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Had a column for six months or so, stopped right before it got turned over to Paizo. I think the last one published was on treasure chests, maybe?

Hey, looks like your review helped: Worst tabletop product of 2010: Marauders of the Dune Sea | Gamertell

The premise does seem to be a bit off...4e has a few 'I win' buttons; they might be slower (still takes many rounds to kill a Sleeped opponent), but mathematically the effect is the same. In addition to the Orbizard, "Boundless Endurance" is essentially an I Win button for fighters, at least...

No, DnD4.0 is no 'tee-ball' game. I've been running a campaign for over a year now, and I've a few players that still struggle wtih what happens when a critical is rolled...and even with aleatools, we get overwhelmed with the 20+ effects blinking on and off every round in a combat.

The schism will always be there, but it's clear it's not as bad as at origins last year, where 4.0 didn't have a majority.

I used the game master's guide extensively the first few levels, for encounter design. But, the power creep of the books that came out since the guide came out has made the guidelines there more or less obsolete past level two parties, or so. So, good for a little while, which is all you...

And keep in mind those guys have a nasty rep for banning and then lying about the reasons for it.

Yeah, I think that's it--I know no Swedish, so remembering the name is a bit rough for me ("Dragons and Demons", would be my guess, though). I'm still curious if, beyond anything like DnD4.0, there's any, well, 'American' games that use the word phrase "new edition" this way, as it's also been...

It's interesting that someone else also indicates that "edition" seems to have a very special meaning with respect to Dungeons and Dragons licensed products. I too concede that, perhaps, there is another RPG where the word "edition" means "completely new product", but so far I've not had luck...

Hi! A friend insists that the changes to WFRP in 2nd edition are comparable in magnitude to the changes made to DnD4.0 (relative to 3E). Does anyone here familiar with both see these two edition changes to be roughly comparable?