Recent content by abel_marko

Sculpts and Paints The minis are a mix of repaints and new sculpts, mostly repaints. You can see the minis for the first two sets on wizards.com: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Gallery: Sting of Lolth) Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home...

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Review Quality: extremely low Having read the review, I'm having a little trouble deciding whether it was written by a computer program or a person who never read the book. The fact that the actual material referenced all comes from the book excerpts published by Wizards suggests that it's the...

Now that I've posted this, I see that one of my fellow AoA/OP boosters Alphastream has mostly said what I had in mind - sorry for the duplication.

Organized Play Hey, thanks for the article! It's always good to hear about people's `organized play' experiences, be they PFS, RPGA, LFR, WotC's OP, or something else. I will echo the sentiments that your piece seems clearly to be `down' on one group and `up' on another, whether that was...

Sadness The game died, Hasbro moved it to WotC to see if maybe they could save it, and they couldn't. This is probably another casualty of the same problem that hit all of the pre-painted minis people -- costs have gone way up, and the companies are having a hard time selling people a more...

For this logic to result in `cheap' PDFs, the first book must cost around US$200,000 (more for big books, less for small ones). I don't think anyone wants that. You might be interested in the series by a notable SF/F author on How Books Are Published, with the caveat that things like RPG books...

There is no rule that allows a two-handed heavy blade to be wielded one-handed as an implement. As a DM, you are free to infer such a rule from the *specific* rule that allows staves to be wielded one-handed (and not used as weapons if so wielded), but that would be a ruling by the DM, not a...