Recent content by Ajar

It's funny; 4E felt more like the D&D I know and love than d20/3.x. Different people want different things from D&D, and that's what they're trying to address with the new edition. I don't know if the new edition will be for me, but I'm glad they're preserving support for 4E via D&DI. I run...

You're correct about the Black Company magic system, Atli. It was revised, expanded, and released as a separate supplement called True Sorcery. I actually use the True Sorcery magic system for NPC wizards in my Iron Heroes game, replacing the Arcanist class. True Sorcery includes an Iron Heroes...

I have two comments about things that have been overlooked. First, you can add house rules to the Character Builder. If you want to add a new feat, new power, new race, or even a new class that is added to your local Character Builder database, you can. Manage -> Campaign Settings -> Custom...

Indeed, Gildan. I think the distinction between 4E and Essentials 4E can be distilled down to this: 1) 4E was aimed at recruiting new players to the game, kids who grew up on video games. 2) Essentials is aimed at re-recruiting lapsed players, and at recruiting the children of lapsed...

A much more obviously visible correlation on that graph is the inverse correlation between installed base and average Metacritic score. Platforms with huge installed bases like the PS2 and DS have lower average Metacritic scores than platforms with smaller installed bases like the PS3. Added...

I'm quoting this post so it doesn't get lost, since it's on the bottom of the last page. This is the best post in the thread, hands down.

If God of War II looked better than anything on the Xbox to you, it's because of the art direction, not because of the technical execution of the graphics engine. I thought Shadow of the Colossus was a beautiful game, but it lacked the dynamic lighting, soft shadowing, and normal mapping of...

Complexity doesn't imply power. If it did, the PS2 would have been more comparable to the original Xbox than it actually was. This assumes that hardware configuration is the only factor driving game performance, which isn't true. It also assumes an equivalence between game quality and game...

I didn't think the Prince was emo in The Two Thrones, only Warrior Within. They got the Sands of Time voice actor back for The Two Thrones. I too found the voice acting in the new one a bit jarring, but more for the contrast with the previous Prince's British accent than for contrast with an...

I'm a couple of hours in and thoroughly enjoying it so far. I've already made some moral choices that actually make me feel uncomfortable. Good stuff. I'm sure the folks at NMA will hate it.

Oops, I should have mentioned my forum handle in the pitch. My mistake. (I'm the author.) Anyway, I'm really glad you guys liked it. Funny tidbit: since Painted On My Heart is a real song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Vu-EeYq_w], the earliest the story could take place is 2018.

Neither. He said that the story was complicated and that the writing was bad. Those are two separate assertions. If MGS4 is anything like MGS1-3, then he's absolutely bang on. MGS has a complex narrative, which appeals to some but not others; the dialogue, at least in my experience, has...

Er... what did you play it with, if not the console's controller?

Interesting article, and some interesting posts in this thread as well. One thing I noticed in Gears that's been touched on a bit in this thread is that the game, while predominantly over-the-top machismo, did have some serious elements. As the game goes on it seems more and more like the...

Do you need to have played The Longest Journey to play Dreamfall?