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Really. The fact that D&D players are playing the oldest RPG wasn't a clue to that? I see nothing wrong with replacing half-orcs with orcs in home games. But D&D 5 is a response in part to D&D 4, and the way many people aggressively rejected that game. The 4e PHB not having the standard races...

I don't want to see much errata, because it won't get integrated evenly. I'm not talking about "we really screwed up stuff", like tables getting misprinted, but more about continuing tweaks and twists--especially large ones. The best case is that it will show up in the online system, which I...

In what setting have you seen orcs walk around in human settlements? In D&D books, having half-orc characters in human settlements is fairly common; full orc, very rare. I can't speak to your games, but just because something doesn't stand out to you, doesn't mean that it's not a factor in the...

To you. In many game worlds, they're not at all the same thing. In many game worlds, a half-orc might be tolerated where an orc wouldn't. In many cultures that rape a subculture all the time, the children end up in the subculture of the mother, not the father. If we have male orcs raping...

I suspect there could be better DCC experiences, but she was running a published adventure, and I fail to see how DCC would turn out as intense roleplaying. The very concept of running four characters that could die with one hit doesn't strike me as conducive to getting into character. Both this...

I spent a a few hours counting up the most popular RPGs on LibraryThing once. So I enjoy taking data and extracting information from it, but I try not to do anything too ridiculous, and if someone wants to call me on some limitation of the data, I'll be happy to discuss it. What's not...

They aren't; sorry, I see my original post wasn't very clear. It's the reverse; I don't see how OSR is particularly player-character determined unless you're comparing them to the straight-out railroads that followed them.

I still remember my one and only game of Dungeon Crawl Classics, where the DM made a roll and had a grubworm kill my most interesting character, no roll versus AC, no check. Don't worry, I could play my other three characters that could die by one roll of the DM. Likewise, it's not like we were...

And if I were gossiping, I'd say the same thing to anyone who was counting the number of celebrities by rehab by astrological sign. It's not entertaining to make random correlations.

I don't see any reason to sum them that way. In what way does an OD&D player or an AD&D player have more in common with a 3.5 player then a Pathfinder player does? Why is that a useful statistic? Pathfinder is free, too, and has a lot more material in its SRD. Is there that much application...

On one hand, journalism has been crashing hard; one ex-newspaper man remarked that the most shocking thing about the new Flash TV show was the existence of the newspaper in 2024. There hasn't been much a budget for journalists after the Internet. On the other hand, you're selling something. So...

There are people out there that don't do this in their home games?

Not if we're combining various editions of D&D together. If we're counting D&D 3.5, it seems weird to count it for WotC that hasn't supported it in 6 years and not for a company that has at least nominally produced material for it this year. Do you believe D&D 5 will bring in a huge number of...

Games that Paizo has supported handily beats games WotC has supported, 55% to 44% (don't forget WoTC Star Wars or that Paizo did produce official material for D&D 3.5 and still does label their books as 3.5 compatible). While D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder are quite similar in some ways, I think the...

Life is more balanced then Rifts, at least. If you have a police squad, or SWAT team, or army squad, or motorcycle gang, they're not going to drag the vagabond aside. In the first three cases, they've all been put through the same intensive training, and in all cases, any without the attributes...

These groups aren't going to do that; it's part of the implied social contract that they will play D&D. If you want to try Paranoia or Vampire, that's another night and (at least conceptually) a different group. I think for any such group you simply cannot run anything besides the occasional...

It depends on how the gaming group is put together. If I'm not going to play in the next game of my current D&D group, I'm probably not going to play in the game after that. In a year, I probably will have something else scheduled on that night or at least be going out as many nights as I find...

Except that I was told that counting rolled characters by point buy wasn't fair because point buy stats would have higher numbers for the prime ability. And let's look at these again: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. If you're rolling 4d6 drop lowest, how many people are going to argue 14, 13, 12, 11, 9...

Or things get amplified in the heat of argument. I'm personally responding to the people who want to run the same hoary old AD&D 1e races and classes, tell me to leave if I don't like it (implying this is an existing group), putting limitations on when I'm justified to leave, and feeling it...

In Pathfinder, it creates characters with higher stats then the designers were designing the system for, as an objective matter. In 5E, two sets produces characters with higher stats then 4d6, the default, but at least that should be obvious to DMs. Even 4d6 is likely to stomp 5Es other stat...