Token Female Gamer

This dastardly tale begins in a rather well lit game store – a surprisingly clean and well-organized game store, which is probably why our fair heroin enjoys shopping there. Though only on days when she can afford too, as every trip into the well organized and friendly game store results in purchases.

This particular day is no different as she discovers a new wonder, a miracle, a fabulous gem of a game and thus cannot leave the store without it. ‘Dungeons and Dragons – the Wrath of Ashardalon’ calls to her like a siren and she is helpless to resist. (See why she avoids going into the store?!!?)

Giddy with anticipation, she hauls the gigantic box to the counter. The weighty game promises not only cooperative game play, but also loads of figures and tokens and tiles and cards; all wrapped up with a nice Dungeons and Dragons bow.

Long has our heroin mourned the loss of a regular pen and paper RPG night. Might this game fill some of this void? Mayhap the friendly clerk at the store spoke the truth by calling the game a simplified Dungeon and Dragons for busy people.

Thus she called together her fair adventurers (yup, three dudes) and they set forth on their journey to vanquish Ashardalon, with a detour to Castle Ravenloft.

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The single iPad in our house really belongs to my husband. This has never posed a problem, as I haven’t found much use for it. Then he shared Battleheart with me. This addictive little game is almost good enough to cause iPad fights.

Although Battleheart is a very accomplished game, the few items of great annoyance have tempered my addiction enough to save us from having to purchase iPad #2. =)

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Last month I received an email from a Josh, who was kind enough to say that his wife and he enjoyed reading the site. (Yaaay! Thanks!) Also that he opened a shop on Etsy called Dice Designs.

Curious, I checked out the site. Its a cute little shop that sells the perfect accessories for any girl D&D gamer, jewelry made out of dice. =D

Turns out that there is a whole market of geeky jewelry on Etsy. Places like Josh’s that sell earrings and necklaces out of dice (quite fetching really) and then there are other places that make a variety of computer game jewelry and various accessories.

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World of Warcraft has lived up to its name and turned the world of PC gaming into a world of WoW. The most successful MMORPG (massively multiplayer role-playing game) to date, boasting over 11 million subscribers (that’s more then the entire population of Switzerland!) and its showing no signs of slowing down as it nears its five year anniversary.

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A dear friend and geek pal of mine recently moved away. Like all true hardcore geek friends, we met online. We used to play EverQuest together (back in the day when role-playing was still cool).

Eventually it was discovered that we lived in the same general area. Not close enough to hang out all the time, but close enough to play some decent D&D every month or so.

And then he up and moved (and I haven’t played D&D since!!!! Damn j00!) Something about job relocation and buying a house, you know, extremely mature reasons. Of course I am supremely happy for him about all the positive stuff, but I’m sad I lost a geek friend. They are hard to come by, for me anyway, and for him apparently also.

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Since my last top five list revealed the serious lack of quality in game to movie adaptations, I thought I would follow up with some great online material.

While there are a ton of game related videos out on the web, it has been challenging to find the ones of higher quality. All of these were given to me via web word of mouth, aka group emails.

Be warned, some of these are not kid or workplace friendly.

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Web Comics have become a dime a dozen (sort of like web blogs ~cough~ lost in the crowd ~cough~). I gave up looking for new ones long ago and subsequently only check out unknowns by referral. Even then it takes something special too hook me.

Well tonight I ran across just such a comic. The beginning was cute and entertaining enough to keep reading, and then I reached panel #77. It knocked me off my chair, I laughed so hard.

So I want to share.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic

This is definitely going to stay on my links page.

Enjoy! <3
Token Female Gamer

ps, thanks darktouch for the referral! =D

While Uwe Boll has garnered game to movie adaptations a horrible reputation, there are in fact a few movies about games that have managed to not offend, even entertain.

And though Mr. Boll can be attributed with the most recent epidemic of terrible remakes, the trend was set long before. Super Mario Bros anyone? In a way he is really just carrying on a long-standing tradition.

Actually there are more game related movies then I realized. This is a decent list.  I’m not sure how complete it is, what I can say is that most of the game movies that I have seen are on it.

Some of these movies found their way into my favorite pile and that’s what this is really all about.

I should mention that I chose these movies not for their award worthiness or for their ability to bring about world peace. They managed to sneak into my top five because I enjoyed watching them.  And lets not forget that the genre is sparse on quality, thus expectation is brought down a lot (a LOT).

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Week five of football was a loss. But I am giving MVP of the week to Patrick Willis, who got 14 solo tackles and a sack. That man is a defensive dream machine. No wonder he is the defensive team captain.

This last weekend (week six) was a win. MVP goes to Payton Manning. I know, super predictable, but he had three touchdown passes and no interceptions. That’s good points! And again my defense scored a measly one point. Not sure how much longer it will take for me to realize that the New England defense is not what it was last year and I should drop them like the turd they are.

So now I’m at 3-3 (win-loss). Not bad really, but next week I play my husband which should make for an interesting weekend. I tend to seek him out for football advice. Not so this week.

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Today was the big World of Warcraft patch for Wrath of the Lich King expansion. And just in time for me to hit seventy they decide to do a talent wipe. I had finally spent my last five points that I have been hoarding up (okay, avoiding spending), and now I have to do it all over again. Even worse, all the talents are new!!

Did you guys over there at Blizzard not read my post about the agony of deciding??? Just mean!

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I played fourth edition Dungeons and Dragons and lived to tell of it. Okay it wasn’t that dramatic, but so far I am rather fond of the new rules. It’s different which in a lot of ways makes me feel better about shelling out for yet another D&D Player’s Handbook.

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It’s amazing how much the game industry has ceded control of their IP to various non-game people. I’m sure this movie could have been better had there been more interest in protecting the Dungeon Siege Intellectual Property.

Hopefully soon the industry will catch on. The comic book companies certainly have, but then they have had more time to wise up.

Website: http://www.inthenameoftheking.com

A friend reluctantly loaned me this movie. At first he was flabbergasted that I would want to see it and warned me of its loathsomeness. He finally agreed, and with a its-your-funeral shrug abdicated all responsibility.

There is a small place in my heart reserved just for bad fantasy movies. My collection of them is small but dear. This movie is not only fantasy, but is also based on a computer game I had played. It had to be given a chance.

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