OMG 1 year passed

Since my last posts and that day I told myself I would start posting on regular basis. Yea right... I hate myself... Anyway, I don't want to say it again but I will write if I feel like I need to. That's it.
But anyway, the catch is that I don't have enough time to spend it on the things I like. It's sad I know.
So what happened since last June? Well lot of things, but I'm thinking 'bout games and such.
Answer is again a lot.
Well anyway, for me, I bought Dark Heresy core rulebook. It is so freaking great! I love it.
I wanted to play it as dual wielding gunslinger, but nooooooo. No one wanted to be GM, so I did it... again. Don't get me wrong, being GM is great and all that. You have the power, you create, you destroy and all that. But I just wanted to play like a regular player and no one fulfilled my request :). We played it for a while, it was fun, but we had to stop. It is loads of fun I would play it again anytime.

And now, lets speak about Fallout New Vegas.
You know what? I absolutely like it. Yea I said it, it is awesome game. I didn't finished it, because it was time to pick sides and I don't like to pick sides a lot. So I have it installed on my PC waiting for me to continue purging the wasteland. I would probably write more about it when I actually continue playing.

Ah yes, big thing happened. I am waiting, like a loads of other people, for guildwars 2 to come out, you already know that. So I'm thinking let make some nice achievements for my GW2 account, through HoM reward system. I started playing, found new ING friends and all that. I was doing good and then some Chinese hackers decided to hack my account. Note that I didn't use any black market websites or something like that. No gold trading or anything even close. Only websites that I used were official gw website and guildwarsguru. Also I used guild forum but I used different password. So they took everything, but at least that left my chars. Sad story, but anyway I made 27 HoM points so I think I'm good to start with that my adventures in GW2 when it comes out.

I feel good when I write posts :)

I have almost forgot, if you are reader for exYu region check out igrorama blog. They always have good game news and nicely written texts. Check them out.

In the meantime...

...Lots of things happend. I don't care for most of the new games that will come out soon. But I'm keeping eye on some, because of that I opened this blog in the first place. So here it goes!
Guild Wars 2
http://www.guildwars2.com
Oh my goddess yes! Arena net is posting almost every week for 2.5 months now. We found 2 professions of 8, though 2 most obvious one. Warrior and Elementalist. There are also some blog posts and articles, which explained new combat system, character development, event system. They are talking huge, that's for sure! But if they keep 2/3 of their promises it will be very big success on the end. I'm really looking forward this mmo.
Disciples III
Finally English version is coming, by the end of June or something like that. Didn't want to check Russian reviews, I'll check the game when it's out.
Dragon Age: Awakening
It's sad but I didn't tried it. Mainly because I played some bad mmo (don't want to talk about it). It's high-level campaign, I don't like high-level rpgs, but nvm, I liked Baldur's Gate: ToB :). I'll check it out, I'm sure.

Oh I am soooo bored

So here I am, writing again after 6 months? Maybe 7? Anyway, if someone wants to be good at something, he or she must try hard! I didn't. I completely neglected this blog and I opened it for ME. So anyway, listen up, I'm gonna write if I feel like I need to :) But anyways here is the catch! I talked with my friend, maybe he will read this too one day :), and we spoke about registering some juicy rpg domain (probably Serbian domain) and to start building some news/reviews website. Yea, wow, there are loads of websites like that on the intrawebs, I know. But it will be website about crpg and pnp rpg mostly. Other side of the medal is that it will be mainly Serbian, but we talked about going multi-langual. Mostly cause I love to write news in English, probably because I don't write properly, cause I suck at grammar. So website is in gamebanshee.com form :) Reviews that are more like knowledge databases, ofc we don't wanna just copy pasta gamebanshee website, we will add some interesting things also. If that happens, this blog will move there. So we will have some out of the box writing. Anyway while I'm at out of the box thinking, multi language site would be great for that also. If we could get some people to spam the website with comments, we will get view on same thing from more angles than we would if we got Serbian only website. I'll think more about that.
Anyhow you can check some of my writings on my old website at http://rpg.eniaroyah.com
It's on Serbian I know, but check its structure, that we want for our new site. Ofc this one is old, have too much images, have static content, have poor css design (read: no css only tables).

Vaporware

Vaporware - noun - "Computer Slang. a product, esp. software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced." quoted from dictionary.com. Probably you heard this word before. This word, vaporware, have tight bond with games like "Duke Nukem Forever". That game is like god of all vaporware games. On the other side there are some software that is called "Redemptive", those are titles which were called vaporware for a long time, but on the end they were published. Half-Life, Half-life 2 and so on. Even Guild Wars 2 was called vaporware by some doomsayers, but after trailers they were left silent. Anyway, this isn't post about Guild Wars or Duke Nukem it is post about one game that fired up tiny flame of hope inside all of us, fallout fans, it was called Bourgeoisie. Ring a bell? No? OK, it changed it's name after a while, and it is now called Afterfall. They promised so much, oooh, we were so naive. I thought that it will be the best cRPG out there! Year, after a year, after a year they were talking about their game. But all of us wanted more and we got concept art, yeah that is all. After all that, in February this year(2009), they forgot to pay for their domain, or something like that. Anyways, afterfall.pl was down, we buried all our hopes and left to find new ones. In meanwhile, they gave one statement about all that talk about afterfall death. It proved correct after they bought new domain, afterfall-universe.com.

Afterfall is not only a few games placed in a post-apocalyptic world. It is a huge project, in which we have put our hearts and effort. For many years we have worked on a universe that will be bigger, better, and more interesting than any game-world ever before. Now we can freely say “We have done it”, and we want to show you the results in several different projects. The most important of them will be Afterfall cRPG (and by RPG we mean Role-playing game, not a game with RPG-elements only) and its sequel. Apart from that, we are planning to develop many games (and maybe not only games) representing various genres. One of them is RASCAL, a survival horror which will introduce you to our amazing Universe. Universe, where the only limit is your imagination. Read more...

After(f)all, we got survival horror. And besides that we got whole universe, wooo. Whole universe of nothing. Really great. I understand that they want to take money with this RASCAL title, so they could have enough big budget for cRPG. But do you think that they will finish RASCAL in time... or whenever?
Here is quote from NMA forums, from poster TheSarge:

Ah, vaporware. What a really easy way to make money.

All you need is:

1) A good con artist to act as your VP of financing. His job is to convince investors that your product is for real without ever showing them said (non-existent) product.

2) A web artist to make you a really good website. This is essential to create the illusion that your company is for real.

3) A lot of dumb suckers who will give you money.

Want to start a new vaporware company? Just send me $29.95 and I'll start development* on an incredible** package of instructional videos*** that outline how to be a successful**** vaporare company, all from the comfort of home!*****

*That means I'll think about it.
**Incredible, as in: Not credible.
***Some imagination required.
****Some failure may occur.
*****By "From the comfort of home" I mean that I will sit at home, in comfort, as you send me money.

For the end, here are some afterfail links:
www.afterfall-universe.com - offical website
www.afterfall-universe.com/devlog/en/ - devlog of nicolas intoxicate
Afterfall forums on NMA

Greatest WFRP websites out there

Maybe you noticed that I love Warhammer. Yea comet of sigmar is the name of this blog isn't it? I want to show you the best websites (in my opinion) which can help you with your WFRP adventures. If you were a GM for some WFRP campaigns then you probably used those websites already. Lets start.
WFRP2 Index - On this page you can find almost all WFRP expressions and page numbers of related books which hold explanations for it. It is all on the same page, so you can just CTRL+F (or whatever is shortcut for your browser search function), type the word you are looking explanation for and ta-da. Of course you will find only page number and book name which holds all the info you need. It is still illegal to share books' material online.
Free WFRP books - When BI was owner of the license for WFRP, they had whole bunch of free books hosted online. You could find maps, articles, adventures etc. on their website. Way cool. After website went down, all of that was lost, or was it? Some good soul, I don't really know who, uploaded all of that material on mediafire. Note that lot of that adventures and other mini books are fan material, but anyway quality is really good. One more thing, it is LEGAL to download that material, don't be afraid of anti-piracy capitalism fist :P
Malleus Maleficarum Character/NPC generator - This is soooooooooo great thing. You can randomly generate some NPC character, or you can make your character step by step. It works great! When you choose your career you code automatically show you skills, talents and advances for it. Also you are shown their optionality. After finishing your edit you can see how much exp is used, and when you buy all advances, skills and talents you are shown in which careers you can exit! I use it to store characters of all my players there, it's good to check their experience from time to time :). I really like this site, and believe me there is lot of code lines behind this, it wasn't no small task to make this application.
MadAlfred's WFRP page - MadAlfred is one of the best known WFRP player and game master out there. This is his website. It is full of WFRP (v1 and v2) articles, maps and all other things which can help you with your adventures. He is best known for his GREAT scenarios. So check them out!
WFRP career Index - Same as the first website, wfrp2 index, but you can find only careers here. With Career Compendium release we got all of the careers in the same book, but before that it was time consuming book searching. If you don't have career compendium, or you think that is faster to find wanted career like this, you are advised to use this website.
Strike-to-Stun - I must say that this is the best WFRP community on teh internetS. Yea really, there isn't much of competition, but anyway they have great forums, and they keep they website updated always.

If you have any kind of website, blog like me or whatever linked with warhammer be free to contact me, I will be happy to say few nice words and share your link free of a charge ;)

Horus Heresy

Fantasy Flight Games, said on their website that they are finishing board game version of Horus Heresy. Horus Heresy was/is CCG made by sabertooth games. They were part of the Game Workshop studio before they "broke" and sold their licences for all games to FFG. I'm OK with all that if they don't forget about Dark Heresy. If they made board game of Horus, maybe they will leave Dark Heresy to be classic RPG. Of course they could make new edition worse than every board game you can imagine. So we just wait and see what happens.
Link to the new Horus Heresy website:
Horus Heresy on FFG

Dragon Age: Origins PnP RPG

First of all, sorry for small number of posts last week (read like this, 0 posts). Anyway, I'm back :). As maybe some of you know, there was some rumor of dragon age table rpg, but some time after rumor became fact. You can now pre-order box set and get PDF version for free. Price for this box set is 30$ ($29.95 exactly). Here is the quote from the greenronin website about what you can find in that box set:

• A 64-page Player's Guide with an introduction to tabletop roleplaying, background on Thedas and the nation of Ferelden, a complete guide to character creation, rules for character classes and talents, a primer on magic, and the basic game rules.
• A 64-page Gamemaster's Guide with an introduction to this key role, advice on the art of game mastering, advanced game rules, and an introductory adventure that plunges the characters right into the world of Dragon Age.
• A beautiful poster map of the nation of Ferelden, the opening setting for the Dragon Age RPG.
• 3 six-sided dice.

Visit http://greenronin.com/dragon_age/ for more info