I ended up going home fairly early on Tuesday thanks to a hereditary migraine and, after languishing in bed for an hour or two, finally managed to shake it off. It was then, while watching television with my son, that I had a chance to watch an afternoon-long SciFi marathon of Firefly. It [...]
One of my coworkers sent me the link for the Tard Blog earlier today. Part of me wants to take one look at it and dismiss it as inconsiderate and politically incorrect. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to stop reading it since I first opened it. Who ever thought so much humor [...]
It matters a great deal with regard to live-action and tabletop RPGs. Players want to declare actions and gather information when the game isn’t going on, a period often referred to as “downtime.” It is during downtime that planning and important character development take place, and often features important events that are necessary [...]
I’ve listened to this song before, but it wasn’t until my wife started singing along that I really started to appreciate the poetry of Anna Nalick’s lyrics. It’s rare that you find a musician whose song actually uses an atypical meter (I believe the song begins in anapestic tetrameter). This is not to [...]
My brother and I recently came to the mutual decision that it would be fun to start brand new Horde characters together. That way we could develop our character around a party strategy and enjoy the experience of playing at the same level. There was perhaps a bit of protest on his part [...]
I’m always tweaking the site. I always talk about it being my little pet project; something I do to pass the time, hone my web design skills, experiment, vent stress, and what have you. Everyone likes to have something that they can show off, and Project Paradox is mine, my own creation that [...]
My coworkers and I were engaged in an interesting discussion yesterday about personality disorders and the like. One, who is himself something of a hypochondriac, believed all of the symptomology of one described him perfectly. I calmly tried to explain that being lazy (which was the symptom he seemed to be focused on) [...]
I’ve been toying around with my character Brodix’s build ever since he hit 10th level, trying to find something that would make me both powerful and a bit distinctive. After all, there are dozens of mages out there who are straight pyromaniacs or arcanists. Realizing this, I decided to come up with a [...]
Just to the east of Stormwind lies a region known as the Redridge Mountains, with a quaint fishing village known as Lakeshire at its center. This is a fantastic spot for questing around 17th-24th level, and believe me the local NPCs have an ample supply. It is also an excellent place to upgrade [...]
Like pretty much every other Massively Multiplayer game, World of Warcraft rewards social gamers for teaming up to achieve their objectives. This often involves questing or, at higher levels, raids, but can be as simple as randomly hunting for monsters. The benefits may not be as straightforward as they seem, however, due to [...]