by Will Hindmarch | Mar 13, 2008 | Musing, RPGs
This is a comment I posted on Robin Laws’ livejournal some weeks back. I saved it to share here on a slow week. Since I’m not technically back from my deadlines-imposed hiatus until next week, we’ll call this a slow one. Enjoy: One thing I do to...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 11, 2008 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games
When we first started playing LOTRO at the White Wolf office, via a free trial, a lot of us thought (or feared) that the unavoidable public conditions of an MMO would ruin any sense of real immersion into a setting that intended to take itself seriously. We joked...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 28, 2008 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs
An hour spent playing a paper-RPG is not equivalent to an hour spent playing an MMORPG. How many of one is equal to how many of the other? How many paper-RPG sessions constitute playing “a lot?” How many hours with an MMORPG does it take to constitute...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 28, 2008 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs
An hour spent playing a paper-RPG is not equivalent to an hour spent playing an MMORPG. How many of one is equal to how many of the other? How many paper-RPG sessions constitute playing “a lot?” How many hours with an MMORPG does it take to constitute...
by Jeff Tidball | Feb 7, 2008 | Musing, RPGs
Tabletop RPGs traditionally squander — utterly — the opportunity to make character creation an exciting part of a game’s actual play. Sure, in lots of RPGs the process of rolling up a character is an entertaining mini-game of its own. It has the benefit that you...
by Jeff Tidball | Feb 1, 2008 | Musing
We’ve been at this for two months or so now, Will and I. It’s time to ask: What do you think? How are we doing? What now? We’d be grateful if you’d click ahead, read some of the questions we’ve got on our minds, and leave a comment that...
