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The moment Essentials hit the shelves, I put my Pathfinder campaign on hold. We sold off our books, scraped our characters, and immediately started a new campaign. We never looked back, we've been truly blessed since, and here's why. This is our story, and may it be repeated by others until the...

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In theory, it's that's a false dichotomy. If WotC thought it economically worthwhile to pursue older edition support - which so far they haven't, but GenCon rumors seem to indicate a possible change of heart - they could easily hire two to three guys to take care of older edition stuff, much...

Good points, but I think the Neverwinter "city book" (marketed as such earlier this month) falls outside the "big setting pooh-bah" format as much as the Nentir Vale Gazetteer would have - except, of course, for that fact that the latter was intended as an Essentials-sized softcover. Still, if...

What makes you think a campaign setting is coming out next year? Imagine the excited threads back in 2010, trying to guess what the 2011 setting for 4E would be. Then the somewhat stifled applause when it was revealed to be Nentir Vale (gazetteer). Then the disappointment upon seeing it pulled...

Yes, but then I encourage and reward player pro-actvity across the board. Whether that means rewarding people for the occasional gem at witty in character conversation, or for just coming up with great plans (tactically and/or long term planning), etc etc, are all covered. [Brief aside: even...

Agreed, I also read the thread title, and its being posted in the 4E forum gave me expectations of a different sort. Ah, but there's the larger picture. I'm sure WotC planned the release of the Neverwinter Campaign Guide to more or less coincide with the release of the MMO - 'product cross...

The Avenger loses in damage output what it makes up in accuracy. Yes, OoE is very helpful to reliably hit foes, but then look at the damage output of Avenger powers with those of the Barbarian, and you can see two different design principles in place. Not denying that Avengers can't get decent...

Interesting. I wonder if it was a conscious design decision - in that these classes were never intended to receive hybrid treatment from the beginning, this opening up a lot of design space at their inception - or if it's (yet again) a lack of resources that makes WotC pull back some of their...

Last weekend's Gameday adventure was designed to serve that exact purpose - introduce the Neverwinter setting to new players. However, the reports I read said that it fell short of doing that. Allegedly, the module came across as rather generic (not even FR-specific) with a couple of nods to the...

Holy crap! Thanks for the reference. It made me realize that Paizo has gone there too with one of my all time favourites of theirs: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/pathfinder/modules/35E/v5748btpy82qf And in contrast to the others cited upthread, it actually contains a...

You should have. Someone else also present at the seminar provided the exact same information upthread, and I XP'ed them for that. Mind you, I quoted the tweet source, and if the tweet is incorrect, then I should mind my own sources better in the future. We know two things for sure, though. 1...

Yippee to the return of WEAPON SIZE rules! Just what the game needed. Also ought to bring in the 3.5 hold overs.

....and because I just saw it now, Mearls' latest post of today addresses the issue head on (thanks!):

You're totally right, the second quote IS recent (as pointed out in the OP), whereas the first one is, as I said right in the OP, comes from "Back in September 2010". Mearls stepped in for Bill's job shortly before July 13, 2011. And these TEN months inbetween so totally didn't leave him with...

Har har har! Ah, sorry, you were actually serious. ;) 'What if the twist was that Hasbro fires everyone at WotC R&D, and makes 5E a print on demand based on a fan administrated wiki?' Golden recipe to ensure the fans are pleased with the end product - bring it on!

Playreport by experienced GM with nice photos. He thought the module crap, but it seems he pulled off a nice session regardless.

From blogofholding's transcript of the GenCon product 'forecast', it seems that we get builds for bards, runepriests, and seekers, classes which so far don't exist in Essentials. But this bit speaks fairly strongly against seeing build design in the old fashion: Also, It's nice of them to...

I didn't say 'vacuum', I spoke of a feedback loop that's closed. So there is feedback going on, but I doubt its being representative. Take D&D Encounters. Even if characters with ritual casting were legitimate to play (which they are not) there would be little point in buildling one, as the...

A surprising tweet from the GenCon Q&A on the future of D&D (thanks to bloghofholding): How does this not amount to a great combo of self fulfilling prophecy and closed feedback loop? To explain, IF rituals are removed from the revamped Players handbooks then OF COURSE new players won't use...