Glass Shark love Fat Kid. That's one thing about Glass Shark you gotta know.

"[H]e’s played the game so much that he’s beyond its cheap thrills and the veneer of verisimilitude that keeps other players in check. He knows all the characters and their motivations and how they’ll react in certain scenarios. He knows this world’s secrets and how they add up to something predictable and…

I've seen TV-show-Littlefinger make dodgier assumptions.

Yeah, probably. They got obsidian spearheads and arrowheads and such lying around, Children of the Forest were all about that business.

Am I the only one worried that the Blackfish has not, in fact, retaken Riverrun? But rather, that Littlefinger is setting up Sansa to fall into some sort of trap by sending away her protector? Or by making a Lannister-loyal bastion aware of Sansa's intentions?

Part of the joy of tabletop RPGs is that sense of danger: your character, that you've come to know and love over the course of months if not years, could die. They are mortal. Safety not guaranteed.

Especially with Gwendoline Christie as an apparent stormtrooper. Perhaps I'm reading too much into her character from her performance as Brienne, but I could see her being an honorable "mother-to-her-men" commander type who honestly cares about protecting her people and her soldiers… who also happens to be working…

To shift the conversation a little, that was the funnest part of playing an Imperial Agent in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I tried so very hard to keep the Empire a prosperous and safe, if perhaps overly strict, place to live, at least until the Sith came screaming in, screwed up all of my fragile maneuvering, and…

In the past month or so, we've seen two Kickstarters succeed wildly—Yooka-Laylee and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night—based on the iconic visions of veteran developers who were free from the constraints of AAA publishing. These two are but the latest in a long line of similar indie success stories.