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The Favorites of Selune campaign - Ravenloft Session 9 27 Aug 2013 | 01:52 pm
The previous session ended with the group having discovered Count Strahd von Zarovich's hiding place on top of Castle Ravenloft, ready for the grand finale. So unsurprisingly this session was mostly t...
The dangers of trying to kill a giant 26 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
One of the enduring ideas in the MMORPG blogosphere is the one about the "WoW Killer", the mythical new MMORPG which steals all of the players away from World of Warcraft. Apart from that not having h...
Graphics in pen & paper roleplaying 26 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Computer games now have such a long history that you can find projects today where people are taking old classic games and remake them with better graphics. That shows that graphics are important to i...
Stay away from The Bureau 25 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
After trying to play The Bureau: XCOM Declassified for a few hours, I gave up. I do like the setting, and the idea behind the game, but the execution is so horribly bad that I just can't get any enjoy...
WIP: Borderlands 2, The Tribez, The Bureau 23 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
In the ongoing series of What I'm Playing, these are the games I am currently busy with. This week I finished the first playthrough of Borderlands 2, using the assassin character Zer0. Having done mos...
Sorry, subscriptions are still dead 22 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
Two out of two MMORPGs that recently announced their business model went for a monthly subscription. Now as I have frequently discussed on this blog, a monthly subscription model benefits a certain po...
CREDD are the new PLEX 20 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
So Wildstar postponed their release to 2014 and announced a business model in which monthly subscriptions are called CREDD and can be bought and sold in game. Gazimoff of Mana Obscura has details. And...
WoW extrapolation 19 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm
I tend to have the least popular opinion on the internet, the middle-of-the-road, rational option. So I neither hate World of Warcraft with a passion, nor do I love it very much any more. It is funny ...
Fighting on the grid 17 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
The advantage of a pen & paper roleplaying game over a computer roleplaying game is that in a computer game only those things are possible that have been foreseen and programmed in, while in the pen &...
Still need a Card Hunter beta key? 14 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
If you still need a Card Hunter beta key, Killer Game Deals is handing out 30 of them. Tobold's Blog
