Neverwinter: It's Forgotten Realms, but is it D&D?

This is the first beta weekend for Cryptic’s “Neverwinter”, an action-oriented MMO set in one of the more famous of the Forgotten Realm’s cities. We’ve…

February 10, 2013 · 8 min · 1553 words · Tipa

DCUO: Grinding for Hoodies

Ever since I heard that the only hope of my DCUO Green Lantern-“ish” character getting to wear the lantern symbol on her costume was to…

February 8, 2013 · 2 min · 360 words · Tipa

EQ2: Entering Ethernere

My cleric, Arda (née Dera), turned level 92 a few days ago. Though this is the threshold for the new Chains of Eternity expansion, I…

February 6, 2013 · 4 min · 763 words · Tipa

DCUO: Gorilla of their Dreams

I think we’re getting the hang of the game. We know how the controls work, mostly. We know our roles and how to use them,…

February 4, 2013 · 6 min · 1219 words · Tipa

D&D4e: Valda Onyxheart

The sky above the lost city of Thunderholme was gray and crumbling. Massive chunks of granite had been ripped from the sky and thrown to…

February 3, 2013 · 3 min · 542 words · Tipa

Star Trek Online: The Temporal Ambassador

There’s only so much reading about all the fun the people in the Federation News Service were having in Star Trek Online before I had…

February 2, 2013 · 4 min · 851 words · Tipa

DCUO: Home Turf

The “Home Turf” downloadable content dropped in DC Universe Online yesterday, bringing housing to the hordes of heroes and villains of Metropolis and Gotham City….

January 30, 2013 · 3 min · 632 words · Tipa

DCUO: A Slippery Slope

Move over, Justice League. It’s time for Team Spode to take the stage. It was time for those old guys to take early retirement anyway,…

January 28, 2013 · 4 min · 786 words · Tipa

EQ2: A Simple Plan, Revisited

Last post, I talked about trying to re-create the inn room from some missing NPC in Arda’s Freeport inn room. I couldn’t find all –…

January 27, 2013 · 4 min · 740 words · Tipa

EQ2: A Simple Plan

When I level up a character, I get bored if I do the same things, go the same places as another character. There’s too much…

January 23, 2013 · 4 min · 736 words · Tipa