I haven't listened to the show yet, but I'm already taking bets that the live show will flake out again

Also, recording it at 3AM CET on a Monday morning is pure evil.

I thought the cut-off paragraphs were mildly amusing. The 360 review is obviously a reprinted PC review. You can tell by the brief extra paragraph talking about how the console version compares.

Here is the link to the Wizards of the Coast Test Drive page, which provides the first published 4E adventure as well as the quick-start rules.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/dndtestdrive

Regarding the in-game catering service, I think what really flabbergasted Rob was that these people were paying $15 a month to work a second job.

My counter to this is, how is running a party for another group of players any different than running a raid? Same organization, same pressures of time and coordination, with a payout at the end. Plus you get people coming up to you afterward and telling you how much fun they had.

Is Corey Banks gonna have to choke a bitch?

Hey, when you got it, flaunt it.... when you don't, argue about inane things.

He did add a little to the end of the console review(s) saying that he actually prefers the console version. But yes, otherwise, lazy beyond belief.

As a more mature gamer, who has precious little offline friends for D&D I must say that the Fantasy Grounds client (now version 2) has been a major boon for me to get some actual pen and paper style roleplaying. I am a member of a European gaming community called Legends, who have a number of people running weekly sessions of roleplaying games via the FGII client. Since its early beginnings there are now modules available and in development for a lot of other roleplaying systems, including Call of Cthulhu, Rolemaster Classic, Star Wars RPG, and others... our regular FG guru, Foen, who has been involved in a lot of coding and checking of some of the custom rulesets put a thread together (quite some time ago, I think its the FGI client) explaining what FG is about and what it can do for you and your roleplaying groups. So I thought I'd share. Even though you have a job and a family and other committments and you can't afford the time to find and join a roleplaying group in your local area, you can still get quality playtime using Virtual table clients such as FGII.

I might not have understood the question regarding plot arcs correctly, but Certis' suggestion—that games introduce a villain, resolve that villain's plot line in the first portion of the game, and then move on to bigger things—more or less falls in line with the plots to most Final Fantasy games. In Final Fantasy VII, for example, you begin the game fighting against SHINRA but end up dealing with Sephiroth as your main adversary. Likewise, Final Fantasy VI begins as a battle against the Emperor and ends as a battle against Kefka.

Perhaps because a raid is built into the game, but throwing a party in an mmo is already an extracurricular activity. So throwing a party for others is like an extra-extracurricular activity.

Or perhaps because Rob may see mmo's like many people do, as a game, while many who play mmo's see them as actual and rewarding social interactions with others in which throwing a party for someone is a worthwhile task. In a game that isn't "about" throwing parties, throwing a party is just outside the realm of what you're supposed to do.

Or, raiding is manly. Throwing parties is not.

Certis, Rabbit, Corey and Rob are more than sufficient, but having the cynical sense of humor that I do, the podcast is incomplete without Elysium.

I shall trim my beard in respect of his holiness.

Hey there is a Dragon's Lair game done in real time. It is called Dragon's Lair's 3D.
http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Lair-3D-Return-Pc/dp/B00006GSNW

I have the game but couldn't get the sound to work. Annoyed me enough not to want to play.

I think this was the podcast where someone was going to build a new system (nigerian something?).
I just built out a new system from about $1300 including a 23 inch monitor - so if they are still looking here is my build . All was bought at newegg
I am using windows 7 RC (Free until next year) and haven't had any trouble yet. But really on ly been playing DemiGod and TF2 - but both of those work fine.
I did place another order as the fans I bought we not quite right (too thick and too much CFM - actually made a whistling noise through one of the grates) and I wanted to get the extra 4 gig of memory now.

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1 x ($74.99) CASE CM|RC-690-KKN1-GP BK RT - Retail $74.99

1 x ($2.59) CASE FAN LED| FAN-4LED-80BU RETAIL - Retail $2.59 - replaced - too thick

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1 x ($25.99) DVD BURN LG|GH22LS30 22X LS SATA % - OEM $25.99

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2 x ($189.99) VGA SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL HD4870 1G R - Retail $379.98

1 x ($139.00) CPU AMD|PH II X3 720 BK AM3 2.8G RT - Retail $139.00

1 x ($74.99) MEM 2Gx2|OCZ OCZ3RPR16004GK R - Retail $74.99

1 x ($209.99) MNTR ASUS|LCD 24" 2MS DVI MK241H - OEM $209.99

1 x ($22.99) WL ADPT ZONET|ZEW2500P 54M RETAIL - Retail $22.99

2 x ($9.99) CASE FAN SCYTHE USA|DFS123812-3000 - Retail $19.98 - replaced - too thick.

1 x ($-20.00) DISCOUNT FOR COMBO #190878$-20.00

Subtotal: $1325.47