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 Will Hindmarch | Feb 7, 2008 | Books, Horror, RPGs, Story
Whether you already have First Person and Second Person or not (getting them eventually should be a foregone conclusion), Electronic Book Review’s collection of articles from the books is a must-read trove of cunning essays. In addition to those, my essay from...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 5, 2008 | MMOs, RPGs, Video Games, Writing
A new article of mine, “Confusion on Infinite (Virtual) Worlds,” went live today with the excellent Escapist Magazine: More than 500 people are roleplaying in the expanded universe of The Office by writing in-character reviews at the travel site...
