I love Final Fantasy. I have ever since the bygone days of Final Fantasy II, which is to say I’ve been playing the genre for the better part of my life. Naturally, I was excited when they started remaking my all-time favorite installment, Final Fantasy VII, into a movie, Advent Children, and a spin-off game [...]
As a World of Warcraft player, I had mixed reactions to South Park’s “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” the 10th season premier episode that showcased the game. I didn’t find anything wrong with the humor, of course; everything they portrayed was exaggerated but otherwise true. The machinima sequences were, of course, superb (and supposedly supplied by [...]
For those who never played Summoner, don’t feel like you missed out on anything; the game was a par at best. While it might not have left a big mark on the PC gaming world, however, it did leave behind this hilarious machinima that has become a cult staple in the tabletop gaming community. Like [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve never really enjoyed playing fighters in D&D. There just isn’t much to them. You hit the monster repeatedly until it stops moving. The most you ever get to see of tactics or decision-making is when you perform an occassional sunder or disarm, and then only if you’ve taken the [...]
I’ve really taken to loving online comic strips lately, including Ctrl+Alt+Del and Dilbert (which is obligatory for a white collar desk jockey like me). I was particularly excited when, browsing del.icio.us one day, I happened upon the Order of the Stick website. For those of you who don’t read Dragon magazine, Order of the Stick [...]
The Deck of Many Things has been a part of Dungeons & Dragons for several editions now. It’s been around at least as long as I’ve been playing (approximately 14 years). For those who’ve never heard of it, it’s an artifact-level deck of cards. Players can elect to draw from the deck to achieve powerful [...]
For those of you who don’t know, Blazerunner is a level 56 elite fire elemental in the cave atop Fire Plume Ridge in Un’Goro Crater. He’s moderately impressive-looking, although my jaded eyes, after seeing the likes of Ragnaros and Nefarian, regarded him with no small degree of impunity. Now, I play a level 60 warlock [...]
The October 15th release date of Burning Crusade is fast approaching, and Blizzard is doing what it can to wet our appetites until then. They recently released some of the new material available in Burning Crusade for us to drool over. I must say, some of it appears very saliva-worthy, while some of it barely [...]
The role of the gamemaster, at least in most tabletop RPGs, is inherently antagonistic. This isn’t to say that GMs are sadistic or evil, although many, including myself, are often (jokingly) referred to as such. Of course, the game would be boring without any opposition, and so the GM plays a very necessary role at [...]
Last week, the guys over at Search Engine Lowdown decided to write a satirical post about the Anti-Geekery League, a made-up organization out to combat geeky practices wherever they are found. JP was the first up, and it was hilarious. More significantly, however, nobody was able to answer his trivia question (which, to the best [...]