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Nothing but a long, rainy Easter weekend to catch up with the games in my library I never got around to playing. I started Red Dead Redemption on Saturday and have it around three-quarters complete by now. At first I thought I wouldn’t get far with this game, as I had a horrible time hitting [...]
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What 4th edition are you playing?
April 7th, 2012 
RPG Gaming Dungeons & Dragons had two versions of the 3rd edition, the second being called 3.5. It also has two versions of the 4th edition, the “normal” 4th edition and the “Essentials”. In many aspects the Essentials are just a repackaged version of the normal 4th edition, with smaller paperback books instead of larger hardcover books, [...]
What is a “game”, anyway?
April 5th, 2012 RPG Gaming A reader wrote me a mail asking “Your recent post on malicious players made me think about the structure and purpose of games today. Is EVE a game, or a platform for abuse? And what about the “gamification” of real life with location services or 3D games that use the environs around you as input [...]
Preparing D&D
April 3rd, 2012 RPG Gaming One aspect in which two Dungeon & Dragons campaigns with different Dungeon Masters are likely to differ a lot is the amount of preparation, the work done between play sessions. Some DMs prepare very little, and then either invent things on the spot, or follow some printed material. Other DMs spend more time preparing than [...]
EVE Online empire space becomes safe
April 1st, 2012 RPG Gaming Well, there was bound to be some fallout from the Mittanigate affair. Apparently several players complained about being harassed, and CCP got under legal pressure to provide a harassment-free environment for those who didn’t want to participate in the wars and treacherous politics of EVE Online. Thus they announced a rule-change that from the next [...]
