Matt Colville? @mattcolville Twitter profile

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@mattcolville

6 years

A seal slaps a man in the face with an octopus. The best headline you'll see today.

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Well this is the best thing ever.

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3 years

I love it.

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2 months

THIS is what Tolkien was talking about when he said he loathed allegory in all its forms. He wrote a deeply allegorical work, a lot of his work is allegorical, obviously so, what he hated with people fishing like this in deeply uninformed ways.

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6 years

Dude got...sucker punched.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

At least one of the handouts the players got after the Mind-killer decided to hide inside one of them.

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@mattcolville

7 months

BG3 is so Good it makes me forget the fact that it suffers from the first rule of storytelling and games. That your character will always be the least interesting one. Everyone else you meet as always more interesting, has a better story, more personality, motivation, backstory.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

So here's the good news. You ready? Lemme tell you a story of what happened when Wizards of the Coast (possibly after the Hasbro buyout) spent a LOT of money on a real market research survey. They found out something ALARMING. Well, alarming for people trying to monetize D&D...

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

The process of prepping an adventure has known states. 1: This is a cool idea. 2: Oh god I'm not even 5% done, this will never work! 3: Actually it's starting to take shape and be a thing. 4: This is going to work! 5: I'm not done and I've run out of time. This will have to do.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

Obviously we need to kill more PCs and keep killin' 'em until these motherfuckers settle down.

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7 years

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Kobold Press

@KoboldPress

1 year

Raising Our Flag #OneDnD , #OpenDnD , #RaisetheFlag

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2 years

Holy shit. That's... That's some effective fucking speech. That's the kind of speech that changes people's minds.

Monica Mendez 🇵🇸

@monicam_mendez

2 years

@TaraMaddock Here'd the clip!

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@mattcolville

5 years

If you try something crazy in D&D, and it doesn't work, PROBABLY the lesson isn't "You should never do that, it's never fun." Probably you just need to try it under different circumstances. Folks telling you "that never works" maybe don't have your best interests at heart.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

4 years

Hey you. Yes, you. You matter. You have value. I am glad you're here and part of this community. We're better and stronger because of you.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

There is a non-trivial chance I'm going to end up in a Legal Eagle video.

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@LegalEagle

1 year

This DnD OGL video has taken some incredible turns. Can't wait to tell people.

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@mattcolville

1 year

Might Agility Toughness Intellect Intuition Presence (Work in progress) (Subject to change without notice) (Especially two 'Int' stats?? Come on!)

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

Game Developers are publicly sharing their salary, not because they're trying to impress you with how much or how little they made, but because talking about salaries publicly takes power away from the owners who want to use the workers' ignorance to lowball them.

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Matt Colville?

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3 years

Crazy how most homebrew D&D adventures are literally an untested alpha. "I just wrote this, it's only a bunch of notes, no one has ever played it, I hope it works." The fact that these things work AT ALL is a testament to the power of the DM to curate an experience on the fly.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

Holy shit

AGAR 🇭🇹 and 99 others

@travelling_afro

5 years

Unmute. ☠️😂

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 months

Another way of saying it is, I think he hated the sport of allegory. The process by which a reader begins by assuming there must be a hidden allegory and it was their job to find it, rather than just taking the work on its merits.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 months

Man, fuck Hasbro

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@mattcolville

1 year

"We're trying to protect the brand!" From *who?*

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4 years

This comment is my favorite. It's like someone LARPing the internet's idea of the typical YouTube commenter.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

I tried writing a video script about the OGL debacle but it was literally too depressing, so I scrapped it. Hasbro is going to get what it wants. None of this other shit matters to them. They're going to convert D&D into a digital loot-box game, it will make them a lot of money.

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7 months

Nono, it's NOT simulating D&D. It's delivering on the PROMISE of D&D in a way no earthly DM could.

city swimmer

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7 months

@mattcolville baldur's gate achieved something truly incredible in simulating d&d so closely that i actually feel totally enervated and mad at my best friends when we finish for the night

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

5 years ago today...I started to share what I had learned in the hopes of making more Dungeon Masters.

Running the Game

Running D&D is fun! Let's do it!

www.youtube.com

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@mattcolville

4 years

The good news. You are smarter, more ethical, more compassionate, and a harder worker than the President of the United States. The bad news is: see previous sentence.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

7 years

I once again propose that I, Mercer, and Perkins DM a game at GenCon where a bell rings every 10 minutes, causing us to switch who the DM is

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

Blazing Saddles couldn’t get made today. If you took that script to a studio, they’d say “Hey, this is the script to Blazing Saddles, get out of here.”

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

RGB...dice.... I’m hyperventilating

Pixels - Electronic Dice✨ 🎲

@GameWithPixels

3 years

Pixels know how they roll and can light up accordingly! KS launches March 9th. More info / sign up #dnd #dice #tabletopgaming

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2 years

I've got this weird idea that in an age where so much of our entertainment is just corporations buying up stories we grew up with and recycling and regurgitating them, getting behind the GM screen and inventing a universe at the table is like a revolutionary act.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

The fact that our stream already has a reputation for being nothing but endless combat after we just streamed an entire session with no fighting and only a handful of die rolls says a lot about the culture surrounding streaming D&D.

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@mattcolville

5 years

Tim Curry as Amadeus and Ian McKellen as Salieri on Broadway. Kills me there’s no film of this, so many amazing performances lost to history.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

Someone in the Discord said “watching Matt I feel like I could do anything with D&D. Tell any story.” And I feel like this is a major accomplishment for me, even if only one person feels that way.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

@matthewmercer I genuinely have a hard time imagining the audition you would fail to ace. As good as everyone thinks you are, I think you're actually better than that.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

This is what happens when you remove gatekeepers from the process. You can do extraordinary things. We wanted to make a book, we made a book. They want to make a show...THEY'RE GONNA MAKE A SHOW!!! :D

Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina Animated Special

Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina reunites your favorite heroes for a professional-quality animated special!

www.kickstarter.com

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

When WotC bought DnD Beyond, I told my team: "The clock is ticking." From that point forward I knew there was no future, long-term, as a third party developer. Because I did not believe they were forward thinking enough to implement a Steam style platform

OGL 1.1 and One D&D VTT 🔑 Foretold by Matt Colville and James Haeck...

The D&D OGL controversy unleashed mayhem in the TTRPG community, but is the One D&D Virtual Tabletop (VTT) the real enemy? This video takes commentary from r...

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Encounter Design doesn't stop once initiative is called.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

In reality, even when the *business* of D&D was on life support, the hobby was doing fine. Was it growing? Was it increasing shareholder value? What are you, an investor? What do you care? Go roll up a character and save the world. Here endeth the lesson

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

Meet Ajax!!

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5 years

If Critical Role isn't real D&D, there is no real D&D.

Matthew Mercer

@matthewmercer

5 years

Every six months or so, I see discussions pop up defending CR from people saying it “isn’t real D&D”. (Mind you, I don’t see most of the instigating statements, which might mean I have the right people muted...?) Regardless, the whole premise of this argument is hilarious to me.

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3 years

Let's get this shit over with.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

I dunno how this ends, no one does, but every hour Ukraine holds out is hugely, emotionally inspiring to me and millions of people. The future is uncertain, but Ukraine's resistance is becoming the stuff of legends. No matter what happens now, those people are fucking heroes.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

Your semi-annual reminder that people who say “please stick to...” are trying to control your speech. And they know it.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

Roses are red Mercury's in thermometers.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

Gonna be interesting to see what happens as we slowly exit this pandemic and everyone realizes they just endured over a year of non-stop fear and anxiety and in some cases worse. It's not going to be an easy or simple emotional journey, I suspect.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

I got drunk in Madrid once and woke up with a tattoo. I was going to get it removed but I was surprised at how good it was. I guess I wasn’t expecting the Spanish ink precision.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

Holy shit you guys! They're just giving these things away! Takes 5 minutes! Get vaccinated!

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

Things were not always thus. Going to conventions in the 90s, D&D was pretty unpopular. I have personally experienced a broad ecology of publishers and players where D&D was considered a thing of the past. And that era seemed a lot more dynamic and fun to me.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Fuck I’m just so proud of everyone and the team and my players and the community is so awesome I’m gonna legit cry. I want to buy everyone a pizza like for real.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

Lotta people getting muted today because now I'm a virtue signaling SJW. Which makes a nice change from muting people because I was a sexist. I mean, when I said I started the YouTube channel because I wanted to make more DMs I meant it. Not just more white dude DMs.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

People want Jedi in Andor because if there are space wizards, then normal people can relax, because the Space Wizards will stop the Empire. Which is why there are no jedi in Andor.

MaceAhWindu 🇵🇸

@MaceAhWindu

1 year

I’ve never subscribed to the theory that Luthen is some secret Jedi fugitive. I think he was a potentially well-off man in a comfortable profession who woke up one day and decided that he didn’t like what the Empire was doing to people and is using his wealth to change that.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

Imagine how much better Twitter would be if you could click on a tweet and select “block everyone who liked/retweeted this.”

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

4 years

Tolkien also was a little disgusted with the term cul-de-sac because it’s French and certainly English should have its own words for things. So since cul-de-sac literally just means ‘bottom of a sack’ that’s what Tolkien used. Bag End. Bilbo lives in a cul-de-sac.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

my naym is Die, I come from spayc, if u r trapped I'm on the cays, U need to lye? Don' say "o shit" Just pik me up. i'll rol the crit.

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Thanks, @mattcolville .

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Matt Colville?

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3 years

I think most current D&D players started with 5E and so don't have robust language for talking about all the different styles of play D&D has been used for. Like...are folks aware that there's a difference between an adventure with a dungeon, and a Dungeon Crawl?

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6 years

ONE MEEELION DOLLARS!!

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6 years

Every once in awhile something happens to remind me of what's going on, and I become completely overwhelmed.

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Matt Colville?

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2 months

Herbert I think would have been perfectly fine with all this. It's the reason why he greenlit the Dune encyclopedia. He didn't feel like it was his job to be the authority on the universe he created. If it was a real place, he would just be one among many commentators.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Do not play Bang! with Liam as the Renegade. He will straight up stone cold murder every character in the game in like 5 minutes.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

I hope we get a ton of new RPGs out of this debacle. Big games, little games, games that are ABOUT something. A New Wave of RPGs. #NewWaveOfFantasyRPGs

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

I think Matt has done more to popularize the hobby than anyone, including Gary. And I have a lot of respect for Gary.

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Matt Colville?

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6 years

I am not running D&D right now, but I am a dungeon master. I am not playing in any games right now, but I am a gamer. I am not working on my novel right now, but I am a writer. I experience no doubt or ambiguity about these things, ever. Don't let other people define you.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

I wonder what D&D would look like if they weren't worried about freaking out GenX by moving their cheese.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

3 years

It's worth noting that in 1970 the National Guard murdered 4 college students who were peacefully protesting the illegal bombing of a country we weren't at war with. When polled, a majority of Americans figured those kids deserved it.

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

I think a lot of people would benefit from trying out games outside the D&D ecology. I see a lot of folks online saying "Well, the flavor text says X, what more can be done?" When D&D's your only example, you're not aware of how narrow a range of behaviors the rules encourage.

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Matt Colville?

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2 years

Telling a story about the forging of the rings in the Second Age. That is, in principle, a good idea. It's cool. Making Middle-earth look more like...Earth, i.e. casting more women and POC is also good, any modern take on that setting should follow suit, it's a no brainer.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

Fahrenheit is how humans experience temperature. Celsius is how water experiences temperature. Kelvin is how atoms experience temperature

Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*

@EsotericCD

1 year

Reminder:

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

I think folks assume "I can't do a DM Tips channel, I haven't been doing it for 30 years." But A: we already got enough of that and B: it's MORE interesting AND useful to see DM Vlogs from people just starting. Those experiences and lessons are more important to new players.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

Much like the Kobold Press announcement, this seems like the right thing for their community.

Paizo

@paizo

1 year

We have announced a plan for a system neutral open RPG license in collaboration with other game companies. We believe it will irrevocably and unquestionably keep alive the spirit of the Open Game License. Learn more: #OpenRPG #pathfinder2e #starfinder

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1 year

So...Penny Arcade called us "RPG Powerhouse MCDM." Holy shit.

Ogle - Penny Arcade

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

www.penny-arcade.com

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

1 year

Worked on games for LucasArts, EA, THQ, 2K and they all said the average age of the AAA customer is ~32. Every time we heard this, folks rejected it in favor of the folklore than video games are for teenagers. My brothers in Christ, teenagers ain't got that kinda money.

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Matt Colville?

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3 years

ARCADIA is doing AMAZING the reception has been hugely positive. We want to keep working with, featuring, promoting amazing talent. Here are the benefits of writing for ARCADIA: 1: We pay $0.25 a word. We expect 1200 words a day. We settled on those numbers because... 1/

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

The channel is mine. It's got my name on it, not D&D's. The videos cover the things I'm interested in, and always have.

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Matt Colville?

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6 years

All this just to play D&D...

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

This fucking attitude from the Confederate peace delegation. “Wait you think we’re *traitors*?” Lincoln: Yes, lol.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

4 years

I wear a mask when I go out, not because I think I am infected or because I'm afraid you might be infected, but because I want you to see that I am taking your health seriously.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

People want "advanced techniques" for experienced GMs, but I think actually what's going to happen is Running the Game will evolve into Designing The Game. Which makes sense, as I consider all GMs to be budding designers, whether they like it or not!

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Cat: human I am dying Me: oh no! Cat: this is the end. Hear my piteous yowl Me: what's wrong?? Cat: there is no food Me: wait what? Cat: cats need food to live Me: I literally just fed you Cat: ys but was distracted by outside cat. yeeowl Me: you are too dumb to live Cat: yeeoowl

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

I inadvertently visited YouTube in a new browser, with no history, without logging in. And I saw regular YouTube, no suggestions tailored for me. Just the most popular content. Holy crap what a shit show. I can’t believe people use this site...

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

Someone in twitch chat, after I said I never met my dad but I know he was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, said “of course Matt Colville would have Luke Skywalker’s origin story.” That…is not something I have ever thought before and it’s kind of…I mean wow.

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

I said I'm in favor of reparations for the descendants of slaves. I said Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights are Human Rights. I refer to the GOP as a Death Cult, but the #1 topic that causes me to ban the most people, by FAR, is still Star Citizen.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

I have millennial friends with WAY FEWER life options than I had because they've got tens of thousands of dollars of student debt I never had to deal with. It's pretty easy to be my age or older and have no idea how common or severe this is. It's a massive generational change.

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Matt Colville?

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2 years

The OG.

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

Before it was possible for anyone to have watched the entire video, folks are already complaining that the new video isn't about D&D.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Cat; I must get in this cupboard Me: ok why Cat: is important Me: y tho? Cat; there is something inside. pls open Me; what is inside? Cat: I cannot speak and so cannot say but is v. important Me: ‘k. *opens cupboard* Cat: *sits on shelf* Me: that’s it?! Cat; yes, thank you v much

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Matt Colville?

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4 years

I find myself in...just...an enormously good mood. Can't put my finger on why. Maybe it's just Friday. Think I'll buy myself a cake.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

Legal Eagle weighs in on the OGL. Only people with super good hair are allowed to be in a Legal Eagle video...

Dungeons & Dragons Rolls a 1 on New License (OGL 1.1) ft. Matt...

Listen up you nerds, it would be great if you could help support Richard Hoeg's recovery here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/reasonable-minds-can-rebuildExtra t...

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

When I, a Gen-Xer who paid their own way, found how much debt my Millennial coworkers were saddled with, often $80k or more, for degrees it turned out they didn't need, I was STUNNED. There is NO WAY I'd be where I am right now if I came out of college with permanent debt.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

2 years

It's really weird to see people I respect coming out against protests on Supreme Court Judges lawns. What do these folks think is the *appropriate* action to take? Voting? I.e. the same process that got us where we are?

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

5 years

Fuck I just realized I need to figure out what a Githyanki voice sounds like.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

6 years

I think we need more explicitly evil PCs in D&D. Maybe not enough folks are reading OG Dragonlance. Maybe I've gone mad and this is a historically terrible idea. But some of my favorite PCs were evil.

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Matt Colville?

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5 years

Folks have detected (because I haven't tried to hide it) that I've been pretty down on streaming D&D recently. I don't want people to get the wrong idea, so I wrote up my current thoughts. ?

From the mattcolville community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the mattcolville community

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1 year

Come on man

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1 year

The correct term for when corporations try to hide their predatory policies under a veneer of playful 'friendly' language: CapitUWUlism.

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville

4 years

AD&D was both hard core, and deeply stupid.

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Matt Colville?

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1 year

The real answer, the market survey revealed was.... They hadn't stopped playing. Turns out there HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE still playing D&D regularly. All through the 90s. But they weren't playing 90s D&D. Second Edition D&D. They were still playing AD&D!

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