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I think for my game I'm going to house rule Power Word Kill to add the same "This spell has no effect on undead or constructs" clause that exists on Power Word Heal.

I recall hearing something similar to this on the Fear the Boot podcast, one of the hosts was planning on running an all bard game at Fear the Con with the game framed as a group of bards recounting the tales of their exploits, and each bard would have a limited ability to change things in the...

Perhaps rather than rudely dismissing what I have to say and telling me you can't offer me help that I never asked for, you could take a couple minutes to actually read what I posted. The first paragraph of my post was explaining how the approach you are asking for wouldn't work for me. I...

I'm sorry, but to me saying that the rests should be "A or B depending" is like saying in real life that sometimes you can get a good night's sleep in an hour, sometimes it takes 8 hours, and sometimes it takes 36 hours, all based on what is currently scheduled on your calendar. If the party has...

I saw it in my games. Cleric and Druid PCs would take Craft Wand just so they weren't at the mercy of the marketplace; they actually preferred to take the feat and do the crafting themselves instead of buying the items. For 375gp and 30xp they got a 50 charge CLW wand, or even better for...

I've played in and run several online games over the years, and in my opinion it makes for a very poor way to introduce people to the hobby. The new player can't borrow another player's book to look through, so if they want to read the rules themselves, look through the character options to get...

One freebie product being held up doesn't equate to "the whole company is bottle-necked", and that sort of intentional hyperbole does nothing but muddy the discussion and undermine your position. In the last month the EE Players Companion came out, the mass combat Unearthed Arcana was posted...

Maybe because in the overall scheme of things for a multi-billion dollar international company, approving a giveaway document for a small product line for a small division is a low priority, especially if the primary purpose of that document is to allow people to use stuff they already own...

"Deadly" and "Interesting" are two separate axes to me. A fight against 100 orc barbarians in a featureless field is "deadly", but not "interesting". A fight where your goal is to stop the high priest from sacrificing the princess to complete his ritual while his minions are trying to stop you...

Exactly. The term I've heard used is cannibalization. If you release product Y and it cannibalizes sales from your product X, then you may end up in a situation where once you factor in the development costs of the products neither X nor Y are profitable, while X may have been profitable on...

This person knows too much. This is for the good of humanity... <puts on sunglasses and pulls out a neuralyzer> Okay, I want everyone to look at me for a moment. <FLASH!> There was only one Highlander movie. There were rumors a sequel would be made, but it never happened. Anyone who...

Why not? What does Hasbro have to lose? Potentially damaging a brand in an extremely small market segment that honestly doesn't bring in that much money? And what do they have to gain? If they happen to hit it reasonably big, they get a slice of a box office pie that for a single movie would...

I'm not trying to say you shouldn't have the discussion, I just have concerns that the discussion may not be a positive contribution to the community and that I don't think this forum is the ideal place for it. As I said, I would love to see a forum here for exactly this kind of discussion; it...

Just because they didn't respond doesn't mean they don't read and consider them, and you would be surprised at how seriously some companies take direct communications from their customers. Many even have policies in place to respond to any and all customer complaints and concerns. How many...

Greg Leeds may very well come to EN World occasionally, but I've never seen any posts claiming to be him, nor have I seen anything in any interviews I've found with him indicating that he even plays D&D. I think it is far more likely that he visits the Wizards forums than the EN World forums...

I personally feel that people who have a problem with the way WotC is running their business should take their concerns and complaints to WotC directly, rather than complaining to a bunch of users who aren't employed by WotC on a forum not affiliated with WotC in any way. Communicating with...

I agree whole heartedly. I'd prefer something like Ravenloft, Greyhawk, or Mystara long before Alice. I'm not a fan of the sort of camp humor that you usually get in things like EX1, EX2, or the original Castle Greyhawk modules, unless I'm playing a game that is supposed to be campy like...

To be fair, Alice in Wonderland was in published D&D products long before Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, or Forgotten Realms, and the same year as the original Ravenloft. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass were the basis of EX1 Dungeonland and EX2 The Land Beyond the Magic...

Exactly. And that perfectly sums up the difference between a privately owned company and a publicly traded one. The private company is free to do things however they want (within certain limitations), while the publicly traded one has a legal responsibility to try to maximize returns for their...

Here is a link to an article talking about RPGs being $15mil, the source of the data is ICv2 for the year 2013. The six consecutive years of growth was for the hobby games market as a whole, not necessarily for the RPG segment; in 2013 RPGs accounted for $15mil of a $700mil North American hobby...