19
Dec/2008

by Myridean

"Even the walls of Jericho fell ..." -- Kamala to Captain Picard, "The Perfect Mate" (Ep. 121, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
The RPG industry is facing its own battle of Jericho as the younger generations embrace the numerous popular MMOs that the industry are dominating the games market. As the more dungeon-crawl killing grinds squeeze out the smaller, independent RPG games both online and tabletop ones *eyes WoW, Everquest and other popular MMOs*. In attending the first RPGBomb Gami... Read More

07
Aug/2008

by docurban

The Quest for 70 Boy, I’m starting to feel the fire – I’m at level 67, with about 20% XP left until I’m 68.  This takes a lot of work, though.  I’m in Netherstorm right now and getting ganked and clobbered left and right.  It’s a little high for my level, but it sure is fun to see that XP bar moving up in big jumps.  My high “toon” [character] is my mage.  For the uninitiated, mages have a nickname – “the glass cannon”.  We do possibly the hig... Read More

22
May/2008

by Laggy

Our table-top role-playing group has finally succumbed to the ever-rising gas prices that mark our times. Well, to be more truthful, the last of our players has finally up-graded his computer to where he can play those graphic intensively RPG's available on-line while at home. Our RPG gaming, has been mostly alternating between tabletop Tunnels and Trolls and City of Heroes which is on-line anyway over the past year. Most of the tabletop we've been doing has moved to the conventions that we atte... Read More

07
May/2008

by TheWanderingMen

"Humans, I cannot understand them - everything they plant only fruits death."
- Mylanthrevdi, the Greenwarden Break the Stereotype Tree-men, children of nature, they dwell in the deep woods. Treants spend days if not seasons in deep thought, pondering the health of their demesne, and wandering their woods tending their charges. Often sagacious sages, and sometimes solitary defenders of the woods, tree-men rarely have a reason to interaction with the outside world. Hoooo-huuummmmmm. Life... Read More

07
Apr/2008

by Ben_McFarland

Now I'm not usually one for a mmorpg, a massively multiplayer online role playing game, but I had to take notice of urbandead.com. This is a low-tech game of limited turns and interestingly enough... no random monsters! Every zombie you see, every person you find to eat, is another player!

Set in the fictional town of Malton, Urban Dead allows you to choose from three different military classes, three different civilian classes, two scientific, and of course, life as a zombie! Skills and... Read More