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2 free trial weekend which runs from august 23rd through august 25th i d been hemming and hawing over purchasing the game for a while now and i figured that since gen con has come and gone it d be safe for me to consider purchasing the game this fall well arenanet took that out of my hands by offering me a chance to give the game a spin before purchasing as of this moment gw2 s game client is busy being downloaded onto the main pc so by the time i get done with work for the day it ought to be ready for me to try out and to be honest if i get more game time out of gw2 than i have skyrim then the game will be worth a purchase until gw2 s trial dropped in my lap i figured this weekend s mmo playing would consist of chain running alterac valley it s av weekend in wow and working on finishing up my trooper s story in tor among other interesting items is that neverwinter added a mini expac concerning the feywild which i m curious about in d d 4e cosmology the feywild is the home plane where all sorts of fey creatures live a pc can only cross into the feywild at certain locations and or certain times of day month year think of it as the mythical realm of faerie placed into d d the feywild is also home to the three branches of elves eladrin elves and drow the eladrin still remain primarily in the feywild the elves have long ago migrated into the normal world and the drow betrayed their brethren and now inhabit the underdark i ll freely admit that i am more interested in the d d 4e setting than the 4e game mechanics itself so the fact that the neverwinter mmo is moving in this direction is a boon to me since this is a friday and saturday is usually a gaming day around the house i ll leave you with a link to wil wheaton s tabletop in this episode he and his friends play settlers of catan you know that wood for sheep game that drew some laughs on an episode of the big bang theory you could have been videocapped better wil sigh she s in ilum right now which is the crystal planet as my kids so aptly put it yes they are devoted fans of star wars the clone wars and worship lolth see my last post for a pic of her in her drider form which is half human half spider posted by redbeard at 10 38 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boardgames guild wars 2 neverwinter tuesday august 20 2013 two sheep some goblins and a whole mess of whovians gen con 2013 is now in the books as we ve done the past two years we made a trek up to indianapolis for sunday s family fun day for 30 a family of four can get into gen con and wander around the entire area if you wanted to play any of the events on sunday you have to pay for the tokens but i ve found that you get to run enough demos and talk to the vendors in the dealer hall without needing to join in a scheduled game two pirates a klingon a belly dancer and a wookie start a band before we even got into the convention center mayfair games was hosting free coffee just across the street along with their sheep mascots bob and angus alas we just missed the last of the coffee but since we d bought our badges online we breezed through will call to pick up our badges good thing too as the line for purchasing badges was incredibly long even early in the day we roamed the con with my brother in law who has been coming for years and typically shows up on wednesday yes before the con starts just so he can hang out with his friends we stopped by the paizo booth and the kids got to meet sean k reynolds while he was out and about there were goblins everywhere in the paizo booth and even goblin masks to wear i think if we d had more time the kids would have probably rummaged through all of the pathfinder material a bit longer but paizo was truly busy the entire day having ed greenwood and other authors nearby signing copies of their work certainly didn t hurt either ruling over the d d ballroom was lolth the demon queen of spiders and drow and no a 5 roll of newpaper won t help you much with her other places such as mayfair games and fantasy flight games were running a lot of demos in their spaces my wife and i tried a eurogame called planet steam which a very heavy economic game heavy doesn t begin to describe it really if you like games that have lots of functioning options and then throw in a few things like an auction or two each turn then maybe you ll like it all i can say is that i don t have an mba so this sort of game didn t appeal to me while i got a chance to slip out and look around the rest of the crew tried out some family oriented games such as spot it party edition by blue orange games and run for your life candyman by smirk and dagger games neither would be confused with a deep boardgame but they were fun and engaging i could easily see the spot it games being modified for use as a drinking game which would really cause trouble if you get a few beers in you the kids just about went bananas over the who north america booth complete with tardis and a dalek i was actually quite surprised when they decided not to splurge on the doctor who adventures in time and space rpg by cubicle seven but i was informed that since they could get it at one of our local game stores that wasn t a high priority for them but getting a soundtrack was a bit more important what you were expecting river song while i perused the rpg areas i discovered that the gaming community has changed even in the past three years the number of women and families attending gen con have gone up yes i realize that with a name like family fun day you d expect to see families there but the sheer number of families keeps on an upward trend just like how the old myth that only teenage boys swilling monster and red bull play mmos has been pretty much busted the belief that only nerdy guys who live in their parents basement play rpgs and boardgames has been shattered by the attendees at gen con this is a good thing there are a lot of fun games out there that people can get together with friends and spend an evening playing but the stigma of who and what are gamers can turn some people away just like how we mmo bloggers by our mere presence fight the stereotypes that you see splashed all over the media pencil and paper gamers can fight their own stereotypes by welcoming the next generation into the fold besides these games are a lot of fun and it s a shame to keep them to yourself that said the sagamore ballroom was filled with people playing paizo s pathfinder rpg and the d d hall had a lot of gamers trying out d d next as well we didn t make it up to the games on demand area but i was told that the place was packed all weekend long with gamers trying out all sorts of different rpgs never played settlers of catan go hence and track down a copy you can find them all over and even in discount stores in the u s such as target and meet up with an author friend of mine who was in for the writer s symposium after having talked with him over the past several years it was good to finally meet up with him in person if only for about 15 minutes before he had to leave for home some of the rpg vendors i checked out and talked to included troll lord games castles and crusades catalyst shadowrun the indie press revolution booth including fate core and dresden files from evil hat games and dungeon world from sage kobold productions and green ronin both the dragon age and the champions rpgs wizards of the coast didn t have a vendor area but had their own section near the main exhibit hall where they were running massive playtest games of d d next the so called grumpy game owner of years past has begun to give way to a more business savvy and customer friendly version really you pretty much have to be friendly if you want to stay in business for any length of time about the only exception to that rule was steve jobs and he could get away with being obnoxious because he was steve jobs posted by redbeard at 6 24 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family gen con sunday august 11 2013 don t mind red he s got a headache i finally started group content with the kids since they only have one account that they share between them the best we could do alone was a 2 man instance luckily for us the old republic has a perfect introduction to an instance with the esseles a 2 person flashpoint designed for l10 12 no other players in the area no competition to complete a heroic 2 first and we ve got plenty of time to finish without rushing the esseles has the bonus of being one of the best of the old republic flashpoints for story so i knew that d keep them attracted as well so i pulled out the old man reacquainted myself with how to play a scoundrel aka get up in people s grill and blast them from behind with a shotgun scattergun and sauntered off to take a trip to coruscant aboard the esseles my oldest had the first run and to be honest that was the smoothest of the bunch i told her straight up to let me maneuver into position first and then backblast to start the fight typically i d end up taking out a regular enemy leaving corso to round up the strong and or elites for us to attack afterward while the fighting went well enough i had to explain the tor method of choosing who gets to speak in a cutscene there was also the little matter of me playing the old man as more a devil may care type than my original gunslinger so i got to see some wording out of him that i ordinarily wouldn t ever see out of dalaak i heard a daa aad from upstairs more than once but i shrugged it off but there was one problem the esseles crashes at the end on our desktop computer ironically enough not the laptop so i was able to restart swtor and get back into the flashpoint before it ended but still it was quite annoying next came my son and he was just as wisecracking as i was but he reserved it more for the group chat he was a bit overeager at times but luckily it wasn t too big of a problem but my youngest i told her at the beginning to let me lead i told her that during the flashpoint too several times in fact she s ten and i know she can read but she still kept running ahead running the wrong way running into a boss fight before we cleared out the trash and in general acting more like someone half her age finally her behavior caught up with her she ran off the edge of a platform and disappeared into space i said a silent prayer of thanks that swtor flashpoints still let you do that whereas you re hard pressed to do that in a wow instance now i said as she respawned will you cut it out oops she replied if you pull stuff like this in a regular instance people will let you die to teach you a lesson it s called you yank it you tank it and the real tank would get really pissed off at you for this behave better and let the person who has been here before do the leading after the lecture she shaped up i d rather she get the lesson from me than finding herself vote kicked or being the reason for a wipe she also learned that as a gunslinger her abilities are best when behind cover whereas my scoundrel is built to get in the baddies faces she saw me at work and tried to imitate it but i explained that her best abilities like the charged bolts bonuses and other assorted goodies she gets in her talent tree are made for long distance by comparison these runs ended better than the hammer station run i had the other day where the commando healer didn t heal and the tank would rush in before i could cc a droid by the time the healer began to get the hang of things the tank decided we weren t going to live through the first boss and dropped group in spite of my encouragement the healer dropped too and then after that so did the other dps these people were too willing to throw in the towel rather than try the hard work of actually making it through an instance slowly grinding out a victory maybe they could have taken a few lessons from some kids my rules i get to control the mmo accounts lotro and tor that way and i also keep track of any activity within the toons tor has each person select an action and then a random virtual dice roll determines who gets to speak i decided to have the old man play dumb with beryl toward the end of the class questline on taris kind of unusual for a guy who flirted with grand master satele shan in the closing cutscene to the athiss flashpoint but i ve decided that i want him to pursue a romance with one of the female companions later so i want to minimize any repercussions later sometimes it helps having done the smuggler class story before nobody had the ability to pick up the canisters so he decided he d rather drop instead of actually you know trying posted by redbeard at 10 23 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family flashpoints swtor monday august 5 2013 blizzard announces more info on connected realms which are sounding exactly like server merges they re just not saying that because well saying world of warcraft to perform server merges is a way of getting a lot of negative press patch 5 4 feature preview connected realms to be honest it sounds more like what has been implemented for the secret world and is being implemented for age of conan than anything else still they re server merges no way around it i ve been perusing some online listings of active accounts on servers i still wonder how they manage that and i ve found that ysera has dropped quite a bit over the past few years down to something like 1 4 the size of area 52 matching what i ve noticed in game i do wonder how this is going to work long term and whether a horde heavy realm will be matched up with an alliance heavy realm to balance things out but the merges have begun just don t call them that posted by redbeard at 12 20 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow saturday august 3 2013 like the corners of my mind i was doing a little cleanup on the blog tonight when i came across a couple of things i knew were coming but still were a punch in the gut the domains for the pink pigtail inn and tankingtips com were gone going through the list voss sword and board and cynwise s posterous field notes have also vanished into the same ether that claimed tam s righteous orbs and lara s root and branch still the ppi especially was the great watering hole that not only had larisa s posts but also had the monster mess of a blogroll that people could use as a master reading list i know i used to use ppi to find new blogs to read and i could trace a big spike in pc s readership to the week when larisa added us to her blogroll even up to a year after larisa stopped posting at ppi we d see more people following a link from there to our blog than just about anywhere else now outside of rades huge blogroll there s pretty much hugh at the mmo melting pot keeping the blogroll flame alive wow 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