiction feel. There was a lot to do, however, with plenty of combat, stealth, and dialog. I really liked it. Lonesome Road finished things up with a solid offering. I enjoyed it as much as Old World Blues. You are contacted by Ulysses, aka "Courier Six." He is the courier who refused to deliver the platinum chip at the beginning of Fallout: New Vegas. Therefore, it provided some nice closure to the events which proceeded it in the base game.

There was plenty of experience to be had. The Courier was level 29 when I finished the base game. After the four add-ons, he was level 48.

I was busy over the last few weeks updating STBL-Web for Game Central's 20th anniversary. Prior to that, however, I was playing Eador: Genesis, a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. It reminded me of the early Heroes of Might and Magic games or King's Bounty. You play as a Master and move your heroes around on a world map. Combat is waged on a 2D hex grid. Available heroes are warriors, scouts, commanders, and wizards. They level up in abilities, learn spells and skills, acquire equipment, and recruit units for their armies. In Eador: Genesis, you conquer shards, which are small worlds. Conquered shards unlock additional buildings, units, and other elements. Playing each shard was like its own mini-game. I conquered several (at least half a dozen) but the game progresses slowly. Estimates to complete the campaign range from 50 to 170 hours. As much as I enjoyed it, I can't justify devoting that much time to finish the game. It's time to move on to something new.

Today is the anniversary of the Game Central website. It debuted on May 25, 2006 so this is the 20th anniversary. I can hardly believe two decades have passed since I started the site mainly as an archive for our old tabletop RPG campaigns. Over time, I added a lot of video game information as well. Game Central also linked to STBL-Web, the home of the Southern Tier Baseball League. The STBL was our computer baseball league, powered by various versions of Earl Weaver Baseball. My last major update to STBL-Web was in 2023. Prior to that, there was a sizable update in 2018. The STBL started in 1987 so next year will be its 40th anniversary. However, I wanted to do something special now and not wait another year.

I rebuilt the site, which comprised several hundred pages. I kept it simple and largely preserved the existing layout. Most of the stats came from text reports output from DOS games so there was no reason to get too fancy. One thing the site lacked was good navigation. You had to keep coming back to the home page. I created links between seasons and some of the other pages to streamline things. I found and corrected quite a few errors along the way. The biggest addition, however, is new pages for the preseason drafts. Earl Weaver baseball came with all-star teams of players from 1900 to 1975. They also released MLBPA stats disks with new seasons, starting with 1986. Just before the 1988 season, we instituted a four round draft with a MLB 1986 player pool. When we didn't have a new season available. we started drafting from the late 1970s. These drafts are now included on STBL-Web.

If you are interested in the STBL, check out the updated STBL-Web.