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I'm slightly disappointed that the poll includes some pretty obscure and out-of-print games, but not any version of GURPS. Anyway. I am currently running Fourth Edition D&D using the Scales of War adventure path, and my friend Mark is about to start running a Fourth Edition GURPS game online...

Listen. The only reason you felt bad is because you weren't reading carefully and made the unwarranted assumption that it was a reward for RPGA DMs, as opposed to a reward (for free) for signing up (for free) to the RPGA and letting them know where you live.* Stop going on with this arrant...

People always ask "Can you imagine this walking into a tavern looking for adventure?" as if it were a good thing to trot out that stupid, tired trope again and again and again and again and again for decades more. Viva something non-traditional, for goodness' sake.

I suspect that 30% of gamers are women. I could be persuaded that it's probably closer to 20%, as Wizards of the Coast's survey suggested, but I'm an optimist sometimes. I think there are two major vectors for women entering the hobby: introduction by a partner and exposure through computer...

The Shrine of the Five Stars The Shrine of the Five Stars would be an almost wholly unremarkable place of worship, were it not for a secret dating back to Solano's founding. The shrine follows the pattern of such buildings in towns all across the lands of the Spring Empire: a small, rectangular...

Oh, yeah, OBVIOUSLY. What a bunch of crap.

My brother-in-law had a similar reshuffle happen when his department's budget was cut down. He had been the guy who managed the people who train the staff; he became one of the people who trains the staff.

Yeah, recycled art is just like stealing money out of your pocket.

Frankly, the idea that dragonborn or tieflings don't have individuals who work in mines or fields or forges is ludicrous. No matter how the race came about, they're still just people - even when your life is enhanced by magical power or your blood thrumming with the influence of the Nine Hells...

Yep. :):):):) Tolkien. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. ;)

I think this is absolutely right, and I'm glad that Paizo has its own game to publish even if it's not a game I want to play. In all likelihood, it's a healthier direction long-term, and it lets them make their own decisions about what to publish and when rather than relying on Wizards of the...

Thank you so much for your refreshing, original, and above all polite critique of Fourth Edition D&D. It's such a rare thing to find an incisive, intelligent analysis of the game around here - I'm sure you'll have a long and productive posting career if this is the sort of keen wit you'll apply...

As Ari said, just because there may never be an official "core" setting from whence came Bael Turath, Arkhosia, Nerath, et cetera, doesn't mean that there will be never be a new setting from Wizards of the Coast. They just don't intend to flesh out the Fourth Edition's "core setting" beyond a...

Yes, I agree. I don't have a problem with the notion that there are "domains of dread" in the Shadowfell, which can provide a Ravenloft-like experience in a regular D&D game; it's not the same thing as a Fourth Edition version of Ravenloft "proper". I think it's unlikely that Wizards of the...

I wouldn't call myself fanatical at all, but I'm only interested in one set of rules for playing Dungeons & Dragons because it's not the only kind of game I want to play. I also want to play World of Darkness, GURPS, and other games; I think Fourth Edition is a much better version of D&D than...

Your statements are technically correct, but irrelevant. When I say "second-biggest company in the roleplaying industry" I don't mean "company with the second-largest employee roster" or "company with the second-most valuable assets". I mean that White Wolf's games, collectively, occupy the...

Right on the second - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is and always has been a sideline compared to the Warhammer Fantasy Battles wargame - but, while White Wolf was involved in the Live-Action boom of the Nineties, their games have always been tabletop games first and foremost. Frankly, if you...

Here I was expecting that response, but also expecting a clarifying comment along the lines of "well, the Abyss is part of the Elemental Chaos, draw your own conclusions" or "there's a lot to say about the Elemental Chaos aside from the Abyss, don't you think?" ;)

The Magistrate In the days of the Spring Empire, the magistrate in each town and village was appointed by the prefect of the region. There is, of course, no prefect in these days; your grandmother and grandfather can remember the last magistrate so appointed, but when he died there was no one...

Inhabitants As a frontier town, Solano has always featured a more diverse mix of races than the norm for the Spring Empire. Life on the borders, despite the conservative grumblings of the traditionalists of your grandmother's and grandfather's generation, had always been more concerned with...