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Your players violated the social contract. You, reasonably, assumed they would be honest and forthright about what kind of characters they were going to play, and most of them ended up lying to you. Talk to them about it, and don't hold back on how you feel. If they can't see reason, there's...

Other than the fact that roleplaying games are hugely different in scope than board games, I have no idea. But then again, I'm not a subsidiary of the largest board game maker in the world, so it's not in my field of expertise.

This. I don't underestimate their creative talent, even if I don't buy any of their material, but the company has Lisa Stevens at the helm. Things just seem to turn to gold in her hands.

I'm pretty sure this was Amoth. Orcus, Rimmon, and Demogorgon assaulted Amoth. Rimmon was slain, Demogorgon was split nearly in twain, and Orcus struck the fatal blow.

Rule books only... There are 1,510 feats. 63% of the total feats. There are 5,190 powers. 82% of the total powers. There are 6,950 items. 87% of the total items. There are 341 paragon paths. 79% of the paragon paths. There are 62 epic destinies. 76% of the epic destinies.

A few minor corrections... Amon should be Amoth. He was the god of mercy and justice. He Who Was was the god of the sky, kingship, and wisdom. His realm was called Baathion (it became Baator after it was turned into a prison for the devils). Tuern's dominion was, indeed, Chernoggar. It...

This, but without the feeling cheap part. I feel it shows appreciation for the mental and emotional investment they're making in my game by rewarding them for their own awesome storytelling ideas. Sometimes the group has such fire and motivation because of something that does make a lot of...

This isn't a big marketing push. This is a person, having run games for kids at her local game store, writing up something to help other people run games for kids of the same age bracket and Wizards posting it on their site because its cute.

I don't see how hitting someone so hard they fly 10 feet back is cowardly.

Roleplayers, like many of other groups, tend to "canonize" key figures in their group after they die. It became much harder to have discussions involving criticism of his writing style or game design philosophy after his death, as that kind of event really touches people emotionally.

No. Gary didn't owe WotC thanks. While he might not have been front-page RPG news all the time, one cannot talk about the genre without thinking about or referencing Gygax. I mean, we've had the term "gygaxian" around for at least the past couple decades. On the other hand, WotC didn't owe Gary...

What actually happened was Mike Mearls unofficially pointing out that 4e's initial print run was bigger than 3.5's (which was bigger than 3.0's), and we were able to piece together some idea of scope from that combined with the announcement that the first print run sold out just before launch...

Please point me to this supposed quote of Joe Goodman claiming to know both 3e's and 4e's launch sales figures and directly stating that 3e launched with higher numbers than 4e. Statements we've seen from the company responsible for both editions, WotC, seems to suggest a different story...

This claim is often made and always unsubstantiated.

We hardly ever agree, but we're in 100% agreement here. Lisa helped build the two biggest RPG companies out there: WotC and White Wolf. Now, she's building up a third. I can't really think of too many other people who are capable of such a thing. If I were Paizo's CEO, I'd resign that role and...

Looking forward to it! My current cleric is a servant of Sehanine and I'm having trouble rounding out his characterization with the little info on her in the book. I'm trusting that this will be more useful than the farce they called the CD: Melora article.

I agree that a new 4e video game is needed, but it will have to wait until the WotC/Atari tussle is resolved. They can't get another company involved until that happens.

I'm with most of the other people who love most of the 4e fluff, but in particular one thing stands out to me: Tharizdun. The Forgotten Temple was one of the first adventures I ever played through, so bringing him back with a much improved place in the grand scheme of things tickles my fancy.

Agreed. So much of theorycraft's "conventional wisdom" never comes to pass in any actual play scenario I've ever seen.

I've never seen this, EVER. In my own campaigns, the D&D Encounters I was involved in, and my friend's campaigns, monsters go after character they are effective at taking down, forcing the Defender to actually work to do his job. Funny how reports from actual play, like those given in this...