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Latest Wizkids silliness going on... they're talking of eliminating the rules arbitrator position from one line's forum because apparently all he ever does is respond with quotes and references from the rules and FAQ's in response to questions, and that's usually days later. This is comical...

Deleting posts from people complaining about the game lines or how the staff are handling things, is not a new thing. Well, least not on the MW section. Perhaps its just new to the forums you use steel_wind. I find it ironic though that the entire forums just got disabled for "maintenance"...

Wizkids has now officially cancelled the Battlestar Galactica CCG, which they only launched about a year ago. Of course this announcement comes several weeks after the latest expansion was supposed to have released, so its not particularly surprising to those of us who are used to the way the...

I poisoned half the people there.... they're not used to fatty/greasy foods anymore and well... KFC is all kinds of grease. However we got three of five characters generated. And we're playing classic (for the players) character types.

Yeah sorry about that, but if someone else has better info that what wizkids feeds out as announcements, or than how they've progressed with their staff for the past two years, I'd LOVE (really) to see it. Another "game industry" exec I know has told me they'll be announcing the end of...

Please show me where I said they were intending to cancel heroclix? I think you have me confused with someone else in this thread. If anything, heroclix is likely to be the only miniatures game they keep producing once they get rid of their other clix lines. So why then are there so few BSG...

Maybe I should give a history lesson on how wizkids runs its game lines. Unlike other companies, wizkids recruits envoys for different venues/regions. Envoys are not paid but they are compensated with freebie gaming product for the lines they represent. They're supposed to run games at stores...

Oh really? And switching distributor companies to one that isn't liked by most of the independant comic/gaming stores was done to improve their support of brick & mortar stores was it? The fact they announced it and immediately disabled access to their online forums for a week afterwards doesn't...

You mean recent industry news like topps's own earning reports where wizkids is producing losses ? Or are you just going by whatever announcements wizkids themselves makes to claim how great the company is doing ? If you do mean their own announcements, perhaps you'll have noticed that over the...

While wizkids claims they're gonna keep supporting their existing brick & mortar stores, thats pretty much part of the lie and coverup they like to do now. The problem isn't them supporting stores as that stores have no interest anymore in supporting them. What store wants to keep ordering...

Wasn't hard for WotC to take over, wizkids's staff had been fumbling the ball for several years now that was driving the players and collectors (which the whole concept DEPENDED on) away en masse. Mageknight was their MOST popular line and they cancelled it a couple years ago. Mechwarrior was...

As a former envoy for their MW product line (think GM for official tournaments, but with less respect given by players and by wizkids themselves for that matter) I'd like to point out that wizkids is moving away from the small independant gaming/hobby/comic stores who represent most of their...

Well I've mostly confined my gaming to paranoia where you get to die six times per character and cyberpunk where its hard to come back from REALLY dead. Oh and deadearth where you can lose a half dozen characters JUST during character generation before the game even gets started. But all this...

Most of our gaming group also plays paintball together, and you see the same "I'm invincible" thinking of these players with high level characters during actual paintball games, when they go a string of games without being hit really (or hit badly anyways). I got nailed about a dozen times in...

Depends how little us players pay attention to details of situations with our GM. We usually find our own ways to kill ourselves that he can't help but take advantage of. Case in point, two of us lost are most experienced and favourite characters in the same fight when instead of just writing...

Actually they also tested that one in a test stand.... they had a coin braced in a rig, and then tried different guns on it. None of the cowbow guns and ammo did more than dent the coins dead center (the ones done from dropping from the hand weren't dead center). Only by switching to modern guns...

The US Military, especially the army and marines are looking at another standard handgun change, and one of the criteria is a .45 caliber (not neccessarily .45ACP though) bullet because they're finding that in Iraq and Afghanistan, against fanatical types who may (or may not) by hopped up on...

Our GM (who you all know having hemoraged geek points a few messages ago) once said something in response to a question along the lines of "its that way because I'm the gay master" after one of our particularly LONG sessions.

"I am gulstaff, sorceror of light..." "Then why did you have to cast magic missile ?!?"

While I say "like" a lot, our GM is an "Ummmmm" kinda guy. Among the memorable "oopsies" during games that I remember fondly would be the time he's running some module from I think it was star frontiers, adapted for a cyberpunk game, and about mid-way thru the module... after we've broken into...