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Winona has a very successful gaming store (Jimmy Jam's, which is now I believe closing in on its 15th anniversary). You'd be surprised...

I say this as somebody who loves WoD, has played Champs and has thought about playing GURPS at least once: None of these games have any significant recognition outside of the core of RPG hobbyists. Even among gamers, their name recognition is a scant fraction of D&D's (I should have mentioned...

Oh, come on. I'm sick of people saying this because it smacks REALLY heavily of pipe dreaming. Inevitably, it always comes from people who think that their personal preference means anything in the face of market demographics. Unless 4E really, and I mean REALLY sucks, people are going to follow...

Swords were prestige weapons primarily or only used by nobility and by whatever passed for the state military because they were only useful for war; you couldn't hew wood with one and you couldn't harvest a field with one. Bandits occasionally used swords but much more frequently used axes or...

1: Second Wind 2: Fighters are a class, not a two to four-level dip to get 2 or 3 extra feats and a bunch of weapon and armor proficiencies. 3: End of CoDZilla 4: Paragon paths look much more interesting and ultimately useful than prestige classes. 5: More robust and varied 1st level characters...

Thanks! The Transformers Wiki should handle all of your Transformers needs :) Also, I don't know if it's exactly your cup of tea, but I'm finding the new Transformers: Animated series to be quite entertaining.

If I give them a copy of the PHB I've got a copy left. Win-win :)

I am rather surprised that the Source isn't on the list. Oh well, that means I'll have to go up to Village Games to play the DDXP game (Park Rapids, near Brainerd, is completely out of the question for somebody in the Twin Cities).

Proving opinions are everywhere, I previewed the alpha and it ended up further convincing me what BoXM already convinced me of: Trying to "fix" the problems of 3.5 without going down to the system level and rebuilding is a fool's game.

I think Hasbro has every confidence that D&D 4E will absorb the bulk of D&D 3E's customers, and I can sum up why in 3 words: "TRUKK NOT MUNKY." When Beast Wars came out, there were a number of Very Serious Transformers fans on the internet posting long, involved and Very Serious posts about how...

I'm down with the Source. :)

PFRPG looks nice. But I'm going to chime in on the "it's a band-aid when surgery is needed" group.

I'll second this. It's affecting me both as a gamer and as a would-be freelance designer.

I now have a problem in that one of my players is Really Offended by 4th Edition, because of the warlock class (like, personally offended on a religious level). Now, I hate using the "you're the only one" card because it's really insensitive to the person's feelings you're telling it to, but he...

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Yeah, I'm going with the mock-up. The "books" look too perfectly squared-off to be hardbound covers.

Mearls confirmed something that I've suspected ever since the end of DDXP: The designers are high-fiving each other (at least metaphorically) that people have grabbed onto their work and run with it. Personally, I expect to be seeing people coming up with temporary advancement rules and new...

Thank you, Scott.

I'm a DM and a player and I sure as hell don't trust myself ;)

If anything, BoXM shows in high detail why 4E is necessary - the fundamental math of 3.x - to a lesser extent, granted, than previous editions - breaks down when you push it too hard or too far.