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Some of the leading video game artists and creatives pay tribute to Frank Frazetta on Kotaku Some great art in here to honor the father of fantasy art. It's cool to see the video game industry recognize Frazetta as a key influencer like they did with Gary & Dave!

He was a great artist. I am glad to hear his family worked out their issues before his passing. His work will live on for centuries.

I am sad to hear that people have lost their jobs. Having been on both sides of the table it is a gut wrenching experience and I don't envy anyone involved. Wizards lost some amazing game designers, business people, marketing experts, and editors today. Many of whom I worked with for years and...

Gabe definitely draws influence from things like video games but his success as a DM is more a function of his overall creative talent.

That LeMouse guy is a jerk. He killed D&D for me

That is a specious argument: The OGL provides safe harbor from real risk of copyright infringement, it is far from a sham. Having read the latest Kingdoms of Kalamar cover to cover I can tell you the majority of the content in that book is original content created by Kenzer. Most of the...

So true Jim. Now we just need one other former Brand Manager to agree for the hat trick. Dancey, Valterra, Ryan you out there?

My Warforged cleric was at a party once and out of sheer politeness unknowingly ate a few Rust Monster Poppers. Lets just say the next morning was pretty ugly. ;)

Reading back through the thread, that is fair. I moved around on the map. To go back to my original thought: I believe the next big thing will likely come from one of the companies that can invest in something big. I think it will be delivery of content merged with technology. Something that...

QFT. I really like how you explained these two "innovations". I was not necessarily thinking innovation = invention. More along the lines of transformative ideas and applications that represented large evolutionary steps in the RPG category.

Mark, I don't feel like I am contradicting myself and at the end of the day it's my opinion, and nobody else has to agree with it. The OP asked: I take the OPs question as game changing, growing the category, vaulting a company into a higher level of operation type of innovation. Magic: the...

Forked from the "The Next Innovation in Gaming?" thread: So what would you consider to be the big innovations in the RPG category? This could be systems, rules, formats, accessories, IPs, technologies etc. I will get is started but mine is not meant to be an exhaustive list. D&D 3e and the...

I agree that there will be innovation that will come from smaller companies (eg Fantasy Grounds) and individual hobbyists who create labor of love projects (eg Iplay4e.com) but the point I was trying to make was that innovation will most likely be directed at D&D based on the the fact that D&D...

Sure there were issues and since D&D is the biggest game in town (and ultimately that is what we are talking about) it somewhat naive at this point to think the innovation in the category is going to come from somewhere else. But on more theoretical terms of "what if" something like the OGL and...

I said it should be open? And I would not assume MS to maintain a 100% closed system. The XNA dev kit may not be open as in GNU open source but from what I understand it's open in the sense that it gives indie developers tools to make games that will work on the Xbox and Windows platforms...

You would obviously know more about this than I do, but sure this sounds about right. I was blurting out a lot of ideas at once so there are a lot of ideas burried in the thought. One possible scenario is that someone creates a client and content that could be played over a closed network...

I would suspect it will involves device and content delivery convergence. Call it D&Di 2.0. Devices could/should include technology found in Laptops, Google Wave, Kindle, Tablet PCs, Surface, XBox Live, Natal, Smart Phones etc. The trick is going to be delivering content that works across a...

I have been using Meetup.com and second the vote for that sites functionality. If you are creating a system from scratch I would look at that meetup for direction or invest your money into other areas of the site that don't have 3rd party solutions and create enworld meetups. my 2cp

The game is called Fortress of Fortune. It is a multi reel online slot game that allows you to vary your bet and win on a multitude of lines. Certain wins (like the 3 d20s) allow you to enter a bonus round where your character moves around a dungeon fighting monsters (outcomes based on d2o...

Hey ENWorlders (is that what we call ourselves?), I just wanted to let everyone know that after 9 1/2 years, today is my last day at Wizards of the Coast. As I leave Wizards, I am left with nothing but respect and admiration for the people and products that have made it such a great...