Recent content by Moonshade

Have they ever explained why they need that regular daily hour of maintenance downtime? Don't they have enough money to fix it? And IIRC, it was happening before Gleemax was an issue. I used to think Television Without Pity was a huge site with some problems, but after becoming familiar with...

I liked that flavour and thought it was wonderfully humiliating in a way that made sense for the race - a tangible, visible demonstration of Lolth's power that would continue to serve as a warning to all others. I treated the driders as drow who had failed Lolth's plan for the society. They...

Even better sales? The difference between a hit and a blockbuster, in movie terms? And DDI could have been a marketing success: "see what awesome opportunities we're offering you and your former group now scattered across the country", instead of the current "yes, we continued to promote DDI but...

I checked my Heroes' Lorebook for confirmation and as I remembered it says Drizzt became an 18th level fighter before coming to the surface and getting his 2E ranger stats. He may have known the profession if not the name in the sense of being a scout, but he only got the D&D class later.

I don't think that if Paizo had still been publishing the magazines they'd have been so unprofessional as to be hostile to 4E in the magazine content when it would have been their job to promote it and they would have expected to use its OGL in the future. If Paizo had continued to publish...

Isn't this all about personal taste? There's no objective way to measure fun. Some people love monks, others are happy their core spot has been claimed by warlords. Some people like the idea that attacks can go so wrong that they have no effect at all, others are thrilled by the possibility that...

I pretty much like the various PC race pics in the three books and many of the full pages are beautiful. In the MM, the demons and first two groups of devils are great. But I was rolling my eyes over the MM actually reusing several pieces of 3E art (there's the Oriental Adventures hag from '01...

Echoing the "It will be a sales success in RPG terms, but if Hasbro people have unrealistic expectations they might not see it as a success" replies. And if 4E is a success even in Hasbro terms, I hope that won't be used to dismiss my reasons for not converting with "h4ter, I don't care what...

It goes both ways. WOTC is free to do what they want to make money and I, as a customer, am free to assess their products and decide whether I want to give them my money. I shouldn't have to apologise for choosing to not buy a product from a company I've supported in the past if I feel its...

Because now they're promoting DDI as a major part of 4E. They should be getting ready to sell it along with the rulebooks. The latest news that settings will only have three books plus DDI updates only emphasises the importance of WOTC's online capabilities. The sucky WOTC forums (which I've...

I'm guessing that at first people were happy to have GSL news after much waiting and speculation. Mood change is probably due to information discussed here. Some people who were originally happy with the confirmation that there will be a GSL were less happy with these unexpected restrictions and...

Isn't it more like a rich kid having a green ball and inviting everyone to play with it? He says they can make their own green balls with the little changes they like, as long as they're green. But then the kid gets a blue ball and tells people that they have to choose between playing with the...

While Paizo seems to have an anti-4E reputation, its 4E boards do contain active pro-4E posters who have managed to defend their pre-like of the new edition without sinking to personal insults of the level and frequency common on other boards, and without receiving such venom from the anti-4E...

I was reading Gleemax when I got that message: "The Wizards community website is currently down for daily maintenance. Please check back again later." I really, really hope this is something they're planning to fix with the official launch. I don't know any other huge forum that requires as...

Will Jacobs be writing this?