Recent content by TheAuldGrump

I agree with parts of this review, and disagree with others. In particular the packaging, which is a give and take - the material used in the PFB minis is a bit more fragile than that of the DDM figures. The packaging does a better job supporting and protecting the miniatures, and they need...

As I think that I have said - the game itself likely does not need apologizing for. The offensive marketing offensive, yes, an apology is a good place to start. I do not think that I have ever called 4e 'videogamey'. Gamist, yes, compared it to boardgames, certainly. But video game and...

2-4 hours for me, non-contiguous. Painting miniatures is also counted in the total, so maybe 2-5 is closer. The Auld Grump

As far as I can tell, that is the exact truth - the folks over to WotC are apologizing. They do not need defending, they have admitted to their mistake. Rehashing that they did say what they are already apologizing for does not forward their cause. I accept their apology. I have not looked at...

Maybe not funny, but it would have helped their marketing. Keywords - guards, wyatt. Fairies, wyatt. On their forums look for 3.5 combat wasn't fun and, you guessed it, wyatt.... He never came out that the game as a whole was not fun, but every time he pulled out an example from 3.5 he did...

Dude, it has been quoted dozens of times in these forums - from the prelude books to the DMG. Look it up yourself. Get out your books or just search these forums. If you have not seen those quotes then it is because you have not been looking. Many come from Mr. Wyatt - including the guards...

Because over and over WotC, often in the voice of Mr. Wyatt, did say 'this is not fun'. We heard what they were actually saying, reading what they actually wrote. Those words were not interpretations, it was what they put in print. Trying to say 'that isn't what they meant' is flying in the...

I don't know, why are you playing a game that is less fun? :p I was actually referring to the numbers in the market, not to individual campaigns or GMs - that claims that 3.X was not fun was spurious in the face of 4e being beaten in the market. And that even a claim that 4e was 'more fun' had...

Ah, sorry, I was taking your post on its own merits. I think that an OGL would have done 4e a world of good, but I do not think that it would have needed to be 3.X compatible. Of course, telling GMs not to bother converting didn't exactly help matters.... Direct compatibility is not required...

Exactly - saying something is more fun is fine. Saying that something isn't fun is just asking to be kicked. I would have disagreed with WotC if they had said that 4e was 'more' fun, than 3.5, but it would not have offended me. Instead they tried to tell me that the game that I had been...

To be fair - there were publishers that believed that the sole purpose of the OGL was to allow WotC to 'steal' ideas. (Chaosium, a company that I very much admire, was among that number - a sign that intelligent companies can come up with some really silly ideas....) I do think that WotC could...

And pretty much everything that WotC has said bad about 3.5 has come back to bite them on the butt. They were repeating what some players were saying. Not all, not most, but rather a vocal majority. WotC could have added qualifiers - they didn't. They could have listened to playtesters telling...

You are confusing the OGL, OGC, and the SRD. The SRD is the rules, OGC is Open Game Content - including that of other publishers, and the OGL is the license. The D20 STL was a trademark license, and has been discontinued, I think WotC thought that would help 4e sales.... (They were wrong.) The...

Absolutely correct. They have no right to try to tell me that their way is better, and going by the fact that they are now killing that brand new, better than anything! game, I would have to say that a lot of folks agree with me. Especially when it is in an attempt to sell a game that has...

When someone tells me that the way I run my game 'isn't fun' then they are going way past constructively criticizing. Sorry, I dislike 4e, would even without those comments, trying to tell me that 'D&D is a game about combat' not about 'traipsing through the fairy rings'. And no, they were not...