It doesn’t matter if you wanna take ’em or leave ’em, we’re stuck with ’em. Humans are everywhere: surrounding us in real life, but also a dominating option in video games, movies, and books. There is simply no escaping humanity, so you have to accept it.

I am in fact so indifferent to humanity, that I wasn’t even going to discuss it until rjagoda suggested I should. So here you have it, the final word for Friday.

Special guest site writer Nick Marino joins us as we discuss the massive amount of news that dropped this week about WoW’s next expansion The War Within.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria has a different gear model to any World of Warcraft game we have seen to date, one of the core mechanics being the Cloak of Infinite Potential, which acts as an upgradeable item which you will use for the entire ReMists gaming experience.

We ran an entire adventure, from beginning to end, in one session using the v1.2 open beta playtest rules for Daggerheart, the new TTRPG developed by Darrington Press and the team at Critical Role.

The War Within is expanding the concept of Dragonriding in World of Warcraft to work with most flying mounts in the game, and letting players toggle between flying styles at any moment.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria had a brief PTR, and though the server was available for a mere 48 hours on fairly short notice, we were able to take a few things for a spin, and get a feeling for the introductory experience -- including getting a feel for how long it'll take us to level in ReMists.

Phil made a passionate defense of Humans in fantasy yesterday, and it’s a good read.

 

World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion The War Within is adding a new feature called Warbands that helps to unify your characters' progress and allows them to easily share currency and items among them, so of course you'll want as many of your alts in your Warband as possible.

One thing Mists of Pandaria offered when it was new was group content by the double handful: scenarios for three people of any spec, 5-player dungeons, and raids in 10, 25, and later completely flexible sizes, as well as LFR and later the introduction of Mythic raids.

I'm mostly asking this question of people who don't play TTRPGs at all, but even if you do play Dungeons and Dragons, there are other games you may not have tried (or even heard of).