{"id":97,"date":"2009-04-12T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:45:55","slug":"keep-on-the-shadowfell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Keep on the Shadowfell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keep on the Shadowfell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve given this blog a rest. I’ve pretty much stopped playing World of Warcraft and I’m not really looking back. I play some Warhammer Online every so often. I’m not really happy with any video games recently. Maybe something better will come along.<\/p>\n

Until then, I’ve started running a weekly D&D session. It seems to be all the rage in the nerd community to get back into D&D with the latest edition, as is evidenced by “The Podcasts”<\/a>. I can’t argue with the prevailing logic that fun things are fun. Curse you logic!<\/p>\n

I used to hate D&D. The third edition was quasi skill based without having any solid footing in a setting. I’m not a fantasy kind of guy. These issues, which are mine alone, turned D&D into a bitter experience that I avoided, or managed to tolerate in the company of excellent friends. I was always more attuned to the Robotech, Battletech, and Heavy Gear persuasions of RPGs. I skew big metal robot, I suppose.<\/p>\n

And then D&D 4e came along and when I saw it, it said, “I’m totally a game, and you can kill enemies and take their stuff.” Something inside me just shrugged and said, “I can dig it.” The setting is a plane of squares. The game is downright devilish in it’s design, bridging the gap between a complex board game and seriously serious role playing with two page character backgrounds and people crying when their character dies. That’s some crazy bridge, I tell you. A bridge that I imagine many people spend their entire lives on. Never really wanting to go to either extreme.<\/p>\n

In the image above, you can see that combat has commenced, enemies hiding out of sight, while our fearless Warlord, Mortiz, has rushed headlong into a trap. The faceless Warlock, Slayn, stands next to him, planning to hurt evil goblins. They managed to not die that night. But they aren’t out of the dungeon, yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve given this blog a rest. I’ve pretty much stopped playing World of Warcraft and I’m not really looking back. I play some Warhammer Online every so often. I’m not really happy with any video games recently. Maybe something better will come along. Until then, I’ve started running a weekly D&D session. It seems to … <\/p>\n

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