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You know, the most obvious example of a black man in the core books to me was the painting of Othello and Iago in the DMG in the skill challenge section. Perhaps because it's really really obviously Lawrence Fishburn and Kenneth Branagh. The post on the big purple that sparked this, however...

It always annoyed me from a design stand-point that NPCs and Monsters followed a specific formula that was rather strictly enforced by publishers and fans. I always hated getting notes back about monsters or NPCs with things like "what point buy did you use for these attributes, they're all...

Depends on how you define tabletop gaming. Does it include CCGs? Because Magic still does pretty good business. Miniature games? Warmachine, 40K, Anima Tactics, DDM, and Heroclix all seem to be doing well. Not HUGE, but well enough. Heck, even Anima: Tactics seems to be doing very well...

Has anyone noticed that in these discussions of daily powers, the "fixes" are always something incredibly complicated? Like HERO complicated? I think that says a lot for the simplicity of 4e. I think part of the problem is as what was really the first rpg, D&D never really had a niche in...

When I opened this thread, I thought it was going to be derogatory towards halflings...

Those aired over here. The one with William Shatner as a Tauren Druid is my favorite... there's one with Mr T, too. As for the number of comments saying that D&D seems to appeal mainly to lower-class people in outcast social cliques... if this is true, why isn't it being marketed to manga fans?

I would not play in a game with you as the DM. Ever. This reminds me of a situation I once had at a retail job. I would occasionally work Tuesdays, which was the night my friends and I wanted to watch Buffy and go drinking afterwards. So my boss was always complaining about hating to work...

And yet, I too have yet to see someone complain that they dislike the boost in power and ability to the fighter. Well, i take that back, I've seen complaints that it's "too complicated" for new gamers, and that fighter should be dull and boring and have no options, because that's what's going to...

Actually, I didn't think the intent was clear. Having only read about it in the books and not actually knowing what the designers said the intent was, I assumed the same thing as the OP. And I really have no intention of playing 4e anytime soon, so I have no desire to break the rule in my favor...

I've never used alignments, I don't see any reason to start. If someone wanted one, i'd let them have it, though, I don't see the harm.

You know, it never occurred to me why my friends and I never had any problems with big groups of monsters and 8-12 encounters without resting. Then i realized it was two things, one being I did have the players make slightly more powerful than average characters, so it was no problem. But I...

I would say D&D is the game that you learned when you learned to play D&D. It sounds oversimplified, but arguments over it often come back to this point. Like "this isn't D&D, D&D is a test of the players' wits to get around traps, not just some skill check, that's not D&D!" It's too...

To be fair, wizards doesn't have to follow the rules of the d20 license. But the BoEF thing should be in the minds of GSL publishers. Even if you're in compliance with the license, if they don't like your product, they have no qualms with changing the license specifically to squash it. And just...

I don't think this is necessarily true. You could argue that every industry needs a leader, but on planet Earth, that leader doesn't have to be the same. Dungeons and Dragons doesn't even have to be in print for the TRPG industry to succeed or flourish. For argument's sake, let's say my company...

This seems more like something that would only be an issue with players. I mean, if I wanted to use a printed 3e adventure, would I HAVE to go through and change every monster for the game to run smoothly? It would be incredibly anal retentive to do so, and I don't think anyone would panic if...

This. I feel like I'm not wanted in DDI. I don't understand. Warcraft wants me... The Sims wants me... Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic want me. But I get no love from DDI.

Encounter design should handle this. The target number for xp per encounter is 1/10 of the experience needed to get from one level to the next times the number of characters in the party. So for a level 1 character going solo, an encounter should be around 100xp worth of monsters. A single...

This is kind of a good point. I seem to remember the original rules implying that if your 12th level PC died, you rolled a level 1 and started over, regardless of the fact that your friends were all level 12. And I also seem to remember no less than Gary Gygax implying that characters who died...

You know, I have to agree here. Far more than storytelling rpgs, I like tactical RPGs and Miniature wargames. The Tome of Battle and the Warlock were my absolute favorite parts of 3rd edition. 4e kind of feels like it was made specifically for me. Anima Tactics has been my mini ruleset du jour...

I have a question of my own. Now, we can't use stat blocks from the MM, I know this. But if I make a new kobold, can said kobold be shifty? Can I put the shifty rule in his stat block? or do I just have to say "see shifty in the Monster Manual." This may seem small, but it's a deep and burning...