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If it's that simple, then it would have been helpful for you to post the link to the post in question. I did more than 10 seconds with startpage and google, but didn't find your specific article. The use of what I'll assume to be hyperbole (magic being 99%) weakens any argument you are trying...

I have not been that active on ENWorld for a while now. 2013 was a...challenging...year. I've mostly missed or sat out many of the RPG worlds trials and travails. Though my group and I have downloaded some of the playtest packets and ran a few sessions, we haven't been discussing and debating...

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!

Yeah, especially when you consider most material in The Dragon and all the printed modules were Greyhawk by default. Until FR arrived, it was just assumed all AD&D material was in Greyhawk on some level (excluding basic d&d,natch). 3E had a great deal of support for Greyhawk, like all of Erik...

So as I think about it, I'm considering having the challenge be based around control of the station. The previous station that the players have visited was a 'filling station' of sorts. Located in an area called the Riftlands. That station had direct connections to the Elemental Chaos, which...

Hey, guys. The old noodle is dusty from weeks off from the game and I've got one scheduled for tomorrow night. It's potentially the climax of a long-running adventure, but with a lot of personal shenanigans, I haven't had time to flesh out the finale idea as much as I might. That's where I...

Interesting. That makes the use of the dice (and the incentive to use them in a particular way) vary depending upon your position in the initiative order. Someone at the beginning of the order might have more reason to save them for a Parry maneuver since everyone is coming after him (and...

One of my players noted something and we're not sure if it's an inconsistency, an error or intentional. The Barbarian's Martial Damage Dice Entry says: "You regain your spent Martial Damage Dice at the start of each turn, whether your turn or someone else's.". The Cleric, Fighter and Monk...

Do you think the traditional publishing model, particularly for RPGs, will remain viable into the future? Is Kickstarter a sustainable patronage model or will it become a flash-in-the-pan after the shine is off the apple?

Do we have any way to gauge if this is actually the case? Has there been data released by anyone to confirm either sales numbers or active gamers? I was under the impression we really still don't have any hard numbers at all concerning gamers or their preferences.

And that's actually not unusual. Here's the thing about the Free-to-Play model: only about 5% of the customers actually spend any money. But the ones who do tend to spend BIG. Among my group, none of us went beyond the trials. When the game went free, we didn't make $15 a month but we spent...

Personally, I think there are three things WotC needs to do make D&D Next a success...which in turn will help the industry overall by virtue of network externalities, as Dancey calls them. Quality Electronic Tools Some variant of the OGL Effective modern communication I consider D&D 4E to...

Well, that's the problem, isn't it? Effective marketing has always been the problem. The D&D brand, in North America at the very least, is well established and a household name. But far fewer people have ever actually played the game than are aware of it. Mentions in stuff like Warehouse 13...

I think you underestimate how small RPGs are in the market. Let's start with this essay by Ryan Dancey. Regardless of whether or not I agree with all of his conclusions, he brings some relevant data to the conversation. WotC has spent years trying to find marketing that works and that is...

You may have missed such discussions, but they have occurred often (even including ones you've posted in). They have occurred under multiple editions and predate recent edition wars, though they have been in those, too. Although 'non-casters vs caster' arguments (such as 'there is nothing a...

In a possibly Quixotic attempt to return to the original topic: D&D Next primarily has to deliver on the promise of the beta test, for me. What that means to me, personally, is to deliver a game that plays quickly, offers meaningful choices, evokes the elements of prior editions that I...

That was the general operating paradigm for those spells: spells with no save usually required a successful attack roll as their balance for their relatively powerful effect. How well that actually worked at higher levels is debatable. IME, after a certain level in 3E, those kind of rolls...

I think that's true...for a certain type of player. The issue for WotC (and for every game developer) is that there are different kinds of players. Writing a book that appeals to all of them is no mean feat. Some players really, REALLY like working the numbers, building a character the way...

I'll try and grab these this weekend and see if I can grab the team for a test!

Sure, but they were disqualified by the OP.