Recent content by Nergal Pendragon

Not surprising. If Monte Cook did say it, he probably removed it prior to going back to work for WotC to avoid trouble. Or it was removed simply because of the age. Got a link to someone quoting it or talking about it in enough detail to get a general gist of what was said? This site probably...

HEEGZ's time machine malfunctioned and dropped HEEGZ off at the wrong date?

Citing it because its revenues went up would be how it would work if Hasbro were a relatively small company. Instead, Hasbro is the closest thing to a cyberpunk-style megacorporation that exists. If they're losing profits in a noticeable amount; it's because the entire industry is losing profits...

And I didn't say that it did fully make up for their loss. Also, while they don't mention it next quarter, they're not saying it's doing badly. Just that it's not a top earner or losing out.

The DM section is at 0.3. Also, it makes sense that those are not 1.0; 1.0 is the PHB, MM, and DMG. The Basic rules are just an imcomplete release, so numbering them as a beta release would be numbered fits in with them not being the truly complete rules of the edition.

The last errata for the Basic rules was back in November. They've been on the website, free for all to access, for months.

Well, that would be interesting, given that he hadn't been working for WotC for two years by the time 3.5 was released. Got a link to it?

Do you have any evidence of this? Because I'm getting tired of these unproven conspiracy theories.

How does replying with my post with a rewording of what you bolded disproving what I said? Edit: Also! This topic was already discussed. The info I have is accurate.

Given the least skilled programmer on their team is an amateur coder and that's standard for the entire video game development industry, this is not even remotely close to factually correct. The companies that are in the same category related to player choice include Natsume, Nintendo, and EA...

Given they had to replace the core rules with a new set, I fail to see how one can justify not calling that a failure. One can point out it wasn't a financial failure (very true), or a failure of capacity to make the game popular (again true), or a failure to make the game long-lasting (again...

The OGL I was referring to and the d20 license are the same thing. WotC had a habit of sometimes calling it the OGL. So, the confusion in terms is in part because WotC themselves never kept the terms entirely straight. And, yes, the release of 3.5 does demonstrate that 3.0 had mechanical flaws...

*quietly hides the Hasbro emails I've got sitting in my inbox* Yeah, I could see how it might seem that way...

Hasbro has listed DnD as one of its top-earners, even beating out a few other flagship products. As far as Hasbro is concerned, DnD is probably golden right now. It's making enough money to help cover for profit losses in other product lines. So, when Hasbro looks at their bottom line, they...

If you're playing an MMO for the mechanics, you should probably just give up playing them. Seriously, MMOs always are the worst examples of the game type they're turning into an MMO. That's just the nature of the beast. And, actually, Neverwinter is doing very well for itself; MMOs like WoW and...