Matthew Rossi

Since 2004, the Warcraft franchise has been fairly centered around the MMO genre. World of Warcraft and its offshoot, World of Warcraft Classic, have been the main focus for the series.

One of the most anticipated games of 2021 was Diablo 2: Resurrected, a remaster of a 20 year old isometric Action RPG.

During the Lore Watch podcast recording this week Joe Perez and I got to talking about the factions due to an email question.

I am not a lawyer, and never have I been more simultaneously glad and upset about that than I am today, because the Activision Blizzard lawsuits boondoggle just got extremely complicated.

There are a lot of interesting new D&D races in the latest Unearthed Arcana playtest content from Wizards of the Coast, named Travelers of the Multiverse — and there's definitely an extraplanar theme here.

If the introduction of Seasons of Mastery to WoW Classic teaches me anything, it's that you can absolutely introduce concepts from newer games into older ones, since the Seasons concept is basically life from Diablo 3 Seasons.

I don't know if any of you played City of Heroes back in the day -- it shut down ten years ago, my God, I am literally aging to dust like that one villain in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- but one of the elements it had that fascinates me is that it had a content creator added at one point, where players could create small adventures for other players to experience.

Still playing a lot of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Kind of digging the Crusade mode, which is very much a small tactical wargame inside my isometric RPG. I mean, it’s not Warcraft 3 or anything, but you can name the armies whatever you want within the character limit. Somehow I went from The Fighting Mongooses to Goosemon to Man-Goose-Bear-Pig to this, my ultimate creation.

I’d love to play Untitled Moose Maim. I imagine it as a game where a moose maims people.

What? It doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes you just want to play a moose on a rampage. Look I live in Canada, you’ll just have to accept this.

I don't believe it's a secret that I never really liked the Great Vault system we got in Shadowlands.

So, you want to watch some streamed D&D or other tabletop RPG action, and you're of course already watching Critical Role because it is the ten thousand ton gorilla amongst streamed tabletop games.