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I have had no intention to boycott WotC. I'm willing to give both their new online initiative, and Paizo's increasingly-cool-looking Pathfinder, a chance.

Like I also said, they do a helluva better job of it than most. I still think the fact they publish errata puts them way ahead of most game companies.

Yeah, I mean, really, the d20/OGL publishers get short shrift. They produce material for and support D&D pretty strongly, so if one love the game, there's no reason to switch even if one boycotts WotC.

Yeah, I love some of the third-party publishers. Green Ronin is a great example. I love their Mythic Vistas line, which, in my opinion, outdid even GURPS sourcebooks when it came to covering a given subject and adapting it to a game system. Too bad they didn't sell well enough to justify the...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, at least WotC admits to having errata. There are tons of game companies that never acknowledge there are any errors whatsoever in their books, and believe me, WotC is nowhere near the top of the list when it comes to having errors. But since WotC...

I agree, but the fact that it's a blog, open to the public, and can be replied to implies the blogger is inviting conversation. So responding is a natural response, but no sense in getting worked up over it. Anyway, as I've said before, if one finds some of the fundamental tropes of D&D irksome...

Go to the page where it lists all the forums. Scroll way, way down. It should be the second-to-last forum listed.

Yes. Now, we just need a method to excise the image from our minds. Did I ever mention I went to the Superman Expo in Cleveland, 1988? It was a combo comic-con, scifi con, and Star Trek con. Next Gen had just had its first season. Remember how the first season's starfleet uniforms were...

And that image prompts this thought for all of us: "If thine eye offend thee, pluck thee it out."

I agree. The thing is, I've seen more and more people who assume that the movies cleave very closely to Tolkien's books, and accept anything in them as canon. My caveat was intended for those who had only seen the movies and not read the trilogy, which is a fairly good number of folk. Many of...

A lot of people now use the movies as sources. The movies =/= the books, by a long shot. My mentioning that I was only using the books as sources was to head off any "where was that in the movies?" type of questions.

You'll probably have to search around for it online or try to locate an overlooked copy at a game store somewhere. It was published a few years before the release of 3e.

There really isn't a problem here. It's just a shorthand system to speed up play. If you want PCs and NPCs to haggle over prices, then do so.

Using only the books as sources, his most flamboyant use of magic occurs off-stage - a good example is his battle with the Ringwraiths at Weathertop. Lots of thunder and lightning, but only seen from afar. His battle with the Balrog on the top of Zirak-Zigil is also very flashy, also with...

Owlbear - a strange combo at first glance, but that strangeness helped define D&D as having its own sub-genre of fantasy. Beholder - Another icon. Nothing says D&D like the beholder. A bit overdone in settings like the Forgotten Realms, but still capable of wowing newbs to the game. Gelatinous...

Gary, I had mentioned your list of "recommended reading" in the 1e DMG on the previous Q&A thread. That list still gets discussed a lot, as it consists of a lot of the great fantasy and scifi authors and books of the first half of the twentieth century. I was wondering if you'd be inclined to...

Those altered magic systems haven't become the standard, and with good reason. Don't get me wrong; I don't mind alternatives. Matter of fact, I like that there are many different magic systems available for the current edition of D&D, by way of all the d20 products out there, as well as WotC's...

After a certain point, killing sacred cows becomes the creation of an entirely different game. I think that's what would happen with that many sacred cows getting the axe. I mean, really, if that much of the game is unappealing enough to do away with, I think I'd find another game to play that...

I would dislike it if they did away with ability scores and went to just the modifiers. They need to come up with ways to better utilize the ability scores, along the lines of Iron Heroes.

I like it. If I wanted a skill system that didn't automatically increase by level, I'd play a skill-based system like GURPS.