T w e n t y S i d e d
Ha! Nothing like players who can’t wait to take whatever involuntary world-building you’ve given them and turn it into an entirely new problem for both of you. You try to throw someone a treat or pull some flavor text out of your ass and suddenly you have someone trying to negotiate sticking a couch in their bag. Which, if I’m honest, I don’t mind too much. It’s fun to see what they’ll latch onto and what will fly over their heads to bite them in the ass later. One of the many joys of tabletop gaming.
Megatextures
A video discussing Megatexture technology. Why we needed it, what it was supposed to do, and why it maybe didn't totally work.
Could Have Been Great
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
PC Hardware is Toast
This is why shopping for graphics cards is so stupid and miserable.
The Best of 2013
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013.
A Lack of Vision and Leadership
People fault EA for being greedy, but their real sin is just how terrible they are at it.
Ah, courtesy, generosity, and noblesse oblige.
The best roleplayers are the ones who can avoid treating these as foreign concepts to be exploited.
Has Aragorn been reading Elrond’s copy of Who’s Who? How does he know there is a princess?
They’ve got long hair; they’re all princesses.
Sounds like a sitcom pitch to me!
It’s a fantasy kingdom run by horse riders.
There’s either a princess and a problem, or there’s a lack of princess and that’s the problem.
It’s a crowded field, but I think the exchange between the DM and Legolas in this may be my favourite joke in the entire comic. 15 years after I first discovered it, “Oh man, sucks to be you” “Oh come on, you aren’t even trying. I know you can do better than that” still gets a laugh, and “Hark, they fate sucketh?” “That is… much worse” is burned into the core of my psyche, and I wish I could find more everyday uses for them.
Thanks so much for this whole project, it’s a worthy tribute to a very, very funny man.