Paizo’s goblins may end up being a victim of their own success, but they definitely made the old standbys more interesting.

Different strokes for different folks. I moved a lot when I was a kid, and in some towns, the DMs loved orcs, in others, every mid-level threat was lizardmen.

I’m the only DM I knew who used kobolds consistently (I fell in love with the pictures of them in the AD&D Rogues Gallery), whereas others leaned heavily on…

The first thing I do when I start a campaign is to go through my monster books and make a list of what monsters I definitely want to use. I can never find a reason to have more than one humanoid race (bad guy bipedal sentients) and usually dump several of the demihuman races (good guy bipedal sentients). The other…

What do you think of it? (Price aside.)

What do you think of it? (Price aside.)

This would be the perfect vehicle for a Jim Henson Company drama.

The Bannon Monster designs alone would be worth tuning in for. 

PvP is changing in the expansion but hasn’t yet — all servers will just be “servers” (well, there will still be RP servers), and players will set a flag in town about whether they want to do world PvP or not, and will only encounter players who’ve set the same flag. So people who previously hated leveling on PvP…

There’s still at least one storyline per zone. In many cases, there are actually three or four that intersect in a climax at the end.

The theory is that now you can actually stay in the zone the whole way through for all the story stuff to pay off before moving on, without getting a tiny little trickle of XP.

The person…

Good lord, why the hell would anyone put ranch dressing in chili?

Chili is definitely somewhere on the soup/stew continuum, depending on how you make it. (Probably closer to soup.)

The newspaper industry actually is profitable, for the most part. It’s just not profitable enough, nor is the profit margin growing.

The solution — to produce less content with fewer, less experienced people — mysteriously hasn’t turned things around.

The decline in print advertising revenue actually goes back decades —…

Any editor who thinks that publishing leaks is either immoral or illegal needs to switch over to PR already.

“Wharton for undergrad is like saying that you got a box of 40 ribs off a parolee’s meat truck”

Um, it is still an Ivy League school. (I mean, if you get in via a normal application, not through Daddy’s connections as a transfer student.) 

Except, even if his fare is mostly lightweight stuff, Colbert is a journalist. His show is a hybrid entertainment and news show. If you have someone who’s done or is accused of doing something newsworthy, and you’re interviewing them, you have an obligation to bring it up.

And it’s possible that Franco would say “you…

This feels like someone’s repurposed Black Widow script.

But more importantly, make a Black Widow movie already. And then an A-Force (the all-female Avengers squad) movie.

I haven’t seen a Fosters Freeze not conjoined to a Weinerschnitzel in 20 years, unfortunately. (Much like Green Burrito seems to only exist inside Carl’s Jr. now.)

Then they’re crunchier mediocre fries.

It shouldn’t be that hard for them to improve the quality of the fries — even Bakers, which is a fine but unambitious fast food joint — has figured out how to do a credible knock-off of McDonald’s double-fried French fries.

I would like to love Five Guys, having grown up in the DC area, but no, sorry.

Steak and Shake is good but not quite.

Haven’t had Smashburger nor Freddy’s (neither is within hundreds of miles of me), but while it’s super-edgy to diss In-N-Out, the fact remains that they’ve focused on a single menu item (again, witness…

You mispelled “parka weather,” you friggin’ polar bear.

If you’re going to have a fast food burger — Americans eat an average of 150 a year, each — this is best in class.

Yeah, it sucks that they pay above comparable wage, offer healthcare for all employees starting from day one and source their food from local farmers.