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Inq. of the Week: Friendly Local Gaming Stores?
Over the weekend I’ve done my fair share of video game playing, the most fun of which was easily several hours of playing four player New Super Mario Bros. on the Wii. With the great selection of new games that have come out this Fall, it seems...
Inq. of the Week: Video Game Playing, 2009
Last week, Bartoneus asked about what formats you watch your movies in. DVDs remain the king, with 86% of the vote. Online downloading/streaming comes in second with 52%, which I personally feel like is the way things are moving, and way better than ...
Inq. of the Week: Video Formats?
There are tabletop RPGs that focus on story? Seriously, how many people actually like that kind of stuff? I’m kidding, of course, but that’s what our Inquisition last week focused on – What’s your experience with story games/i...
Inq. of the Week: Story Games, Or Whatever You Want To Call Them
How often do you play? Once a week is the most common answer, with several times a month being a close second. I was surprised to see such a showing for several times a week: to all you multi-game night warriors, I salute you! And one lone person ...
Inq. of the Week: Frequency of Play?
I have to apologize for the lack of an Inquisition for last week, with some of the things that have been going on for the last few weeks I didn’t even realize it hadn’t been done until Wednesday evening. Two weeks ago Dave posited a que...
Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women
Gaming genres were the topic last week, and not altogether unexpectedly, fantasy came out on top, with 95% of voters saying it’s what they enjoyed. Second place, with science fiction, took 72% of the vote, which says I need to get in more Trave...
Inq. of the Week: RPGs in Various Flavors?
I've really enjoyed reading Dave's posts about his 4th Power project and adapting the 4E D&D system to a modern setting game as well as the comments on those posts, but it's started me thinking about the genres of RPG that people play and in add...
Inq. of the Week: Tell Us Your Critical Hit Story
We're coming up on our 4th anniversary this week (expect our usual yearly wrap-up this Thursday), and this year, we thought we'd do something fun. At gaming conventions this year, we asked our interview subjects about their favorite critical hit stor...
Inq. of the Week: Tears or tiers?
I have a small handful of polls that creep back into my consciousness every year or two and the few that I've done multiple times before have been very enlightening. On that note I'm bringing back a poll that I last ran in March of 2008......
Inq. of the Week: On Reviewing
Alternative titles for last week’s poll: “Blood, Sweat, and Tiers”, “Tiers of a Clown”, and “Tiers for Fiers.” 91% of you have played lowish level D&D recently, 27% in the mid to high range, and ......
Inq. of the Week: Tiers of Play?
Dave and I both started running 4th Edition D&D campaigns when the system was released, now over a year later Dave's game is solidly into the paragon tier while mine looks to be entering paragon in the next few weeks....
Inq. of the Week: Cthulhu Who?
I believe it is too late for me now. With each new tome I uncover, the more I find myself drawn away from my usual realm and into a realm of insanity. Are you with me?...
Inq. of the Week: Cataclysm?
This passed weekend was Blizzcon '09 which came with a slew of new announcements from everyone's favorite delayed publishing game company. (Yes, I'm still bitter about Starcraft: Ghost - No, I will not let it go until StarCraft 2 actually comes ou...
Inq. of the Week: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I am going to subject you all to another question about what you'd like to see here, but focused on our immediate future. These answers will help us to determine where we should spend our time and energy at GenCon. While we already have a packed sche...
Inq. of the Week: Non-RPG Content?
Well voting for the ENnies closed over the weekend, first and foremost I'd like to extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who voted for us! No matter what you ranked our site compared to the others, they all help and hopefully we will be ple...
Inq. of the Week: Sources of Power?
Just before the Player's Handbook 2 was released back in March I wrote an inquisition asking which power source people most wanted to see in the PHB3, the source that won the poll was psionics so it seems the PHB3 is shaping up to meet a lot of expec...
Inq. of the Week: You Got Science in my Fantasy
We heard a lot of complaints that psionics just don't fit with the D&D milieu. Even for a die hard fan such as myself, it can be hard to justify mental powers (that in other media are often linked to "the next stage of evolution" and other scien...
Inq. of the Week: How Caffeinated?
We've had a lot of Origins 2009 coverage over the last week, and on Saturday celebrating the 4th of July Dave and I realized that GenCon is only a few weeks away. This realization makes me ponder what keeps me going through such hectic times, and mo...
Inq. of the Week: Know Your Role
Only a short Inquisition this week, since I have lots more Origins goodness to send your way soon, including an epic recounting of our journey to victory over the Ultimate Dungeon Delve, another seminar by Monte Cook (this one about designing dungeon...
Inq. of the Week: Quinto vs. Quinto
A while back, over two years ago it seems, we had an epic showdown Inquisition between Ian McKellen and Ian McKellen...errr, I mean between Gandalf the White and Magneto! The mysterious White Wizard ending up kicking considerable ass in the poll, bu...
Inq. of the Week: Challenging Skills
The dragon found them flying through the skies aboard a flying Dwarven pirate airship and threatened to destroy the ship if they didn't toss the heroes overboard. They found their powers mostly useless against the creature, and scrambled to improvise...
Inq. of the Week: Opinions of E3 2009?
For the past week I've been hearing faint whispers around the edges of my radar about E3 going on, but it feels like this year everything is far more muted than it has been in previous years. The only thing that I've really heard a lot of excitement...
Inq. of the Week: One Year Later for 4e
Starting with the initial announcement at GenCon 2007, we polled reaction to the coming of a new system and found most to be cautiously optimistic. Then shortly after release, we polled about everyone's favorite edition of D&D, which at the time...
Inq. of the Week: Age of Roleplaying?
This week I've been thinking about something that I don't believe we have touched on yet, and that's at what age people start playing RPGs. I've heard from quite a few people that are new to D&D with 4th edition from various ages, but even just...
Inq. of the Week: The Stars Are Trekkin’
Over the weekend, I caught the newest entry in the battle between Star Wars and Star Trek, as the Federation Strikes Back with the new update, featuring a rebooted franchise and cast (with one exception). I was not alone in this, as many showings wer...
Inq. of the Week: The Stars are Warring?
It happens to be May the 4th, and a Monday, so I couldn't let this go by without doing a Star Wars based inquisition of the week. With what could possibly be one of the corniest geek habits of using dates to make inside jokes, "May the 4th be with y...
Inq. of the Week: Arcane Powered
While thinking about spell-casting, I got to thinking about spells themselves. I flipped through both the 3rd edition spell list and cross checked a few against the 4e list (there's some that didn't make the jump) and compiled what I feel is a pretty...
Inq. of the Week: Roleplaying with Minis?
As I mulled over some topics on boardgames, my mind was still wandering back to the D&D game I ran on Saturday, so today we have a topic that spans between D&D and boardgames!...
Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ‘09
Last week The Main Event posted an Inquisition on a topic that I love to discuss, power creep in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. With people voting on which parts of the PHB2 they thought ......
Inq. of the Week: Power Sources?
Hopefully Dave’s curiosity was answered when he wanted to know how many of you went to see Watchmen. 65% of you went to see it opening weekend, while 23% didn’t see it that weekend but ......
