This week is we have just celebrated Halloween. This is from yesterday. This is my sibling’s yearly Halloween charcuterie. The candles are droopy because they are cheese. The flames are not providing light because they are almonds. What are you guys up to?

After reaching level 60 in World of Warcraft, I was inundated with quest starters for different major quest-lines in Battle for Azeroth. I’m still paying through those options to maybe figure out a better way to handle it, and there will be lots to talk about why this is in the future. But all the […]

When railroading players, ALWAYS have a backup plan in case they derail the plot. By tradition this backup plan is, “Put players back on rails.” – Shamus, Friday Dec 22, 2006 The cold weather is making my arthritis think it’s time for war. The brain fog is horrible. I got confused three times trying to […]

Logan is discovering the hard way that he isn’t good at…anything, really. At least, not to his own standards. Logan’s skills are based in socialization and leading. He’s good at a bake sale, or running his parents’ bookshop. He got high marks in most of his classes growing up, but ‘participation’ was always his highest […]

We return to Paula’s brothel, the deed of killing Uberto done and over with. Despite this, we saw him cavorting with some other men. Ezio puts that aside, however, as he is confronted with a terrible problem. Claudia and his mother don’t know. Claudia doesn’t know her father and brothers are dead. Maria, Ezio’s mother, […]

This week I got back into Orcs Must Die 2. I forgot how much I like tower defense games. What are you guys up to?

World of Warcraft has a story problem. It has had for a long time, and very few changes made in the game have helped. The re-arranging Blizzard did to make older content “leveling options” until you reach level 60 has, arguably, made things just a bit worse. Now that I’ve dinged 60, let’s look broadly […]

Characters come and go, but the relative success of a campaign story can be judged by the number of players who are willing to see it through to the end. – Shamus, Friday Dec 15, 2006   DM of the Rings Remaster! Even the Star Wars screenshots have the weird over-saturated, high-contrast hue streaming services are adding […]