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Storyboard: They all laughed
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Humor, Storyboard, Miscellaneous Over the past 80-odd columns, I've covered ways to improve dramatic tension, to provide interesting character interplay, to...
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Storyboard: We are (among) the champions
Filed under: Culture, Lore, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous The night before I started writing this column, I finally managed to clear Chapter 1 in Star Wars: The Old Republic with one...
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Storyboard: Three guys walk into a bar
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous My days of playing Magic: the Gathering are... well, they're not over, exactly, but I'm certainly not in my heyday any longer....
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Storyboard: You guys must be the party
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous A couple of weeks back, I wrote an article about dealing with a major ongoing storyline in an MMO. For those of you who neither...
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Storyboard: Over, done, finished, finito
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous The best stories have an ending. And if you want to tell a decent story in a roleplaying format, you're going to need some sort of...
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Storyboard: Not in control
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous One of the weird parts of roleplaying, at least for me, is the fact that I'm not really in control at all. I don't mean in the...
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Storyboard: Welcome back, whoever you are
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous It happens. Maybe you got sidetracked with an alt and another alt wound up gathering dust. Maybe you had real-life obligations...
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Storyboard: An event with a touch of plot
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous In tabletop games, the GM is sometimes referred to as the player who doesn't get to play. Running a plot-heavy event in an MMORPG...
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Some Assembly Required: Six must-haves for creative expression
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Game mechanics, Opinion, Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Online, Free-to-play, Roleplaying, Virtual worlds, Xsyon, Post-Apocalyptic, Some Assembly Required, Sandbox...
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En Masse details TERA's roleplay server ruleset
Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Roleplaying, TERA En Masse Entertainment has spilled the beans about TERA's roleplay server ruleset (yes, people still RP in...
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The Daily Grind: What game would you play if it had an alternate gameplay...
Filed under: Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous I'm a carebear, I admit. I find that getting ganked while I'm trying to figure out how to have fun in a game is a bit on the frustrating side. I...
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Storyboard: Out of the rut
Filed under: Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous Every day it's the same thing. You wake up, you go to work, you convince your boss that you're actually working for eight hours or so, you...
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Storyboard: Sadface
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous I have, on occasion, joked that all of my roleplaying characters are either looking for a tragedy or recovering from one. It's not...
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The Daily Grind: Do you expect a roleplaying server to be policed?
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Roleplaying, Miscellaneous I roleplay a lot. This probably does not come as much of a surprise. As a result, I've spent time on a lot of different...
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Storyboard: Talk this way
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous One of the great problems presented to roleplayers is the challenge of presenting audio via text. We don't think about it all the...
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The Daily Grind: How do you roleplay betas?
Filed under: Betas, Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Roleplaying, Miscellaneous This may be a little to esoteric of a way to start your Wednesday morning, but you can't spell "Massively" in several...
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Storyboard: Flag a server
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous A couple of weeks ago, Matt Daniel, Elisabeth Cardy, and I were talking amongst ourselves about the dearth of official roleplaying...
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Storyboard: Police state
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous Sometimes, column topics get away from you. When I sat down to write last week's Storyboard, I realized at the halfway mark that I...
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Storyboard: To say nothing of cute shoes
Filed under: Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous Just as in real life, player characters in MMOs have more than one set of clothing for different situations. Sure, I don't divide my actual...
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Prolific MMO blogger Brian 'OddjobXL' Rucker passes away
Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, News items, Roleplaying, MiscellaneousThe MMO roleplaying community lost one of its most prolific authors this week as Brian "OddjobXL" Rucker passed away at the age...
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