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Warrior Poet

WoW’s easy-mode is what makes the new LFG system win.

January 12, 2010

In a reply to SynCaine over at Hardcore Casual, commenter Mig borrows from Palahniuk’s Fight Club by acutely noting how World of Warcraft’s (WoW’s) glorified new looking-for-group (LFG) system does little more than create “single-serving friends.” The lack of difficulty in most instance encounters, combined with the ease of being able to quickly enter such [...]

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Daemon, Third Edition

May 22, 2006

Daemon
Third Edition
Daemon was originally written in 1995, and sprung to popularity in the homegrown RPG scene as a thorough look at demons for White Wolf’s World of Darkness (WoD) series of roleplaying games. In 1998, a third edition of the game was released fixing certain entries and laying the supplement out in a more presentable [...]

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Rating the Girls at hotornot.com

May 7, 2006

Rating the Girls at hotornot.com
Though this article was compiled by WyldKard, thanks go to all those helping to create this ratings guide, including Wayne “The Dirty Frenchman” Pozzar, The American Hero, Jim “MoneyBags” Hawley, and our dear friend Al Cohol.
Introduction
Whoever came up with the idea of amihotornot.com should be awarded a frikken medal. There are [...]

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Wargaming terrain: building a wall.

May 30, 2003

Introduction
It may be true that in war, massive armies converge on an open battlefield, complete with rolling hills and vast green grass as far as the eye can see. No doubt, many battles were fought with just these simple conditions, but this is hardly the only backdrop, both in history, and in fiction. Avoidance of [...]

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The puppeteer.

November 21, 2002

Most people simply thought he was a poor old man losing his mind to some mental disease. The cops certainly did, keeping their eye on him whenever he crossed the road to his favorite pizza parlor. Every day, as though programmed into his simple mind, the old man would walk down South St. at 2pm, [...]

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