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Free Link Friday

Every Friday, we’ll now be giving everyone a plethora of links and articles from the week previous. It’s a great way to catch up if you’ve fallen behind in the role playing world.

Here we go…

Frontalot’s Nerdcore song about Zork - one of the earliest role playing games, and a cultural icon for many. Oh, here’s the actual nerdcore movie.

Fury Building - MMOG Nation covers an awesome RPG-FPS they encountered at the recent PAX gaming conventions. Definitely worth a read, Michael does a good in-depth writeup. Michael, by the way, is the games editor over on Slashdot, and had a recent interview with Russ Pitts, a writer from The Escapist, on how to get into game journalism. Another beautiful piece that you must read.

Gleemax Online Board Gaming? - Mike writes on OgreCave:

It makes a kind of terrible sense, given how many of those crappy free play-by-web games are out there that people put incredible amounts of work into for no compensation at all - not even players. GTO’s offering is pretty far from terrible; it’s well-executed, attractive and solid. And I happen to know how bloody much work it takes to code that. Hell, making the crappy kind is…

Campaign Worlds Should Be Shaken But Not Stirred - Martin of TreasureTables writes about how it’s a good thing to allow your worlds and characters to change.

Dungeons & Dragons for Girls - a wonderfully expansive article on girls in the D&D world, covering a few things from GenCon.

…and there you have it - this week’s Free Link Friday. Enjoy!