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Air War: A Skill Challenge

May 27, 2010 by Dave

I’ve done a few airship skill challenges before, thanks to a motley Dwarven pirate airship. Escape from the giant dragon air skill challenge and oh crap the airship is crashing skill challenge both had been done, so for this one, I envisioned something like the space battles in Star Wars, like the trench run but in a more open space. Thus, I consulted Gamefiend, the mad genius of skill challenges, for his help in designing it. One Skype call later (and then another day of planning later) I came up with the following skill challenge.

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, air war, airships, final fantasy, skill challenges, star wars, trench run, we got deathstar (deathstar)

From Talking Heads to Downloadable Endings: Modern Console RPG Trends

February 11, 2010 by guest

Video games have been found to be such a tappable market for moneymaking that EA having a bad fiscal quarter affects the entire Dow Jones. It’s not a few guys in a basement anymore, its a CEO and boardroom environment now. The “suits” making the decisions on the games you play aren’t pushing the limitations of anyone’s imagination, instead they only care about how a game affects an earnings report. Because of this sad fact, there are too many questionable trends happening in gaming, and this year doesn’t forecast to be much different

Filed Under: Editorial, Video Games Tagged With: borderlands, chrono trigger, earthbound, fallout 3, final fantasy, final fantasy tactics, mass effect, mass effect 2, Rant, spore, sports games

The World Ends With You

August 3, 2008 by spankleberry

OR: Final Fantasy DJ The World Ends With You proves yet another great game from monolithical Square Enix, who bring us the Final Fantasy games, quintessential playing for role-playing games (RPG). TWE brings a hip-hop attitude to a group of dead kids who need to pass a series of trials in some alternate universe in […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: ds, final fantasy, nintendo, Reviews, Video Games

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