Keep your politics to yourself..

I am a very political person.  I will not talk about that here.  Period.  End of Story.

I don’t think political statements should be part of any website that is related to gaming. We play games to get away from real life for an hour or two. I don’t want to go look up a quest, and have political ads and banners all over the page. I don’t want to read a gaming forum, and have to scroll through pages of “Vote for —insert names –”. I go to a technical support forum to find out if anyone else is having problems gating home. I really don’t care who you are voting for. I don’t know what makes you think I do. Read more

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Don Spatafora (aka “Big Perm”)

Don Spatafora had many aliases. He was “Big Perm” to all the folks at the Ivory Tower Game club. He was known as “Phred” to many of his gaming friends. He was also lovingly called Bear by some.

He was to me, the ultimate gamer. He loved D&D, and was a very good Game Master. He knew all the rules, and was creative. He could weave a wonderful tale, and lead his groups into the best of adventures. The reason he was better than most, as a GM, was that he did not bring his Ego to the table. He didn’t flaunt that he was the GM, or want all the attention, or become the “Lord of the Rules”. So many GM’s get on a power trip, and ruin the game for the players. For him, the most important part was the players enjoying the story. Read more

Don’t join MySpace Mobsters

A few weeks back, my daughter sent me a link to join a game called “Mobsters” on Myspace. (They actually have several similar games - Heroes, Rockstar etc.) It is just one of those little Apps you can add.

At first it was kind of fun. I didn’t get into it as much as she did, but I would log on every day and buy more territory, do a few missions, and add people to my Mob. Read more

Grandma buys all the games…

I am on a first name basis with the manager of our local Gamestop. (Seriously–I am. This is Scott and his wife. He runs the local Gamestop)

He has so many games reserved for me, that it takes a Cray to manage the database.

He calls me when he gets news for hot pre-orders, and makes sure we get every cool promo item there is.

I have 7 grandkids. Six of them are already playing video games on a regular basis. (give the 2 year old another year) Read more

Profile of Moorgard

I began reading

back in 2001.

When he commented about a guildmate of mine, Ferkl of Veeshan Guard on CT server.

After that, his site was almost a daily read for me. He always had all the news and gossip about Everquest, with a touch of sardonic wit thrown in here and there.

He was often very critical, but always stated his reasons. Because he was fair, and would often defend Verant, he was often flamed. But overall, he had a great site, with great comments and gossip. Read more

Diablo has real staying power!

Although I love online RPG’s, every now and then I like to lose myself in a stand-alone game. Just me and my PC. Sometimes you don’t want to chat, raid, LFG, or do tradeskills. You just want to hack your way through a bunch of skeletons in Diablo! Read more

Diablo 3 — MMORPG?

I am a huge fan of Diablo and Diablo II. I still play both of them on a regular basis. I have been reading “rumors from around the net”, that Blizzard may be coming out with a new MMORPG based on the Diablo series instead of Warcraft.

If they do, I hope they have Wirt as one of the vendors. (maybe you have go rescue his leg before he will buy and sell from you)

I always thought, the Diablo world would lend itself to a very nice game. I look forward to visiting Decard Caine for his sage advice.

(Perhaps we will find out in October, when Blizzard hosts Blizzcon.)

If they are making Diablo3, I hope it is a bit more difficult than WoW. I want more long term objectives, titles and ingame housing.

I would love to see less use of instanced dungeons. Give me a good ol’dungeon crawl. I want trains to the zone, shouts for groups, contested spawns…all the things that communities are built on! Make it so you can only group with people of the appropriate levels. I don’t want all the content simplified by having older players ‘Run you through” all the content. I want the armor we wear to be earned, and paid for in the deaths.

For now we can only hope!

(to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11.)