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Nice site for table top game reviews and news. It's a bit more user friendly than boardgamegeek. Lots of good reviews and articles. 

I'm not sure what I think about this. 

I hope we see more of this. I have teacher friends in Atlanta and New York who do similar RPG-based lessons. Great idea. 

Neal Stevenson has always be WAY ahead of his time. He's working on something called "Magic Leap" now. Here's a quote from him;"...it's going to demand a new way of thinking about what a game is [and] what content is..." Looking forward to more. 

These two nerds hit the nail on the head about immersion, narrative, and the new media mistakes of video games. 

The following are archetypes used in Storyteller System system games to describe a character's personality. Architect - Creation is your passion. Autocrat - Control-freak. Autist - One who buries their secrets. Avant-Garde - A fascination with the trendy and new.

This is the Diablo clone with giant skill web that I mentioned. Here's a link to the interactive skill web: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree Description from page: "Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. We're a small independent team of hardcore gamers based in New Zealand and have created Path of Exile as the game that we'd want to play ourselves."

Great video from Mark Rosewater about game design lessons learned working on MTG.

Funny and informative. 

Yes. Probably. Maybe.