HEROSCAPE PRESS RELEASE
By flisk | June 22, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marcella Kallmann
Wizards of the Coast LLC
425-254-2263
Marcella.Kallmann@Wizards.com
THE SIEGE BEGINS WITH ALL NEW ADDITIONS TO HEROSCAPE
Wizards of the Coast releases new set for the build-and-battle game system
RENTON, Wash.—April 2, 2009—Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), today announced the upcoming release of a new expansion set for Heroscape®, the wildly popular build-and-battle miniatures game. Small Expansion set 9, Blackmoon’s Siege™, will be released in June 2009.
Blackmoon’s Siege features 24 brand new painted figures in a 4-pack assortment set. Braves and Brawlers, Dwarves and Repulsors, Dividers and Defenders, and Heroes of the Moon have all been summoned to battle. Designed to add strength to players’ armies, these warriors are ready to charge forward and take on any enemy that gets in their way.
Each pack includes painted figures and army cards and can be used with any Heroscape Master Set. In the coming months, fans can also look forward to another Heroscape release with the reprint of Wave 1, Malliddon’s Prophecy™.
For more information about Heroscape visit: www.heroscape.com.
About Wizards
Wizards of the Coast is the leader in entertaining the lifestyle gamer. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, MAGIC: THE GATHERING®, among many other trading card games and family card and board games. Wizards is also a leading publisher of roleplaying games, such as DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times best-sellers. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast website at www.wizards.com.
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Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Blackmoon’s Siege, and Mallidon’s Prophecy are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. Heroscape is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. and is used with permission. © 2009 Wizards.
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Back to Azeroth Day 1
By flisk | March 22, 2009
After having given up on Norrath and it’s super crappy graphics (well, i’ve not completely given up, I’m going to adventure into that realm at least once more sometime in the next few days; be sure to keep an eye on the Adventure Journal for that entry), I decided to return back to World of Warcraft.
I ran into some people that play on the Hellscream server and they have more or less talked me into coming back. Besides, I’d like to check out Wrath of the Lich King. Last time I played was about 3 months or so before WotLK came out, so I’m sure there will be much to “re-learn”.
It took me the better part of 12 hours to reinstall the main game and Burning Crusade plus the 3 gigs worth of updates. After that I jumped in, my level 70 warrior was still there as were my lower level henchmen. Cool. I still have about 600 gold too. Plus all my items. When I left I had just maxed out my mining and blacksmithing and subclass of hammer weaponsmith. The very last thing I did was create Deep Thunder, a 2 handed mace that had a chance of stunning your enemy for 4 seconds. Combine that with Mace Spec from the Arms talent tree and you could potentially stun them for up to 10 seconds.
Neat, I found that my talent trees had been wiped clean, makes sense, they introduced new things and they wipe them each time. Free chance to try something new.
Imagine how pissed I was to see that they changed the Mace Spec to ignore 15% of your opponent’s armor (when speced with 5 points). Not bad, but certainly NOT the stun spec I had worked my ass off to be able to make Deep Thunder for!
Okay, so I’ll switch back to speccing in Axes, still get increased crit % with that spec.
Next I discovered they added what lots of other games out there right now are doing; achievements. Left for Dead does this, Halo does too (I think). I like this feature, when I play WoW, I need a goal to work towards; this is perfect!
And pets, oh thank goodness they finally gave me the ability to free up some bank slots! they added a nifty area where you can add all of your pets and mounts and other companions and you simply cast them from there.
They also added another feature called Glyphs. I’ve not had a chance to really check that out yet. From the auction house it looks like the might be specific enchants you place into a book and reap benifits from that. Neat!
There are a few more new things to check out, but first I need to remember all of the addons I used to use…
Funny part is, I’ve not even had a chance to play yet, mainly installing and checking out the new technical changes.
I certainly look forward to actually sitting down to play once I have everything set up to my playstyle again.
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GameMasters auction on eBay
By flisk | March 15, 2009
I just added a whole slew of old Dungeons and Dragons goodies over on eBay.
You can check them out via our auction link at the top or you can go directly to My eBay Page.
Now for the cool part, most of them are starting out at $5.00 or less! And the rarer ones are starting out at $15.00!
Get on over there before someone snipes your bid!
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Return to Norath Day 3
By flisk | March 14, 2009
Okay, what did I do today..
I discovered that players can have their own NPC “traders” where they sell their goodies. The problem, there is nothing to keep the item’s worth in check. I found a Firebrand sword (i think that’s what it was called) on one trader for 30K platinum, found the exact same sword on another for 250 platinum.
I got the one for 250 plat.
It’s neat, but looks like a regular sword, all it does is hit for about 50 fire damage every 5th hit or so. Not bad, it adds up over the length of the fight. And man are the fights lengthy!
Fought a witch, an armadillo looking thing, some skeletons, a giant, tiptoed past a mature dragon, found myself in the thick of more dragons, hid behind a rock and pulled out my book. Teleported to the Plane of Knowledge.
While I’m having a little fun, I am finding that I hate, HATE, combat in this game. Takes too long to kill something that’s lower level than me, and even then you gotta watch for wondering monsters, they will almost always cross your path when you are fighting, thus drawing the fight out even more.
I considered installing World of Warcraft again, but decided against it. I’ll stick this one out a little longer.
But to be honest, I just don’t see myself playing it for too much longer.
Graphics suck and combat is too slow. I’m trying, I’m trying real hard to remember how I could have enjoyed this game way back when. Perhaps it was among the first of it’s kind, but damn, it’s hard to keep wanting to play it right now.
I find myself getting bored, almost fell asleep at the keyboard too.
Until next our paths cross!
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Return to Norath Day 2, Part 2
By flisk | March 13, 2009
March 13th, 2009. Day 2, Part 2.
After some rest I decided to give it another go. Most of the locations I used to haunt are returning to memory. The Nexus, Queynos, Freeport, yeah, I remember most of em now. I decided to find the bank, I could not remember what all I had in there.
Lo and behold! I have over 2,000 Platinum! Is that good? I don’t recall what stuff really costs here anymore. I left all of it in the bank and went to the Planes of Knowledge again. This time I had a necklace with a tooth on it. I found a gargoyle and gave it to him, he asked me to join his cause.
What the hell. I did.
I was then transformed into a winged Gargoyle! This was new to me, and was certainly not in the game way back when! I travelled the land, killing little gray critters and scooping up the trash they had. I then went back to my original form and took off to Queynos. I found some skeletons waay west of the city (at least I think it was west). I killed them and traveled though a cave. Found myself getting very bored, for even attacking gray monsters seemed to take over 2 minutes (and I was hitting them with two weapons at the same time for about 30 to 70 damage each swing!).
I then found that I was looking at how crap-tacular the graphics were. Yeah, I know the game is super old, but seriously? You’d think they would have vamped up the graphics a little. Hell there were parts where I could see forever and there were no trees, no monsters, no buildings, just the sky and flat land.
No wonder I went to World of Warcraft way back then.
And that’s the thought process I had when I sat down to log out for the evening.
30 seconds.
What did I accomplish? Nothing really, just went from one place to another.
25 seconds.
Did you do anything fun? Well, I turned into a gargoyle for a bit, that was kindav neat. But not neat enough to hold my attention for too long.
20 seconds.
And you didn’t like the graphics? No, but I kindav knew that going back into it, besides, not all games are great solely because of their graphics, I also like the storylines.
15 seconds.
Do you like the storyline in EverQuest? Beats me, I honestly didn’t read half the dialogue, I just smacked the keywords when hailing an NPC. I guess I would have to say no then.
10 seconds.
You gonna keep on playin? Yeah, for a little longer, not tonight, but later.
5 seconds.
At least you are giving it a try. Well, at least in this second part of today I did not die…
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Return to Norath Day 2
By flisk | March 13, 2009
March 13th, 2009. Day 2.
After 3 days they (Sony) finally restored my character because the previous server I was on (Stormhammer) no longer existed. I called them and at first they were wanting to charge me $50.00 a character to transfer. I argued that there was no way I was going to pay 200 bucks (I had 4 characters I wanted back) to play a game that I left several years ago. I further went on to argue that it was not my fault their business was so poorly run that they had to shut down the server I was on, and furthermore that if they did charge me, I’d simply cancel the account and move on again.
I told the guy, Eric was who I spoke with, that I was excited to return, but after shelling out $40.00 to play, there was no way in hell I was going to spend another dime.
He forwarded everything to a GM and 2 hours later all of my characters were restored. To that end I must applaude Sony for doing the right thing.
Okay, so here I am in the world again. Seems I’ve got some items to claim. Among them is a book that can teleport me to the Plane of Knowledge. Evidently tjis area is new, I can teleport here then teleport anywhere else. That’s pretty cool.
Okay, so I start off running after a pig-wark or bulwark, or something like that. Looked like an anteater on really tall legs.. I cannot kill it so I run. Of course I create a train behind me because I cannot find a town. I inadvertantly press the ‘M’ key and bring up a map. Ah! Nice! I see the town!
I decide to head towards it, I can remember from long ago that the guards would kill whatever was after you.
They failed to move from their posts so I had to keep running until I zoned. Ahh Zones. Yes, this game makes you wait as you cross from one zone to another.
Okay, so now I’m in a town. I’ve got 143 Platinum on me, and no clue what I need to buy. I keep finding merchants that want to sell me plans to blacksmith or sew. I don’t give a crap about any of that, I want weapons! I want armor!
I find none.
I then find a swimming pool. Jump in, I soon find that I cannot get out!
Holy crap, I remember this bug now. So many areas in the game that if you were too small, you were stuck.
I tried my book, “you cannot cast while swimming!”
Crap.
I tried the looking up and jumping technique. No luck.
Looks like I’d have to drown just so I could rez. I went online to see what other solutions there may be.
I found nothing.
20 minutes goes by, I’m just wasting time at this point, trying everything I can to get out of this stupid water.
Then I remember about the book. I teleport to the Planes of Knowledge, find a portal to Freeport, head over to the commonlands, head north into a valley (going through 2 more zones), and come fact to face with a zombie!
I swing! He casts a spell (zombies can cast spells???) and does 201 damage to me. Hold up, what?? Zombies can cast some badass spells??? Next thing I know the zombie has 5 skeleton pets and some kind of dinosaur on me.
I die.
I resurrect, but lose some experience while doing so.
All in all, I’m not happy with my first official day of returning to Everquest and playing.
I’ll give it a little more time tho.
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Return to Norrath
By flisk | March 10, 2009
March 10th, 2009. Day 1.
Years ago, before World of Warcraft, before Star Wars Galaxies, and a little at the same time of Ultima Online and Kingdom of Drakkar, I played a game that many used to call EverCrack. Yes, I speak of EverQuest. I think I started to play it in 1999, shortly after it first came out. I played it up until about the end of 2002. I don’t think my character ever got huge, I think it made it to level 35.
Back in late 2004 I started to play World of Warcraft. I found it super easy to play, not too much of a challenge, but after about 4 years I grew very bored with it. I think around August of 2008 I stopped playing all together. I was level 70, and did not have the time it required to hunt for epics or join lame-ass raids where you had a 1 in 40 chance in winning a roll (and even then the item you rarely needed). Seriously, I had done everything I wanted to do in the game. My skills were maxed, my level was maxed, and I was bored. Yes, I knew that Wrath of the Lich King was due out in November, but I was PAINFULLY bored. So I stopped playing. I think my account still has about 50,000 gold, so if I ever do decide to go back it won’t be too bad to kickstart again.
Okay, so that leads me to now. For the past 7 months I’ve been bored out of my skull where it comes to playing games goes. I got a Wii, immediatly got Legend of Zelda from the virtual console thingy, played it and beat it within two weeks (classic game tho), got Left 4 Dead (still play the hell out of that but it does nothing to quell my thirst for an RPG), play Mobsters on MySpace (Overdrive too), but still something is missing.
I got an email a couple of days ago from Sony inviting me to Return to Norrath, that my characters were still there. Hmm. I vividly recall exactly why I stopped playing it, I died and could not get back to my corpse in time, lost everything. Got super pissed off. Deleted the game, cancelled my account.
But..
It’s been 7 years since I’ve been there. I broke out my Ruins of Kunark strategy guide, and forgot a bit about why I was so pissed off. I was a different gamer back then, perhaps I’ve changed. Perhaps my view on events will inspire instead of condem. What the hell? I’ll try it out.
EverQuest. Does anyone still play it? Is it a dead game? They came out with an “expansion” of sorts back in October of 2008, it contained all the previously released expansions. I’m downloading everything now as I type this. More than likely I’ll head off to bed and wake up to find it’s still downloading. 14 expansions in all, plug the game itself. DSL connection, so it’s a fast download, it’s just really freaking huge! I wonder how long it will take to update everything once it’s installed…
Until then, get ready for an adventure!
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Adventure Journal
By flisk | March 10, 2009
In my tavels I sometimes find that several months later I am forgetting some of the details. I love going on adventures, and as such I need to keep better track of them. In the true spirit of blogging, I have decided to create this Adventure Journal. I am writing it for myself, but feel free to read along.
My journal is old and worn, leather bound. It has a large “F” embossed onto it’s cover. I suggest to anyone going on an adventure to keep an Adventure Journal. You never know when you may need to look back and remember something you have forgotten..
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RPG Sword Idea I
By flisk | March 7, 2009
I love RPGs. I love Dungeons and Dragons. I love any game that causes you to spark your imagination. With that said, I want to kick off a new segment here at GameMasters and see how creative you can be.
I’ve got a sword here, in my mind it’s got lots of fire type properties. Looks like the hilt is fashioned after a dragon. To me it makes sense that it’s got an element of fire to it.
What I want to know, what’s your take?
Do the crystals embedded into the blade give it any extra abilities? Is the sword itself intelligent?
Do the swirls have any special meaning or are they just pure decoration? And what’s with the little smatter of blue down at the bottom towards the hilt?
Does the background have anything to do with the sword?
Open Your Imagination!
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GameMasters on eBay
By flisk | February 23, 2009
From time to time I need to liquidate some stuff that is taking up too much space, or that I know people out there are looking for.
I fully realize that GameMasters.com is not a huge mega site and because of that some of my store items can sit here in stock, literally for YEARS.
A solution to this has been to sell it off over on eBay. You can check out my list of auctions by clicking the Auctions tab up at the top of this page.
Game On!
-Brian “flisk” Hardin II
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