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    Forked Thread: How much does WotC policies matter to your enjoyment of the game

    It's quite simple, really. People are expressing their opinions about Wizards' actions because it's something they can (at least theoretically) effect. Wizards has changed course and can hopefully change course again. Look at, for example, DriveThru dropping DRM. Raging against the pirates does...
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    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    I've had this conversation before with clients looking to protect their IP, and this is the most frustrating part. Some manager or executive discovers online piracy and demands that something be done about it, refusing to accept that doing nothing is the best option. Withdrawing their PDFs from...
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    Dragon 374: Arcane Options - Character Concepts

    As useful for who? People who optimize there characters, squeezing out every fraction of DPR they can? Or people who don't care if their main stat starts out higher than 16 (and that's WITH the racial bonus), and are more interested in making their character fit their concept? Frankly, I...
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    Mac or PC?

    Macs support multi-button mice. You can buy pretty much any USB or Bluetooth mouse off the shelf and use it with a Mac. To play games on one of my Macs I boot into Windows XP using Bootcamp, which works quite well. I'm able to play LotRO and Warhammer with the graphics maxed out. And with VMWare...
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    What Systems Exist These Days?

    FUDGE has been mentioned, and while FATE originated with FUDGE, from where I'm sitting FATE v3 differs enough from FUDGE to warrant it's own entry in the list. I'd also add Burning Wheel to the list, though I'd probably lump all three variants (Burning Wheel, Burning Empires and Mouse Guard)...
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    layoffs?

    Well, I spent about a decade working for [global mega-corporation], and my observations there and with the dozens of large corporations I worked with as clients, I have to say that layoffs are indeed normal. For example, in my time at [global mega-corporation] I saw four waves of layoffs happen...
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    Very first thoughts after reading 4e PHB

    I'm right there with you. I played D&D back in the days of red box D&D and AD&D 1st ed, and to me it felt like D&D went badly off the tracks with 3.x. I tried it out, wanted to like it, but it didn't grab me. It just wasn't D&D to me. Fourth feels like a return to D&D original roots, and has...
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    Now that 4e is upon us, what will you do?

    I'm coming back to D&D for the first time since AD&D 1st ed back in the early 80's.
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    What do you make and what do you do?

    I don't generally discuss income, so I didn't participate in the poll. However, I can say that I'm a successful software developer, running a small corporation that makes custom software for businesses (mostly in the agriculture sector).
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    Recruiting: Fighting the Flames

    I'd be interested in the 4e game, but I'll need to get my hands on the books (pre-ordered) to really come up with a character concept. I'm kind of tinkering with the idea of a paladin or a wizard ... kicking some ideas around in my head.
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