Penny Arcade discusses why people play games. Kate said to me “yeah, I definitely play to explore the game —
Week in Review
This one will be brief. I’ll got into more detail in some following posts. Tabletop: Galactic We played our first
Week in Review
No face to face gaming this last weekend (pretty much everyone was gone or busy), but a fair bit of
Getting over the New-guy Wall
After a long dry spell, I feel pretty good with the guild Grezzk joined a couple months ago. MMOG is
Galactic: characters and everything else
So, this part is going to be very sketchy. For more information on the characters, the setting, the worlds, and
So let’s talk about Galactic.
Then Isabel, seeing before all others that the Scourge would indeed be the end of Humanity, did gather up the
Game Mechanics that set the tone
So I’m musing about game mechanics; have been for the last couple weeks, actually, because I’m playing a lot of
Galactic: good for the brain, bad for the eyes
I was going to write up a post about the character/universe generation for the Galactic game from this weekend (a
“I got Girl Cooties” (Weekend in Review, the MMO post)
Figured I’d split this up into two posts, since I have a lot to post about the face to face
Religion in Gaming
We need more Starbucks: the character, not the coffee. An interesting take on probably the most believably religious character in
Year in review
Yes, I know it’s not the end of the year yet, but since the holidays typical kill my gaming, I’m
So Conflicted
The Zombie Fluxx card games combines a great love and a great hate of mine. Love: Zombies. Man, I likes
Week in Review
So here’s what’s been going on. Face to Face Ran a murder mystery for the most recent Spirit of the
[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases
From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from
Zombies at(e) the Homecoming Dance
Caught up by the desire to play a little wacky horror roleplaying in the middle of the week, I got
scroll right
Completely. Awesome.
Wish Fulfillment
Last night, Kate and I were running around the edge of this orc camp up the Greenway a few miles
Playing to win
I actually had two points for my “serious gamer” post, but the thing was getting too long, so here’s the
Casual/Hardcore vs. the Serious Gamer
Okay. This is going to seem like it has a lot to do with MMO gaming, but at it’s heart
Splitting the Party
A good, though old, discussion about the histrionics and misconceptions that surround ‘splitting the party’ in gaming sessions. Are you
Gaming in review
A mix of gaming this weekend. ((Blogging bitching: it really should be possible to just hit Ctrl-B in Moveabletype to
He’s not pretty, but I like ‘im.
“What are YOU looking at?” I’ve had a couple pretty good runs with Grezzk lately, and he’s looking pretty badass:
Making a hobbit of it.
As mentioned here, Kate and I have been conducting a sort of Test Run of Fun on the MMORPG Lord
The economy in an MMO
Here is a simple fact about MMO economies: every “value” in a MMORPG boils down to time investment. In short,
Jonathan Coulton is full of Awesome
Don’t believe me? Peruse the Jonathan Coulton – Listening Suggestions. I’m going to buy, like… everything on his site. So
Pretty much applies to any game
Penny Arcade! – The Protip
Demonstrating Learning Behavior
Three MMO mistakes I’ll never make again “I do not need to level tonight.” For “level,” also insert “get the
A little note for Battleground players
If you have a nifty little macro/code/addon widget that, when you’re down to 20% or 10% health, automatically has you
Meh.
Hmm. I was planning on a basic week in review post, but I realized pretty much everything I have to