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From The Archives:
The Best of 2011
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2011.
Why I Hated Resident Evil 4
Ever wonder how seemingly sane people can hate popular games? It can happen!
D&D Campaign
WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives.
How to Forum
Dear people of the internet: Please stop doing these horrible idiotic things when you talk to each other.
Seven Springs
The true story of three strange days in 1989, when the last months of my adolescence ran out and the first few sparks of adulthood appeared.
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.