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Off the top of my head, because this board is stuffed to the gills with freelancers, PDF publishers, and gamers, all of whom might offer valuable insights into the process? He's not crowdsourcing the decision, he's asking for thoughts / insights. I would politely request that you look at the...

I'd adore about six more books about Incarnum. I know not everyone liked it, but it was fantastic for me, personally. I think it would have been ... interesting... to take the opposite approach from what Wizards did, and make the niche / never-updated classes a little better, instead of a...

Well, Skill Focus (Religion) is useless enough that this can kinda-sorta be considered to cost two Feats. So, for two feats, a floating +2 bonus, with a +6 "blowout". I'd still say no. Because they'll only blow it out when it lets them pass, and "floating" is a pretty good advantage. If they...

I've been mentally working this out, too, what a "simplified" version of the game might look like. I think a game with (virtually) all choices pre-made for the character(s), covering levels one through five, would work, and could remain compatible with the Pathfinder game - compatible enough...

Nae. Ye have my sword. I also feel WotC should "fail", because they made - several, in sequence - marketing errors (and that's not counting 'they didn't market 4e to me' as an error). ("Fail", not "die". I feel the industry needs WotC alive.) As a business, the only way for them to learn not...

Again, my suggestion, and long-held perspective, is - all material(s) presented in the game - including, in at least some cases, game mechanics, and entire books - are presented in-character, and from an unreliable narrator. Given the choice of narrator(s), the material presented is (often)...

It likewise seems odd to suggest that centuries-old vampires should have purged themselves of their very-not-PC centuries-old prejudices. Or that, as bad guys, they shouldn't be racist. Most games deal with racism and racist characterizations by ignoring them. And that's perfectly fine in most...

Uh, what line of reasoning has lead to this conclusion? Because they depicted un-apologetic racists? I have depicted great wyrm red dragons. Sadly, I cannot yet breathe fire.

White Wolf's games cast the player in the part of the villain, or at best anti-hero. (...but probably villain.) Speaking only for myself, I never got the feeling that the game agreed with the perspective it presented. (Beyond a certain amount of, "how cool would THAT be!" when presenting...

The tone of this paragraph has put me off having this conversation. Once I realized that the books were always, at all times (even, often, while giving rules information), in-character, my personal perspective on the game changed. I am sorry that a ten years out of print game system upsets you...

For what it's worth... Ruemere didn't say it wasn't racist. But everything, in every book, was "perspective oriented". And that perspective, in general, was "European vampires born and embraced in the mid to late middle ages". The Ravnos were all Gypsies because the Elders hated Gypsies, and...

Huh. There's an interesting tidbit, that I'd either forgotten, or dismissed. So those in charge of the money [edit - for the life of 3.0 / 3.5 and the dawn of 4th edition] were not the original OGL supporters. When was Unearthed Arcana (Wizard's last OGL foray, correct?) released? Anyone?

Depends very much on the WOTC office environment. Do they sit around and roleplay, during "playtests", or just run through the encounters, checking the mechanics? If it's the latter, that could easily lend itself to, well, the type of adventures they produce. Particularly if they think, "Well...

We are in complete agreement. But one of the goals of D&D 4E was expansion. "Experienced" gamers were no longer the target(s) (IMHO, etc, etc; we were certainly invited along for the ride, but we weren't the targets). And, if the options are, sell to "Experienced gamers" or sell to "new...

I think this is a significant factor. I think Paizo is leading the industry in adventures. But I don't think that means that adventures are leading the industry. Rich, deep, flavorful game content may not be what WOTC sells because rich, deep, flavorful game content may not sell well. Edit to...

200 parents of vaccinated kids is also statisically meaningless, which is what you're missing, there. There are millions if not literally billions of vaccinated kids. 200 gaming companies - be they FLGS or companies that sell .PDFs - all saying they were seeing Pathfinder radically outsell /...

Hello! I was wondering if anybody had - or most importantly, knew where I could find - a list of spells by name and class level. I'm hoping for it to include most (if not all) WotC releases... ...any luck?

1. Gnolls 2. Humans 3. Illithid 4. Fair Folk (Yeah, it's broad - I make new ones up) 5. Elves 6. Separately, Drow. 7. Orcs 8. Kobolds 9. Eldrich Giants 10. Vampires

I always find this topic amusing, because in my regular playgroup, there are two women, and four men. It's the women who look up semiclad pictures of people (generally famous people) on teh interwebs to portray their characters. And my wife, for the longest time, refused to dress her female...

I see where you're going here, and I think I partially agree. If the presence of the giants didn't affect the combat - they were watching, unseen in the woods, and none of the PCs ever acted against them or to defend against them - they didn't affect the encounter, therefore no XP for them...