PnP stands for "Pencil and Paper" (not plug and play). Companies have been trying to transfer games from Pencil and Paper games to CRPGs for decades now. Unfortunately this transfer is anything but seemless. The problem is that the companies making the transition try to adhere so closely to the PnP systems and rules, systems which clearly make ( Read more... )

As much as the internet changes, it all stays the same. If anything, it gets worse. I've seen countless companies start, become multi-million dollar enterprises, coast along for a while on empty promises and vaporware, and inevitable disappear, falling to victim to bankruptcy or obscurity ( Read more... )

Temple of Elemental Evil is an okay game. It's seriously lacking all the things that would make it an awesome game, but the areas it falls short in aren't much more prevailent than your average PC game. Namely, the number of bugs the game has before you apply any patches is incredible. The bugs are glaring only because I'm intimately familiar ( Read more... )

It's really perplexing the way mediocre or downright terrible TV Shows manage to last a decade or more. For example, Brimstone, an excellently written and directed show which had a tremendously supportive fan-base, even beating The X-Files in ratings, was cancelled after 13 episodes as a result of internal company politics ( Read more... )

It's kind of funny how many web sites use W3C's page validation logo and link, yet the pages aren't built with valid markup, which defeats the entire purpose of the logo ( Read more... )

I downloaded OpenOffice the other day, and now I've installed it. I think it's a pretty cool productivity suite, not that I'm ever very productive, but I can see it being quite useful in days to come ( Read more... )

It sort of bothers me that the overwhelming trend on the internet is to blame everything on someone else. It's not a huge leap from pre-internet life, everyone used scapegoats long before the internet came along, but technology makes the best excuse of all. If someone didn't do something (most likely cause: laziness/procrastination), it's a lot ( Read more... )

It's almost kind of funny, the internet is the ultimate tool for communication. You can transfer data almost instantly across the world, to millions of people simultaneously, yet so many people fail miserably ( Read more... )

Well, the MUD is progressing. Not as quickly as I had planned, but some considerable time had to be spent researching so I could build the game using the technical constraints I've placed upon myself. As I said previously, I have already decided on the core languages I want to use to build the game. Each language fills a particular function that ( Read more... )

Right now I'm going stir crazy. Nothing to really do at this time of the morning. I haven't gone anywhere, seen a movie, rented a movie, or done anything of significance for the last 2 months. I've been looking for a good MUD to play, but those are few and far between. Even fewer and farther if you consider that I haven't found a single one ( Read more... )