I’m a relative latecomer to Doctor Who fandom (joining the throng during the Eccelston reboot of the franchise), but that
EVE Online: Missions, Agents, and earning Faction Love
The most striking thing about EVE Online is the way in which the game is not like its digital brethren.
Parallel Kingdom: How Did I Not Know About This?
“I found a cool little game for the phone,” I told my wife on Friday. “Yeah?” She replied. She’s a
Four Years Later: A Newbie’s Return to EVE Online
A few months ago, a couple of my kinmates on Lord of the Rings Online – one of them, our
Dude, stop calling it “Wife Aggro”.
“Hang on a sec, guys,” I read in the group chat window, “I’ve got Wife Aggro.” I’ve read this phrase
Burning Wheel, in Review
With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year
Are Virtual Worlds Part of the Cause of our Real-world Recessions?
That’s the question asked in a recent article on Terra Nova, which offers some (very solid) arguments for the idea
International "Change Your Account Password" Day
Two days ago, hackers gained access to the servers at Gawker Media and, with it, access to the account information
The Play’s the Thing: A New Holiday Acting Event for LotRO Thespians
Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online has popped to the top of MMO news many times, most recently due to
A long time coming.
Back in 2006, I wrote this short post: You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up
The Library of Worlds, Part One
[Full disclosure: about 80% of this was designed by Alexander Newman for 10.10.10. He was a great helped while I
Burning Wheel (finally)
I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,
Finding the fun in Star Wars again
Jeffs Gameblog: Episode IV: What we know, what we don’t know. Some good thinking on the original Star Wars movie.
“Is it a ‘supers or ‘comics’ game?”
Gerald (@Linnaeus on Twitter) put together a really good post on the differences between the different games out there that
Wasting time playing DnD
No, I’m not saying that playing DnD is a waste of my time, settle down. Breathe. I ran into a
Brain Damage
Randy’s running this low-powered supers-in-Gotham thing. Interesting background. Interesting atmosphere. Running it with Mutants and Masterminds, which is a 3.x
A funny thing happened on the way to the Ruins
So I’m on my little loremaster last night, just poking at a few quests, and find myself in the Chetwood,
Tanking Vows (So You Want to Tank, Part 3)
So we’ve got to part where we decide if we’re going to cowboy up and do this tanking thing. Below
I play Wizard 101: Confessions of a wizened wizard
Depending on which corners of the internet and gaming metasphere you inhabit, you may or not be aware that Wizard
So You Want to Tank (Part 2)
You came back. Okay then. Let’s talk about the real challenges of playing a tank class. First thing: the challenge
Cry of Vengeance can Bite Me (LotRO)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Tanking Part 2 post to bitch about Cry of Vengeance. I’ve said this before in
So You Want to Tank (Part 1) (LotRO)
First off, let me dissuade you. There are some necessities that come with taking on a tanking role, and they
“So fast, the bowstring smokes”
The first character I ever created on Lord of the Rings was a hunter. I didn’t know much about the
Raiding for a New Raider, Part 2: Good Manners
When I first starting playing Lord of the Rings Online, I was struck by one really consistent element among the
(LotRO) Salves are Evil and Worthy Only of Disdain
Heh. Got your attention? I actually have a two a few other posts I plan to write today, but I
A new raider’s raid-readiness Checklist (LotRO)
(Disclaimer: I’m not an uberleet raider in LotRO by any means, but I do run raids and I do know
Wrapping up Diaspora, Shakespeare-Style
So quite a little while ago, we started out a Diaspora game. Our schedules have been a little crazy —
So What can Two People do in a Moria six-man?
… pretty much anything they want. (Click for bigger.) A few notes: No, this wasn’t challenge mode. We certainly didn’t
Someone’s Working Through Some Issues
From “Conversations With My Wife As We Play LotRO”: A Disturbing New Trend In Faction Reputation
Diaspora Hacks, by way of Dresden Files
After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time