As everyone knows, I generally do not like to add video content to the Emerald Tablet, but this short film so captured the feeling of our local gaming group that I just had to offer it to all of my readers. The name of the video is “The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends” [...]
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Great Gaming Short Film
Posted: April 26, 2012 in Blogroll, Internet SitesTags: Dice, Guys, Strategy Gaming, Weekend Warriors
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Monday Night Games
Posted: April 24, 2012 in Blogroll, ThoughtsTags: City of Hero, Civilization IV, Extreme II, Games, MMO, Mod, Multiverse, Super Hero, Troy Christensen
This week my friends Joe and Wade came back over for another round of Monday night gaming goodness. As it happens Joe showed up first and we talked about what sort of games we wanted to play last night. The problem is that we have only about 4 and half hours, a bit less if [...]
First Impressions of Diablo III
Posted: April 22, 2012 in Blogroll, ThoughtsTags: Blizzard, Diablo, Diablo III, Games, MMO, Troy Christensen
I am sure most people that reads my blog have heard about Diablo III, a game from the company Blizzard. It is one of the crown jewels of the game company, aside from World of Warcraft and Starcraft. For the last ten years everyone who remembers Diablo II has been excited about the sequel. For [...]
Monday Night Gaming
Posted: April 17, 2012 in Blogroll, Emerald TabletTags: City of Hero, Drakensang Online, Games, MMO, Super Hero, Troy Christensen
For the last several years now, my friends and I have gathered on Monday nights to play a rich cornucopia of computer games. Often just one a night, but we made sure to play a number of them over the course of weeks and months. The games we have selected over the past years have [...]
Revisiting City Of Heroes
Posted: April 15, 2012 in BlogrollTags: City of Hero, Games, MMO, Super Hero, Troy Christensen
About the same time I left Everquest II in search of new games to play, I decided to return to an MMO that I started playing back in 2004. Recently City of Heroes, the massive multiplayer online game of super heroes and villains went free to play. It had been almost six years since I [...]
One of the last major Massive Multiplayer Online Games, often referred to as a MMO, for me to tackle is the Icelandic creation called Eve Online. It is an interstellar game of conflict, manufacturing, production, exploration, and control of space. It is a game spread across more than 5,000 star systems with each containing dozens [...]
I learned today that the quintessential writer of the great Swords & Glory, the RPG set in the imaginary world of Tekumel has passed away. You can read this article which summons it up nicely: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/03/17/mar-barker-dies-tekumel/
Made some changes here at the Emerald Tablet, specifically removing some content for the two RPGs Bloodbath and Phantasm Adventures. They will no longer be available at this sight, but the good news is that they will have their own website here very soon. You can check out Phantasm Adventures new web presence at www.phantasmadventures.com [...]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
New Year’s Resolutions: 2012
Posted: December 31, 2011 in Blogroll, My WorkTags: Dreams, Hpes, New Year's, Resolutions, Troy Christensen
This year I am simply making lists of things that I want to achieve or do better at. Straight up. Nothing fancy, nothing clever: pure aspirations of 2012. And with that, here is my list of resolutions for the year 2012: Goals for 2012 Health 1. Get more sleep 2. Get my taste buds back–Instead [...]
