With the revival of Dark Sun, Wizards of the Coast has hosted a new game-session podcast with some notable web comic artists and reviewers assembled to experience the revamped game world. For some of these folks, this is their first experience on Athas.
Once more around the table! The folks at Penny Arcade, PvP, and Kris Straub run a new session of Dungeons & Dragons -- this time set in the world of Dark Sun!
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Wait a minute, is all this complication really necessary?
Most gamers will tell you that the simple combat rules are already complicated enough as it is. You throw in an extra 30+ seconds for each attack roll and one combat round will take all night.
Just in case you were wondering, I do know this was all done as a joke.
Shamus Young once again nails a good discussion or rant regarding game worlds, their size and how to build procedurally-based terrain. The main video game featured is FUEL, but since Shamus isn't really a big fan of racing games his closing point is to suggest that someone build a MMO or RPG around this type of automatically generated locations.
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