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Mary Kenney
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Weekend editor who writes about games two days per week, makes them the other five.

As someone with Resting Bitch Face, I’m envious of your resting smirk face. Read more

I'm just buying this package to get that damn remaster. I'm sure a lot of gamers will be. I have to say that was a good carrot activision. You win my wallet again. That being said, since I was a little rusty I picked up bops3 2 weeks ago and have surprisingly been enjoying the campaign and multiplayer. Maybe because I Read more

which subset of game of thrones actors will he fall into? the ones who are good in other things, like lena heady and peter dinklage; or the ones that really aren’t that great at all, like emilia clarke & sophie turner? Read more

Thanks to everyone who keeps reading and supporting Kotaku. We love you all. Read more

Our party was exploring a dungeon, where we cone upon a semi-open door. Flapping sounds can be heard beyond. Then, singing can be heard, and the group has to make 3 Will saves. Everyone fails but me, the Halfling rouge.

I was GM and my wife was playing a space priestess with 2 mutant scorpions as her ‘pets’.
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During my college days we played D&D every Monday night. Often for hours and with much Chinese food. Each semester we would run a new campaign with someone else DMing. My turn to DM came and I developed a straightforward save-the-world quest with action and surprises every week.
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I feel like a lot of commentators here are missing the indicators of why this joke was aimed entirely at making fun of himself.

Look at what the wife actually says, guys. She’s worried about his safety, she has a headache, she brings up reasonable refutations of his points, she gently tells him that they just can’t Read more

A good any DM has to put up with a lot of shit. We were fighting an evil wizard in his underground lair. The skull of the wizard’s dead mother was sitting on a dais. Our barbarian decides to go and skull-fuck the skull to draw away the wizard’s attention. The DM sat there for a second, then said in a defeated tone, Read more

Not a direct source of inspiration perhaps, but...:

I think he just based it off of the various shape shifting creatures that appear in multiple world mythologies that either mess with or attack humans. Read more

Congratulations! You just made the Dark Souls of Tabletop RPGs.
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A few months ago, my friends and I were wrapping up our DnD 5e campaign with a crucible of boss fights. Our DM had been pulling mostly from the Monster Manual for big boss encounters, but there’s one fight that he meticulously put together himself. Read more

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