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Original poster's claim is at odds with reality since about 2001. The "A" was consciously dropped (as it was mostly a marketing label to begin with), but the 3rd edition version is intended to follow on the "AD&D" line.

I think that if it were not for the direct D&D connection, the books wouldn't be remembered much these days, and may not have been published to begin with. They are, at best, mediocre. There is a lot better fantasy out there these days - there was a lot better fantasy out there even back when...

I have mixed feelings about The Gathering. On the one hand, it sets up the base of the Season One plot (and one scene in particular is directly referenced in Season One), and sets up a certain character who becomes prominent starting in Season Two. However, the story itself is slow, and several...

Se, I'd see the monk as being little more than a specialized fighter-thief combination, the bard as basically a mage-rogue combination, and the cleric and mage being essentially the same thing. For me, D&D works best with three classes: fighter, rogue, and wizard (with the wizard subsuming the...

Go to the Phillippines and tell the escrima practitioners that.

Oh wait, Nickelodeon did it too. Your house of cards seems to be falling apart. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/show_business/when_writers_turn_on_each_other_it_happened_at_spongebob_70634.asp

Your point was that studios fire reality show writers who try to join the WGA? Because that's what happened here.

I brought up health insurance in response to a poster claiming that most unions don't do anything to help the middle-class stay insured - a claim which is clearly false since the bulk of "working class" unions mae health insurance a big priority. I noted as an aside that WGA members are entitled...

This is not too hard. Writers for America's Top Model voted to join the WGA. They were fired for their trouble. http://defamer.com/hollywood/top/hollywood-protestwatch-writers-vs-top-models-189137.php http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-08-10-reality-tv-strike_x.htm...

You sure do a great job impersonating a corporate shill online.

Woah there. You apparently didn't read the post I was responding to, because if you did, you'd know how silly the little diatribe you just made really is.

Of course, the fact that every time reality show writers try to join the WGA, the studios fight them tooth and nail at the NLRB and then fire all those seeking to join the union at the earliest possible opportunity pretty much shows this claim to be the total lie that it is.

Nice shilling. I'm sure your corporate masters are pleased. And I don't remember saying that the writers were "little guys" (except, in relative terms, they are). If you are getting $100,000, but the people you work for are screwing you out of $200,000, you are still being screwed. The fact...

Just as an example, James Cameron is a member of the WGA - and is compensated substantially for his writing. It takes a lot of $20,000 a year screenwriters in the same pool he is in to result in an "average salary of $200,000".

For a lot of unionized jobs, they do - it is called profit sharing. Most unions place, as a high priority, getting their members health insurance. In many ways, unions are a way of increasing the number of employers who offer health insurance. In the case of the WGA, those who are members of...

Because the work is, to a certain extent, the result of their effort. Residuals are the element that make most writers willing to accept lower pay up front: if studios were willing to pay more up front, they might not have to give residuals. Any time you see someone accepting deferred...

The "average WGA member" thing is highly misleading. A handful of WGA members make a lot of money. Most don't. More to the point, reality show writers and animation writers are routinely screwed by their employers, and most make very little money. Basically, the key here is that one side in...

Good for you. We always need more people to side with those who routinely screw those who work for them. I mean really, we gotta make sure to stick it to the people being screwed or else everything will fall apart.

"Now that we've renamed them, they aren't spells anymore! They are now totally different!" This whole issue seems silly. So they renamed "spells" as "powers". It seems like little more than a cosmetic change.

And, to raise an older point, this is why all of the arguments made by the studios and producers concerning the current writers strike are pure horse manure.