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I originally was looking forward to the magic book much more than Arkand, but I've since learned that Arkand is more than just a setting. It's going to have adventure seeds throughout, but also full adventures, mapped out room by room, and at least three separate campaign "ideas" if you want to...

Not just early backers, all backers will get access to the Beta PDFs after a "few months". I'm very happy about the magic item section too. While I've created a fair number already for my players, a little guidance will be greatly appreciated. I'm also really hoping the alchemy school gets...

The magic book will also have a section on magic items. If, and it seems likely, the alchemy goal is reached, that will give us 10 different schools of magic. That seems like... a lot. I wouldn't be angry about more, but I'll be very happy with 10.

Given that there's a Mariner profession in the core rulebook, it would be nice to have rules for boats and ships and the like. I'm definitely most looking forward to the Expert rulebook, then the Magic book, then possibly a new Bestiary, but that's a distant third.

Would having it be whoever rolls the furthest under their skill or stat work? That way if it's 7 vs 17 and the rolls are 2 and 11, the 11 would win because it's 6 below 17 and the 2 is only 5 below 7. This way you're still trying to roll as low as possible but the higher skill will still win out...

While I can't say for certain, I doubt that question is accurate. People who dislike something are far more likely to speak up than those who like that same thing, so it seems like the majority dislike it when it's just a case of the vocal minority. I could be wrong though... :)

I'm not saying I disagree, but how do you get players without sales? AL is not a good judge as a lot of people that play D&D do not play that way, so other than being able to say, "We've sold X million PHB," I'm not sure where the numbers will come from. Of course they may have data on how...

I don't think that's necessarily true. I think WotC is counting on sales being carried by attracting more people to the hobby through licenced products. If people can have fun playing a D&D video game or reading a D&D novel or watching a D&D movie then they may try out the RPG. More splat...

If anyone is interested in a simulation, try playing HarnMaster. If the fight doesn't kill you the infection of your wounds probably will. It is by far my favourite unplayable game I've encountered.

I think this is a large part of what DMing, or at least old school DMing, is all about, especially if you have a group that looks at a map you've drawn and always say, "Let's go there!" and point to somewhere off the map...

How does everyone here feel about the ultimate evil presented in the Cthulhu mythos? Is an evil with alien motivations still interesting?

There's supposed to be an in depth look at video games past and present, more info on Sword Coast Legends, Ed Greenwood talking about his new novel, a short story, AL info and reader feedback, but all content subject to change. As has been said before it is at least worth every penny it costs...

I think it may just be something about the nature of these discussion boards, the weird anonymity they provide, that make some (okay, a lot) of people oddly argumentative over things that really matter very little. Whether 4e was a success or failure is largely up for debate because there are...

Well, I did ask if I was misunderstanding how the word "failure" was being used. On the other hand, D&D was the #1 RPG for, well, forever, until Pathfinder began outselling 4e. One could argue that in that respect, 4e was a failure. The thing is I like 4e, but it didn't really work out too...

Wouldn't Pathfinder outselling D&D 4e be a pretty strong indication that 4e was a failure? Or do I not understand how the word "failure" is being used?