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Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Senior reporter at Kotaku.

I’m actually rather fond of Goblins, to the point my current character’s backstory had him living with a goblin tribe for more than a decade and helping them war against rival tribes.

That said, goblins done poorly can be a chore. Fortunately most times we’ve encountered them the DM has made them clever and tricky, and Read more

I think that D&D has an overabundance of low-level fodder creatures. Between goblins and their larger kin, kobolds, bandits, cultists, zombies, orcs, gnolls, and wild beasts, it can be hard to make them each feel distinct with 5e’s rules as they appear in the books. Read more

Restores a touch of faith in humanity. Of course there are a few that were still horrible, but it is good to know that the majority were ultimately decent people. Read more

Fortnite: free-to-play / game as service modeling done excellently Read more

I adore Netrunner. When it was re released by FFG in 2012 the comic & game shop I was working at went all in and even scored the right to host a major tournament in the Plugged In Tour series. The prizes were laser cut acrylic credit tokens, I haven’t touched the cardboard ones that come in the core set since then. Read more

This game is so good. My cousin and I play it all the time over at jinteki.net. You can even find decks over at netrunnerdb.com and copypasta them in to your profile at jinteki. Our playing there is what prompted my aforementioned cousin to start purchasing the cards in meatspace. Read more

I’ve been imitating Mickie’s D.Va play for ages now. I really hope Dallas Fuel change their record around soon. Read more

Since the start of the League my Hog stats have bumped at least a 30%; the sheer amount of things I’ve been learning during the last week is crazy. Ways to position as a tank, sneak up or synergize I couldn’t see before and no one taught me. Read more

Just because you wear Jordans means you can play like him. Read more

As a BC resident and lawyer, I gotta say I’m surprised to see the BCSC actually dealing with this as a criminal (rather than civil) matter. It’s very encouraging. This kind of crap has been allowed to go on for too long. And good on Twitch for following through and pressing charges.
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Bypassing a Patreon pay wall to redistribute commercial content for free without permission is a violation of just about every copyright law that has ever existed. Read more

You can’t post an image on the internet and expect it to not be reposted somewhere if it clicks with someone. Doesn’t matter if it’s not fair, that’s just real life. Read more

Congrats on the funding, Ms. Mackey! Hope the pressure doesn’t get to you too badly and you can really enjoy the wonderful experience of a Melee major. :) Read more

These articles really get me upset. I cannot seem to grasp this boys club that gaming has been. The oldest of five, I encouraged my two sisters to play, especially when we got a Nintendo 64. We still get together and play Timesplitters 2 or talk about beating the Legend of Zelda back on the NES. It was a group Read more

So she admits she’s maybe just an above-average player and is just doing her thing the way she wants to do it. Sounds like the outraged anti-feminists contributed greatly to her fame with the Streisand effect. Read more

This is good. Volo’s Guide to Monsters gave a few playable monster races, so in one of my games I have been playing as a fancy-boy Bugbear ranger named Baloo. He has a pet pteranodon named Pterry. Read more

Well this is awesome. I was DMed a quest line where I turned one of the characters into a Griffin with human intelligence and told him he had to play as it till the curse was broken. I wish we had this info because his first words were, and sadly I’m paraphrasing, “I fly to the griffin home and want to “make” an army Read more