Other Games

Non-MMO games.

D&D4E: Ding!

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After last week's epic battle against an Indiana Jones-style boulder trap and various drakes and kobold lords, what could possibly await us in the cavern below the tower ruins, from whence came the acrid stink of dragonbreath and fear? Could it be……? We sent Wenner, the halfling thief, to check it out. He crept around … Read more

D&D 4E: The Skull-Skull Arena

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There was probably a way to get through this without fighting… but we’re all experts. We’re all MMO vets. See a monster, kill a monster. Halfling thief Wenner crept down the stairs to another room, furnished with the requisite sarcophagi (and sarcophagals). The coffins and coffers each had small animal skulls piled upon them, and … Read more

Daily Blogroll Oct 19: Time enough to learn to swim edition

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If you were given six months to live, you wouldn’t spend it leveling up a new character in some MMORPG. You’d want to do something that gave your life meaning. Six months at the end of your life isn’t more valuable than six months right now. In fact, six months right now is way better. Truth is, your friends and family don’t care that you leveled a character. They care about the time you spent with them. (Fact is, it’s almost certain nobody in the world cares about your achievements in video games, and in a couple of years, neither will you).

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D&D 4E: It’s a trap!

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If this doesn’t look like a tense situation to you, let me describe it better. We’re in the basement of a ruined tower; after a pitched battle on the floor above, we descend warily to the floor below, and in the flickering light of some braziers (NOT BRASSIERES, WENNER), see four sarcophagi and three kobold … Read more

D&D: Kobold Seasoning

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We’d been framed for crimes we did not commit, were thrown into jail, broke out, tracked down a crime boss to a tavern and beat the crap out of a halfling. The day was starting off swell. While our elven cleric, Sheeoil, was off dealing with some ecclesiastical emergency, the rest of us were asked … Read more