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Instinctively. First play-through, I don't typically play a character; I play as myself. If there's a character creation option, I tend to set the stats and select the skills that most closely fit who I am, not who I imagine myself to be or who I wish I were. When choices in-game crop up, I...

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say the original D&D cartoon was leagues better (it mostly just has nostalgia on its side), but I would say the old Rankin-Bass Hobbit and Return of the King animated movies are vastly superior animation. And considering those were also 20+ years ago, I think...

Well, sure, that would be ideal. But there's nothing he can do there until the whole MGM clusterf*ck gets sorted out. He might as well turn his attention to projects he can work on. --- And as an aside on dragons: I wish WotC would partner with a really good animation studio and start...

I really wish we'd get a truly great dragon movie one of these days. I've had it with these low budget, half-assed crapfests. Peter Jackson needs to get a move on with the Temeraire miniseries.

Yeah...I'm not a fan. At best, it tends to be silly, distracting, and/or eye-rollingly bad. At worst, it's offensive, creepy, and/or downright disgusting. I'd rather players just didn't do it.

Playing an actual RPG is almost always preferable, but sometimes it really isn't feasible. It's hard to have a really good game with just 3 people (with one of them having to be DM), because either the DM needs to run a character or the players have to take on double duty by running two...

YouTube - Unboxing Castle Ravenloft Part 1 Between 4:05 and 4:15, Trevor Kidd says they miniatures are "all sculpts you've seen before, but they're made with a different plastic and they're all unpainted." And in the Mike Mearls unboxing video, some of the miniatures appeared to have little...

I lumped Arkham Horror in there because it was among the glut of other FFG games. Plus, I love me some Lovecraft and just hoped to hear more about it from people who've spent extensive time playing it. Yeah, my quibbles aside, I'm really stoked for Ravenloft. I've already got it and Wrath of...

Descent? Talisman? Arkham Horror? Something else entirely? Which dungeon crawl/RPG-lite board games are your favorites and why? I've actually never played any of those board games - for shame, I know - and the impending release of Ravenloft has me itching to try out more of those style board...

I've never been ashamed of or embarrassed by my gaming, so I've never made any effort to hide it. At the same time, I don't go out of my way to inform everyone I come in contact with that I love gaming and insist that they need to try it. So...I'm definitely not in the closet, but neither am I...

When you sit down to game, whether DM or player, you're entering into a relationship with everyone else at the table. And, like any relationship, communication is absolutely essential to its success or failure. As are an open mind, a willingness to put in some effort, and the ability to...

My greatest complaint is that it wasn't more epic. At only 90 minutes, it felt like they missed an opportunity to really flesh out the characters (something that was sorely needed), steadily increase the tension and sense of overwhelming dread, and just generally add more meat to the action...

I was seriously stoked for this. Sadly, after watching those unboxing videos, I'll a little less excited. From the looks and sounds of it, they went with a cheaper, lightweight plastic for the miniatures, which will make them more prone to tipping over and/or breaking (especially if it's that...

I recall reading that Miyazaki had originally approached Le Guin, trying desperately to get the rights from her, and she turned him down. It was only after he became more widely known outside of Japan and had massive hits with Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away that Le Guin finally...

Going in, I was bitterly hostile toward the fact that they didn't use Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill (and I would have liked David Warner to reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul, but wouldn't have been as annoyed with someone else taking it on). However, in this instance, it didn't prevent me from...

Even though I'm painfully tired of "badass heroines" in film, and even though I seriously loathed Doomsday, I'm really looking forward to this one. I thought Dog Soldiers and The Descent were brilliant, so I'm willing to give Marshall the benefit of the doubt. I just hope it's every bit as...

I've tried reading the first book in the series at least 3 times - because I keep hearing people tell me how amazing it is - and I never manage to get more than 100 pages in before I just get frustrated by the fact that it doesn't even try to keep me interested. The fact that there's no solid...

I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't condemn David Lynch's Dune. No, it's not Frank Herbert's Dune, but it's definitely David Lynch's. As sad and disappointing as it was that it wasn't a faithful adaptation of the source material, I'm still able to (mostly) enjoy it because Lynch...

I think part of the reason the trailer disappoints me is that my expectations were unreasonably inflated. And I blame Rodriguez for that, saying how he titled the movie Predators to draw a parallel to Aliens. That trailer most definitely does not promise a similar caliber of awesome. At best...

I never had any doubt it would still have a huge opening weekend. If anything, the reviews likely only got even more people to check it out to see if it was truly as horrid as critics said. The real question is what it will pull for this next weekend. If it goes from $57 million down to, say...