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From The Archives:
Grand Theft Railroad
Grand Theft Auto is a lousy, cheating jerk of a game.
My Music
Do you like electronic music? Do you like free stuff? Are you okay with amateur music from someone who's learning? Yes? Because that's what this is.
The Best of 2018
I called 2018 "The Year of Good News". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Final Fantasy X
A game about the ghost of an underwater football player who travels through time to save the world from a tick that controls kaiju satan. Really.
The Brilliance of Mass Effect
What is "Domino Worldbuilding" and how did it help to make Mass Effect one of the most interesting settings in modern RPGs?
This is probably my favourite panel
Blown up in very high definition you can clearly see John Rhys-Davies’ skull prosthesis. The skin tone and wrinkles don’t match in a straight line. Somebody in the upscale should’ve caught that.
(on further thought, just to clarify; I don’t mean TwentySided should have caught it, I mean when the movies were upscaled beyond the original release resolution it should have been caught before they put the Blu-rays out.)
Following a plot in an RPG campaign can be difficult, since you’re playing for a few hours periodically. Depending on schedules, that could be once a month or so.
Try reading the next chapter of a book once a month and see whether it’s easy to keep track.
It’s harder if you’re not really interested in the plot, and the names are long, strange to your ear and often start with the same letter. Oh, and the teller of the story is changing it on the fly to keep up as people in the audience drop out and others come in.
I think it’s fair to compare this to a storyteller, rather than the referee of an RPG campaign. The ref here is trying really hard not to let the players derail his plot.