Articles by Fabula Caromed

Everyone else is watching the Super Bowl. I'm playing with dice. Nerrrrrd. I haven't yet got a chance to play Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, or Force and Destiny. Their mechanics are still arcane to me and try as I might to understand them without experiencing them firsthand, this is all...

I thought about doing something topical, like people being emotional twats, but no good could come of that. Instead, I think I'mma do an essay on something that has very recently become near and dear to my heart. We've described characters like Fabula, Ashin, and Valik as "tanks" for a while...

I've hesitated to do this one, and I don't think anyone will blame me for why. It's been a very long time since I did my piece on 4e, and it was largely defensive. I couldn't approach this the same way; few people dislike 3.5e, so it would be pointless for me to defend it. Likewise, I enjoy it...

Hi. I'm Anna. I like games, but I also like Star Wars. A recent dramasplosion seems to be reluctant to end, and another participant made some interesting points after they stopped being defensive. So y'know, I says to myself, I says "Anna, why don't you join in on this thing?" S'not about the...

Long ago I found a long and in-depth discussion of katanas and in which realistic and logical ways they're severely overrated.This was by a man named Lindybeige, a rather opinionated man whose Youtube channel is mostly full of rants about things I'm crazy about: the sorts of nonsense that we...

D&D has come up on the forums, and rather than continue babbling about it in a thread that was designed to babble about it, I figured I'd do something productive and write another blog post about it. This time, we'll be covering something that I'm always a little sad to see, both because of...

This is entirely motivated by a present that Smitty half-surprised me with this morning. I'm not sure how to contain my immeasurable glee, so I've decided to do a blog post and just babble for a bit. This is drawn by the amazing Shabazik, probably my favorite DA artist. (c) Shabazik This is...

I haven't talked a lot about video games I play on this blog. Mostly it's because they change all the time, and most of the old hits are old hits, meaning everyone's played them already. In the one case that that -isn't- the problem, it's for a much simpler reason. I'm a League player. We've got...

Hi. I'm Anna. I like games. Wuzzat? Not enough? Okay, fine. I've been around on this site for months, and my RP and staff days seem to have come and passed. I like the OOC community, though, and I've been hanging around because of old friends that are fun to chill with and just have fun. And...

Aw yeah, starting this puppy off with a bang. A lot of people have some very strong opinions about D&D 4e. What I've come to realize over the last several years is that most of these opinions come from people who haven't even played the game. Naturally, as an opinionated young mind on the...

Been a while. 'Bout time I did another one of these. So I've talked a whole lot about D&D on this blog and a whole little about any other system. Exalted, my favorite system (until recently) has been mentioned several times, but in general it's been in passing, or in comparison to D&D. I...

A common complaint I hear about tabletop characters in popular but poorly-balanced games is that defenses never quite function harmoniously with destructive potential. Anyone who's been on an RP board ever is well aware that this problem is not solely the territory of tabletop games ("Twirling...

Alternative Title: "Crouching Dungeon, Hidden Dragons" Alright, so I said I'd need to do this one eventually, and it's been a while since I've done one of these posts. This is going to be a really long one. Prepare for tl;dr bait. I've mentioned in previous posts that there were some major...

Hi. I'm Anna. I like games. I also happen to -really- like the David Filoni Clone Wars cartoon. There are parts of the series that I very much disliked, and parts that I adored from the start. However, upon rewatching it in order to catch up to properly appreciate Rebels, I've noticed that...