I can see why many players would want to stick with the pen and paper, but I think in the long run it’s necessary for Wizards of the Coast to embrace digital applications like this in order to keep bringing in new D&D players that might be put off by the sizable tomes and stacks of paper that older players are already…

So right now Penn Arcade is also doing a weekly D&D stream on Twitch called “The C Team”. Tycho (the one in the blue shirt) is normally the DM and he’s pretty passionate about it, but this week Gabe is filling in for him.

For that high of a level they should be able to use an Ultimate in real life now.

What would you say is the most important decision you made that put you on the path to writing/working for Kotaku?

I don’t blame you at all for adjusting the visibility slider. It’s like why would I want to risk not seeing something?

My guess would be that Twitch does not want to be associated with any sort of cheating and as a platform they don’t want to be held legally responsible for players learning how to cheat from the streamers. It’s probably a rule that they enforce just to prevent the (admittedly unlikely) scenario of a game developer…

I just wrapped up Witcher 3 and now I’m going back and playing Kingdom Hearts 2 for the first time. Mad Max is looking pretty good too. Might pick that up.

There was a GameStop in my hometown that I went to about once or twice a month. It was a small town, so there weren’t many alternatives. Most of the workers there were pretty decent but there was one there with whom I had to have this exact same conversation every time I bought a game: