The world of Dungeons & Dragons has had a significant impact on gaming culture. Originally introduced by Gary Gygax in 1974, the tabletop game has influenced both tabletop and video games alike. Even today, many games use rulesets and settings from the imaginative world of might and magic. Games like Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate, and Pillars of Eternity are just a few examples of the many games ...[Read More]
I just came back from a year of working in Tokyo. While that might sound like a great, interesting experience, it was also an isolating one. See, my Japanese is mediocre at best and Tokyo is much like New York City; busy, impersonal, unfriendly, and sometimes hostile, though in a more passive-aggressive way than NYC. Between the language barrier, Japanese shyness, and a fairly prevalent distrust o...[Read More]
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition comes 40 years after the release of the original Dungeons & Dragons. Create a character and forge your legend as you travel through lands of fantasy and adventure, encountering all manner of creatures and tales.
Dungeons & Dragons has long been known as the fantasy themed role-playing game. Forty years after its original publication, Dungeons & Dragons has started the timed release of its fifth edition ruleset and first fifth edition adventure. The initial offerings from Wizards of the Coast include the Starter Set, the core rulebooks (Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master...[Read More]
Sit right down and let me tell you a tale. This is a tale of prophecy, destiny, and fate. One week before our horrendously awful drive down to E3, which is a story for another time, we recorded a pre-E3 podcast with our good friends Chris and Kelly. Rather than making standard E3 predictions, however, we decided (at my prompting, I believe) to make wild predictions that had just the smallest chanc...[Read More]
I wasn’t particularly impressed with Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale. My biggest complaint was that it was being touted as a “Dungeons & Dragons” title, but had virtually none of the customization options that are so integral to the Dungeons & Dragons experience. At E3, one of the Atari guys behind that title showed me a new title, Gamma World: Alpha Mutation, and the ...[Read More]
I rarely let Facebook games dominate me in the way they seem to dominate others. Farmville was a passing phase, along with some other social house/city style game. There was a competitive geography game that I quite enjoyed, as well as something else that I can’t quite remember at this exact moment, but as you can tell, these games had such a profound effect on me that I can barely even reme...[Read More]
I came in to Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale both hesitant and hopeful. On the one hand, I’ve been a massive fan of Dungeons & Dragons since Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition. On the other hand, I’ve been a massive fan of Dungeons & Dragons since Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition. I could either have been very happy with a great console Dungeons & Dra...[Read More]
Before going into the review I want to warn you all that there are major spoilers ahead. Normally I do my best to avoid spoilers, however in order to properly review Fable III, I feel that fully discussing storyline and other elements is crucial. If you are considering purchasing this game, I highly suggest you read this review because odds are, I might just save you some money.