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Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: ‘The oldheads are going to catch all these things’

“Season ruined,” Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) declared on BlueSky alongside a clip from Stranger Things’ recently released fifth season. In the video, Finn Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler expounds on the power of Dungeons & Dragons’ Cleric class⁠—specifically AD&D 1st Edition’s Cleric. “Even cooler, she can cast a Dimension Door,” Wheeler…

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You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: ‘It’s just kind of fun to blow things up’

Far from the deserts of the Mojave and SoCal, Fallout 3 takes place in the shadow of a striking image: the United States Capitol building, partially blown to chunks in an abandoned, irradiated mire. The team working on the game at Bethesda was based in Rockville, a short jaunt from Washington, so they got a…

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