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Yearly Archives: 2015

It all started with a scene in space pulling away to reveal a huge ship and a few smaller ships with slow detailed fly bys of the camera in what we were told are CryEngine3 renderings. Then the internals of a ship with the smaller ships landing and people moving […]

Star Citizen

November 6, 2015 in MMO / RPG / Simulators tagged AAA game / Chris Roberts / CryEngine3 / CryEngine4 / Elite: Dangerous / MMORPG / Oculus Rift / PBR / PC gaming / Shut up and take my money! / Space Combat Simulator / Space Simulator / Squadron 42 / Star Citizen by JVerb

The famed and thought of as dead Space Simulator. Beyond Asteroids, there was Orbiter, Elite series, Wing Commander series, Privateer series, EVE, Kerbal and a whole mess of StarTrek and Star Wars games. The only meaningful mentions in the huge category in the past decade was Kerbal and EVE. One […]

Elite: Dangerous

November 1, 2015 in MMO / RPG / Simulators tagged Aseroids / Elite / Elite series / Elite: Dangerous / EVE / Kerbal / Orbiter / Privateer / Privateer series / Space Combat Game / Space Flight Simulator / Space Simulator / Star Citizen / Star Wars / StarTrek / Wing Commander / Wing Commander series by JVerb

Having mentioned that I enjoy character creation previously, I thought I would take a moment to elaborate on character creation. In particular, how to get the most out of your character. Now to qualify this vague statement, it probably isn’t what you think it means. To me, you get the […]

D&D: On Character Creation

October 18, 2015 in OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged 3d6 / 4d6 / Action RPG / AD&D / backstory / character creation / D&D / Diablo / Diablo 3 / Path of Exile / role playing game / RPG by JVerb

The air outside of the inn was hot and thick with acrid smoke. My eyes started to tear up immediately. Max let out a low, unhappy growl and laid his ears back down on his head. Some of the villagers had formed a bucket line from the well to the […]

Enter the Druid: Smoke and Fire

September 27, 2015 in Uncategorized tagged Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / EABA / Enter the Druid / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by Rob Beach

The walk back to Troubeck passed peacefully. Entering through the eastern gate felt less wistful than the last time. I had grown attached to the druid’s grove while I spent time there. I found myself turning the leaf-shaped pendant Gregorius had given me over with my fingers. It was good […]

Enter the Druid: Greenstead

September 20, 2015 in Enter the Druid / OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / Enter the Druid / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by Rob Beach

Well, it isn’t gaming, but why not…Anime! While I haven’t been around long enough to witness the first creations when they came out, since I found anime and understood it to be different than American cartoons in the mid 1990’s, I have loved it. Disclaimer, I do not name myself […]

Anime: Common Language

September 18, 2015 in Creativity / Uncategorized tagged 08th MS Team / After Story / Akira / Anime / Blood / Clannad / Cowboy Bebop / DBZ / Dragon Ball Z / FMA / Full Metal Alchemist / Ghost in the Shell / GitS / Grave of the Fireflies / Gundam / Gundam Wing / Haibane Renmei / Jin-Roh / Jonny Quest / Mobile Suit Gundam / Neon Genesis Evangelion / NGE / Outlaw Star / OVA / Perfect Blue / Rumbling Hearts / Sailor Moon / Samurai-X / Serial Experiments Lain / Tenchi Muyo / The Big O / Toonami by JVerb

It only took us two days to make our way back to the druid’s grove. The area was much more sparsely inhabited than it was during the festival. We walked by the few permanent structures the grove maintained and were intercepted by a pair of druids. “Brother,” one of them […]

Enter the Druid: A Little Problem

September 10, 2015 in Enter the Druid / OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / Enter the Druid / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by Rob Beach

To be fair, Magic the Gathering has long held a monopoly on the majority of trading card games as well as a fairly successful online game well before Hearthstone was created. But in a way, Hearthstone is one of the first to bring what was seen as a niche community […]

Hearthstone: Trading Card Games Evolution

September 4, 2015 in MMO / Tabletop tagged BattleTech / Blizzard / D&D / Hearthstone / Magic / Magic the Gathering / Wizards of the Coast / WotC by JVerb

The goblin sitting on the throne struck the handle of his hammer on the throne’s arm. Crack. Crack. Crack. “Well, well,” he said. His mouth twisted into what I supposed was meant to be a smile. He rose from his seat and hefted his hammer onto his shoulder. He grimaced […]

Enter the Druid: Goblin King

August 28, 2015 in Enter the Druid / OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / Enter the Druid / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by Rob Beach

We left the cover of the forest after the river of goblins chasing Barry disappeared from sight. The village was strangely quiet after it emptied. Even the forest around the huts was completely silent. What life there was had retreated from the vicious goblins once they claimed this land as […]

Enter the Druid: Payback

August 23, 2015 in Enter the Druid / OSRIC / RPG / Tabletop tagged Dungeons & Dragons / Dungeons and Dragons / Enter the Druid / Janko / OSRIC / Pen and Paper / RPG / Tabletop by Rob Beach