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March 8, 2006

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.”

March 5, 2006

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?)

March 4, 2006

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.”

GURPS: Coheed & Cambria???

From a great RPGnet thread, Photoshop a game that doesn’t, or maybe shouldn’t, exist. Sadly, “GURPS: Coheed & Cambria” doesn’t exist.

Yet.

March 3, 2006

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.