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The folks at White Wolf are going to be releasing a 20th anniversary edition of Vampire: the Masquerade Revised at The Grand Masquerade this year.  It will be a self-contained tome on the order of 400 pages, including a ton of stuff. But what’s interesting to me is what is ( Read more... )

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I have a Nostromo n52 gaming pad for use with World of Warcraft, and I both love it and hate it. Here’s why:


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This post was actually drafted a while ago… I just totally forgot to post it when I wrote it.

Long story short, things randomly screwed up and I have to reinstall WoW to be able to play it.  Boo, Blizzard.

However, in the process of doing this, I am getting to check out the ( Read more... )

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Permadeath. Permanent death in an MMO. Why in the world would you want such a thing? Simple: 
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So after the fiasco of the previous night, you'd think I would stay in and sleep it off, right? Fucking wrong. 4 hours of sleep, then up, shower, and down to the registration area, and shortly thereafter to a Changeling the Lost game run by The Wrecking Crew. I feel the need ( Read more... )

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This post is in relation to the World of Darkness Online MMO that was recently announced at The Grand Masquerade. I've heard a few gripes that seem to come up a lot in various forms and forums, and I would like to address them here. Most of my thoughts boil down to: stop ( Read more... )

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I will start this out by saying that DragonCon was my first convention ever. I went on a lark at the last minute in 2003 thanks to a friend, and had an absolute blast. I met tons of new and completely awesome people (I'm still good friends with my roommates from the first ( Read more... )

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Yes, it seems that I’ve decided to go on a tangent about my thoughts on roleplaying.

GM, DM, ST, whatever you call the person running the game, they are the ones that set the mood, lay out the plot, and in general keep the game running. We’ve* all experienced good game ( Read more... )

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This is talking about character designs in roleplaying games, and here I mean actual games where you take on and play a role, so not games like World of Warcraft.  An experience/level system does not a roleplaying game make.


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