Search results

Mostly because of the implied oddities in social strata and magical staples that departed from the core assumptions of the game. The D&D Movie would have been most likely best served with either the Points of Light type setting (which is not a new concept, but is a new concept ... I.E. a...

The 4E playtesters are Soylent Green! --fje

... Y'know, I never even saw any of the Izmer stuff on the Wizards website. Does anybody have some links? It would be amusing to see. I think Izmer was a HORRIBLE setting for the movie. And the movie itself was so amazingly bad I had a minor schism after watching it. I sat there laughing...

And less-hailed products still get external playtesting. I know folks that have playtested things in the past, from big releases from middle-road companies to small PDF releases from PDF-publishing companies. Internal testing often runs the risk of groupthink. If the designers are designing...

I think statements to the effect that no data released means people can't proclaim doom are, essentially, bunk. Naysayers are going to proclaim regardless of how much they do or do not know about the system. However, the only way people who are positive about the change can really say: "No...

Well after every single person in the continental U.S. that wanted in was let in, we'd move to countries starting with A. Though I'm thinking height-based would be more egalitarian. >.> (They need to open the gates, already!) --fje

Yea, sounds like the Vampires are using special Minion rules which make them weaker and more prone to getting blown away by AoE spells and the like. Y'know ... mooks. --fje

Conceptually, the Warforged are great and fun for Eberron. They're outside the norm enough that I question them before I, say, question Eladrin and Tieflings. Demon/Angelspawn are "close enough" to a fantasy standard that they can be both edgy and acceptable in core. Constructs are ... sure...

But dogs are not humanoids. There's completely different assumptions of musculature at work there. Notice that most small dogs are STOUT dogs. That and many small-breed dogs are probably closer to the results of dwarfism in humans. A friend of mine had a few small dogs and they were very...

I'm sure they'll get thousands of applicants. All of them will be D&D aficionados and probably most of them will be perfectly acceptable as playtesters. How, then, shall we create a fair and balanced system to choose playtesters? We'll go by height and start with tallest first, of course...

I think they shouldn't have any Small PC races, out the door. Seriously, the Halflings are creepy-small. I have a kid. She's not much smaller than the halflings are described to be. She's not a functional combatant. --fje

A while back I just translated Spell Resistance into a +X on Saves vs. Spells. I did this because SR was so highly considered in LA equations that it meant Drow were useless as a race and a friend of mine wanted to have Drow play a bigger part in his campaign setting. I carried it over for my...

My working theory is they're trying to frustrate everybody enough that we all get bored and wander off and leave them in peace until May. :) --fje

Now I can envision a big bruiser-looking fellow in the stereotypical Italian mode cracking his knuckles and saying: "Youse looks like you can throw some dice. Mike Mearls (pronounced "Moike Moiles") would like to see you. He's got an offer youse can't refuse." --fje

:) Roland Barthes FTW! Or, "death of the author". I.E. textuality. Or, more precisely, I think my major question was how the post COULD be interpreted, not how it was meant. I looked upon the intent with as favorable an eye as I could. I think the folks over at WotC are big old Gamer Nerds...

There's a post floating around about having a sign-up in September for interested playtesters to apply. And even a call to watch DDI for when it happens. Nobody has seen anything. So either all of the playtesting will be Super Secret Double Probation Playtesting or they haven't started broad...

Oh, generally, I'm the same here. I'm just saying that his choice of metaphor and how long he went on talking about it could easily be dipped into the "dude, you're being a ****" pool. I think mostly because it is a message that didn't need to be said. --fje

I'm good with tokens. I use tokens in my home games, anyway. The way I used to do it, I built tokens for the monsters and I bought "Close Enough" commons from D&D Minis to represent the player characters. And we played on TactTiles. That was pretty much it. My current group is really...

I'm not a doomgloom naysayer and hater of the 4E. In general I'm pretty excited. But I try to keep an open and objective view of it. For instance, I think that we're almost a week into September and still no word on playtesting is worrisome. And this blog post I think is way too easily...

From 16 levels of experience I can say that the only thing that a group of four clerics has a problem with in 3.5 with the windows down is massively over-ELed fights with large groups of Dispel Magic Spell Like Ability throwing monsters. Seems that, these days, there's a spell for everything...