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But in a sense you may have hit the nail on the head. Maybe the D&D stories are a bit dull too.....? Who knows. I think it's all about immersion, about forgeting the very basic concepts of a quest/scenario and focus on the sensations and feelings. CRPGs have the advantage of being very visual and fast paced, whereas RPGs require more imagination and depiction through words.
Well, to be honest, I'm not sure the WoW stories really bear repeating. You know "went in there, killed him, levelled up". It isn't really a game about story telling: the quests are all basically the same - "kill him, take what he has". It is fun to do, but do I want to talk about it? It would bore me slightly, and I'm sure it would be dull for everyone else. The fun in WoW revolves around the progress your character makes through the levels (at least, it is for me) and that isn't, frankly, a tale of epic dimensions to be told round the campfire. I can but disagree here, Aubrey. Some quests have fantastic pieces of background behind them. And when you happen to play alliance and horde characters, you sometimes meet with NPCs that are somehow linked. You may meet with a man in Stormwind while playing your alliance character and cross the path of his undead wife in undercity some time later with your horde character. But surely, if you bring everything to the basics, then all campaigns can be resumed easily : get the artifact(s), kill the bad guys, loot the treasure, thanks for saving the universe.
Been playing WoW for about 3 weeks since it's european release, then left the game that I found too easy only to return in December to play with a bunch of friends. My human rogue is lvl 60 with 44 days of played time out of wich 30 are at level. What helped me level faster than a new player is the experience I had with much tougher games, especially EverQuest. WoW is a great way to get entertained after a day at work but certainly not a substitute for a real pen & paper RPG session. There are less boundaries to imagination in RPGs than CRPGs.
YAY!!! Will look my mailbox with anticipation.
Rest to define what the "Insane" state implies for a character... Taping directly into WIS score is ugly as WIS score directly impacts the Will Save. That would mean the more you fail your save, the more chances you have to fail the next ones. Though the idea of a gradual descent into madness is seducing, this system tends to accelerate the fall.
They both arrived today in Switzerland. ;)
Phil, Did you try the appropriate section, i.e. Customer Service? Edit : ugly messageboards won't automatically create links off URLs or allow PHBB tags. ;)
Greyson's post sums up my thought. I don't care the content is Greyhawk/Forgotten Realms/Eberron/Planescape/whatever. I simply take the maps I like, the encounters I find interesting and the ideas that sound appaling to me and adapt them to my personal campaign. Role Playing Games (not including Computer RPGs) is all about imagination and abstraction.
Aerie, I guess that would definitely help if you could tell what region/city/country you are looking. ;) Just my 2 cents.
On a more serious note than the post before mine, I was amazed when I last played a Warhammer campaign and the DM would describe the menus of the various inns we entered. He had found a few books on medieval recipes and experienced some himself and would add some depth to his world description. I think an article on medieval food and med fan cooking would be a nice DM accessory.
Just adding my weight to the request. Over the years some real pieces of art have come with Dungeons & Dragons Mags, be it covers or interior illustrations. I would also be interested in such an art book.
I'd add the following to the various above lists (along with some personal notes): - The Name of the Rose (great for caves or crypts)
And, well... Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, Lineage II, EverQuest, Morrowind, ... soundtracks (check your games music/sound subfolder for MP3s, guys)
Same here in Switzerland. Definitely major improvements compared to end of last year. Cheers Paizo's team!
Playing some D&D set in the Planescape setting along with Vampire The Masquerade and C.O.P.S. (French game from Asmodee Productions) at the moment. DM'ing some Star Wars D20 after having played too much KOTOR & KOTOR 2 and still hesitating between Cyberpunk using FUZION ruleset (I had a demo way back with Mike Pondsmith in a convention we had organized in Geneva, Switzerland) or an experiment using D20 modern rules for an horror 1939-1945 campaign, a la Castle Wolfenstein. And my shelves are full of RPG books too.
Switzerland bis, received yesterday. Looks like you managed to seriously cut off the delivery leadtime. Nice job and thank you!
Wish the Swiss post would also work on Sundays like in Denmark... Finally arrived last Saturday. Hope this info helps, Jeff.
Wish the Swiss post would also work on Sundays like in Denmark...
Same here, got my mags in Switzerland. Looks like the hard times of European Subscription troubles if finally over for our best and Paizo's. Customer Support did an awesome job to sort everything out despite the complaints. Thumbs up!
Jeff, I think it would be an awesome idea.
Just to confirm I also received issue #119 today, in Switzerland. I am however, concerned about the other articles I ordered, i.e. DM Screen, T-Shirt and issue #118 that were supposed to have shipped 2 months ago. Is there a way to track whether these were actually sent or not?
There's one thing I don't understand... When I checked my subscriptions on Paizo.com, it stated Issue #118 as having shipped on November 23, 2004. Now, checking the above provided link to The Place For Games, they quote a shipping date to european subscribers of December 13, 2004. Does that mean that on November 23rd a bulk of magazines were sent to The Place for Games for them to dispatch on December 13, 2004 to the final customers in the various countries? A friend of mine went last week to Paris and came back with issue #118 while I, as subscriber, am still wondering if I will ever see it arrive in my mailbox, in Switzerland. |
