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Perhaps the more important question is not whether it is bringing new people in, it's whether it is bringing people back. I have been interested in RPGs since I was 5 years old (I'm 34 now). I haven't been part of a regular gaming group for years, if really ever. I bought a handful of books...

Our party got clobbered a couple of weeks ago by an Ettin and a couple of ogre minions. His AC was so high that our primarily martial based party couldn't hit him. The DM had managed to nutralize our cleric, who could have taken him out with his reflex based attack powers. This was an...

This whole issue of word count in one edition vs. another strikes me as having much more to do with editing decisions than with content. This whole thing with "spell" being the big thing in the first three editions and "power" being the big thing in 4th is all about editing. Obviously, the...

My vote is for Thor, Apollo and Set. I'm not sure how many DMs actually use the classic mythological gods in their settings, but I love seeing how each version of D&D treats these gods. It's kind of old school Deities and Demigods fealing.

Makes sense to do psionics next spring if they plan to do Dark Sun in the summer / early fall. That would be my guess for the next campaign setting release and this schedule makes a lot of sense. I'd like to see an Oriental Adventures setting. Not sure if WotC would see that as a whole...

Ouch. That's a lot. This looks pretty useful and I'm sure the cost of producing all of that stuff is high, but that's a good chunk to lay out for this. Although, I've spent $30 a lot on books that I look at twice and throw on the shelf. This would get heavy usage every week, so maybe it's a...

Any idea what this is going to cost?

This was likely settle amicably, with Ema getting a few bucks and having to sign a non-compete / non disclosure agreement.

I was actually thinking this might be one way to make a defender more fun. My Paladin is really set up to be a defensive master. He wears plate and carries a large shield. However, if you made a fighter that had a gigantic axe or hammer, wore scale and had no shield, you would be much more...

Aint that the truth. I've been playing a Paladin in our group since just after 4E came out. We've been doubling our XP, so we advence quicker and we're up to 8th level now. The amount of pounding that my guy takes has become kind of a running joke in our campaign. I get pummeled every...

Problems with the updater? It's my understanding that you can download the character generator onto more than one PC, so long as you don't exceed 5 updates in a month. I had no problems getting it to install on my laptop. I then tried to install it on my wife's desktop. I had no problems...

Oriental Adventures

GI Joe the RPG I've always thought GI Joe would make an awsome RPG. Great characters, lots of action, cool vilain, good plots, versitile yet familiar, lots of source material, good retro value / cross-marketing potential. Maybe when the movie comes out there will be something.

This is awesome. In the English version, I'm seeing what I believe is an error. In the Attack section, you can pick an ability vs. a defense from drop down menus. The only place to enter a modifier to either of those is the next line down. When you enter anything in that line, it...

Can you put some color coded powers cards on your to-do list?

Amazon.com is showing a backorder right now on the Core Rules Gift Set. Won't have any in stock until first part of July. I checked last night and it said June 20th, so they've pushed it back even further. Demand must either be HUGE or they simply didn't package enough of the gift sets.

It would seem to me that how easy a game is to role-play has as much to do (if not more to do) with the setting than the rules themselves. If a game has a setting that is well developed, interesting and easy to build upon, this would seem to go a long way toward creating an environment...

I chose the next to last one (not interested in D&D before 4th edition). I have not played in an organized campaign of D&D for a long time. In fact, I'm not sure that I ever have. I've played and messaged around with D&D since I was about 5 in 1980 or so. I have the 3.0 books and played some...

Any chance Treasure of Talon Pass is an extra little goodie they are going to throw into the core rulebook gift set? Looks like it is conveniently sitting on top of the box for the gift set.

Along this same lines, I like the fact that monster powers are pretty modular. I can envision a sourcebook coming up called something like "Monsterous Powers" that would basically contain a list of about 200 different powers you could add to a monster. It would then have information about how...