All the World's a Stage: Pop culture and its impact on roleplay

My original title for this post was going to be "You got your pop culture in my roleplay!" "No, you got your roleplay in my pop culture!" But that doesn't fit, and it isn't a very descriptive title. Still, this issue of "how many cultural reference is okay in game" is an argument I see come up in roleplay alot. WoW, tabletop, and LARP all seem equally plagued by it. My example is, of course, the above video. It's not a WoW roleplay thing, but it's still a pretty good illustration ...

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Hi everybody,as you can probably see, we aren't adding much new models latelyand since I don't really plan on making new ones any time soonand since Barbarian is also busy, I'm offering the job to someone.So if you have created WoW models that you would ...

A modest charity effort – Iron Man Mode

Here is a tale of a group of gamers who are nutty enough to play popular games in Ironman Mode – that is using only 1 life. All so that folks will be chuffed, amused, and then donate to the excellent charity called Child’s Play.
“Clueless ...

[SWTOR] Flashpoints, romances, endgame [spoilers]


So Spinks is now level 50, and I think I’ve completed all of the flashpoints apart from Directive 7 (which is cool but looooong – I dropped out before we got to the end, but the guys were able to finish it) and Kaon Under Siege, which is the ...

Cap!


Few things puzzles me more than the inability of lot of players in World of Tanks to capture the enemy base.
No, I'm not talking about dying on the way there. I mean making it there, and not capturing but wandering away to find that ...

You want to WHAT with WHO?

Last night, at the tail end of one long day, a few members of Team Wanda, Band Of Misfits most progressive raiding team, were chatting in vent.
They had just completed the server first Glory of the Cataclysm Raider earlier, so I thought I’d ...