The Gaming Den

I don't know what's funnier: D&D: The Sundering or Horace Heresy.

My personally-felt worst debacle is Battletech. It's truly craptacular how badly mismanaged the line has become that it makes the asshattery of Stackpole look Angelic. But the overall crown is 4E, with 3.5E the stumble that revealed WotC was drunk in hindsight. I've witnessed a few MMORPG disasters,...

Good luck with that, RD - there are hundreds of thousands, if not MILLIONS, of veteran MMO players out there, ready to theorycraft your brilliant ideas into the ground. They WILL find the "best" options for adventurers no matter what you do to stop them. The harder you swing the nerfbat to...

I suspect at this point a 25th anniversary set would consist of no figs, no maps, abbreviated rules that read like an advertisement of Total Warfare, and some fanfiction... err... new fiction stuffed into the box. And if you preorder it now, it'll get here a week before the world ends in 2012. Your...

Well, it's Terra - the focus of all the wars, to become the First Lord of a new Star League. Comstar and all the houses just ignoring a bunch of fanatical rebels invading it didn't make sense when it happened. The big reveal just enhances how Hand of the God-Writer it is. The same crew that made the...

Everything story-wise up to the FedCom civil war = alright by me, with one exception (below). Some truth is stranger than fiction moments, but nothing out of deep left field. Fedcom civil war - eh. Wacky sister with silver tongue convinces military to fight and die against supposed comrades, and the...

I have burn my Post #1 to comment on this. If KS gets sunk because he took his protective zealotry one step too far - all I can say is FINALLY! And it is a madness that too many game bosses have in spades. Too bad for KS that MMO developers have a level of hubris that's one step above anything a sim...