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Talk about it with him directly, face to face. You can judge someone's reactions much better in person than emails. Now, if the guy is a grognard happy with 2nd ed and such, and opinionated about it, knowing your posts on the forum, Rechan, this guy won't be happy. I know I wouldn't. You will...

Right. Unless you got a GSL that basically bans you from producing OGL and GSL materials for the same line. AND bans these products perpetually from the OGL if you decide to switch. Nice try on the play on words/1st degree answer, though.

AD&D3 for me I'll be running AD&D3 personally (no typo - it's PDF document. Gary's 1st ed modified with some C&C/d20 rules and cleaned up, basically). I thus voted "older editions". I'll run Pathfinder RPG probably, as well. I'll keep supporting the APs at least, and buy Beta to see what...

You mean the same ScottR who was saying the OGL would be kept intact? That's his job to say whatever soothes the fans, even if that means half-truths and demi-lies, people. Open your eyes.

You're actually mistaken. In all three instances (Beren and Luthien, Tuor and Idril, Aragorn and Arwen. Earendil and Elwing being both half-elven, it doesn't really count), there has been strong opinions not to let human and elf get together, and there were dire (if glorious) consequences.

The WotC message boards crashed again? Oh. Okay. Now wait until the DDI game table and stuff is effectively online. I bet its customers are going to have a lot of fun with WotC, then.

That's not the point. Chimeres indeed has nothing to do with core D&D. If you're going to change the great wheel and such to make it more appealing, there would have been also ways in which you could have made dragons playable as PCs. Chimeres is just a non-D&D example on how to make dragons...

1) and 2) were definitely "served" in my 3.X games as well. I would wager you're far from being the only one in this case.

Do you know the tabletop RPG called "Chimeres"? There are plenty of ways in which dragons could be made playable from the get-go without resorting to portmanteaus and lazy design.

1/ To actually explain that to a noob, the noob has to be interested in what you're saying, aka he's already giving a chance to D&D. You, potential DM/fellow player, become the entry to D&D. The books therefore are not. They fail as an entry product (whether 3rd ed was any better in this regard...

Thank you. You put it probably more clearly than I would have.

This has actually nothing to do with conversation at hand, whatsoever, but are you seriously claiming that Star Wars actually isn't Fantasy? If not, what is it, then? :-S

Blessings for some become curses for others. Some players out there (particularly those who loved to play spellcasters in previous editions of the game) loved the vast array of spells at their disposal. Spell selection was part of the fun for them. No wonder they are disappointed. "Even one...

Or not. Indeed.

I would understand if I was presenting a doomsday scenario here, but I'm not. No Armageddon coming our way, as far as I'm aware. Just slow decline. ;)

Not really. First, they're selling me a support and guidelines to play a role-playing game. Not "rules". It does include rules, but the product certainly isn't limited to them. Second, WotC chooses to answer all the rules whining to come up with errata and other "official fixes" that are...

It wasn't. I was thinking of "Magic: The Gathering", not WOD games. That said, WOD games' claim of focussing more on story is well, ludicrous. There is a tad less mechanics, that's true. If you're not too focussed on the rules to begin with. The verbiage is well, extremely good in some...

I did both, and I can tell you it works in both cases. You will need to recap a bit more the events of previous games unless the players are especially attentive, and probably think more of the game as a social event than a harcore gaming session, but it does work if you are motivated and ready...

I just think all this nitpicking about rules is pointless. WotC giving in to that sort of thing just makes games more and more focused on mechanics. It's more "Dungeons: The Dragoning" or "Saga: The Star Warsing" than anything about actual role-playing. Back in the day (I'm talking about the...

That's right! After all, what DM in his right mind would allow a PC to play an unnatural Oath Breaker giving up on the world of the living to make pacts with outsiders and bear magic from them?! Wait... you do. That's called a "Warlock" (waer-log = oath breaker). Truth is, there are many...