Dungeons & Dragons' New Adventure Book Brings Fresh Voices to the Forgotten Realms

Typically, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure book is all about creating a world for your heroes to go on epic campaigns—detailing the vast settings of places like Eberron or Icewind Dale, or setting up cities like Waterdeep or even the Magic: The Gathering land of Ravnica. While its newest adventure revisits a classic D&D…Read more...
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Watch: The ‘Stranger Things’ Cast Get Festive While Playing Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons just got a whole lot stranger. Four cast members of Netflix’s hit sci-fi show Stranger Things sat down for a game of the tabletop RPG for a special actual play session, lead by Wizards of the Coast principal story designer Chris Perkins. Stranger Things stars David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Natalia Dyer participated in the session as a holiday gift to long-suffering fans, who have been waiting nearly two years for the next season of the Netflix show. They’l...
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From the archives: Primer on police-union politics and contracts

In 2017, Just Liberty's former Policy Coordinator, Sukyi McMahon, who now works for the Columbia University Justice Lab, created three, short videos based on Reasonably Suspicious podcast segments that constitute a primer for reformers on police-union politics and debates surrounding their labor contracts. Lately, I've received inquiries on the topic from folks in other cities looking at what Austin did this summer, so I thought it worthwhile to re-up this little-discussed background to the rece...
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Sizzler files for bankruptcy as the pandemic demolishes sales at casual-dining restaurants

Sizzler is the latest restaurant chain to file for bankruptcy due to the coronavirus pandemic. Richard Hartog/Getty Images Casual dining chain Sizzler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.  "Our current financial state is a direct consequence of the pandemic's economic impact due to long-term indoor dining closures and landlords' refusal to provide necessary rent abatements," Sizzler President Chris Perkins said.  Other restaurant chains to file for bankruptcy during the pandemic incl...
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News Post: New DM Smell

Tycho: Seeing as the cliffhanger for the last Acquisitions Incorporated game at Unplugged had one Jim Darkmagic standing atop a small elevated stage while no less than six articulated saws tried to make his insides outsides.  Coulda gone a couple ways. Independent of actually watching him and knowing for yourself the level of fucking execution the man is capable of, Jeremy Crawford is Chris Perkins’ DM.  I feel like that is a very succinct way of establishing his credentials.  But!  We also h...
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Beto bitter over El Paso police-union fight: Here's why that's okay

Grits must admit, I thought a bit more highly of Beto O'Rourke after reading this feature from The Intercept detailing his fraught relationship with the police union in El Paso when he was on the City Council.Police unions have increasingly found themselves in conflict with progressive Democrats in cities across the country, and are notorious for defending even the worst officers on the force against charges of assault or murder. Chris Evans, O’Rourke’s spokesperson, said that when he relayed Th...
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Police union reps sit down with reform advocate for post mortem on Austin-police-contract fight

On December 13, 2017, a contract negotiated between the Austion police union and city management was voted down by the city council in response to a large community uprising led by the Austin Justice Coalition. After nearly a year-long standoff, the sides came to an agreement in November, with the union agreeing to significant new reforms and $10 million per year less than in the previously negotiated contract.On December 4th, police union representatives Ron DeLord and Chris Perkins sat down wi...
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News Post: Arrears

Tycho: Chris Perkins so regularly generates fanciful sums donating his time behind the screen for Charity that we have a good sense, by now, what his time is actually worth - and it’s not looking good for us. Hey!  So, we don’t understand one hundred percent how or why this happened, I would say our lives are like this generally, but we were invited down to Blizzard - yes, that Blizzard - and we can borrow their streaming studio to use on twitch.tv/pennyarcade so we’re gonna do it.  Here’s th...
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Podcast: Adversaries over Austin police-union contract sit down; when is it okay for courts to electrocute mentally ill defendants?; pythons as stocking stuffers?; and other stories

When is it okay for a judge to electrocute a mentally ill defendant?What leverage did a Texas civil rights activist say enabled Austin advocates to force reforms into the city's police-union contract?How many pet pythons are too many, and are they appropriate to give at Christmas as stocking stuffers?These and other questions are answered on this month's episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast. As always, you can subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, or SoundCloud, or listen to it here:Here's ...
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Chris Perkins and Dave Hyde preview Dolphins-Panthers preseason game

Chris Perkins and Dave Hydepreview the Miami Dolphins preseason game against the Carolina Panthers on Friday night.
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Chris Perkins and Dave Hyde report on the final day of Dolphins training camp

Chris Perkins and Dave Hyde look back on the positives and negatives of Miami Dolphins training camp, which wrapped up on Tuesday.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins weigh in on Monday's heated practice

The Miami Dolphins have four small fights at Monday's practice, the second-to-last day of training camp. They also got another glimpse of their revamped defense.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins discuss impact of Dolphins' rookies

Sun Sentinel reportersOmar Kelly and Chris Perkins discuss the impact of rookie players for the Miami Dolphins.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on what to watch for in Thursday's preseason game

Sun Sentinel reporters Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins tell Dolphins fans what to watch for in Thursday night's preseason game against Tampa Bay.
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How much improvement has Dolphins offense shown?

Miami Dolphins reporters Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins debate how much improvement has Dolphins offense shown.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on who will start at running back for Dolphins

Sun Sentinel reportersOmar Kelly and Chris Perkins discuss who will be the starting running back for the Miami Dolphins.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins preview Dolphins' preseason opener against Buccaneers

The Sun Sentinel's Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins preview the Miami Dolphins' preseason opener against Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on takeaways from Miami Dolphins' scrimmage

ReporterOmar Kelly and Chris Perkinsbreak down key takeawaysfromMiami Dolphins' yearly scrimmage at Hard Rock Stadium.
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Omar Kelly, Chris Perkins: Scouting report on Dolphins' Saturday scrimmage

Miami Dolphins reporters Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins give their scouting report on things to look out for at Saturday's Dolphins scrimmage.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins argue over who's most to blame for Tannehill sack

Miami Dolphins writers Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly get in a heated argument about rookie TE Mike Gesicki trying to block Pro Bowl S Reshad Jones on a blitz play that resulted in a sack.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins report from Day 6 of Dolphins training camp

Sun Sentinel reportersOmar Kelly and Chris Perkins report from Day 6 of Miami Dolphins training camp.
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Chris Perkins and Dave Hyde break down Day 5 of Dolphins training camp

Sun Sentinel's Chris Perkins and Dave Hyde recap Day 5 of Miami Dolphins training camp.
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Omar and Chris on Isaiah Ford, and who's had the edge so far in camp, offense or defense?

Miami Dolphins beat wrtiers Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on Isaiah Ford impressing so far, and who's been better through the first four days of training camp, the offense or defense?
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Chris Perkins says the defensive line won the day; Omar Kelly? 'No way'

Sun Sentinel reporters Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on the second day of Dolphins training camp
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Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly on the Dolphins' final day of OTAs

The Sun Sentinel's Chris Perkins andOmar Kelly weigh in on the Dolphins' final day of OTAs.
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Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly on whether defense's good day means anything for Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins' defense had a good day Tuesday against the offense. Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly discuss if it might mean something or does it mean nothing.
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Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins on final week of Dolphins OTAs

Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins discuss their takeaways so far during the final week of OTAs for the Miami Dolphins.
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What we've learned during Dolphins minicamp

Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly reveal their list of surprises and disappointments during the latest Dolphins' minicamp.
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Do Dolphins have defensive versatility?

The Miami Dolphins have sought defensive versatility for years. Now they think they finally have it. Chris Perkins and Omar Kelly debate whether that's true.
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Omar and Chris on Day 1 of Dolphins' minicamp

Sun Sentinel's Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins sum up the first day of the Miami Dolphins' minicamp.
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