June 2011
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'...the most realistic social experience ... from...
And it works - As soon as you’re comfortable with the interface, the game turns itself into a big, original Dungeons and Dragons experience. The personality of other characters are limited only by their players and instead of a set number of possibilities and results you would expect in any other digital RPG, Arelith provides the most realistic social experience you could...
October 2010
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August 2010
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Rules for Online Worlds...
From Bioware Forum and Raph’s site …
A Caveat Ola’s Law About Laws Any general law about virtual worlds should be read as a challenge rather than as a guideline. You’ll learn more from attacking it than from accepting it. Design Rules The secrets to a really long-lived, goal-oriented, online game of wide appeal * have multiple paths of advancement (individual features...
July 2010
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Our Beloved RP topic
Intelligent essays on the nature of Role-playing online over at Dancing Elephant that come with a dash of game theory, covering the gamut from MUDS to NWN to MMORGs. Specifically, this will be of interest to PW designers and DMs, but there’s plenty here for advanced players as well; here’s a sample:
This reminded me of Raph Koster’s seminal essay, “The evil we pretend to do”. I...
April 2010
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NeverWinter Nights – One Of The Best PC... →
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April Fools on Arelith
Cheers to the persistent world Arelith for having a little April fools fun. I logged in Epistemi and found myself just outside of Bendir. Before long a group of zombies - the Bendir guards themselves - came ambling at me, moaning “Brainssss” all the way. Everyone - the caravan master, the hin guards, the merchants - had turned into a zombie and were hellbent on destroying the...
March 2010
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Bioware is coming up with something,again.
ggaming:
Bioware, definetely one of the best game producers around these days, is started a countdown for …. hmm something. Hope it will be something incredible again. Keep going Bioware
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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
– Oscar Wilde
fuck this.
illbedancing:
i’m going to play neverwinter nights.
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Neverwinter Nights
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I am an avid NWN player. I plan on using Tumblr to chronicle all of my characters.