The Ego Trip: Kits and Characters in MMOs

What is it that is exactly the same about every single vacation you have ever taken? You! You’re the same. No matter where you go, there you are. It’s always the same old you. Let me suggest that you take a vacation from yourself. I-I know it sounds wild. It is the latest thing in … Read more

Prophecy of Ro adventures

Once every few months (should be more often I guess), I do a comic based on my EQ1 guild’s latest adventures. You can get the whole thing by visiting our news page at http://crimsoneternity.com, but here’s a taste:

Virtual Wealth

Is this a dagger I see before me, its handle toward my hand? Come, let me buy thee… I have thee not, yet I see thee still. Are thee not, fatal vision, as affordable to newbies as to farmers? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation of a IGE-oppressed purse. … Read more

The Crafty Adventurer

It’s crafting week in the MMO blogosphere. I hated EQ1 crafting, but have been a big fan of it in other games that treated crafting less as a pointless way to dispose of millions of plat and more as an important game mechanic. Tailor in DAoC; carpenter in FFXI Online; tailor and leathercrafter in WoW; … Read more