I’ve been playing Final Fantasy XIV for nine years, which is a mildly alarming sentence to write down. Nine years is long enough for jobs to change, friendships to begin and end, and hobbies to come and go. Some of my real-life friendships haven’t lasted...
I love a good character creator. Hair? Yes. Faces? Yes. Body options, makeup, tattoos, scars, colours, voices? Yes. Let me rotate the character properly and see what I’m doing while we’re at it. My considered position on character customization is essentially: yes....
I love unique names. This is an excellent quality when you’re making up characters and a considerably less useful one when, several months later, you can’t remember the name you personally invented. I also write a lot. I’m a chronic list maker, and have Google...
An RPG gives you three dialogue options. You think about what your character believes, pick the answer that feels right, and prepare for whatever follows. Five minutes later, everyone is standing in exactly the same room discussing exactly the same problem, which...
