http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/06/08/daily25-Turbine-makes-Dungeons–Dragons-Online-game-free-to-play.html
I don’t know if this is signalling a shift in how MMOs in general are going to think about their pricing schemes, or if it’s just Turbine, or if it’s just this game, but it’s an interesting development.
Edit: more on free-to-play MMOs at Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4046/what_are_the_rewards_of_.php
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D&D MMO development
Posted in Blogroll, D&D, Online gaming on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Awesome RPG update
Posted in Blogroll, Library gaming, world development on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m gearing up for the start of Ian’s Awesome RPG next week. The Monday session is full, and the Thursday session is coming along. I made up the magic system this morning – and had a really funny idea about an Alchemy practitioner discovering atomic energy accidentally, but then not being able to share it [...]
Game blog
Posted in Blogroll, Library gaming, world development on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starting another blog to use specifically with the kids playing in my game this summer: http://iarpg.blogspot.com/. The main use is going to be talking through some options before we get started, but then we’ll use it to communicate some during the game as well. Take a look, if you like.
D&D Pictionary
Posted in Blogroll, Library gaming on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We have an ongoing event called Gamers Unplugged. It’s usually advertised something along these lines: “Play board games, card games, and other games without electricity. Well, we do use electricity for lights and climate-controlled comfort. Just not the games.”
Katie recently had the idea of putting D&D monsters into a Pictionary game, and that became putting [...]
Librarian’s Guide to Gaming goes live
Posted in Blogroll, D&D, Library gaming on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just got the press release to let me know Beth Gallaway’s monster project, The Librarian’s Guide to Gaming: An Online Toolkit for Building Gaming @ your library, has gone live. Among other things, this means that … somebody may read my blog … :-O (Quick, what’s a good topic for a new series of posts [...]
World of Warcraft in libraries
Posted in Blogroll, Library gaming, Video games on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not my thing, but it’s interesting: http://librarywow.blogspot.com/ is tracking Bob’s quest (heh, see what I did there?) to get WoW going as a library program.
