Posts Tagged by complex
| March 19, 2013 | Posted by John Arcadian |
My room-mate and I often take a night or two a week to watch through episodes of some series together. This is the closest either of us get to watching “TV” in the traditional sense. Our latest effort, House Of Cards, is a series on Netflix that deals with Francis Underwood, the current Majority Whip getting passed up for Secretary of State and using his influence and power to destroy his Washington enemies with politics and backstabbing. It’s a great series and got us talking about how…
| February 24, 2010 | Posted by John Arcadian |
I’ve been running my gaming group through a dungeon using Dungeonaday.com. In the last session the group came across a really well written puzzle and it got me thinking about the use of puzzles in games. Puzzles can be incredibly fun or incredibly frustrating. From the GM’s perspective, you don’t want to give the players something so easy it won’t feel like they have overcome anything, but from the player’s perspective you don’t want anything that is annoying and obscure in its solution. With this…
| December 1, 2008 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
WOPR: “Would you like to play a game?” It is the beginning of a new millennium. The anointed champions of the two greatest empires in existence square off for what may be the decisive battle for superiority. Rumors fly as the two champions and their massive armies prepare to take the field. In the supersaturated environment, conjecture morphs into assumption nearly overnight, and the fans quickly divide into two camps, trading verbal volleys as the battle approaches. Is this a presidential election? The Olympics? No,…
