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WOW works because it gives the common gamer what he wants. He doesn't want someone else to make him do anything other than work the controls; if he has to do work, he's out. That includes supplying the visuals himself. It will; making your own is work, work that most people neither want nor...

WOW does everything that D&D4 does, but it's faster, easier and far more convenient than D&D4. Hence, I play WOW and not D&D4.

You cannot allow players to make use of magic without demystifying it due to the need to codify such access into the rules of the game. Therefore, mysterious magic requires that access to it be through NPCs and nothing else.

The reason for why NPCs should be fully-optimized is to demonstrate in no uncertain terms to the reader what the upper limit of capability is for a given entity. This makes it easier for a GM to judge what to and not to employ as NPCs, as well as for players to judge how weak or strong they are...

TORG, Spycraft, D&D (BECMI, AD&D1 or 3.X/Pathfinder), Exalted, Pendragon.

3.X raised the quality of the common DM significantly. It did so at the expense of those few exceptional DMs, reasoningly--quite rightly--that those few at the top would easily be able to work around whatever they disliked while the massed majority of mediocre DMs did need all of the structure...

I do not deal in misery tourism or nihilism; Man is awesome and the sole thing adding value to all Creation- without Man, Creation is meaningless.

3.X made it possible for just about anyone to become good enough at running the game to run modules. 4.0 improves on this, greatly expanding on the pool of DMs for the game due to its ease of use for common people. The systems in both respects do a lot of the hard work for you, leaving you to...

Show me sample characters that real players, the ones that actually master the ruleset and dominate the game, would actually build and use- not showpieces for corner cases.

I'm not a D&D4 fan. I do like some of what's been done. The Character Builder & Rule Compendium online is a brilliant idea with an adequate execution. This should be standard practice now in the business. The four Defenses are a good idea that, for the most part, I find decently executed. I...

The Vampire games I've seen and run still, inevitably, result in the most personally mighty character (run by the most skilled and cunning player) becoming the center of all things- in Vampire, as in any other commercially viable TRPG, Might Makes Right.

You're expected to race to the cap. Once at the cap, you're expected to race through the gearing process such that you're ready for entry-level raids and all Heroic dungeons; events like the current Argent Tournament help greating for an alt or a new player at this stage. Once geared, it's...

Sticking to playing the most recent edition of D&D (or now, either 3.5 or 4.0) in a generic, vanilla setting ensures that you maximize your chances of finding players and actually playing the game. The more you deviate from that baseline, the harder you're making it to actually play the game...

WOW isn't a VTT substitute because the point of WOW is dungeons and raiding, with a side order of PVP, in real time. It's not at all about doing things that running a tabletop RPG through a VTT would be about.

I think that this is a good idea. I wish you great success in reaching a segment that has not been properly served to date.

Not running anything right now. Playing Mekton Zeta.

The tabletop RPG not only has to justify its existence vs. just mining the Dragon Age fluff for use in a D&D-powered game, it has to justify its existence vs. its CRPG alter ego; if the TRPG version cannot accomplish both tasks, then the game will be a waste of time and money, which means that...

Meh. Another D&D campaign setting in denial, i.e. another fantasy heartbreaker, albeit one with far more money (and thus superior production values) behind it and that means that it's going to fall before D&D's superior network of users. This property isn't different enough from the D&D style...

How about TORG?

We have no need for another Middle-Earth, DC Universe, Marvel Universe, Babylon 5, Stargate or Star Trek tabletop RPG. All of those properties really do need to lie fallow until at least 2015; I say, therefore, that what's to come will be something else entirely and thus I say that none of the...