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At a roleplay community forum revolving around an MMORPG (yes, Victoria, there IS roleplay in MMOs), immersion was recently dredged up for discussion. The context: Roleplayers not playing with the same toys in the sandbox they share are responsible for each others’ disrupted immersion.
One player’s sandcastle is built where people with mystical powers are either [...]
This is what happens when a six year old geeklet combines her love of Star Wars and teddy bear tea parties.
Spent some time roleplaying as Lia’Vrei in Star Wars Galaxies Thursday night. A couple of hours, actually.
Bella-donna took one Lia’Vrei, erstwhile archeological student and possibly the galaxies newest Sith apprentice, to what is referred to as “The Bunker.” It’s a bunker decorated as a cave on Dantooine. There they met a couple [...]
12 years ago today, I got married in the northwest corner of my parent’s one-acre pasture, which had been arduously coaxed into a bower of birch and catalpa trees, bedecked with climbing roses and honeysuckle and lilies.
Ours was a medieval-themed geek wedding. Both our fathers used the occasion as an excuse to grow scruffy [...]
I’m really glad the On Banning dramabomb has been mostly wrapped up. I still have no idea what happened, but I understand that handling the situation in private allowed those involved to maintain a reasonable amount of decorum. Both parties to the situation could have been a lot nastier, so I think it was ultimately [...]
Over on the Starsider server at Star Wars Galaxies, roleplaying has evolved into a strange and awkward beast.
RP there is generally an “anything goes” system of semi Free Form RolePlay, occasionally and randomly mingled with the restrictions of actual game mechanics and a sort of tabletop RPG power system. This might work if much [...]
Aya knows how to use a digital camera, operate Brian’s MP3 player, and call me on Brian’s cell phone. She can install CD-ROM games on her own computer and surf through her favorite sites on the internet - usually PBS Kids, My Little Pony, Barbie, and Nick Jr. She is quite blase about using a [...]
