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It's easy to see him as calculating as evil, but looking at those photos of him, I see a poor sick kid who needed help and didn't get it. Yeah, he pushed that help away, and yeah, if I had super action-movie powers and a time machine, I'd have chosen to put him in the ground before he killed...

First off, apologies if this has come and gone and I am late to the party. It was new to me. :) http://dicepool.com/catalog/quiz.php When my friend took the test, she came out d4, and was... very enthusiastic. Given her level of verve for a polyhedral test, I thought that I should offer my...

If I want to find out more about the shooter or his motives, I want to be able to click a link and follow it. But I don't want that poor young man's sick and hopeless eyes staring at me every time I go to my Yahoo page, or every time I turn on the television. I'd wager that those closer to the...

There are some jobs that can be done at night or at home. I don't know what your home life is like, but there are options: - Night shift security (many times, this is really a chance for you to read a book late at night at a desk with some cameras) - Essay/resume editing or other copywriting...

That's also the structure of about a zillion other similar shows. As the Umbral one said, it's not about the unique plot structure. Few successful crime-based television shows are, in fact. It's about taking a comfortable plot structure and entertaining the audience week after week. Law & Order...

We weren't talking about the paper-doll inventory system or the concept of class-based versus point-based levelling. If we were, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance would be a completely valid fit, since it uses those RPG elements. We were talking about options for nonlinear storytelling and open...

Because Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance isn't trying to do anything but put you on the rails, just like your average dungeon-romp pick-up game at a con isn't trying to do anything beyond let a bunch of strangers whack monsters for fun. Debating the shortcomings and limitations of games that try to...

Exactly. The portcullis was blocking us from getting into the mayor's manor. According to the module itself, there's no reason why the player couldn't go to the mayor's manor immediately after things start going all pear-shaped. But our DM wanted us to do the temple, so we had to go do the...

Gah, my mistake. Attributed something Jhaelen said to you by mistake. Sorry.

My wife and I game with two other couples (five players, one DM). They come over to our place, since we have the kid. The kid watches television or gets entertained by either me or my wife during the day, and when night falls, we alternate bath and bed duties. (Realistically, if it's a...

CPUs limit their games to what the designer of the CRPG has programmed in. You're very conveniently leaving out the fact that CRPGs have designers who often think about things a lot more carefully than your average DM. Every game, CRPG or pen & paper, has limitations based on what the DM or the...

As somebody who designs CRPGs for a living, I think Ourph is at least partially correct. A lot of times, you do put the next plot point behind a door that can't be opened unless you get the key. Ideally, if it's critpath, you offer a few different ways to get that key, but yeah, unless you get...

Easy answer? Because an author skilled enough to do that is most likely writing in his or her own universe, and has to change enough stuff for trademark-violation-avoidance purposes that, while the resulting work might be very very good, it most likely won't feel like gaming fantasy. Regardless...

ha-gieden, those are some wonderful self-promotion ideas. If you don't mind me asking, which publisher are you using? Whenever the publication train rolls around, I'm hoping that the blog will come in handy. (Linked in my .sig.) Until then, it's a good place for me to bounce ideas off people...

The question of art versus strategy is a big one, P-Kitty. There are people who want to write one particular work, and if that sells, cool, and if it doesn't, it doesn't. I think that's an entirely valid way to go about doing it, but I also think that if you want to be published, you have to...

While you may be writing humorously, this is an insulting statement to a great many agents who bust their butts trying to get good writers published. It's also largely inaccurate. There are people who call themselves agents who are in fact evil fleecers, but by using "Preditors & Editors" (see...

You don't? "Why is BioWare putting so much effort into making console games when they should be focusing on PC games?' "Why does Random House put out so many media tie-in novels instead of novels set in original worlds?" "Why does Justice League Unlimited have so many Black Canary-centric...

Both points of view are valid, although I played and liked both games. BG2 wasn't a graphics powerhouse even at the time of its creation, so if you care about graphics, Jade stomps all over it. BG2's story is pretty simple, and there isn't a whole lot of depth to the conversations. Jade's...

I hope your daughter is okay. Thanks for letting us know.

Wow. So it's been more than a year since the last book, the book that was really about half a book padded to full-book length, and the book that's coming out is the book that was "almost done" because it was originally the second half of the un-padded book we just read... and it's still not...