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.
A Star is Born
Remember the superhero MMO from 2009? Neither does anyone else. It was dumb. So dumb I was compelled to write this.
Gamers Aren’t Toxic
This is a horrible narrative that undermines the hobby through crass stereotypes. The hobby is vast, gamers come from all walks of life, and you shouldn't judge ANY group by its worst members.
Silent Hill Origins
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
How I Plan To Rule This Dumb Industry
Here is how I'd conquer the game-publishing business. (Hint: NOT by copying EA, 2K, Activision, Take-Two, or Ubisoft.)
Autoblography
The story of me. If you're looking for a picture of what it was like growing up in the seventies, then this is for you.
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.