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I never know why people have this attitude. Actually, that's not true, I know why, but I'll never understand it. It seems to me there are a lot of people that don't want to design role-playing campaigns so much as play with model trains. And for them, the thrill comes from building every NPC...

No, but Hasbro could easily spin off D&D and keep the more profitable divisions of WotC. Not that I necessarily believe this is likely, but it's a lot more plausible than the original poster made it sound. (I admit, I only responded to this so I could argue with myself. Mother always warned...

We'll know how closely 4e mimics WoW by the first table you play at at a con. If one player hands the DM a sheet of paper that says "I find the nearest mining node, and mine it. Then I repeat." and leaves the table, and another player starts yelling at all the other players to buy his gold...

I think Clark Peterson posted something to that effect on another thread. 3.5 statblocks get nasty at higher levels. They're confusing to run and near impossible to write. You'd need a preternaturally talented editor to get them right. If 4e makes that manageable, it's a important step forward.

I was planning on paying for a subscription to show my support while they transitioned to 4e. I'm not planning on running Crimson Throne, but I figured I could at least read it and pick up some ideas. Now that I know they're never converting Pathfinder to 4e, I didn't see any reason to...

It's more like Chipotle changing their menu, having a couple bad quarters, and McDonalds selling them off to Qdoba*. Which is somewhat more plausible. * I know, McDonalds sold off their investment in Chipotle in 2006. It's the metaphor that's important.

Apparently Paizo has been planning this for the past year. Simultaneously with planning a conversion to 4e. It's true, Wizards sitting on the GSL did have an effect, but there's no telling whether Paizo would have supported 4e after they saw the GSL and the ruleset. They were prepared to jump...

I didn't mean prevent in the "bar the door and point a shotgun at your head" meaning. I meant prevent in the "I was going to buy 4e, but then I heard Paizo was coming out with PRPG, so now I'm not." And that they certainly have done. Again, they did what they thought made the most sense for...

Not all that quickly. Keep in mind the PRPG Guide is due out in 18 months. That means they've basically committed to 2 years at a minimum. And since they're quickly locking up not just the anti-4e crowd but the "YOU'LL PRY THIRD EDITION FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS" crowd, that's going to make...

But it is making that split worse. There are a number of people that were willing to go whichever way Paizo went. Paizo could have brought more people over to 4e. Instead, they're preventing people from switching. I have no idea if this was a good business decision, because I honestly don't...

Absolutely. They'll "adjust their play style" by finding a different GM. I mean, really? "Wow, that battle took a lot out of us. I'm out of spells, the cleric's only got Cure Lights left, and we already had the fighter and rogue go unconscious in the first fight. We've got to pull back and...

A big appeal of the adventure paths was having everything laid out for you; as I put it elsewhere, when I was 20 I was more than willing to put in a couple hours of prep work for every hour at the gaming table. After getting a job and a house and a mortgage, that's a lot less appealing. If...

I hate self-promoting, but I'd like to point out a community-run project I'm involved in: Harvestlands. We're building a campaign path for 4e, set in a darker world (where elves have disappeared, the dwarves have been overrun by duergar, and the gnomes have begun experimenting on humans). If...

Tell them, "Of course there's a warlock. There was an assassin in 3rd edition. You can be a cleric of an evil god. Some of the character options are literally evil. However, some warlocks refuse to get their powers from such sources, and instead have made a deal with the Fey." Then hope...

To be fair, they've stated they want to be more proactive about adding material to the System Reference Document for 4e. This is probably as close to a deal-breaker for me. It would be monumentally foolish for them to leave them out; they really don't want to have the "official" version...

Actually, I'm pretty sure that PCs will have some abilities that recharge on some triggers, like downing an opponent or rolling a crit. That doesn't mean they couldn't also have some things that use the Recharge 5 6 mechanic, but I suspect those will be relatively rare, if they exist at all.

The next day, the five of them travel down the road to the next town, where a dealer in previously-owned dragon treasure had promised to make them a good deal on gold statues and jewel-encrusted goblets. It is just past midmorning, when a shriek comes from the sky. Something large dives out of...

Sort of. The problem is that classes quickly swamp race differences. Whatever minor difference there is between a Gnoll and a Lizardfolk is completely effaced once you make them a Gnoll Rogue 10 and a Lizardfolk Rogue 10. Even two races as different as Ogre and Kobold are going to feel pretty...

Did people have complaints about "Stunning Fist" in 3.5? Or the Rogue's "Defensive Roll"? Do people still? That's the biggest problem I have with people complaining about 1/day or 1/encounter abilities. The 3.5 rules have always had them, and I've never seen people complain about that.

Player 1: "We've been playing baseball on this team for 5 years now, hundreds of games, and all of us in the outfield have seen what the pitcher does. Why can't we just take over?" Player 2: "Laws of physics. We can't throw fastballs. Or last for six innings, for that matter." Player 1...