Matthew Rossi
How much does datamining affect your enjoyment of a game?
We're in the middle of datamining season for patch 9.2 and I frankly find it a bit oppressive sometimes.
Tavern Watch Plays D&D this afternoon as we come to the end of our current campaign and begin planning for the future
It's always a bit sad when a DM and their players come to the end of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Transmog turns 10 in 2021, and for its birthday why not drop holiday transmog restrictions, Blizzard?
When transmog was introduced to World of Warcraft back in Cataclysm's patch 4.3, we were told that they were going to take it slow and cautiously and keep things restricted to start with.
How important is the system you use in your TTRPG experience?
In tabletop role playing, a system is the codified rule set used to represent the world and the player's experiences of it. Dungeons and Dragons uses a system based around a d20 dice roll, with modifiers that change the possible spread of numbers you can successfully roll, and other dice to represent things like the damage dealt to characters or monsters in the game's combat system.
What’s the difference between the original WoW Classic and Season of Mastery?
We know that the Season of Mastery makes some changes to the WoW Classic formula, and those changes are aimed at a faster paced leveling experience and a more challenging feel to raid encounters that players basically blew through when WoW Classic dropped in 2019.
When should a franchise end? Should there always be a chance for more?
I am ridiculously happy that there's a new Mass Effect game coming.
What we know, what we don’t know, and some wild speculation about the next Mass Effect game
No, you are obsessively staring at this Mass Effect teaser image trying to pick out every possible ounce of information about the next Mass Effect game.
Learning when to say no, and when to say yes, when DMing a tabletop RPG
One of the biggest pitfalls for novice game masters of any tabletop RPG is knowing how and when to say no to players.
The Queue: My mistake was resting for even a second
Yesterday, I wrote a couple of posts about WoW Classic and the Season of Mastery, went downstairs and fed my cats and made breakfast for my wife, and looked outside at the snow that’s literally everywhere because I live in Edmonton, which becomes Hoth in winter. Then I decided to sleep, because I’d written a bunch and I was tired and I figured it would be a nice, quiet day on the site and I needed some catch up sleep pretty badly.
So yeah. That’ll learn me. I’m never sleeping again.
What would you think if Blizzard extended the Season of Mastery to retail WoW?
I don't know if it would work, but between Mythic+ dungeons, World Quests, and the way Torghast apes Nephalem Rifts, there's already quite a bit of Diablo 3 in World of Warcraft nowadays.
