Jane at Avant Game has been writing a thesis… And now she’s basically live-blogging it, posting her best newly written thesis sententence of the day: Best Sentence Blog.
Current favorite: “Clues in the actual presentation of the taxonomy are few and far between.”
From the New York Times (!)—“Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace”. The game looks at pen-and-paper RPGs, and how they relate to the newer MMORPGs, including the upcoming D&D Online.
Not to be too negative on the “D&D Online” endeavor, but I honestly don’t feel it offers anything that will entire remaining hold-outs away from MMORPGs. It’s not like they’re offering anything not found in World of Warcraft. (Does that make “D&D Online” potentially a Warcraft Heartbreaker?)
From the New York Times (!)—“Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace”. The game looks at pen-and-paper RPGs, and how they relate to the newer MMORPGs, including the upcoming D&D Online.
Not to be too negative on the “D&D Online” endeavor, but I honestly don’t feel it offers anything that will entire remaining hold-outs away from MMORPGs. It’s not like they’re offering anything not found in World of Warcraft. (Does that make “D&D Online” potentially a Warcraft Heartbreaker?)
Rather than spawning mobs, spawn ill people. Instead of weapons, have medicines. Instead of managing aggro, manage fever. Instead of armors, we have disinfectants.
Raph Koster suggests a MMORPG based only around healing, not violence. [Via BoingBoing]
(FYI, the title is the unofficial slogan of Chad Underkoffer’s Dead Inside.)
Jane at Avant Game has been writing a thesis… And now she’s basically live-blogging it, posting her best newly written thesis sententence of the day: Best Sentence Blog.
Current favorite: “Clues in the actual presentation of the taxonomy are few and far between.”
From a great RPGnet thread, Photoshop a game that doesn’t, or maybe shouldn’t, exist. Sadly, “GURPS: Coheed & Cambria” doesn’t exist.
Yet.
My friend finished his game of Monkey Ninja Pirate Robot, ported to the Dogs in the Vineyard system. And he has a list of NPCs. Excerpts include:
Benjamin Disraeli (apparently pro-nuke)
William Gladstone (apparently anti-nuke)
The Magnificent Brotherhood of the Flying Machines (blue-clad Irish ninjas on ornithopters)
I am so, so very proud.