Category Archives: Gaming

Unpaid advertisement

There is an eBay store with some really nice handmade bags for tarot decks, runes, dice, etc. here: Broake & Thumb Studios. Lots of different designs. I just got one and I really like it.

Star Wars Galaxies – 5 years!

Not too long ago, Thud and I received e-mails from Sony Online Entertainment informing us that, in celebration of the 5-year anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies, they were reactivating our accounts for one month for free.

Thud logged in shortly after reinstalling the client, and informed me that the Bazaar (that is, auction house) was nearly [...]

Games, cont.

Playing SWG for a while out of nostalgia in turn made us nostalgic for games that actually work, and meanwhile Blizzard has been sending us this free trial offer for the Burning Crusade… so… we decided to see how WoW looks these days. I haven’t played it enough yet to decide how I feel [...]

Fun (?) and games

Several weeks ago, Thud and I actually became nostalgic for SWG (Star Wars Galaxies), enough to try playing it again. We had been playing Everquest II for a while, but never really got into it. And we got to thinking about the massive planets, the player cities, bantha herds on Tatooine, rancor-hunting expeditions. [...]

A couple of items

We’re playing the DDO Head Start now and chat still rocks.

Our experience with the game so far is that pretty much you get to sit around, drink beer, and play pickup D&D campaigns with every gamer in the U.S. We haven’t run across any rules Nazis yet whining about deviations from the books, although [...]