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Pretty much this. I loosely recall her writing a holiday report (or was it even a honeymoon?) where she and her partner travelled to Munich and Paris, alleging that they saw teens with Mordenkainen's ME books (plural!) under their arm at Munich main square. I've lived at Munich until 2010 for...

And I wonder what inclines you, you personally, in the first place to slander his comments - and his follow up comments ("wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole") - by an underhanded ad hominem like that. It'd be like saying, "I wonder how much Matt James' defensive posting of late has to do...

I'm curious just how they are going to do it, though. With 3.5 and 4E WotC could rely on an extensive network of playtesters in the RPGA (LG then LFR). But WotC has since left that player base out in the cold, and all systematic feedback loops have been abandoned. I guess it will be hard to...

Easy. You just look at who got promoted recently. The shorter the promotion time span the better. <table class="mb_thread_posts_table" id="mb_thread_posts_table" cellspacing="0"><tbody id="mb_thread_posts_table_tbody"><tr></tr><tr><td class="mb_t_p_t_post"> That was in July 2011. Half a year...

I forgot to answer to that earlier. Thanks for the reply to my post, and for a lot of food for thought. I agree with nearly all of it, except for the bit I quoted here (though I don't personally see myself in the camp of 'wanting WotC to fail'). The people fired this year have a long history...

Sorry, Enworld links to other posts only work if users have the same display choices on how many posts are portrayed per page. On my display choice, that post appears on page 2, on yours probably only much later. In any case, it's post #70. I simply state that if we look at how much talent was...

Thanks for your feedback, I've now incorporated it above. In light of Morrus' XP comment I also inserted an entry for the brand team - out of 5 names I recognise 2 as fired and the other 3 as uncertain. But by all means, this would make for an interesting news column, Morrus, especially when...

James Wyatt. Mearls and Cordell weren't on the core 4E design team. Here's the PHB 1 design credits. Those who haven't been sacked yet are in white. Corrections welcome [Update: first corrections now incorporated. Thanks to Chris Pramas and Logan Bonner!] D&D® 4th Edition Design Team Rob...

Thank you for this very thoughtful review. I must say, I was a bit suspicious about some of your past reviews, but this one and the previous one (on Heroes of the Feywild) really show you as a very scrupolous and fair minded reviewer. As to the price point, from your description of the product...

Thank you for this very thoughtful review. I must say, I was a bit suspicious about some of your past reviews, but this one and the previous one (on Heroes of the Feywild) really show you as a very scrupolous and fair minded reviewer. As to the price point, from your description of the product...

Sad news indeed - and it's not simply that they fired someone, or that they fired someone at this time of the year. No, I'm astounded who they chose to send off. Steve Winter, I think, has been working on and off WotC for several years now. I've always appreciated him for his "D&D Alumni"...

I was originally going to simply report this post as a petition for physical violence. May I instead ask you to kindly exert self-moderation and remove certain elements in your OP, e.g. the phrase "kick to the curb"? I also think "ban him from the building" stretches it quite a bit - though...

2005: WotC hires Mike Mearls. 2011: WotC pays Monte Cook to write columns and "to work with R&D" (Mearls @Wizard s.com). Observe: with, not at R&D. But thanks for alerting us of another suggestive hint that this time there's less money in the bag. And I think you are looking at this from...

The question for me is: is WotC ready for a new edition? Are they up for the job? That I'd like to know. We fans are poor judges of that. I hope that at least WotC themselves know. I remember shortly after 4E was released Mike Mearls was asked in an interview if 4E was basically released...

I voted no. The rewritten core PHB 1 classes we saw in 2011, some of the appallingly bad material in Heroes of Shadow/Feywild, not to mention a LOT of what's going on in Legend & Lore these past months... ... do these things encourage you to think that 5E will have the design sensibility...

The remainder of your post was really well put and convincing, so thank you, but this point I wanted to correct: It's not just the number of options that made the Essentials cleric a 'snooze fest' for me. I found I had nothing interest to do. Whether that's two not-interesting things or eight...

Yes, that was exactly my point with respect to the Essentials druid's abilities Herb Lore and Beast Empathy. I'm supposed to write codified, highly circumstantial and numerically underwhelming bonuses on my skill checks on my char sheet ('+2 to Intimidate checks vs. bears, but only when near...

Reported for shilling. Look at OP's post count.

My first ever 4E PC was a cleric, played on June 6 2008. The char I currently run is a PH 2 druid. In the past months I played 1 session each as an essentials cleric and an essentials druid, both at level 5 (me meaning my PC). It was a snooze fest. At the very same level my PH 2 druid got 6...

A pristine copy of Queen of the Spiders, some years ago at Ebay UK. 40 pounds or so. I consider it the pinnacle of my RPG possessions. (Close behind comes Necromancer Games' City of Brass box, at around 40 Euros.) Around the same time I won a used copy of Ptolus, for 20 pounds. The whole deal...