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i don't want (and can't) delve into politics (be them u.s. or worldwide), but i think there is little you can do in the way of tuning the draconic down, especially in entertainment business, these days. i'd say that WotC policy, however unacceptable, is still less draconic than, for example...

horrible, this never happened before. no, wait a second... the creators of youtube got rich thanks to users uploading their videos in there, so that the website becase so popular that google paid good money for it. but that's just one case. no, wait, there is some talking about the creators of...

no, i haven't. i don't like the game enough to bother. :p i can't comment with as much confidence as you about the "brokennes" of spellcasters, but i can tell you that i want my magic rare and fantastic, not everyday and sold at the cornershop along with milk and mars bars. :p and this is...

and, reading from the posts in these very forums, is equally heavily houseruled by many players, too. maybe it doesn't do rules heavy right then. in my opinion, GURPS does rules heavy right. you don't like this subset because your campaign is cinematic? you might try the one on page Xxx. that's...

which is what other system do, like cyberpunk 2.0.2.0., if i remember well. anyway, i would have liked that approach much better.

well, not necessarily. people tend to forget things that happened in the adventure last month, if they can't look it up in writing. and i could be willing to pretend that joe the fighter can jump 20 feet while heavy encumbered this time, because it's good for the story to unfold, whereas next...

the good thing is that this is just talk. until we see the books, there's nothing more we can do. i just hope that my sometimes negative feelings are just a sign of me getting old! :p

maybe because the same "but it makes the role of DMs so much easier" hype was thrown at us before 3e came out, and we were badly burnt by that ruleset? :p i'm talking jsut for me, here. i still remember the article on creating monsters for 3e in dragon which said something like "the monster...

well, to be fair, you have to compare apples to apples. you are saying that the DM-proofing angle with which the rules are written is good, because it makes easier for inexperienced DMs to jump into the game. it totally agree with you. on the other hand, consider what happens to novice...

for every one of them, you can probably find one or more "horrible player story". hell, there is an issue of knights of the dinner table put out EVERY MONTH, full of jokes about horrible players! so, what's the next step? marginalise the role of the players? :p

i suppose that you have to cater for the vociferous players that always had problems with hobbit-like halflings going to adventures. or finding them "boring" and "uncool". i had asimpler answer to their whining, when i met one: just don't play a halfling. but D&D is all about options, these...

oh, i love them, too. only they are expensive, require storage room i haven't got, and aren't too easy to move around when i move to another nation for months to an end. RPG books are a bitch, too... but i can buy pdfs, or scan mine, or just bring those that i might really be needing. you see...

yeah, me too. i'm surprised nobody lynched you for saying that... :p

if i can throw my two pences in, i will tell you why *my* perspective of the new edition is more and more negative the more i read about it. pretty much the only thing i care about the new edition is: 1. smoother, less tactical combat, as independent as possible from miniatures. 2. more freedom...

then you should have quit playing 3e a long time ago... :P in fact, i doubt you would have ever switched to 2e! :D

i admit that i didn't follow the debate on the new edition that closely, but... where did you get this info?!?!? if that was actually true, i would have no use for the 4e books other than levelling pieces of furniture or starting a fire... can't it be the case that you are just reading some...

it is indeed. i am looking forward for the next edition (which, apparently, is slowly starting to be prepared). it has some really really neat concepts and old material is very portable in it. a bit rule heavy, but, hey, at least they manage to create a system that made much more sense than any...

i have some hackmaster stuff and castles and crusades. they're not bad, but... they're missing something. i'll post a double thread either today or tomorrow about a little idea i have... i would like to get your input, too, Voadam! :)

sorry, double post. :uhoh:

first of all, let me tell you that i would in general agree with you: supporting older systems would be way cool. on the other hand, a change of prospective might shed more light on why this is unlikely to happen. let's say that your guesstimation of how sizeable the "older D&D editions" maket...