Comments on: Dungeons and Dragons in Real Life

By: 5 Reasons to Keep a Positive Attitude | NezSez

5 Reasons to Keep a Positive Attitude | NezSez — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:33:40 +0000

[...] Attitude is Charisma – I touched on this in my D&D post, but we’ve heard the saying, “It’s not what you know, but who you know”, [...]

By: The Lure of Ludlum | NezSez

The Lure of Ludlum | NezSez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:16:28 +0000

[...] as such. Rather, they have their own justifications and motivations for their actions. In D & D parlance, they tend to have an chaotic-evil alignment, meaning these antagonists see only themselves as [...]

By: Nez

Nez — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:26:32 +0000

Joshua, you’re most welcome. Thanks for coming by!

By: Joshua Clanton - Design for the WEB

Joshua Clanton - Design for the WEB — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:48:39 +0000

I love this post! I was never an RPG junkie, but I did play the Exile (now Avernum) games a fair bit. Hmm. I think I just had an idea for an RPG entry of my own.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Joshua Clanton – Design for the WEB’s last blog post..Entrepartnership: An Interview with the Men With Pens

By: Nez

Nez — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:39:04 +0000

@Sterling: Thanks for stopping by.

Who can forget the Ultima series, too? I think that might have been my first introduction to computer game soundtracks — I can still hum one or two songs from Ultima III.

Thanks for all the comments, guys.

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:20:06 +0000

Hmm. I work in the nuclear industry and have Secret Level II clearance (I’ll have to kill all of you, now that I told you that) so perhaps in some odd twist of fate, I’ve been marked as spam spam spam!

Brett Legree’s last blog post..rapid prototyping life 2.0

By: James Chartrand - Men with Pens

James Chartrand - Men with Pens — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:05:05 +0000

Nope, Brett doesn’t link in his comments. He’s squeaky clean. It’s odd, because we had problems with him too on our blog

James Chartrand – Men with Pens’s last blog post..Will Content Kill the Web?

By: sterling | bizlift

sterling | bizlift — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:02:35 +0000

This article brings back fond memories of playing Zork, Ultima, and other old-school fantasy games.

Good points on charisma. I always thought it was a waste when playing games, so would favor the attributes that helped in battle. But in real-life it’s not all about getting into fights. I also agree w/ Brett on importance of EQ.

@Brett – I think the more links in a comment, the more likely akismet is to mark it as spam.

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:29:21 +0000

@ Nez – hmm, I was causing James some spam woes a couple of days ago as well – must be that I’m a Chaotic Evil monster who will hold your blog for ransom…

Perhaps I sounded too much like an infomercial, which would be strange since I’m sure I watched about 20 minutes of TV in the last week, if that! Well, let us see if it does this time.

Brett Legree’s last blog post..reflective perception

By: Nez

Nez — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:10:17 +0000

@ James: I’m looking forward to reading what you guys cook up.

@ Brett: The irony is that I’m sure the original game makers based the system on either their own analysis of someone else’s analysis of personal attributes.

I do like the concept of Emotional Intelligence – I’ll have to look into that.

P.S. Askimet also marked your comment as spam.

@ Barbara: I apologize for not explaining D&D as well as I should have. I shall keep that in mind in future posts.

@ James II: That’s a good point about blogging as a type of role-playing.