We’re at the point of quarantine where I’m so desperate for a vacation that I’ve been asking — maybe even begging — my kids to go spend the night with me in a tent outside. They are not at all into it.  I don’t fully blame them, since where we live it is uncomfortably hot and sticky, and it’s been raining for the past two days, but still. Since our summer vacation usually involves a road trip with fast food and gas station snacks I’ve also been craving Burger King. I finally broke down and got some gummi bears, but it just isn’t the same.

This is The Queue, where you ask questions and it’s my job to answer them, even though I really need a vacation. No offense.

Uther is the epitome of Paladins, of the Light, of goodness triumphing against evil.

We've been talking about Shadowlands a great deal here (I know, you're shocked), but what you haven't seen is all the behind-the-scenes conversation that occurs on our Discord.

It can be easy to forget that Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition came out six years ago, in August 2014.

If you're wondering what ray tracing is and why it's a big deal that it's being added to World of Warcraft, with it currently being tested in the Shadowlands beta, it's actually a simple idea -- as part of the beta, a change to lighting in WoW is being tested that allows the game to render multiple light sources and multiple shadows in one area.

I have been playing D&D for a long time and I've loved a lot of adventures and campaign settings over the years, but of course, some of that material has never been converted to more recent editions.

Over the weekend I finally went and tackled the achievements I was missing from my Glory of the Argus Raider. Turns out that they weren’t that hard with our gear now. I had more trouble making it past Imonar the Soulhunter’s extremely long Sleep Canister ability than most of the bits for the achievements themselves. He likes to reapply it like a jerk before the first one has even fallen off! Well, aside from Aggramar’s — his achievement took a few tries.

I’m glad that my friend convinced me to come along because now I have that beautiful shadowy demon dog. It did make me think though. We run around collecting these demonic and otherworldly mounts all the time, what if that’s secretly part of the Old God’s plan? Soon they’ll have an army of Void beasts just waiting to drop unsuspecting riders to their doom.

But enough about what the dog may or may not be plotting. It’s time for — the Queue.

 

 

It's been almost three weeks since the latest Hearthstone expansion, Scholomance Academy, was released.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is due out this fall, and there's a lot to look forward to with all the new systems, Covenants, and storyline catch-ups.

The idea of a system that connects experienced players who want to help and newer players who could use the help is a pretty good one, and that idea is one coming to Shadowlands with the Guide Mentor System.