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This. Tenser in Age of Worms was really well worked into the Adventure Path despite his capacities. Somehow, in Second Darkness Paizo went the opposite way and provided NPCs throughout how, despite them being inferior to PCs, kept ordering them around to do this and that in a way that wasn't...

The following is a bit dated, and I kindly ask people to employ personal discretion before clicking on the link. It's not so much pixelated top-chest nudity (although you risk exposure to that too) as the strangeness of British humour with its perturbing after effects on your DM imagination...

"You, WotC..." ...do nothing unless that revolutionary design probes directions that you, as a company, are confident and enthusiastic to probe as well from a corporate point of view. Historical case in point: Mike Mearls' work for Malhavoc Press. Mearls basically showed WotC that they hadn't...

Yes, and a 4E player who's lost his magic sword to a rust monster has lost it "for the rest of the day", but can retrieve it after the session or whenever there's time for the DM to handwave the trip back to town to exchange the residuum for one's favoured type of item (cf 4E MM 2). That's a...

I'd recommend people to download the Bonus Bestiary on paizo.com - it's for free, once you've signed up for an account on the site (which doesn't cost anything, just requires a valid email address). It's basically Paizo's offering for FreeRPGDay. Here's an interesting tidbit. They redid the...

Well, 2E's healthy life span surely didn't go up all the way to 2000. I certainly can't envisage WotC to pin the health of 4E on the sort of nichê product TSR relied on in the final 5 years of 2E's existence. Where I'm on board with you, OTOH, is that 4E's mechanical simplicity isn't a...

(My edit came 5 minutes too late! I kept editing my post, and just saw now that you've responded in the mean time. :) )

It was bad enough that Paizo continued to pay the steep entry price for regular top-notch contributions by Rob Lazarretti. Bad enough that they care to pay big names in the industry, like Elaine Cunningham, to write them inspiring flavour texts in their modules. But now that they announced that...

I see that my post was misleading since I took a certain understanding of "peer moderation" for granted without making any effort to spell out what I mean. Apolgoies. So here I try again. To begin with, peer moderation (as I understood it) has nothing to do with endowing non-moderator posters...

I've been perusing two of WotC' published modules for 4E lately, P1 Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress, and E2 Kingdom of the Ghouls. While both, especially the latter, ooze over with goodies, my impression is that these modules require quite a lot of work to fill in. Filling in these things is a...

While I think the ratio of thread closure seems a bit high recently, and I can't always see the reasoning behind the closures (particularly when someone says he/she hasn't even read the thread before closing), I don't perceive moderators' actions to be the dominant problem. I perceive the...

For one last time: there's no hidden agenda, let alone a "cause" behind anything. As far as I'm concerned (I can't speak for others, obviously), Frank's post(s) argue that the amount of playtesting for skill challenges was unacceptable, from a customer's point of view, and I concur. Whence the...

Wizards of the Coast: Almost a year ago with the relase of the 4E DMG, we released a playtest version of the skill challenges. Thousands of you read it, played it, and emailed us feedback or discussed it with our designers on our forums. Based on your comments and your experiences, we've made...

See above. I have absolutely no interest to engage in attributing or declaring tacit intentions, be they other people's or my own. I guess that type of question is easier to answer in the negative, and even then easier to answer by example rather than principle. Supposing I were to pitch a new...

I assume you've read the thread on RPGNet before you made these claims, ok? That assumption being made, I want you to link the posts in that thread to substantiate the bolded part. Please use your own skills in backing up your statements, don't refer to authorities ("the moderator") you then...

That's a bit harsh. It's not that the MM 2 hydra replicates the MM 1 hydra except for fixing its hp and damage output when bloodied. There's plenty of other differences, both mechanical and flavour-wise, between the two. I've recently submitted a lengthy review of MM 2 (it's in German but...

Well, this is priceless for Ari Marmell to come into this thread and say that skill challenges were solidly playtested. By the way, before we get into arguments, let's stick to precision. What I said, paraphrasing Frank Trollman, was roughly this: Enter Ari: "Hogwash". Well, basically, no it...

Yes, remember how the Pathfinder Beta didn't sell any copies when the PDF was released for FREE? Oh boy, dark times, one FLGS closing down after the other, and each of them saying "nope, we're not stocking books which are available for free as PDFs - because NO ONE would ever buy them!"...

Here's a more solid way of phrasing a point similar to yours. Basically, for WotC there comes a point when all the money goes to the next edition and then their product standards for current edition standards are compromised or, which sometimes comes to the same thing, current edition products...

4E is a perfect system for crunch bloat, and WotC' handling of it so far showcases just how capable they are in that region. TONS of new crunch have appeared since 4E's arrival, especially considering the output in DDI (which the "only 9 books a year?" crowd seems oblivious to), and the relative...