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Last year my partner got into DA:O and played the game to completion. That was a big deal because she doesn't play video games, doesn't have that coordination and way of thinking that they require. Dragon Age was easy enough for her to complete just by casually pressing buttons and listening to...

Can you encourage him to seek professional help? I've been playing with someone who matches that description for many years. Things do not change until the person gets professional help for depression or whatever the problem may be. Being a supportive friend is a nice idea but it's not...

So you're suggesting that Paizo gave my information to WotC, who turned the data over to a market research company, who in turn sold the information to Bradford Exchange? This becomes ever more convoluted, and since the chess flyer was a different incident at a different time, there's nothing...

It wasn't a credit card company. For WotC to take our information and immediately resell it inside the month where the first incident happened is increasingly unlikely. We all entertained dozens of hypotheticals like these years ago. I suppose it's easy to believe that everyone who came forward...

No, not at all. I guess I wasn't clear. Regarding the thing with WotC, Paizo denied that they had given our addresses to anyone. Someone else brought forward some proof, and at that point Paizo said they would "look into it". This led to the news that WotC had asked for subscriber information...

Paizo put me off early on by mishandling distribution of Dragon and Dungeon magazines. There were a lot of us not receiving issues, or receiving them weeks after retailers, or even months late after repeated inquiries. There was also a lot of applause for the Dungeon adventure paths and content...

Dragons! Dungeon crawls are boring for us, we excised them from our game years ago. From time to time we try them again and.. they never go over very well. I would say we wouldn't miss dungeons at all.

Sorry, you're right, it's not in UA. Turns out it's actually from PHB2, under the wizard options on pages 68-70.

That would be the specialist wizard option from Unearthed Arcana. It's in the SRD if you don't have that book.

I gave out some magic items like this, but people are largely not too keen to receive items they can't plug into Character Builder. This is the bane of all homebrew and third party content. I won't deny it is extremely handy though.

I had it figured out at one time that I take less time off from the game than I do off work. I'm pretty sure that's still true. I try to be reliable and punctual. If I were you I'd be dropping that game. Even if the group has the best intentions I couldn't stomach having my time wasted that...

Do you just throw away dice that come in boxes or have you somehow managed to avoid every product that has them? I mean I have never bought a die and I ended up with at least a hundred of them.

As someone who paints miniatures I've often felt that companies with wargames unload "crap minis" by making them appealing in terms of points or even critical to an army. Take the feralgeist from Hordes for instance. It's $10 for an unattractive sliver of metal, a crude abstraction of a ghost...

Reaper has recently restructured their company and seems to be putting a much greater emphasis on prepainted plastic, with two out of three divisions dedicated to it (one Legendary Encounters, the other plastic dinosaurs I guess). I know that communication back and forth between Reaper and the...

I agree that the market is already saturated, and I think the line fell apart because WotC was selling mostly the same sorts of miniatures to mostly the same people. But please, can we give the complaints about random packs a rest? The solution is right there in your face. You ignore it by...

Lead by example. If you want to see more roleplaying, do more roleplaying. Make people want to join in of their own volition, not because they're afraid of missing out on points. Rewarding players for roleplaying is IMO not a good system. It can lead to resentment and you will most likely end...

I see tokens as a cheap alternative to miniatures. If you make them out of the same stuff you use to make miniatures, it completely defeats the purpose.

That's not accurate. The 3E PHB was $30. For a short time at launch, the PHB was $20. That price was artificially low because WotC was willing to lose money to win back customers, the same way modern game consoles are expected to lose money in the short term. That is not an assumption on my...

I became concerned at 1:03, but otherwise that was really cool. It looks like a lot of fun.

I thought Plane Above and Plane Below were some of the best books yet written for D&D. I was very excited for the new Shadowfell book but the more I hear about it, the more it sounds like 4E design is going inexorably in a different direction, and we will not see any more high flavor books. I...