Category Archives: Games

Computers and paper-based RPGs

Posted on May 10, 2003 by Pace Arko

As I’ve been playing NWN over these last few months (I’ve owned a copy since mid-summer of 2002.), I’ve been thinking of ways to tie it into paper RPGs. Simple examples of this would be a tool that exports a … Continue reading →

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Need more gaming content!

Posted on January 29, 2003 by Pace Arko

I’ve been thinking of putting rough summaries of my tabletop gaming sessions in this web log of mine. It would help me to fill the days when I don’t have any content worth putting here and it would draw many … Continue reading →

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12-07-02 Circus of the Mighty

Posted on December 8, 2002 by Pace Arko

Molna’s Test of Strength, The Hights of Idiocy, Goblin Return: After defeat by the goblins, the Circus beat a hasty retreat down the trail back to Skidrow. On the way down, they ran into Kinsaul, their comrade from earlier missions … Continue reading →

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NWN, a Time Suck on so Many Levels

Posted on September 1, 2002 by Pace Arko

A few weeks ago, as a sort of birthday present to myself, I bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights. I went into it with my eyes open. I knew I was about to mainline the gaming equivalent of heroin and … Continue reading →

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Lego: The Best Toy in the World

Posted on February 24, 2002 by Pace Arko

When I was a kid back in the Seventies, they just started to import these really neat robot toys and models from Japan. This was about twenty years before the word anime came into the common English. Anyway there’s this … Continue reading →

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Game Theory and Philosophy

Posted on February 12, 2002 by Pace Arko

Inspired by the Dead Kennedys stuff cited below, I did some searching on things related to Jello Biafra and came across some local folks dedicated to the idea that life is a game. It’s weird how the Web thinks these … Continue reading →

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More Game Theory

Posted on January 23, 2002 by Pace Arko

Some interesting game links this month: The Settlers of Catan, a game which I’ve never played, apparently has inspired this bit of mathematical analysis about avoiding agressive moves early in the game. Nature magazine published an article about game theoretical … Continue reading →

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Interesting rants about RPGs

Posted on July 5, 2001 by Pace Arko

Found an interesting page about RPGs today by some cat named Mu. Me, I’m real old school, I’ve been playing RPGs since I was sophmore in high school in ’78. My friend wrote his own versions of ADVENT and Rogue … Continue reading →

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Role Playing Games in Twenty-first Century

Posted on January 12, 2000 by Pace Arko

I’m a hardcore nerd and, as proof, I relate the following history: I starting playing Dungeons and Dragons back in high school the late Seventies, just as the hardbound rulebooks were coming out. Around the same time, a friend of … Continue reading →

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