You aren’t alone, my friend.

C’mon! The first word of the article??

Strongly concur. I hate being forced to progress through a region’s storyline just by blowing sh*t up. And when you beat a region’s miniboss, that region literally BECOMES A BORING DISNEY BURGER OF TEDIUM AND PACIFICATION.

One of our esteemed GM’s koans: ‘No [planned] campaign survives its encounter with the party.’

My regular group of players has what I feel is the ideal spread of temperaments for a game.

I honest to God thought those were badly rendered models for 3-D porn.

This reflects a very incomplete understanding of how large scale infrastructure projects are put to bid. “Branches”? This isn’t a tree. It is a huge project to replace whole bridges, bore new straighter tunnels, and effectively create new arteries into the city to complement the ones created (no lie) in 1927, 1931,…

Damn! Thanks. Time for another trip :)

Visiting the Louvre? The fastest way in with the shortest lines is at the Porte des Lions entrance.

“Online is necessary, or very recommended if you wish to achieve a long-term success”

A story worth posting. Why didn’t anyone else bother to ask if this was a credible source or someone blowing smoke? (BTW, your book is a great read!)

Uh, how about IGN very publicly fire the HR nutflute and the supervising manager(s) who humiliated the victims/whistleblowers?

Sweet! Love his series of work on Neo Japan. But that wasn’t the one I’d have chosen... 

Great piece, but had to call this out -

All this parsing and weighing and one hand/other BS.... If you believe that Yi has little to gain and much to lose by disclosing Cross’ behavior, say it with me:

Look, I know dog lovers are generally good people, and usually better people than cat people.

I am very very very VERY curious how CD Projekt Red’s budget for Witcher 3 plus its 2 DLC compares with Bethesda’s Skyrim and with BioWare’s DAI.

U.S. Marines were injured Wednesday morning, after a training accident involving an amphibious vehicle went awry, officials said.

It isn’t bullshit. It’s 90% bullshit.

HL3 will go gold the day George Martin publishes the last Ice & Fire book.