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It's only wrong if it's the wrong team. So to clear things up, these are the correct teams to root for: Team 3rd Edition Team Open Gaming License Team Gnome Team Bard Team Chaotic Good Team Planescape

IIRC (and I may not be recalling things correctly), the Epic Level Handbook was released as closed content for quite some time before the rules text from it was converted and uploaded as Open Game Content, so I doubt you could get a good reading of the effect of the hypertext SRD on its sales...

The whole "moral" thing is my fault, I'm pretty sure I was the first to bring up the concept of morality. I was trying to make a different point, and I feel that some people latched onto the word and built a straw man around it. However, I should have known the term was loaded.

Perhaps I should have said, if the License is sufficiently closed, then punctuality will be a negative for WotC, because it will give those other companies time to develop and implement a counter strategy. This is why I'm pessimistic now. The only good reason to delay on a new Gaming License is...

Since fighter powers has been brought up in this thread, I just want to point out that it wasn't entirely novel to 4th Edition. Fighter powers go back to Mike Mearls' work in The Book of Iron Might and Iron Heroes for Monte Cook's Malhavoc Press. A version of fighter powers also appeared in...

The OGL didn't cost WotC D&D. For one thing, the 4E system was a moderate success. There were a few factors that made it less of a success than it could have should have been, but the existence of the OGL wasn't one of them. And also, I'm not sure what you're arguing. Mutants and Masterminds...

Yes, and I have a moral obligation not to pirate their IP. Give and take. I don't know what's so hard to believe about that. I wasn't actually claiming that Dragon and Dungeon are the sole drivers. But let's say I am making that argument. People used to spend quite a bit more money to get the...

You seem to have misread my argument. The Character Builder isn't just rules. It's software. You can't compare the Hypertext SRD to the Character Builder or Monster Builder. If people are signing up for DDI solely for the rules, then WotC is ripping them off. I don't believe that is the case...

The only thing you seem not to be convinced about is the degree of the losses that the DDI would incur. People are saying it's not as bad as you think it is. I think you were the one who claimed that the losses would be $500,000/month. That's hyperbole. I don't know if I should be making moral...

What you seem to be missing is that DDI isn't about the rules. It has the rules in it, yes, but people aren't paying for it just for the rules. It's a suite of value-added stuff. If it was just about the rules, it wouldn't be making any money at all right now, during 4E. As you say, people can...

Hmm, I didn't like this. The thing that drove me over the edge was the comedy crying. It was not as good as "Leave Britney Alone!" and I didn't even like that video... so yeah. I get the feeling that way too much time was spent on the music and titles, and not enough time on actual content...

My question is, is there a spoilers policy at ENWorld? Will threads violating some NDA be locked or deleted?

I like the idea of weaker 1st-level characters. It makes sense. Human beings are fragile in a lot of ways. A dagger to the gut is a lethal wound. A dagger to the leg is incapacitating. Hit points actually make sense when they're comparable to the weapons used to winge them down. If a hit from a...

If I were running the thing as an encounter, an entire army of thousands of 1st-level guys wouldn't even attack, because they'd have no one to lead them. But maybe they don't know how powerful the 10th-level fighter is. What would happen is one or two brave, foolish 1st-level guys would make...

I'm gonna need ten more coppers. The fee to post here is twelve coppers.

I will grant that there is some overlap by people who want to look up rules questions online. But really, the Compendium does different things. The Compendium lets you manipulate and sort and filter and create. The Compendium is software; the SRD is data. Also, the Compendium isn't the only...

huh, it's like the opposite of Star Trek. In Star Trek, all the odd iterations sucked, and the evens were decent. Maybe D&D and Star Trek made a deal to swap karma...

I take it we're not supposed to crunch the numbers given in any established system, but rather we're supposed to say what we think is realistic? There's the straight up arithmetic progression: A level 1 fighter takes on one level 1 guy. A level 2 fighter takes on two level 1 guys. A level 3...

If you're a 1st edition-style PC, you die. No save. If you're a 2nd edition-style PC, you get to make a saving throw. If you fail, you die. If you succeed... never mind, you're not going to succeed. If you're a 3rd edition-style PC, you get to make a Swim check. If you fail, you take 20d6...

"How much" will be a matter for debate, but we can say one thing with certainty: it was more than zero. What did it cost WotC to make this happen? The lawyers' and Ryan Dancey's salaries, which they were paying anyways. Oh, and that intern that converted the files to *rtf for the website. Does...