Matthew Rossi

As is always the case, as the Dungeon Master for our "whenever we can herd enough players" D&D campaign it's up to me to recap what's happened so far.

I'm trying to decide if I can get away with an entire paragraph of pretending I'm playing anything but what I actually am this Diablo 3 Season.

Shadowlands means a different way to level, with players able to choose an expansion or the Azeroth we've had since Cataclysm and leveling in it and it alone.

When last we left our intrepid band of somewhat merry adventurers, Liz Harper, Anne Stickney, Cory Taylor, Joe "Lodur" Perez and Deb Montague (along with Mitch "Mitch" Mitchell, who won't be joining us this weekend unfortunately) were still exploring the mysterious island they found themselves stranded on after waking up in a volcano lair, being chased by a dragon made of lava, having an altercation on the beach with a bunch of Kobolds, and now, after a run-in with a mysterious shape shifting individual with unclear loyalties they've spent the night in an ancient building.

In the 90’s X-Men storyline Age of Apocalypse, the son of Charles Xavier, David Charles Haller (a psionic mutant with multiple personalities who went by the name of Legion) traveled back in time to before his father and Eric Lehnsherr, the mutant known as Magneto, had their falling out. Legion intended to kill Magneto before he could become the super villain who fought his father so many times, but instead he accidentally killed his father, altering the timeline and removing himself from existence in the process.

In the altered timeline that resulted, the mad geneticist Nathaniel Essex took the DNA of Jean Grey and Scott Summers and used it to create a perfect mutant, one with psionic powers so great he could kill En Sabah Nur, the mutant madman who ruled that alternate Earth as Apocalypse. When the timeline was reset, Nate escaped that timeline and ended up in the 616 Marvel timeline, where he made friends with Peter Parker and Franklin Richards and even got into a fight with Cable, who was also a mutant bred by Nathaniel Essex (also known as Mister Sinister) by tricking Scott Summers into marrying and having a son with Madelyn Pryor, the clone of Jean Grey.

This is relevant to today’s Queue, I promise.

Diablo's Season 19 starts tonight, and if you haven't decided what to play — or you're thinking of trying something new — I'm here to help by telling you to play a Barbarian.

This character profile has been written for Regor, one of our supporters.

Often, the people who play video games say they wish the devs of said games would pay more attention to them and their concerns.

If you liked the Barbarian from Diablo 3, you're going to like the Barbarian in Diablo 4, and if you liked the Barbarian in Diablo 2? Well, I've got good news for you.

For me, it's not Ysera dying, or seeing Varian destroyed.