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Do awards influence my purchases of RPGs? No. Things like theme, the likelihood I can get enough people to play and the scope of materials available for a game are important factors to me. Awards don't typically take these into account. However awards for gaming accessories and support...

Every game I have run has been away from home. Usually at my FLGS. I carry a Bag of Holding which contains my laptop, dice, pens, pencils, paper, several Plano Pro Latch Utility Boxes filled with minis and markers and anything else you might need. I am planning on getting another Plano Box...

No I was unaware of that. Having learned that, I suppose WotC may have felt that they could make more money through DDI than with the licensing agreement. My last post was just providing some insight as to why anyone would discontinue a magazine with a decent sized readership. Thanks for the...

It could be due to the fact that most periodicals are profitable because of ad revenues and not subscriptions. This is such a niche that it may have been difficult to acquire enough advertisers to produce the kind of ROI they were looking for. This would be particularly challenging because most...

Check this place out: The Haunted Game Cafe | game store and coffeehouse I have never been there, but their marketing is spot on. As mentioned before you need to decide before hand which service will be your revenue stream. Either be a gameshop that uses snacks/public play to drive game sales...

There are three shops within reasonable driving distance from my place. 10, 20 and 35 minutes away. Two of them are running D&D Encounters. The other is a brand new shop that focuses on CCGs but said they would run Encounters if someone expressed an interest in DMing. I still don't know if I...

I am curious as well. The space issue I get, yet I am the kind of person who likes to get stuff with my money. You know, materialistic :) Personally I dislike reading off of a screen. To me PDFs are only preferable to reading straight from a web browser. Any time I have purchased a PDF...

Honestly I think this is the heart of the issue. The brand that is D&D long ago transcended the companies that publish its material and became the identity of a sub-culture. I believe this where the sense of self-entitlement comes from. People who play D&D feel as responsible for the brand as...

I am honestly curious, so please don't think I am trying to be snarky. Doesn't Paizo more or less offer all of what you are asking for through their Pathfinder line? I don't know much about Pathfinder, so perhaps I have an inaccurate perception. I there something about Pathfinder that makes...

Amateur review of Sly Flourish’s Dungeon Master Tips The following is my review of Sly Flourish’s Dungeon Master Tips To begin I want to tell you a little about myself as a gamer. I feel that this context may important to how you perceive this review. I was one of those much talked about...

I personally don't think WotC is currently concerning themselves with other RPG publishers in regards to many if any of their business decisions. I don't think they even regard other publishers them as competition at all. Perhaps they have in the past, but it would not seem to be the case now...

Very fun, very quick, very portable. I keep the can in my car so I always have a game handy. Also,I have considered using it in my D&D game in a gambling scenario rather than a lengthier game like 3 Dragon Ante.

I've been pleased with the fluff that WotC has been publishing. Overarching themes rather than precise details are much more useful to me as a DM. When fluff is overly specific it becomes its own kind of crunch. Bogged down and overly restrictive. Everyone has such a clear understanding of the...

I am dying to play this. I wonder if it can replicate the intensity of the novels. I guess I may have to go to a con to try it.

Encounters has provided me with my first opportunity to GM, thus there are countless things I have learned. Some of the more noteworthy are: Use the environment/terrain. I noticed that if allowed PCs will find a comfy spot on the combat map and just sit back and roll their attacks. Forced...

I've been running an Encounters group and this has not been my experience. A few players have dropped to 0, but no actual deaths. How many are in your party? We are running a group of 6, and I have tweaked each encounter to make them more challenging.

Agreed. In fact I think my group would love to continue in a campaign with these specific characters. Sanctioned LFR adventures of this length would be ideal.

I realize that what I am about to convey is purely anecdotal, but I am curious if others have experienced the same thing. I have been playing in a weekly 4E game at my FLGS for a number of months. The group I joined had been meeting for some time already. There were regularly 8 of us including...

Virtual Combat Cards (Virtual Combat Cards D&D 4th Edition Initiative and Combat Tracker | Ex Nebula) - I find this really helps combat move along fluidly. Although I do wish you could store a list of effects and conditions in it. Acrobat - for PDFS Stickies - for NPCs and general...

In the cases of my FLGS, that would be me. I am not employed by the shop and am only compensated with the materials provided by WoTC. I know that this is the same for my other not so local yet still friendly game shop. It is just some customers who are running the adventures. I felt that this...