Recent content by mhacdebhandia

No, you've misinterpreted my post. The main value of the ENnie awards is to the companies whose products are nominated and recognised with awards. They are the only people who benefit in any real way, by having interest raised and by increasing their general prestige in the industry. Compared...

The Ravenloft Roleplaying Game is a standalone product like the Gamma World Roleplaying Game, so it will almost certainly have a) an adventure or two inside and b) be followed up with "add-ons" like the Famine in Far-Go product for Gamma World.

I think you're right - but this goes to show that awards are something companies have a vested interest in promoting, not something to which customers/players/fans should necessarily pay much attention. This is, of course, no different from the Academy Awards or the Country Music Awards or...

How can you possibly be on a forum like EN World and not know that this picture you paint is completely and utterly divorced from reality? We knew exactly what each of the 10 Essentials products were a month ago, dude. Starter set, two 1-30 player books, DM's kit, Rules Compendum, Monster...

I have a bit of a mixed approach to the Essentials line. I play Fourth Edition; it's my preferred edition of the game. I'll be picking up the Starter Set not because I want to try an all-Essentials version of the game, or even so that I can have an easy-to-use intro for new players, but...

I complete ignore awards when considering which games to purchase. Self-selected fan-voted awards like the ENnies are especially cut out of my decision-making process; they're only representative of the tastes and enthusiasm of the people who vote for them. I doubt my particular tastes are in...

No, and nor would they want to. There's no biological urge. Even if you gave them the equipment to participate in sexual intercourse with a humanoid partner, they'd feel no pleasure from it. I think this sort of thing - and the lack of any physical sex*, as opposed to mental gender - is part of...

I don't know about anyone from Eureka being involved with John Rogers's gaming group, but Amy Berg (writer and co-executive producer from season 4 onwards) worked on Leverage as a writer and producer for the first two seasons. I don't think anyone has brought it up directly, but John Rogers...

There's an opportunity to tie in with the D&D Essentials line - provide miniatures for all of the "classic" monsters included in the Monster Vault and other such products. The Monster Vault will already have tokens for them, but still.

I don't typically take an active position on "the ultimate truth of reality" in my games, because it's not as interesting to me as what people in the setting believe. I don't use alignments as metaphysical forces of morality, though, so I guess I am taking a position against that. Ultimately I...

Yes, I am, because the kind of money you can make by publishing a tabletop roleplaying game means nothing compared to the money you can make by publishing an MMO - which routinely have budgets and production schedules in excess of those allowed to the biggest film productions. If Star Wars: The...

Even leaving aside the fact that no-one's going to carve the tabletop roleplaying game rights out of the license Hasbro has from Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm has no reason to bring the license fee down. It's an expensive proposition for them because they really do have staff look everything over, and...

There's nothing Forgotten Realms-specific about swordmages; they're just published in the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide. It's not like the dark pact for warlocks is FR-specific, either. Artificers, I think, are more appropriate for Eberron, where magic is treated more like a science than in...

More to the point, as Gareth-Michael Skarka said over on RPGnet, is the fact that Lucasfilm and Hasbro have extended the Star Wars licensing deal until 2018 or 2020 (reports vary), and there is zero chance that the tabletop roleplaying game rights will be carved out of that package for another...

In Eberron, the source of divine magic is impossible to determine with any real confidence. Worshippers of the various religions generally believe that the gods exist and grant spells, but even they can't deny that some people who don't worship gods at all, or who worship non-deific entities...