Besides some dabbles in college, I began my D&D career in earnest after graduating, when I had less free time. I had heard a bunch of Adventure Zone podcasts and decided D&D was right for me. I proceeded to buy all the manuals, binge read, and ask my friends if they were interested (which thankfully they were). I…

I can empathize with what you’re feeling. I was a self-trained DM who had been in maybe two games of D&D before I ran it myself. Before I ran sessions for my friends I obsessed over the rules but never was able to retain all of it. And it turns out that worked fine for us and I never needed to get all that into the…

Re: The Rope example; in the intro to the 5e rules book they mention that the rules are meant to facilitate fun. If they don’t do that then they’re supposed to be ignored. Run something that sounds fair in their place. What turns out to actually be fair requires some DM’ing experience, but you figure it out as you go.…

1. Teeming > Pouring.
2. EWF’s version of “Got To Get You Into My Life” is better, but that’s just basic logic.

Not seeing the What have you finished this weekend? thread yet, so I’ll add my thoughts on Banner Saga 3 and Sea of Thieves Story mode here! SPOILERS for Banner Saga 3.

I have to say the first dungeon I probably fell in love with was the realms in Gauntlet Legends (64). It’s hard to single out one dungeon in particular, as each realm has something I love about it. The Mountains were the perfect start to our adventure. The puzzles & traps of the Castle felt treacherous, and trained me…

Beautiful, and the devs are constantly updating them!

I struggled a lot with the downward swipe too, especially in Greenpath where it’s necessary for traversal. But like everything the game is secretly training you to be more and more competent at all the controls. It’s very sneaky game design!

Agreed. ITB always feels like there’s a solution I need to puzzle over for minutes, except for those rare moments when the stars align. I’m still getting the feel for it though, haven’t cleared a single island yet. I really can’t wait to get back to it, I just want to finish Banner Saga before I forget what that…

Morning all! It’s pretty rare for me to be up this early, but considering the recent development in my life that is the birth of my daughter I figured I’d wake up a bit earlier to catch this commenting train. Last Friday we welcomed her into the world, and words kind of fail to capture how much life is different now…

I got an Indiana Jones notification for this?

Gwen was on a roll with her first two picks, but Kevin eked out the win for me with his choice of Chick-fil-A Waffle Fries with Chick-fil-A sauce. Their waffle fry is the perfect dipping mechanism for the best fast food sauce I’ve ever had.

My 5:
1.) Junior Baconator. All the taste of the Baconator without that…

I won’t dispute that there are some gawdy cathedrals that were not built for the worship of God but for the glorification of self. However, as you’ve already stated yourself, these buildings are meant to display art that raises our minds to heaven. A beautiful church is much easier to worship in than a humble church,…

My wife is a huge fan of the Nancy Drew games, and they were good enough fun figuring things out. My wife, her sister and I would all sit on the same couch and figure things out together while yelling at Nancy for being an idiot. One of the games also taught me binary so I could figure out a puzzle! Though I’ve…

Hello all! Nice roundup of contemporary detective games, always nice to explore different genres than the standard shooters or platformers. I have to say it’s the genre I probably have the least experience in, having basically just played Phoenix Wright. I still love returning to those games when I’ve forgotten enough…

I didn’t get into HK when it first released because people made a huge deal about the difficulty, and I just didn’t think I would enjoy it if it was a hard slough. But honestly it hasn’t been as hard as I thought it would be, and I’m really glad I decided to go for it in spite of my worries. I was super wrong. And…

Both are great from a diversity perspective, and you’re right in that Spiderverse has the added checkmark of changing animation technology. So you might be right in that in the long-term, the impact on the animation world will be much larger. But I don’t think many people will be cognizant of that. It’s way easier for…

Hmm, I’m not sure which path I would choose. I only knew about LOTR after the movies, but there are times where I wish I could have read the books beforehand. The images you see on screen sometimes get stuck there, and it’s hard to put yourself in the book sometimes when something else is in your head. That also being…

I think Spiderverse is the better movie, but BP is the more culturally important movie. 

I read the first book of the Witcher recently, months after finishing my first playthrough of Witcher 3. I’d be really curious to revisit it after reading the 1st book! There is one thing I was told by book fans that I completely disagree with though: they said if you read the books you’ll like Yennefer over Triss.…