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The reason this post is a day late is the same reason this post is being written: the Guild Wars 2 Head Start has begun.

In two weeks from today, the head start for Guild Wars 2 begins.

So last night was the first time I got to play Guild Wars 2.

The release date for Guild Wars 2 was announced a few days ago, and the Internet exploded.

My tastes in board games are rather specific.

Years ago, my wife and I picked up Guild Wars on a whim.

One of the computer games I play most often these days is Tribes: Ascend, the latest descendent of the 1998 classic Starsiege: Tribes.

Live action role-playing games have something of a bad rap.

In 1997 I wrote a fantasy role-playing game entitled Vox Draconis.

<div class="caption">Character select in Lime Odyssey</div> So the past couple nights I’ve been playing the alpha test of Lime Odyssey.

So I jumped into the open beta for this game tonight.

Last Sunday, I jumped into Raid Finder for the very first time and joined up with a group doing the Fall of Deathwing.

Recently I canceled my paid hosting and relinquished control of benovermyer.com and manatrance.com, my two domain names.

Took these photos of the new Soviet faction for DUST: Tactics at Fantasy Flight Games’ Dust event tonight.

Star Wars: The Old Republic.

I formally joined the Companions, and learned that the Circle, that group that is the central leadership of the Companions, all are werewolves.

So I finally solved the Sapphire Claw dungeon… something Shroud Barrow.

Alchemy in Skyrim is vaguely unpleasant at first, since in order to discover the first alchemical property of something, you must taste it.

Last night at midnight, I purchased Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for Xbox 360.

I was laid off two Wednesdays ago and then went to a science fiction convention, which is why there was no blog post last week.

Generally I post on Saturdays, but for this I thought I’d make an exception.

Just over eleven years ago, I began the setting that will see publication next year.

Recently I read a post over on the RPG Corner about using one system for the Dungeon Master and one separate one for the players.

This mighty forest spreads for miles upon miles.

Not all magical items are weapons or armor.

The next version of WoW Guild Retrieve is coming, and this will be a doozy of an update.

We needed some Shermans painted up in winter camo for Nanocon this coming weekend.

The latest version of WoW Guild Retrieve supports custom rank names and adds the ability to change the default number of rows displayed.

The beginning of Week 4.

So here we are at the beginning of week 3.

The idea of this period’s habit is to move away from using credit cards or debit cards and use cash almost exclusively.

Food and the culture surrounding it is probably one of the things least thought about when game designers sit down to create a fictional world.

Two months later, I’m no longer playing Age of Conan or Star Wars Galaxies.

So I purchased Age of Conan, despite the numerous reviews saying that the game is heavily broken.

I spent the past month playing World of Warcraft with my fiancée and Star Wars Galaxies with the IA.

Today’s post is inspired by a challenge from IttyBiz.

Guest Post by Monica O’Brien of Twenty Set I’ve recently noticed a trend in software development that is along the lines of “If we build it they will come.”

Today is Earth Day.

Lately, working on multiple computers has started to take its toll on my time and productivity.

In the digital age, we are bombarded from all directions with social links, RSS feeds, tweets, and all manner of other social media gizmos.

It seems that lately more companies are veering towards non-uniformity in system design.

Recently I read a blog post railing against the lack of willingness to stand up for others in modern society.

Most people in college and just out of it are night owls.

Scin Karetyr, CL90 Commando.

Today, I’m going to do something a little different.

Writing has taken on new meaning as I’ve gotten a little older and a little wiser.

Something missing in a lot of big companies - whether office, factory, or what-have-you - is a sense of community and connectedness.

In today’s online culture of GTD, productivity, time management, and so on, we are focused on getting more done in less time.

When you rip open a bag of M&Ms, how do you eat ’em?

Recently, a student at Ryerson University in Toronto was charged with over a hundred counts of academic misconduct.