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I use a tackle box, but be sure to work out exactly what you need to fit in before you shop. Painted lead miniatures can get scratched up if they're in big slots where they can roll around, and big models can crash about a lot if they're piled into a large, general purpose space.

That's a category error. Games don't progress linearly the way technology does, which is why Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit are nearly identical today to their original incarnations. A better comparison is with sport. You could say that Gygax invented sprinting, and that many modern...

That opens a line of enquiry that goes all the way back to the merits of random character generation. Is roleplaying about generating the character you imagine, or imagining the character you generate?

After this many pages there's little hope of saying anything new, but what "balance" means in D&D has changed radically since 1e was published. From a 4e point of view, 1e is hopelessly unbalanced. Each class is different, XP tables are out of sync, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of...

It'll be interesting to see how Dark Sun is handled in regard to divine power sources. It could either provide a model for flexibility in 4E or establish that from now on all settings will be the same thing with a different paint job.

Badwrongfun all round. Dungeon Squad pwns all.

There are two components to that. The first is what the rules do or do not allow, and the other is what sort of playing style the assumptions of the game strongly suggest. The ultra-balanced mathematical basis of 4E is a huge part of its sales pitch, and regarded as a great strength by its...

If that's an apt analogy for you, we're obviously coming from perspectives so far removed that debating will probably be fruitless. Because one is an exercise of creativity using a spell which is a mainstay of D&D, while the other is a "turn it up to 11" exercise in nullifying the ability...

What an awesome adventure for the party wizard! A master of his craft, at the cusp of greatness, testing his magical skills against the arcane defences of a senior mage. Why should a rogue be the one to shine in that adventure? And if, through the magical mastery of the PC wizard, the party...

I have to disagree, objectively. It's not worth the trouble for either of us to trawl old threads to build a case, but at the height of the fiasco, all but the most rabid 4E-or-bust enthusiasts were facepalming over the botched DDI, the virtual tabletop that wasn't, the abrupt, "all vill play...

That there is precisely the type of savvy, discerning and informed consumer Hasbro appreciates. Make it super-size, bro.

The point of not going out of one's way to crap all over everything published under the Dungeons & Dragons label prior to 2008 isn't appreciated here? Sad but apparently true.

Pardon my cynicism, but with a username like that and an inflammatory first post, I'd be very surprised if Joshin'ya doesn't know a regular ENworld poster very, very intimately.

Any gamer with an internet connection knows this topic has been done to death. The thread is a troll. Why does booboo get a slapping for stating the obvious?

Just to clarify, you're saying, "case X is probably true, but we don't know. Y also may have happened, but there's no way of being sure. Everyone said Z, and also didn't, and are still saying it, but not. But who cares, because I like a game that definitely maybe possibly certainly in actual...

For me it was Charmaine Solomon's Complete Asian Cookbook at my 21st. No uni student should live without it. There's room in this thread for an enterprising and patient poster to take an online cookbook and find/replace real world ingredients with fantasy world ingredients. That poster is not...

Really? When edition wars and campaigns of acrimony were consuming this site, you're not sure why someone would bother starting a thread defending the roll-out? People will start threads here to ask about a character picking his nose. If there were no defences of the WotC shaft-a-thon, it...

Correctamundo. That's why the old-is-good claim is made so often. It's all over the internet. Every time the topic of classic gaming comes up, its proponents always say that it's good for the sole reason that it's old. Retro-clone players have been completely unable to explain in any detail...

Wow. Great thread. I'm surprised no-one made these sorts of comments a few years ago so that they could be discussed to death on every forum under the sun, leaving only deliberately obtuse or provocative posters to not even bother consulting the lengthy threads on every permutation of this...

Healing surges are a classic disassociated mechanic (2). Prior to release, I was quite excited about the bloodied status. I love the abstraction of hitpoints (I'm a Rolemaster refugee), but they get a bit cheesy when there are no ill effects until they hit zero. I hoped bloodied would be a...