Recent content by Firevalkyrie

If Clark had said what you say he said, that's not a problem. But what he said, essentially, was "*sigh* I guess we'll have to just fix what those simpleminded idiots at WotC broke so that real D&D can be resurrected," along with numerous references to some "soul" of D&D that was somehow lost...

See post immediately prior to this one. The idea that D&D is a platonic ideal - that anything that moves further from one's preferred earlier edition is a corruption, and anything that moves back toward it is a perfection.

Going back to what Clark said originally, the problem with the whole idea is that it presents "Dungeons & Dragons" not as a game that can be revised and altered to incorporate new ideas and new means of storytelling - see the whole ugly hue and cry when D&D Insider was announced - but as a...

Great, good for you. I'm not saying you shouldn't. What I am saying is that a lot of people see "old" and "good" as synonymous when they aren't, there was a lot of drek you had to plow through to find the good stuff, then as now. The fact that OD&D, BECMID&D and AD&D all needed a lot of house...

Seriously, you can't see how making your own, personal tastes the arbiter of GoodRightFun in video games is the same kettle of fish as making your own personal tastes the arbiter of GoodRightFun in roleplaying games?

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy AD&D (I did, but more modern D&D variants suit my playstyle progressively better, so I prefer those versions... when 5E comes out in 2016-2018 I'll either go "This fits my playstyle so much better than 4E!" or I'll go "This sucks, why did they change everything...

In a few hours I'm going to be downloading Mega Man 9 on my Wii, which is about as retro a modern video game as you can GET. Mega Man 9 is done in the playstyle of Mega Man 2, complete, old-school, Nintendo-Hard retro platform shooter. But at the same time there are gamers who will swear on a...

I guess I'm part of the under 21 anime crowd. Oh wait, I'm 31 years old. If you get to say that Naruto is fully representative of fantasy anime, then I get to say that the Sword of Truth series is fully representative of Western fantasy. Seriously, people, "anime" does not mean "any full-color...

This is the sound of somebody pretty much missing the point (by the way, thanks for the added and unnecessary tangent of "mecha aren't realistic," anybody with half a brain already knows that). The point was, you can have the exact same things acting in completely different ways, and in this...

What the hell is so silly about Tide of Iron? You slash somebody with your sword (or whack them really good with a mace or axe), and then as a follow-up you ram into them with your shield, forcing them back. That's not silly, that's what warriors have been doing for ages. You don't fight...

(and just nitpicking here, animation (i.e. anime) is a medium, not a genre. Somebody calling it a genre had best take it up with Brad Bird, but prepare themselves for fisticuffs beforehand (q.v. The Incredibles director commentary ;) ) )

It's just, on some level you go "D&D's lost its soul" and I go "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?" (yes, I know, I'm dating myself) Because to me, the soul of D&D - in terms of the game that the book gives you - has always been in killing things and taking their stuff, and 4E has that in spades...

Language is not pure, no, but the general trend of linguistics over the long term is to allow more concepts to be expressed, and to broaden the number of concepts enveloped within a single term. And drawing a linguistic border to exclude an object from a class in which it should obviously be...

Likes: Powers! I always liked the idea of playing a fighter a lot more than the reality of being stuck doing the same thing every round or being mechanically penalized by the DM for trying something new. Dislike: I want to be more free of the grid than the system seems to like.

Clark's a big boy, he can defend himself. He said nothing about characters, what he said is "changing a miniatures game back into a role-playing game." That is a statement - and a false one - because D&D 4th Edition is by any reasonably defensible definition of the term a role-playing game...