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Yeah. Warcraft 2 had submersibles, dirigibles, helicopters, demolition teams, and offshore oil drilling. Warcraft 3 added tanks, guns, etc. When people complain of high technology in their medieval fantasy, they are ignoring the fact that the upper limit is not medieval at all. Much more modern...

Applejack? Twilight Sparkle? Rainbow Dash? I definitely have no idea where these names are from.

There was a boss fight that used some tricks to simulate intelligent tactics rather than the usual scripted behaviour, the faction champions in ToC. IMO, it never felt any more like a legitimate challenge than any other fight, just tedious when it went well and annoyingly random when it didn't...

I think your second paragraph sort of negates your first. It's probably more correct to say the challenge spectrum has widened rather than moved down. Yeah, the leveling experience is dead easy now. And it's great, I've had a few people start playing just recently who like it now and probably...

Depends entirely what you want out of it. I'm in a pretty decent raiding guild, but not bleeding edge like the true hardcores (for reference for those who play, we're at 5/13 hard modes in 25-man right now, killed heroic 25-man Lich King pre-Cataclysm but it took us months of trying). We got...

This intrigues me. I always loved flipping through the old World of Darkness books, but never played more than a few sessions and therefore never added any to my own collection. But while I did miss the original run, I'd still buy the omnibus edition, so to speak. WW could totally sell me a...

More specifically, about 20 minutes of fun crammed into those 4 hours, or so the joke goes.

Sort of. The great majority of my gaming experience has been with the same people I hang out with in any other context, so the opportunities for these things to happen have been rare. There was one time, though, where my girlfriend and a friend of hers who had played with us for a long time...

Based on this, it's probably fair to say you're as much of a corner case among D&D players as the guys who actually gather data and program the simulators are in the WoW community. There's always a full spectrum, ranging from people like you on down to the people in either game who play the same...

Bastion of Broken Orcs and Pies: All across the prime, pies are being born without filling. An orc sits in the planar fortress from which all pies originate, gorging himself on the unbaked fillings.

It was more the cheetos than the beer. I know you clearly didn't have your serious face on, but the same sentiment about social aspects was expressed in other posts. Yours was just the closest when I went to reply. :)

My main and my primary alt. It's been pretty quiet, with the expansion coming up in a few weeks.

What if you've had a beer with your friends at the same table, then flown 1000 km back home to play games with them? Where does that fall? I think the majority of my guild has done that... once you've been there, is it okay to cut out some of the travel and just have a few beers while you all...

I'd maybe extend that with "what have you left behind?"

To answer the original question: because my group and I are playing WoW the other 6 nights of the week, need a little variety! Both have different strengths. I talk to 9-24 other people, over voice chat, several times a week, and I'd be less social, not more, if I didn't. MMOs give me a...

Hm. For starters, it could go fully classless and level-less. Roll class benefits, perks, achievement benefits, and rank benefits together. Divide them into categories, keep skill level requirements or escalating costs as necessary, maybe flag some as unavailable (or only available) at character...

Been thinking about this myself recently. You will, of course, need supplies and inspiration.

Some people called it lazy (or implied as such by way of 'unoriginal' or 'predictable'), but I was also just making an observation on something a lesser writer might have done that they didn't. Had I stopped the movie halfway through to discuss, I would have put money on that guy dying.

If the writing was actually lazy and hackneyed, the corporate guy would have died going into the third act while the military guy went off the rails, allowing the human side to throw away any consistent motivation for the sake of an explosion-filled finale. Search your heart, you know it to be...

Hah, I'm basically doing this right now. It's an intentionally lightweight, videogamey campaign, and when they loot a body I say "he has a bunch of crap, you pick it up." When they arrive in town to unload, I say "all the crap you've looted becomes about a level-appropriate set of gear." I gotta...