Recent content by Hairfoot

Depending on how canonical you want to be, hobbits are different from recent iterations of halfling because they're human. In Tolkien's cosmology only humans and hobbits experience life after death, while the other races are fundamentally bound to the world they inhabit. Hobbitish or not...

There are no real "sides", unless we view the debate as something between half a dozen factions, because that's the sort of diversity that's represented by S&W, C&C, PF, 4E, and the various permutations thereof.

They are games. Can I ask what you'd prefer she call them? From my perspective it's puzzling that you don't move on and find a girl who either plays games or thinks it's fine, but I also remember what it was like to feel as though women are never, ever into those sorts of activities. As a...

Pretty sure there's a reason there's no official HP RPG - and it's not lack of interest!

Rowling is extremely protective of her IP and doesn't like people publishing stuff containing her characters.

Which edition are you using?

I think that's probably true. It does, however, mean that combat survival becomes the #1 priority for a PC, which also leads to the power creep that I most dislike about 4E. There is no room for talented mortals; only superheroes.

All of that raises the question: why D&D? Aren't there miniature combat games that simulate fights better that you could then add roleplay to with a more satisfying result?

Who makes those? I've been looking around for some, but can't find any in sufficient denominations.

I know at least three people who buy RPG and wargame sourcebooks because they love the art and concepts, but wouldn't be caught dead doing something as nerdish as actually playing them.

"Haters". I suggest you may not interested in informed opinion.

Or rather, go retro-and use pig-faced orcs who have the sensibilities of animals. My internet-savvy friends inform me that there is a branch of manga which deals in graphic depictions of such animals. Perhaps that could serve as inspiration.

In what way were they contradictory? Can you link to examples? A dozen people may make separate comparisons with video games as criticism, but it doesn't follow that any number of those criticisms are contradictory. They may be a dozen valid and relevant points.

That's an exhaustive list, but IME posters who object to those qualities explain and describe why. It seems that you'd like to write off many avenues of legitimate complaint by artificially filing them under the easily-dismissed heading of "videogamey".

Your memory is very different to mine. Certainly, there was a lot of animosity toward 4E, but I think a lot of it is now being written off as meaningless spite when there was, in fact, a great deal of considered, informed and accurate criticism posted.