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Review: Dragons of Faerun Print E-mail

Written by Toothpick the Ferret, on 25-09-2006 12:04

Published in : Articles, Riveting Reviews


As a DM, I like the Faerun setting a great deal. There is a great deal of diversity, a large amount of background information both in books and online, and it is a high magic setting, which gives good players a lot of options. Any sourcebooks for this setting I would expect to remain true on these three points, and I believe Dragons of Faerun meets this expectation. If that's your expectation for this book, read further. But if you're looking for a numbers heavy book with lots of new monsters, spells and prestige classes, you'll want to pass on this book. There are stat blocks for some of the dragons, a few new monsters are included, there is a modest spell list, and two mini-adventures can be found within the contents of this book, but while that sounds like a lot, when you actually have the book in your hands, you'll realize that it's not anywhere near as much as it sounds.


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Designing Good Games Print E-mail

Written by Toothpick the Ferret, on 22-09-2006 01:00

Published in : Articles, Musketeer Opinions

Do you fancy yourself a game developer or level designer? Do you wonder if you have what it takes to design and build games? The first thing one must realize is: it's not as easy as it looks. A game can have great graphics and sound effects. You can put your blood, sweat, and tears into it. But the bottom line is whether or not it can hook a player. And in today's market, where gamers have tons of games to choose from each month, this can be a hard task indeed.

 

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Interview with Paul Whipp on "Fury" Print E-mail

Written by Matt Heninger, on 19-09-2006 01:00

Published in : Articles, Interviews and News

Fury is a new style of MMO that will throw this gaming generation for a loop. Fury has been compared to Guild Wars more times than I can count (and I have ten fingers and toes!). With a game like this there needed to be a review of it so the world could bask in its uniqueness. So I shot off some questions to Paul Whipp the Producer of Fury. Even though I know Paul is a very busy guy, he offered some of his time and I was able to get some information about the new MMO he is part of called Fury.

 

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Review: Tome of Battle Print E-mail

Written by Travis, on 14-09-2006 21:45

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Tags : Review, WotC, D&D, Tome of Battle, Book of Nine Swords, Game Musketeers, GameMusketeers.com

Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords 

Chapter one introduces 3 new character classes to us: the crusader, sword sage and war blade. Of these three classes my favorite was the sword sage, who gets access to six of the nine martial styles introduced in this book.  The crusader only gets access to three of the nine, and war blade gets five out of nine.  These new martial styles have strikes, counters and stances. You can regain your martial maneuvers with only a few minutes of rest.

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We're All Doomed! Print E-mail

Written by Cas Emerjy, on 13-09-2006 11:43

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Who would have thought it'd be the Swiss that would end the world?


Apparently, they've got the bright idea to use a Supercollider to create "mini Big Bangs" and "micro black holes" in order to study the origins of the universe and "find evidence of other dimensions."  While this sounds cool, they've also calculated the probablilty that this thing could destroy the planet, which is about "10 to the minus 40" or "a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance".

Now, we as gamers and sci fi movie watchers know what's going to happen.  The very fact that they've calculated the chace of it destroying the Earth pretty much garuntees that the experiment is going to go horribly wrong and allow invaders from other dimensions to flood through the tear in the fabric of reality and inslave humanity.  While an interesting prospect, I see one major problem...

We don't have a Save / Reload system...

According to the article the switch'll be flicked sometime next year, so my advice is to polish those HEV suits and stock up on Med Kits and Ammo.  We may need them soon!
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