Matthew Rossi

If you've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for any length of time, you've probably heard of the Drow.

Last Saturday, I woke up around 5 am with a shooting pain in my eye and black, sqirming shapes floating in my field of vision. This wasn’t a new experience. I have had it before, and a visit to my retina specialist confirmed that a blood vessel had exploded inside my eye, leaving blood trails between the retina and the lens floating in the vitreous portion of my eyeball. I was given an injection, and hopefully the blood will be reabsorbed by next week, because the next stage would be surgery — actual surgery, with scalpels and everything, and not merely the laser surgery I undergo a few times a year.

Anyway, as you might expect I haven’t been playing a lot of video games this week. Mostly I’ve been watching the loathsome blood eels writhe around the inside of my eye. It’s really distracting trying to focus on things while these odd shapes coalesce and then dissipate into greasy swarms of black dots.

It’s the Queue. Let’s see what y’all are talking about.

Look, with the folks at Dungeons and Dragons making a real effort to reduce barriers to playing whatever race and class combination you want, I think it's time for Blizzard to really stop and look at what we're doing with classes and races in World of Warcraft.

Both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 had some form of follower characters in the gameplay.

It's no secret that World of Warcraft is getting a whole host of updates to character customization options in Shadowlands -- the biggest graphical update for characters since we received race updates in Warlords of Draenor.

Blizzard has been tinkering with reputation bonuses throughout the past few months, with the Impressive Influencer buff allowing players to work on Legion and Battle for Azeroth reputations.

It feels sometimes like we, as World of Warcraft players, never go anywhere in game where we aren't either just preceding or just following utter disaster.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros is now available digitally on D&D Beyond, ahead of its July physical release, and that means we get to take a look at a campaign setting rooted in concepts borrowed not from the standard Tolkien-inspired generic medieval world, but instead from a more mythical, classical idea.

We are in an interesting situation with allied races and World of Warcraft, in that we have more choices for what kind of character you're playing than ever.

A time skip happening after (or perhaps during) Shadowlands isn't out of the question -- Game Director Ion Hazzikostas informed us that time does not work the same in that realm as it does in Azeroth, after all.