Tragically, most Warcraft players on roleplaying servers have little respect for the lost art of roleplaying. I can’t help but wonder why such individuals end up on RP servers in the first place. Maybe they picked a server randomly, or maybe they joined the same server as a friend without considering the type. However they [...]
I’m a nerd. That much is pretty obvious if you spend enough time around me. More importantly, I’m lucky enough to be married to a woman as nerdy as I am (even though she’ll never admit to it). So when Valentine’s Day rolled around this year, I thought long and hard about what to get [...]
XFire rocks. There just isn’t any other way to put it. When it comes to World of Warcraft machinima, XFire rules all. Their latest installment, Ballad of the Noob, is just one more in a long line of hilarious, well-written, expertly choreographed WoW clips. It tells the Devil-Went-Down-to-Georgia-style story of a Warcraft noob who takes [...]
The crown jewel of the revamped Demonology tree, and quite likely the one new ability that most warlock players are excited about, gives you the ability to summon a felguard. If you’ve never seen one, a felguard is a hulking demon wielding a wicked axe, by far one of the coolest-looking summons available. Getting it, [...]
My wife and I decided to rent Bully last week when X-Play gave it a five out of five. Now, I occassionally disagree with their assessments (and I’ll surely contradict them some in this review), but I take notice when they pull out the perfect score. As a long-time fan, I know they don’t do [...]
So what is a LARPer to do with those old costumes? As it turns out, ordinary people have a yearly occasion to dress up, too. It’s called Halloween. Apparently you can even win prizes for having one of the best costumes. Sure, it’s only once a year, but it’s probably the only chance we get [...]
To say that I’m a min-maxer would be a bit of an overstatement. Whenever I’ve got the time to worry about maximizing my D&D characters’ effectiveness, I do it more as a mental exercise than anything. Occasionally I make a decision based on such number-crunching, but more often than not I opt for the in-character [...]
Awhile back, a fellow D&D-loving coworker linked me to this hilarious collection of RPG motivational posters. The concept here is, “If every gaming concept had a subtitle, what would it be?” If you’re a geek to any degree, there’s something here for you. Seriously, there are 272 posters to look at, all of which make [...]
Like most World of Warcraft players, I heard about Blizzard pushing back the release date of Burning Crusade early this morning. I met the news with a mild pang of disappointment. When I called my wife to fill her in, starting the conversation with, “I’ve got some bad news,” she was relieved that I hadn’t [...]
It seems our good friends over at X Fire have done it again, this time with a parody of Michael Jackson’s song Bille Jean. For those who may not remember, they’re some of the same folks who helped put together Illegal Danish Super Snacks awhile back. I have to say, World of Warcraft machinima doesn’t [...]