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.
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Twelve Years
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
The No Politics Rule
Here are 6 reasons why I forbid political discussions on this site. #4 will amaze you. Or not.
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
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.