Matthew Rossi
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.
The worst part is that nothing is surprising as Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick comes under fire for his handling of sexual harassment and discrimination crisis
Earlier this year, Activision Blizzard was sued by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing over allegations of workplace discrimination and a culture of sexual harassment and unfair compensation for women.
How should World of Warcraft respect our time?
I hear the phrase "The game respects your time" more and more lately, and it's something I think about a lot.
Meet the Enlightened, a new kind of Broker that we’ll meet in patch 9.2
In patch 9.2, we'll be going to Zereth Mortis, because we want to stop Zovaal the Jailer from remaking the entire cosmos into a place he rules and everyone is his slave, kind of like what he's done to Anduin on a metaphysical scale.
