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Dungeon Siege/NWN Interview

Neverwinter Haven has posted up a 5-question interview with Chris Taylor [archive.org backup], lead developer of the upcoming RPG from Gas Powered Games, Dungeon Siege. The interview focuses on the differences between Neverwinter Nights and Dungeon Siege. Here’s one of…

Equipment Renovation

I have went through our BG2 equipment section and made a couple of minor tweaks to the locations, as well as added every single item’s item code. The item code will aid in using the console commands to create items,…

Death? What Happens Next?

Gamer gives some suggestions on how to deal with character death: A friend and I were tossing around ideas on handling death in our campaigns, here’s what we eventually came up with: When a player dies, he will be given…

Warcraft III Undead In Depth

One of the best sites for the game that went from RPS (roleplaying strategy) to RTS with a dash of roleplaying, Warcraft III.net, transfigured, permutated and even juxtaposed much of the information about the new Undead race, and consolidated it…

Shadowbane Snaps

The official site for Shadowbane, a game that I know many are hoping will be great but that a majority still harbor a big question mark over, updated its own site (as they usually do with the new stuff *hint…

Encounters

Gamer asks about controling encounters: Does the DM have a choice in which encounters will be scaled to a part’s size/strength? There are three ways for creatures to get spawned into and area. The first and preferred method is to…

32×32?

Gamer checks on the tile limit: I looked in the database and could not find an answer to my question.I know that each area can be 32×32. but what about a 16×48 for a long path?… Correct, Minimum is 2×2…

Dark Age of Camelot Newsbits

Tonight we have a couple of of news items concerning the MMORPG currently in beta, Dark Age of Camelot. First of all, MMORPG.net’s Camelot site has released a whole slug of screenshots from the Albion realm, viewable here. Secondly, Camelot…

New Download

I have posted up a guide submitted to us by one of our viewers, Andrew Shih, called Riverwind’s Guide to Character Classes. The document requires Word 2000 to view, but contains some useful information on the various classes and kits…

Top Ten Multiplayer Games

GameSpot has posted an article featuring the 10 best multiplayer games. The list includes legends like Doom, Ultima Online, and Everquest. Here’s a teaser: It’s not difficult to understand the appeal of multiplayer gaming. The ability to play with or…