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White Wolf has never actually been a more roleplay intensive design. Its just always had more suggestive to downright nipply artwork and goth chicks in lineart to make people think it was about roleplay...

1e, 2e, and 3e: Vancian magic to gimp the casters. Fanbase: Enough with the Vancian already! 4e: Vancian everything to gimp everybody. 1-3E sample fight: Round 1: Fighter: wack, wack wack! Mage: I nuke the universe with a fireball! Round 2: Fighter: wack, wack, wack! Mage: [twiddles thumbs...

Somewhat a thread jack but... I'm not convinced 4E has a wizard class. Look at it. Remove the name, and think about what 3E its mechanics remind you of. To me, I thought... Sorcerer. What always made a DnD wizard a wizard in my mind was being able to run out there and learn new spells...

And that is a very fair comparison to make. It seems to be falling short here as well... I'd point you to the 1E books and say get a clue, but those had nipples and the wandering harlot table and I was 12 and it was before the internet... so...

Why do I play WoW more than I do City of Heroes? Hmm... Because WoW needs healers, and in an MMO, if I'm not on a tank, I want to be on a healer. City of heroes doesn't need healers. Point... Each of the classic roles existed to fill a nitch among different types of players. In my WoW...

Hmmm...

Well I'd say it seems incomplete... But lets look at my list of PCs since 3E came out... A 1/2 Orc monk An elf Bard A human sorcerer A gnome sorcerer An elf druid A human fighter ... I'm 1/6 on that list. Other than allowing me to make an evil paladin or a wizard that doesn't run out of...

Word. I skipped 2E for a reason. When 3E came out, it grabbed back a lot of people who had drifted away because it advertised a recapture of all the old gems of 1E, but with a modern gaming engine. D&D without half-Orcs and Monks just isn't D&D... I don't care how silly it is to have Monks...

For me... dropping half-orcs, gnomes, assassins and monks is pretty much a 'jumped the shark' moment for the game. Adding in several new races and classes that either don't have any history with D&D or debated fairly late into the 3E cycle just puts another shark under Fonzie in that jump...

making the Kobolds Hermaphrodytes / asexual with some kind of funky reproduction and no concept of a parent just did it in for me. Kobolds were one of the races I was the most excited about in 3e ever since that first WotC module under 3.0, and the race I was most interested in seeing a rich...

Shadow: Yeah, that's one way of saying one of my points above. Ex Machina, Hero, GURPS, and some of the other options can manage just by having points. You paid 40 points for your robotics, I paid 40 for my set of detective skills. The game assumes we're balanced. Quite of a bit of Cyberpunk...

In my opinion the problem is that the DnD mechanics for players are all about resource management. Everything has charges, uses per day, etc. If you are running a group of just rogues, monks, and fighters, sure, there is no resource to manage other than hitpoints and you can leave them to the...

Humanity loss through cyberware is -NOT- part of the original literary genre. It's a game balance mechanic in the Cyberpunk RPG, that's all. It also connects in a sense to a distorted perception of the genre, but it is not generally a major aspect of the literature, nor even a minor one. It is...

I think this is a good thing in that I personally feel the DnD logo held Kenzer back. I loved Kalamar up until the Kobold book, which for me was a 'jump the shark' moment. But I also always felt Kalamar could have been a lot better if it hadn't been constrained to fitting a WotC style in...

WoW is also not flooded with certain elements that are present in DnD that serve to discourage women and non-whites from enjoying the experience. It presents the same basic fantasy tropes, but without the elements of racial supremacy justified in the biology and inherent soulfullness of the...

Get yourself a copy of 'Documents to Go' or the competing products 'iSilo' or 'Quickword', and then a keyboard to fit your PDA. I have a wireless keyboard with my Palm zire 31. I went for the 'official keyboard' but even the old cheap 'can get it on ebay for $5' wireless that I used with my...

A last little note - The -unarmed martial art- of Pankration was introduced to the 'Olympic Games' in 648 B.C.

This hasn't been accepted for decades. The last serious attempt to push this 'scientific ideology' upon the world was in Europe in the late 30s, early 40s... Not only that, but you have the number of races wrong. If there were races that differed beyond phenotype, there would be 6 or more -...

I think we -CAN- presume that d20 Supers will be based on and perhaps require ownership of the d20 Modern rules. Therefore, if that presumption is to be accepted, one could make judgments on it even now on the basis of an opinion of d20 Modern. I imagine for example that we could assume it...

Nothing about supers inherently requires you to need points and classfree design in order to 'freely build concepts' anymore so than fantasy, modern, science fiction, and other genres. Gamers are used to being templated in by fantasy, but it has just as many if not more problems as supers does...