This will contain no-holds barred spoiler-tastic discussion of Dragon Age 2 (including The Exiled Prince and Black Emporium) as well as all previous Dragon Age games.

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Since there's a lot of cool, meaty spoiler-tastic stuff to talk about, here are my spoiler-free comments:

• Varric is amazing. He's one of my favorite RPG companions in years, alongside Mordin, Garrus, IG-88, and Shale. His frame narrative is a cool technique which lead to several cool moments.


• I loved the cameos and references to Dragon Age: ( Read more... )

 Excited, if somewhat raw thoughts on Reality is Broken: 

http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/save-the-world-with-gaming-ted/

I finished my first play-through of Mass Effect 2 today. I re-worked my ME1 character to a Vanguard, though Charge turned out to be a bad idea most of the time. Paragon all the way, bright shiny space knight ( Read more... )

Thoughts on Google Wave as breakthrough technology for RPGs (with links to other discussions/essays on the subject):  Viva La Wavolucion

I'm leaving today for Gulf Wars, a week-long SCA war in Mississippi.  I'll not be looking at e-mail, so if you absatively need to reach me, leave a voicemail.

In the meantime, I would encourage everyone to read my article "The friends that game together: A folkloric expansion of textual poaching to genre farming for socialization in tabletop role- ( Read more... )

Role Models at 21st Century Geeks

A link to an awesome Half-Life 2 fan video and some discussion at 21st Century Geeks.

This started out as a 21st Century Geeks blog post, but as it developed, it became more personal, so I've decided that I'd rather post it here.

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