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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.


The Queue: This feels too good to be wrong

Yeah, I’m listening to Filter.

So I’m working on a thing — not exactly hush hush, more that I don’t want to jinx it, but it’s a RPG product I might put up on Drive Thru RPG when it’s done, if it ever gets there. And it has me reading a lot of superhero comics, because it’s a superhero RPG thing. It turns out I like the mid-tier villain types a lot — not the world conquering or embodiment of evil types, but what you might call jobbers — people who get super powers and the first thing they think to do with them is rob a bank or whatever.

They’re not out to commit mass murder or rule the world, and I like that — it feels grounded, you know? If I had super powers, I’d probably try to make money legally with them, but I can at least understand the impulse to just take it. I’d kind of like to do a heist movie with superfolk someday.

Anyway, this is the Queue.


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