Friday, May 30, 2008

Interarms Alexandria, Va.

The scene in the grip

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This time not from the Forge or Settembrini, but by D & D4.

In the forums D & D4 has just an enormous preponderance. Even in German forums what really surprises me.

But what so ever worth of D & D4, that one has to open dozens of threads and can hardly talk about something else? D & D4 is really something new? A kind of secret revolution? I do not think so.

Somehow there was to walk past me. Perhaps because D & D for me only yet another role-playing game was? Because I was not much of Gary Gygax (and I have not one before, and cheer him up after his death)?

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Wireless Security Hookup

Nethack

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So, das mit dem Healer war nichts. Trotzdem danke, für den Tipp Skyrock. So verhungert man nicht, sondern wird halt erschlagen. ;)


Trotzdem bin ich mittlerweile recht zufrieden mit Nethack auch wenn manche Tode einfach zu dumm sind, wie der folgende, als ich in einem Shop von einem large m gehalten wurde und mir dachte, bei 1 HP mal noch diese Potion auszuprobieren:


It burns like acid!


jun-Pri-Elf-Fem-Cha died in the Dungeon of Doom on level 3. Killed by a potion of holy water.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Surprise40th Birthday Party Ideas For Men

POWDER

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POWDER Jeff Lait is one of the first roguelike for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS (unless you count Shining Soul). The funniest part about it is available for Windows, Mac, Linux.

The sober Roguelike graphic is replaced by a console style that speaks to me very much.

Difficulty over. Nethack a little lower, especially in terms of nutrition. At. Nethack it has always bothered me much that I'm regularly starving, and even with ADOM me that happen too often. POWDER played out as little more comfortable without to be demanding.

An interesting feature I find also that the gods play a stronger role. For each step increase selects his new class, and hence the God whom we worship. Unfortunately, the gods have quite contradictory views, so that one can certainly happen at some point, that the God of the clergy or a similar poison. Since then it helps to have set well with his own God. ;)


Building A 4x4 Dune Buggy

The State of Things

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Even if you hear nothing, it means far from that for me nothing happened.

The Roo is still under editing. I hope to get it but by the weekend.

Sky Pirates of Venus is undergoing a clear audit. After I had left it a little lie, I am now with a clearer head out there to work with the chisel. Once everything superfluous is down, the last area to be worked out, I have been treated rather neglected. I hope all until the beginning of the month to get into editing. But this is still a little shaky right now.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Thicker Fuller Hair Shampoo

women in role play

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Eero Tuovinen hat einen exzellenten Artikel über die Rolle der Frauen im oder besser auf dem Rollenspiel(buch) und der Umgang mit diesen Rollen geschrieben.


I’m not primarily interested in the feelings of women in this matter, by the way. No, what I care about here is the general level of virtue in my hobby and in my own actions. And by “virtue” I mean those geek virtues, by the way: intellectual, scientific world-view finds nothing wrong in eroticism per se, but succumbing to marketing more suited to drunk rednecks at a Hooters bar is something else, again. Apparently this trend of marketing fantasy roleplaying games with nekkid women on the cover works, too, or they wouldn’t do it in droves seeking. What, do they think that the game is actually about those girls on the cover, or what? Exalted is actually a set of super hero conflict resolution rules, not a naughty comic book, and Illustrating it like The latter is frankly just disillusioning.

recommended. Breasts pictures are of course to view.

What remains to say: Frank, where's barbarian?