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So.... 4e was wrong because it had daily martial powers which broke verisimilitude... Not a peep about how the Barbarian has x/rages per day, because 3e did it. D&D fandom is silly.

Personally Defcon 1, I've found that the "interaction" skills tend to be the death of roleplaying at the table. If you take them away, people talk to the NPC's. With skills such as diplomacy, bluff, charisma checks, etc. there is generally a lot more tendency to treat those skills as a "NPC...

Double Axes and Double Swords are back. Why D&D fandom? Just.... why?

I don't think you can blame it on website design alone guys. Look at Paizo's website for example, which is much, much uglier and perhaps even worse if you are talking about finding specific articles and blog posts and such. But they have right front and center, taking up the entire front...

A few days ago, I complained that WotC was not selling its merchandise on its website. Then I looked on the front page a few days ago, and found an ad for D&D T-shirts, and I thought it was about time. But then I saw a blog post that shows that WotC has had a merchandise store since February...

If Centaurs and Satyrs and Nymphs are fey, I don't see why hags wouldn't be fey. Medusa too for that matter. Really, though, you can swap a lot of monsters between "monstrous humanoid" and "fey" depending on your tastes. Magic and a tie to nature seems to be a common themes (though I...

Getting the D&D brand out on the digital medium is essential, with both video games and online D&D tools. To their credit, WotC/Hasbro recognizes this, they are just really, really bad at it.

Don't get sarcastic. Are all these variants using a different rules system? Are all these variants being marketed as being the replacement for traditional monopoly and discontinuing old versions? Does each variant support an entire product line in itself? Does Monopoly itself support an...

D&D isn't a smartphone, it is a board game. At least, that's what Roleplaying games in general resemble most. Continually making new rules for D&D is like continuously making new versions of the rules (and making the old ones obsolete) makes about as much sense for it as it does for Monopoly...

Why should there be a "build" to determine your fighting style at all? Why not simply have the fighter fight with a sword and shield if he is carrying a sword and shield? Why not let someone fight in a two-weapon style if they pick up two swords? Why not just let someone do more damage if...

I think it may in fact be time for WotC to retire D&D as a living, constantly evolving property. I also think it might be time to retire WotC as a company. It has got to be fairly frustrating for Hasbro, that has its business as toy and games, to have a seperate subsidiary to release just a...

Meh, I'm a farmer and the son of farmers going back 1000 generations. Mother nature isn't just a giver of life and plenty. In truth, she's a b**** goddess, who needs to be appeased with blood sacrifice (preferably human). One minuute she shows you a beautific smile, and the other minute she...

I find it absolutely hilarious that everyone said they wanted individual monsters and monster subtypes to be visually distinct a few columns ago, but now everyone is clamoring for the dryad and the nymph to look the same. Hypocrisy, thy name is D&D fans. Myself, I think all fey should be...

Exploding crits are fun (if unbalancing), but criticals in 3e are just a minor bonus of double damage (which may also have less power than a regular hit). Making something that minor, which is the few breaks from the monotony of "roll to hit, roll damage" and then taking it away is not very...

Well then, fiends that tempt mortals to violence, greed, sloth, vanity, gluttony or any other human failings should also be demons. The main reason sins are sins are because it does tear people away from family and the laws of society and largely concern themselves with their own desires. Any...

Lust is chaotic, seduction to gain a soul is not. Quite frankly, without that in hell's arsenal, they are missing something. Succubi and Incubi are the common word for fiends that seduce people, and thus belong with the devils. If they were chaotic embodiments of lust, they would be like...

I agree with this. I don't mind a complex version of D&D for those that want it, but I don't have the patience for complex rules systems that bog down play anymore. No feats, no skills, no minis, no special attack rules, and a magic system simpler than Vancian for me... but all of those things...

I just could never justify a cover price of $60+ per book. That's what keeps me from picking up Hackmaster as well.

If that's true, it might confirm a suspicion I've had for awhile that I might not want to play a clone of D&D (ala OSRIC) and instead want to play something D&D-esque (ala Old School Hack). I love leveling up, I love classes, I love XP, I love conquering dungeons and building castles, but the...

I will say that I was more polite and cautious to them than the way I stated it in this thread, but there wasn't an argument or anything. It was just "I don't agree" or "it is in the rulebook". I also don't think I'm that demanding. I mean, it is just one rule, and I explained why I didn't...