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True enough. I tried to encourage everyone to actively roleplay, but there were times when we just wanted to advance the main storyline and skipped the haggling and other non-essential roleplay encounters. Basically I left it up to the players unless it was plot critical situation.

Yep, I've purchased a few of the rulebooks over the years, in particular the Sword & Sorcery sourcebooks for both Everquest as an D&D setting and World of Warcraft. I also picked up a few odds and ends like The Wheel of Time sourcebook and the Game of Thrones setting.

1. That halflings will remove those uncomfortable shoes and throw away their razors. 2. That gnomes will realize that they are *Not* in fact miniature ninja warriors. 3. That minotaurs will go back to the old school "bull-man" look. 4. That the art direction will change. D&D was never about...

You mean talent trees similar to what exists in say Diablo II or WoW???

All of this 4th edition talk does have me intrigued. I started playing AD&D back in 1980 and played obsessively through junior and senior high, and then also during my time in the Navy. Unfortunately, when I got out of the Navy, my time became more and more limited, and it simply was...

I guess I just don't get it. As both a DM and a player I have always roleplayed these scenarios. If my character has an 8 charisma and a 6 intelligence, I roleplay him as such. If the party is dealing with a greedy and conniving merchant, then as a DM I roleplay the merchant in that way... Some...

I could care less about tieflings, but I just have to ask why there seems to be so much hate towards Tolkien? It makes little sense to me...

Yep, that's exactly it, and there are so many things you can do in a tabletop RPG that you simply could never do in a MMORPG.

You would have hated having me as a DM. Even my orcs would heal one another if they had for example a shaman amongst their ranks. Monsters need not be stupid...

I agree with much of what the original poster said. The main thing MMORPGs like WoW and EQ have going against roleplayers is the fact that the worlds are static and not dynamic. I can roleplay all I want saying that my brave paladin managed to infiltrate Van Cleef's Hideout and slay the bandit...

In my opinion, D&D is about taking what you like from the rules, particularly as a DM... and then adapting it to your campaign as you see fit. For example, I absolutely hated what was done to gnomes and halflings in 3E, so I simply chose to overlook it in my campaign. As a DM, you are free to...

What he said, it was a home-brewed campaign world. I'm trying to find a source for you... but I believe I read it in an interview with Chris Metzen. Apparently Azeroth had it's roots long before the actual Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans was envisioned.

I play WoW and D&D. They are completely different, however it should be noted that Azeroth (the setting for WoW) started off as an AD&D campaign world.

What a great rebuttal, I am now completely convinced!

I like Brom, Lockwood, Keith Parkinson, Clyde Caldwell, and these two some of you might not know: Raneman: Samwise:

Obviously you have no clue what an MMORPG is.

4e? Pfft... I never made the switch from 2e to 3e!

I'm still curious... how are things to be "simplified" ?