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I concur with the idea that WOTC needs to follow Marvel's lead in transitioning properties from its home media business (for D&D, that's the TRPG medium) to another media arena; that Hasbro already has something like this operational is a good sign for the business, and I would think that it...

A gnome bard with a lot of languages and a penchant for talking about evil empires, named "Chomsky". A dwarf paladin, loud and boisterous, often demonstrating obvious divine blessing, named "Bran" and often refered to as "...the Blessed". Wasn't afraid of death. Those are the most recent pair...

Take the stereotypical D&D gameplay experience, and then translate into a medium that has a far superior network effect as well as far superior personal convenience, and you have World of Warcraft. Blizzard beat WOTC at its own game.

The results of the brand recognition survey bear out what I suspected for some time, which is that WOW is to MMORPGs what D&D is to TRPGs, and that these two properties have no internal competition- but instead are in competition with each other because nothing else can challenge them.

Haven't read the book, but I will now that I am aware of it.

WOW will get you laid. Hell, it will get you married and soon I expect it to get you married with children. I see it happy regularly, within and without my guild. WOW's already got a far great degree of popular acceptance than D&D ever achieved. You're not going to beat that with YouTube...

I am partial to a stylized sun, as I default to a view of Law as being solar in nature.

The Palladium (Fantasy) Role-Playing Game, either First or Second Edition, will scratch the itch just fine.

American Superhero comics, in addition to Captain America (Marvel) and Superman (DC) has Captain Marvel (a.k.a. "The Power of Shazam!"). I add him as an example because a paladin's moral excellence has to base itself in a childlike (but not childish) innocence with regard to the world, from...

After the experience of the first two films, there is no reason to expect that a Hollywood suit with any serious weight would green-light such a project. The best that could be expect is another film in the vein of Wrath of the Dragon God (which, while not bad, wasn't what the brand needed to...

Fixed HP by Con, modified by Size.

High-level NPCs were never a problem for me. I used them as if they were PCs, which meant that they too were Always On The Move, and thus part of a dynamic world where the PCs were but players on the state of history--sometimes the protagonists, sometimes the chorus--but never alone. They...

We've got an answer to this question: S. John's Five Elements Essay

That's solely an issue of game design. There is nothing requiring the exponential increasing of PC traits to be tied to increases of either class or character levels. They exist because a designer made a decision to arrange the rules to work that way.

Starting at 6th Level, the Fighter may make a Full Attack regardless of movement as an Extraordinary Ability. Merry Christmas.

Initial HP equal the character's Constitution score, modified by his Size category. (This is a multiplier; Small is .75, Medium is x1, Large is x2 and so on.)

Fantasy: I can do it cold (i.e. no preparation) and stupid (i.e. knowing nothing about either the rules or the setting), and I will function just fine. This is not true of other settings, and the closer you get to reality the more preparation you need to do and the more you need to know to make...

This is correct. This I disagree with, as I disagree with the idea that there is anything at all to do with storytelling that is required. Instead, it is closer to history and real life. The world is treated as if it were real, in the same way that Peter Jackson treated Middle-Earth as if it...

Tabletop role-playing games are neither console nor online role-playing games. They are not television programs, comic books, novels, plays, poems, memoirs, documentaries or any other medium. Tabletop role-playing games are their own medium, unique unto the world, and as such should not play...

The chick's a poser. Real warriors either wear armor that covers and protects their vital organs or wield shields that do the same job. This fake does neither, which is why she fails. (Yes, this includes your Red Sonjas; cover up or get stuck like a pig.)