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I agree with this. I don't understand why Wizards would flush the investment in time and salary they've already made on d20 Spectaculars unless they've decided that d20M books as a whole are no longer financially viable. KoOS

I am one of those people you refer to, though I wouldn't use the word "predisposition"... it's more a familiarity with my own tastes. But I did want to point out that I'd even buy The Foundation: A World in Black and White if it had previously unseen Jack Kirby pencils! I have to wonder: if...

I very much doubt this has actually been cancelled -- if that were the case, I'd expect Wizards would have taken this page down already. KoOS

Isn't that the problem, though? That people like the depth and robustness of 3.x mechanics, but not the "feel" of much of the 3.x product? I know I'm in that position to a certain extent -- frex I love love love the idea of Eberron, but IMO the "feel" of the finished product is that of a...

For me, the problem is that if I allow imagination to take precedence over mechanical optimization, the least of my problems is that I lose "spotlight time" (i.e. PC involvement in the action) to other players around the table that don't share my fondness for imagination in chargen; the worst of...

If there were approximately 100,000 RPG sales every month in 1996, and there are approximately 100,000 RPG sales every month in 2005, the hobby isn't doing any better now than it was in 1996. If D&D was making 5,000 in sales every month in 1996 and is making 95,000 in sales every month in 2005...

I don't doubt that the D&D brand is healthier now than it was in the waning days of TSR (and for the individual who suggested this was an "edition war" for me: 3.x is by several orders of magnitude my favorite iteration of the game, kthx). What about the rest of the hobby? KoOS

No, it's a statement that in the mid-90s there were a number of companies producing a healthy flow of RPG product, and now there are significantly fewer companies producing less product (unless you count PDF sales, which aren't remotely the same thing). I'm not talking about the quality of...

My "experience" is that there are fewer companies producing less product. FASA is gone, replaced by a company that doesn't produce RPGs but licenses its properties to a company that produces product at a fraction of its predecessor's rate. WEG went bankrupt, was bought by a company that...

IK is a fantastic setting. It's broadly 3.5 compatible but you really do need to read those rules closely before introducing them to your game -- their balance/precision of compatibility with core 3.5 mechanics is a bit wonky in places. Personally as an aside, I'd very much love to see IK...

First, a point: pen-and-paper RPGs are at the "low popularity level they had in the mid-1990's" now, Danceyist propaganda aside. They might even be lower, post-bubble. Okay, if Wizards had never bought TSR: * The rights to D&D would have been in limbo for many years before some corporate...

Well, "room" isn't really the issue. I think the question is, is d20M a dynamic enough product to carry an expanded market? I don't know. The demand, for print products at least, seems to be going in the wrong direction. Wizards is still looking for that "killer app" that will compel people...

The difference is that D&D had a couple of years of heavy support before the bubble burst, for good or ill. With d20M, the support proposed in the initial stages of the project pulled out before ever seeing a store shelf. KoOS

The old versions required quite a bit of tweaking to port rules mechanics and stats. That's one of the key differences between the old and new versions, in fact. Serious question: have you ever actually played any of the WoD games? KoOS

I'm a little confused here... doesn't your second paragraph directly contradict your first? KoOS

Uhhh, actually yeah they do. Vampire is one game, Werewolf is another, different game. You can buy one without buying the other, and I suspect that many many people do just that. To do what? Create multiple games with the same system? No one's arguing against that -- quite the opposite...

As the person whose statement apparently inspired this thread (thanks, The Shaman!), I should clarify my own take on this. I have zero problem with the amount of FX in the d20M corebook, in terms of rules. My problem with the d20M core is that of the three campaign models in the book, two of...

Precisely because D&D fans already have D&D. Presumably people who want a modern d20 game want something different. If Wizards just wants to cater to D&D fans who want to play D&D with guns and electronics, they should publish a D&D sourcebook in that genre and be done with it. KoOS

Except instead of focusing on vampires or demons, Shadow Chasers has the PCs chasing kobolds and goblins... IOW, exactly the same D&D "creatures of Shadow" as Urban Arcana. Like I said, same setting with different character perspectives -- in one you hunt the bad D&D creatures, in the other you...

The name change makes sense, if you want to emphasize the nature of the powers and deemphasize the genre tropes of four-colour spandex superheroes. KoOS