OK, a few weeks back I picked up Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja for the Nintendo DS. Read here for the twisted tale on how I settled on this particular title. Now I’ve gotten to play it for maybe 5–10 hours and I’m going to share some initial thoughts. You might enjoy these thoughts even if [...]
Yesterday KharasDjun filled you in on the old school gamer’s nostalgic take on the passing of Dragon and Dungeon magazines. Now I will tell you why it is about time that these useless relics from a bygone era are finally laid to rest.
Well, this has been a bad week for me. I was made aware of the fact that Wizards of the Coast and Paizo Publishing were ending their licensing of DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines. Then, through other sources, I learned that Tom Moldvay had passed away in March with nary a word until someone was contacted [...]
In which MetalJim learns how to hang in there and keep digging…
License plate seen by yours truly on a freeway north of Los Angeles Sunday night:
WWCTHLD
Priceless.
Yes folks, I’m beating this horse to death. I’m filling for Smite Monday with a bonus post on my latest adventures in bridging the geographic gap between gamers.
On Saturday and Sundays for the past few years, our local group of seven have gotten together to play standard D&D sitting on couches around a table with a vinyl [...]
At the All Games Considered podcast they have a kind of competition going. They paired off a bunch of game systems in a March Madness bracket style tournament and encouraged their listeners to vote on…
This week, I’m helping out KarasDjun with filler for his regular Thursday slot.
Last week, I played around with using Google Earth to visualize my game world of Primordia. To get the most out of this post, you may want to stroll on down to http://earth.google.com/ and download your very own copy.
First, an introduction to Google Earth. [...]
[Spoiler Alert] MetalJim previews the upcoming Future Sight expansion for Magic: The Gathering…
I’m going on a trip for work next week, which will involve multiple cross-country flights. I look out the window today and see April snows across the Northeast! That can mean only one thing: I should expect lots of cancelled flights along the way (as if the airlines even need a reason anymore…) On my last [...]
Spring is here so I’ll celebrate new beginnings by looking at some recent character creation sessions that have been going on.
D&D 3.5 really goes for the wow factor at higher levels, enticing you to advance to astronomical levels never before attained in most older D&D campaigns faster than ever before. The power levels at the high end of the level spectrum are ridiculous. Let’s see how the system can be used to craft a perfect killing [...]
In which MetalJim calls out to lonely gamer geeks everywhere…
In the board game world, we struggle a bit when trying to describe our wonderful secret trove of games to those poor fools than make up the uninformed masses. Labels are so useful for the way the human brain sorts and stores ideas, and yet… we run into trouble early. We all think of “board [...]
Sid Meier’s Civilization is one of the greatest gaming franchises in the history of computer gaming. I recently played the board game based on the computer game.
I’ve recently ended one campaign only to start work on another, this one set in the Forgotten Realms. I’ve opted to set the beginning of the campaign in Waterdeep figuring that the city should be a safer location to start an adventure. But where do you start?
I can come up with nearly a dozen adventures [...]
In which MetalJim learns that there are plenty of people in Nashville who are willing and eager to kick his butt…
We just had an old friend in town for the last week or so, and managed to set up a single night of gaming. John used to round out our “hard-core” foursome – with other permutations of our gamer group we play some light Euro-games, or Magic, or D&D, or the occasional Steve Jackson brand [...]