Matthew Rossi

Guys, switching to Lightforged has revitalized the game for me. I’m enjoying it a lot more now, and I really feel like it was the fight move for me. Sometimes that’s what you have to do, make a change to make things work. Of course, it’s still a Warrior, because let’s not get crazy here.

Anyway, this is the Queue. Let’s talk about stuff.

I keep thinking about how brilliant the swerve was in Warcraft 3 when it comes to the story of the Horde.

Whenever I hear rumors about a Diablo 2 remaster — much less the idea that Blizzard has been hiding it from us and plans to release it late this year — I think about the disastrous path that led to making the game, and how the people who made the game don't think a remaster will ever happen.

We've talked a bit about how to run a D&D game, and we'll likely talk about it again, but since we've featured several Unearthed Arcana supplements and talked about books like the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, it feels to me like time to discuss a somewhat sensitive topic that every D&D group eventually confronts.

Sometimes you sit back and wonder how anything we love ever survives to be loved by us.

Recently, Mike Morhaime (y'all remember him, beloved former CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment) did a lengthy interview talking about quite a few things, one of those things being the tightrope between accessibility and social gaming in games like World of Warcraft, a game Mike knows a fair bit about.

Door explodes outward in a shower of splinters as deranged man throws himself through it, landing on the floor in a heap.

Did someone say pet themed Queue?

Armed men attempt to halt the original man, but he explodes in a whirlwind of shocking violence, an almost operatic display of raw, primordial destruction utilizing a T-Rex jaw clamped around a ridiculously outsized sword with a large eye in the hilt.

My three cats, Aurora, Sasquatch and Puck and my dog Marrina are all named after characters from the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. Pictured above is Marrina, my dog, named for Marrina Smallwood, the aquatic alien member of the team.

I've been doing a lot of rep grinding in World of Warcraft this month trying to get that Rustbolt reputation up, because I'm really tired of having to ride a land mount everywhere while everyone else swoops in and kills that mob I needed for that last World Quest.

If you don't know, World of Warcraft is running a special event this month that gives you double the reputation gain when grinding specific Battle for Azeroth and Legion reputations.

If you remember our Dungeons and Dragons Classes 101 roundup, we're using the same format here for our overview of the various races one can play.