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- the ability to browse or read is juast as well served by publisher's web-sites or Amazon.com's "browse the book" feature - enworld is a fine location to consult with others about products If FLGSs have utility, then they will be commercially successful enough to stay afloat. My guess is that...

I doubt if buying from your FLGS (which for me, typically means wandering into a dark, god-forsaken store far from my home to deal with a greasy teenager behind the counter who's rude to me) rather than Amazon.com is going to have any impact on whether your job gets outsourced. It just means...

I've used the 3.5 method since 3.0 It has a big advantage, which is that the lower level folks catch up over time to the higher level folks. That's not true for the 3.0 method.

One of my best friends got into D&D after playing Baldur's Gate. She was totally into it, and we almost decided to do a combined D&D sailing vacation together before we realized that we never liked each other when we had to spend that much time together. :)

Oh no, the sky is falling! Only 120% growth! The industry is shrinking! :) And this is despite an unfavorable currency exchange for the first half of 2005! Congratulations on a successful year to date.

Looks a lot like seasonal variation to me. Most retailers have numbers that drop during the year and then pick up again during Christmas season. Many retailers will tell you that they lose money 10 months out of the year and make it back up between Thanksgiving and New Year's. That's why all the...

Wow, you have pretty crummy players. In the past, I've had players: * design a mage's guild for a part of the city they were based in * come up with such interesting story hooks for their characters that I based entire plots around them * wrote up summaries and experiences of their...

Thanks for the clarification. Note that nothing you say contradicts what Mike Mearls said earlier. I suspect the local gaming retailer is not going to stock much except the best-selling RPGs in the near future. As Mearls points out, the big chain bookstores and Amazon.com are set up much better...

Indeed. Every year the first portion of "Year's Best Science Fiction" is spent debunking the "SF is dying" theory that propagates itself despite the fact that more SF books are published every year than the previous.

You don't. You might need one if you wanted to write an RPG to compete with D&D, for instance. And you'll almost certainly need a good system design background to understand the whys and hows of CR/EL, magic items/XP rules, etc. You don't need a degree in mechanical engineering to drive a car...

This demonstrates the lack of understanding of the D&D 3e rules by most RPG designers. The CR system doesn't say anything about what the DM should be throwing against the party at a given level. The EL of an encounter is the gauge of how hard an encounter should be. An encounter at the same EL...

I think the Core rules (DMG, PHB, MM) are solid and very well balanced. Most additional monster books don't provide any new options for PCs, so they can be added to the game by the DM without any concerns about balance. Optional add-ons, however, are more questionable. In those cases, the DM...

That's because most current RPG designers are not system designers. All you have to do is hop over to RPG.net (or visit any of the threads that claim that C&C is superior because it's got most of the player-friendly features of D&D stripped) to realize that the majority of RPG designers today...

Yes, but when D&D 3e launched (which was a great success), did WW's sales go up in its non-d20 segments? I'd guess not. Similarly, I suspect that the 3.5e launch did nothing for WW's sales outside of their d20 lines. It wouldn't surprise me if WoTC's been taking market share away from d20 and...

That's not a very good guess. As people get older they don't have time to travel. And if they have kids, they don't have money, either!

You know, that makes a lot of sense. In particular, if I was looking to buy a book in person (as opposed to buying one on-line at Amazon.com), I'd buy it at Borders or Barnes and Noble rather than going to the crummy unlit game store where the guy behind the counter is rude or hasn't bathed in...

I agree. The games I DM for the group have to have pre-written adventures, or I won't run them. I ran a game of Grimm because FFG published a free adventure on the site --- thereby selling 4 more copies of Grimm d20. I ran a game of DC Heroes, going as far as to buy 5 copies of DC Heroes 3rd Ed...

Don't be silly. Go over to www.montecook.com and visit their forums. It's full of folks running Ptolus games. I'm running the Banewarrens (a $20 module you can buy from Amazon.com for $13) in Ptolus by scrounging around data posted by Monte for free on his web-site. Sure, it won't be as detailed...

I'm not going to buy Shackled City (already have the magazines, thank you), but I will probably get the Dragon Compendium. I've never had a subscription to dragon (the articles have been pretty bleaugh for me), but the "best of" might have good stuff that I can use.

No, it's something I asked for a couple years ago, when John Nephew and some others asked the question: "what would cause you to drop $100 for an RPG product." I and several other posters wanted a campaign in a box. Something that'll take you from 1st to 20th level, that totally eliminates all...