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The population of possible D&D players are the Lesser-Social & Non-Competitive Youth and the Unemployed, with a chance that most of the respondents on ENWorld that "returned" to PnP RPGs being the Comfortably Affluent Gen X types who may have returned to D&D when they had the time to invest...

According to Erik Mona, about 26 full-time employees.

I think Teemu hit it on the head with noting that there are far too many different types of features and applications within Videogames for the word to mean more than a limp pejorative. However I can see where the idea of "Wargamey" and "Videogamey" both overlap in the case of 4E, except the...

If anyone is going to call the everything-has-mammaries style dumb and and stupid, couldn't we just call it Schindehettal style (after the senior Art Director) and move on? It has been the same argument for AGES and no one is going to change minds. Even the advertisement on the side of the...

The Elf race and all its offshoots is actually all single race that develops similarly during childhood. All Elf children (half elves, elves, eladrin, drow) begin as children for a good thirty to fifty years. However, during the time in which one becomes an adult they go through the Deladra...

If the meaning of the phrase "feat tax" (or ____ Tax) is so debatable as to be useless in discussion, then it really doesn't have a meaning at all.

J.R.R. Tolklien's notes or books actually containing the passage anywhere that Orcs are not a sterile race and/or have children. The inferences you've shown are merely corrupted views of cultural osmosis.

It is impossible to answer the question "which feats are a feat tax" because there is no meaning to the words "feat tax" other than a hastily-crafted pejorative used by people with little regard to self-reflection. We don't call having an 18 in your attack stat an Attribute Tax, we don't call...

Of the two dozen players I have played with in my group(s) since 1997, six of them wanted to either be part-dragon, have dragon abilities, or be a large scalely Lizard-esque race. There has always been a demand for a race like the Dragonborn since I have played D&D. So in my opinion, by making...

Well, considering we're attempting to graft our current-generation product into the dawn of the hobby, I imagine that certain aspects would or wouldn't work: All-upside races would be a wildly different way to approach . Ogres and/or Minotaurs would likely be a base-playable race as a "large"...

While I would self-identify as "serious" on this chart, not only do I believe we're talking about a spectrum rather than a binary grouping, but there would probably be about five separate cohorts of the "casual" group, divided between the "doesn't play", "doesn't know a group to play with"...

I disagree that there is even an identifiable cohort of "casual" Roleplayers in the first place. I put the burden of proof upon the OP: What exactly is a "casual" player, and how is that person different demographically from any other gamer? How can you say we've lost a group if you never show...

Remember, this entire premise is based on that there is only a certain amount of words and pages that an RPG can produce, and that it is better for those words and pages to be spread out over a period of time, for the health of the product. So therefore, the "setting material" is more...

Well then obviously there is some other, unstated essential or elemental aspect to D&D that Tunnels & Trolls does not have (at least in your opinion), or any game with the essential qualities of A, B, and C would qualify as D&D. For me, it is Dice, Races, Classes, Levels, "Magic" (Psy, etc)...

A single iteration of a game that has more than 5 individual designs (OD&D, AD&D 1E, 2E, 3E, 4E) is statistical noise, for one. And even considering 2E to be the One True Game doesn't preclude my claim that miniatures are integrated into the elemental game-play of the system in regards to...