2 posts tagged “geek”

Here's the press release.

A Game of Thrones (Game of Thrones)

It's easy to over-analyze a press release, and in the end we'll have to wait for more information. I'll have to reserve judgment on whether this is good news or not. I'm not a real D20 player so I'm basically unfamiliar with Green Ronin's previous works.

I am a passionate A Song of Ice and Fire fan. I did buy the Guardians of Order Deluxe Edition of the game and think it's very good. So I'll offer my hopes:

• I hope that whatever Green Ronin produces works with the Guardians of Order product.
• Ideally, I'd like to see GR produce a new version of the GOO product, and then add supplements.
• I hope this will not be a completely new and separate game.
• I hope that GR will produce supplements steadily, quickly catching up with the novels.
• I hope that, if GR decides to make a new game, it is as successful as the GOO product in capturing the feel of the novels and allowing players to bring bits of A Song of Ice and Fire to life.
• I hope the product turns out to be the kind of the George R R Martin will actually want to play. (Yes, he's a long-time gamer.)
• I hope that somehow, those folks who got screwed by GOO's gross mishandling of the business side of things will get justly compensated for their creative efforts.
  

Well, that's my initial reaction to the news. Now I'm off to scour various forum (Green Ronin's and RPGnet's, for example) for any further tidbits to over-analyze.

I play a dwarf priest in World of Warcraft.

I created the character to be a healer. I specced the character as shadow for leveling.

In the recent and upcoming patches and thanks to the expansion, I may quite playing him, because:

• The new alliance race (draenei) is even better suited to the priest role
• It has become much more difficult to be a viable contributor to a group when specced for shadow
• Another class (the paladin) is so superior at healing for a group that people actively avoid having priests join in

(Plus, and this is just grumpy, I spent in-game money on an object that, in the upcoming patch, will be available for free.)

*sigh*