Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi @MatthewWRossi — Matthew Rossi is a synapsid, perhaps descended from Cynognathus. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up there before leaving to see the world and be mistaken for a sasquatch and/or minor singing celebrity in various locales. He currently lives and writes in Edmonton alongside his amazing and beautiful wife and their cats. He’s written three collections of speculative fiction, Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon and At Last, Atlantis. He loves playing warriors in World of Warcraft, barbarians in Diablo III, and he’s beginning to notice a pattern here.

WoW

If you’ve been chasing T’paartos’ look, rejoice, for you will finally be able to hide your chest armor

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

During the Q&A on March 21, Ion Hazzikostas answered a question about transmog that, had I not been lying on my back in intense pain and thus not watching the Q&A at that time, would have immediately put a big dumb smile on my face.

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The Queue

The Queue: I love my Kul Tiran Warrior

by Matthew Rossi on March 22, 2019 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Look, I got my every two months eye injections the day I’m writing this Queue and I am utterly wiped out, just not feeling great at all. So this week’s Queue is me dressing up a new Kul Tiran Warrior in this, my favorite Classic WoW clownsuit. The armor I literally used for most of BWL and AQ40 and Naxx. Yes, it looks ridiculous. That’s the magic of it.

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Discussion

If you were given complete creative control of a Blizzard property, which would it be, and what would you do?

by Matthew Rossi on March 21, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Seriously, if I had a genie ready to give me three wishes, the first two would be for perfect health and immortality for myself and my wife, and likely vast wealth or superpowers (depending on if the genie would grant superpowers -- I have a whole wish thing mapped out just in case).

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Off Topic

Off Topic: PBS Eons tells the origin story for life on Earth

by Matthew Rossi on March 20, 2019 at 5:00pm @MatthewWRossi

So, PBS has done a lot of great stuff.

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Editorial

How Blizzard has managed to make their game store feel optional

by Matthew Rossi on March 20, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

The big dirty not-a-secret secret of modern game development is that it costs more than ever, but people absolutely refuse to pay more than they did ten years ago for games.

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Off Topic

Off Topic: What is a System Reference Document and how can it make your life easy in D&D?

by Matthew Rossi on March 20, 2019 at 10:00am @MatthewWRossi

In my post about Pathfinder I talked a lot about the Open Gaming License which allowed Paizo to take the revised 3rd Edition of Dungeons and Dragons and essentially create Pathfinder out of it.

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Editorial

My WoW Classic will never be your WoW Classic

by Matthew Rossi on March 19, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

World of Warcraft launched in North America and Australia on November 23, 2004.

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News

Will there be toys for sale via the in-game shop in WoW?

by Matthew Rossi on March 19, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

MMO-Champion reports that as of today, the in-game shop now has a Toys category and three new items to purchase, after it was briefly put up and yanked down earlier this morning.

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