Ark's Ark » D&D http://www.arksark.org/blog Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, Current Affairs, and Random Stuff! Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Return of the Card Strahd.http://www.arksark.org/blog/3868/the-return-of-the-card-strahd/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/3868/the-return-of-the-card-strahd/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:09:46 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=3868 Just a quick post. I was chatting about Ravenloft on Twitter, and I happened to mention that I owned a lifesized Strahd von Zarovich that used to sit next to my gaming table as I terrorised my players in an AD&D campaign each week.

Now, you can’t go around making such incredible claims without providing some sort of proof. Thus it is that the Cardboard Count has returned from his exile in an upstairs cupboard, and once again roams my [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/3868/the-return-of-the-card-strahd/feed/ 2 GOG faked their own death. Nobody terribly surprised.http://www.arksark.org/blog/3836/gog-faked-their-own-death-nobody-terribly-surprised/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/3836/gog-faked-their-own-death-nobody-terribly-surprised/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:56:50 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=3836 GOG have just released this statement:

“First of all we’d like to apologize to everyone who felt deceived or harmed in any way by the closedown of GOG.com. As a small company we don’t have a huge marketing budget and this why we could not miss a chance to generate some buzz around an event as big as launching a brand new version of our website and even more important, bringing back Baldur’s Gate to life!

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/3836/gog-faked-their-own-death-nobody-terribly-surprised/feed/ 1 A Lizardman Funeralhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/911/a-lizardman-funeral/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/911/a-lizardman-funeral/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:28:42 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=911 In the absence of me feeling inspired to write anything new (I am particularly rubbish at this time of year), here is a little fragment I fiddled about with, back in the days that Dragon magazine did “Ecology of” articles. They were usually a bit of short fiction, mixed with some game background, to liven up an existing monster type. The characters and locations mentioned would be well known to the players in my own AD&D campaign, being located on [...]

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