We all agree on the necessity of compromise.
We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
~ Larry Wall
Items of Interest
The road goes ever on and on - and in case you weren’t paying attention Lord of the Rings Online is going into Open Beta today or tomorrow.
They had this to say on the LOTRO forums:
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Namco Bandai Games Inc. will release Arcade machines based on the Sony CELL CPU used in the Sony PS3.
Namco and Sony partnered in January to form Cellius, a joint-venture focusing on developing games and software for the CELL CPU.
More details in this AP story on The Mainichi Daily News. See also the Tekken 6 arcade site.From I4U News
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It’s official: Microsoft’s 120GB hard drive-equipped, HDMI ready, black Xbox 360 Elite will be hitting shelves next month for $479. The game console arms race continues within…
The new version of the system—a true non-surprise thanks to widespread rumors—will be hitting US stores on April 29. The console will hit other regions later this year.
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Wizard of the Coast’s most recent article in the Save My Game series takes on an issue that many RPGers are familiar with: Player Knowledge vs. Character Knowledge. In this particular article they discuss the topic of monsters, and how veteran players will easily recognize many of Dungeons and Dragons’ iconic monsters. When you see the troll, go for the fire, when you run into the medusa shield your eyes, when you encounter a beholder run for the hills (well, in my group anyways). Where is the line drawn between players and characters in terms of what they know?
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It’s been long debated by some that a D&D party must have the basic abilities that come from the four main classes: fighter, wizard, cleric, and rogue. With this optimized array of skills, feats, and abilities a group should be able to tackle the challenges they face. Each seems to do something that cannot be easily replaced by one of the other classes. And we’re not talking about the hybrid type classes here, like ranger, paladins, ect. But of the fantastic four. Each is unique in their own way. But what if one of these classes were missing.
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