Ever get obsessive about a game? Not just “This is the best game of the year” level but spending every last waking moment either playing the game or thinking about playing the game when you can’t be playing the game? This winter break my buddy and I probably played 60 games of the board game […]
RPG Musings Ringing in the New Year!
Hello Gamers! I’m not usually one for big new year’s resolutions, but this year I am strangely in the spirit and thought it might be a good idea to do an all-contributors RPG Musings post about our gaming resolutions for 2011. Some might find this uninteresting, but I often find it helpful to see the […]
Infernal Save Points
In Alio’s rant yesterday about Dante’s Inferno, he brought up the ever-interesting computer RPG topic of save points. If you’re as old as me, you may have computer game memories where the party gets slaughtered, having to restart at the last save point, and then slogging through the same four hours of dungeon to get […]
Infernal Ire
For Christmas this year my wife bought me Dante’s Inferno. Not the poem, the video game. Yes, I know, I’m about a year late to the party but that’s not really the point.
Thanks to Snowpacalypse 2010 I had the opportunity to play it a lot this week. As I did, I came across a couple of things that really irritate me in video games, and realized that those things have parallels in in D&D, and I might actually be guilty of doing them as a DM.