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Yeah, I was about to say, sounds like uninterested players decided to take your game out back and shoot it. I've had sessions go like that in any system you care to name, so it's not 4E-specific by any means.

To be honest, I don't like the "Ki" power source. Flavor-wise, it's stepping all over everybody else's feet.

Hmm, that's a good suggestion, come to think of it ;) No, seriously, I already have the 6th of June off, and trying to get some friends of mine to also take the 6th of June. Plan is to do exactly what we did on the release date of D&D 3E: Get the books, give them a quick read-through, gen up...

Please dear God no Ki as a power source. I'm sorry, but I like martial arts movies as much as the next person, but to my eye, there is nothing Ki can do that could and should not be subsumed under either the Martial (flashy combat maneuvers) or Arcane (throwing blue fireballs) power sources. And...

Unquestionably. Until and unless somebody hears "roleplaying game" and doesn't need the explanation, "kinda like Dungeons & Dragons," D&D remains the vanguard of the industry.

Wizards is assuming that in order to expand their market they need to engage the mass media. Paizo is assuming that in order to expand their market, they need to reach out through the web to extant gamers. For Wizards, the assumption is that in order to engage what they hope to be their...

I always find it interesting when somebody who is spouting off complete opinion (and ill-formed opinion at that) suddenly claims to have direct, personal access to sales information for a major product. Especially when they speak in such sweeping generalities.

My god, what happened to that poor woman's upper lip??? No wonder she's so pissed off.

Sometimes, communities simply die and there's nobody to tell anyone else about it until the adventurers come through and find a ghost town. Sometimes they have enough militia to fight back. It all depends.

I had a subscription to Dragon for 5 years and Dungeon for 2; I'm not happy about online distribution of the magazines but I'm willing to give it a shot and the articles so far are high-quality if not as frequent as I'd like; and the DDI tabletop is supposed to have house rule or...

If you looked at it as GameTable in isolation, you'd have a point. It's not just GameTable, though - it's (per WotC's press releases): GameTable 12 months of Dragon content 12 months of Dungeon content (that's at minimum thirty six new adventures per year, all encoded and ready to go in the...

No offense, but it sounds like you have a slightly shaky grasp of what "win/win" means (and a very shaky grasp of the business model of the D&DI VTT - given that you have said several things that are explicitly contrary to the D&DI model). Giving away the store has never been a good business...

At DDXP, they said that DDI will have a "token" system. Everybody with an account gets 8 tokens per month, those tokens can be used for another user to get into the system for, I believe, a day. Again this is my understanding and could be wrong, but the idea is to allow a single DM to host a...

To be honest, scheduling "team" instance runs in an MMO (as opposed to dropping into a PUG) isn't any easier. I've never managed to pull it off with less than a full week's notice.

Thank you :) I don't think recycling the old audience is entirely the solution. Bradford may be off on a number of points but he does have it correct that the old audience ain't getting any younger. We need fresh blood. And of all RPGs out there, D&D is best positioned to get it, given its...

It's worth mentioning that up until Gen Con of last year, Bradford was a huge D&D booster; it is entirely possible and in fact likely that he feels betrayed that D&D has moved on past his preferred version. ;) I stand behind my RPGnet comments and add that while I don't find it ideal, D&D...

In that case, congratulations, you've just become a statistical outlier ;)

Even though the problems WotC identified with 3E were commonly identified and complained-about problems well before the announcement, but why let facts get in the way of a good rant?

Wow, that was unnecessarily ridiculous. I am of the opinion that Pathfinder is succumbing to the sample bias of the most vocal posters on Paizo Publishing's forum, which is by and large virulently hostile to any ideas that smack even slightly of "4th Edition." As a result, I have every belief...

I seriously don't understand this. Every major RPG in the history of the hobby has been a closed development.