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In my 11 years of playing D&D in numerous groups, I have never met a "Simulationist" at the table that was working to do more than DM-proof their personal Rube Goldberg device or Machiavellian plots. The desire for simulationism, to me, is the desire to pull off unexpected yet reasonable plans...

I don't really buy the guy's vision, and neither does he. Here buried until the last seven sentences is the twitter-worthy thesis of his entire article: And even then, the weakness in the thesis is apparent: You have to have the AR aspect of the "New RPG" for the personal mobile web devices...

Well, going off the assumption that you have a group interested in 4E going in from a 3E mindset: 1- Combat is much more interesting and discrete. The Minis-and-Grid based combat with the specific spacing and timing actions is a lot more challenging round-to-round than the "Full Attack, Flank...

Calling other people trolls because they disagree with you in a post calling for the end of Trolling behavior. Wow.

Mechanically? Non-Str-Con-Dex-Int-Wis-Cha stat systems Non-Class dependent systems Non-"Level up" based systems Systems that don't require you to build encounters around getting fly at 5th level Non-Vancian magic systems Systems that use Dodge/Damage reduction combat mechanics rather than...

And thankfully and/or contradictorily, it's mostly support-by-proxy rather than "Doom Shadow von Evil class for butt-hooks who like to kill PCs" that has a habit of hurting campaigns.

Excuse me, but you are begging the question. How can a business sell product to maintain a profit? By providing services that costumers value, like gaming space. If you can't provide those values, customers won't buy. If you can't sell product, you can't provide those values. It is a...

You're just tad bit absolutely ignorant of the details in your examples here. Blockbuster/Hollywood Video type stores are Sprawlfront properties, being developed next to pop-art fronted nail stores, Radio Shacks, and Subway franchises. They aren't "magnet businesses"- they have the symbiote's...

Let me just C&P off my house-rule folder- odd house rules italizied: 2 hex "line" Centuars/horses, "long not tall" Large monsters without reach 3 hex "triangle" Ogre/Troll "fat bigguns" Large monsters with some reach 3+ hex "line" Long snake creatures with limited reach, can at-will shift as a...

I've used it as a campaign-specific trope; "Bag Worlds" or combat in places that is bigger on the inside than they are on the outside occur on the hex grid because of the weird non-euclidean geometry present in the area. So far, it's been used as an interesting combat curve-ball in a campaign...

Yes, those strange, strange people who believe the game should get harder as you go up in levels instead of hitting Vecna on a 8.

"Get it Right"? At who's subjective whim are we deciding here? The cohort that enjoys hitting Vecna on an 8+? The ones who don't want to spend a feat to hit on an 8, yet are hypocritically okay with having to buy stronger magic items as they level (GP TAX, I TELLS YA!)? The ones who are...

A book is not a lion, and a genre is not a specie*. The definitions and conclusions of the former are so fluid as to be arbitrary- not only is the Author dead, his library has burned down. Your analogy would be more apt if tigers were able to change their stripes and lions could turn into...

I just have to disagree with your aspersion. I hate the 3rd level Fly spell and all the game conceits that come with it, having to deal with it by level 5+ as a DM and normally as a player. Do I "lack imagination" because I don't want to design a flat-faced "no flying" encounter once every day...

I have. I also have some guesses as to what it'll be about: * DDI tools and what they should do * Published adventures and how they should be designed/marketed/presented * Interest in Primal/Psionic Power and/or older campaign settings over Racial books and/or newly designed campaign settings...

So you have the same amount of choice that you used to have, or maybe the difference between 1/5th of a choice and 1/6th of a choice? So you should be able to hit on an 11 most of the time and hit on a 5 at best during optimum conditions, and the game should not change at all as you add...

Once again, people are conflating "player choice" with "character choice" and acting befuddled when the conclusion isn't to their liking. Character's don't have to understand the exact number of healing surges they have, or the percentage chance they have to hit an enemy. Same with fighters...

Most favorite Anything that has more than one Multiclass feat. Specifically Multiclass: Wizard and Utility Swap Feather Fall. Favored Fighter: So much there in just one class. GWF, Sword&Board, Tempest, and Broken! Wizard: Post-Arcane Power having everything but Strength as an available...

The Author has been Dead for a long, long time now. WoD Mage is neither superhero beat-em-up, crypto-subjectivist punk, or internal politics & metaplot simulator. Elements of each are included at the detriment of no separate conclusion. Yeah, that's probably the thing here. (Subjective...

Why would I have to mention it? I don't care nor find necessary to relate how people compare "oldskool" to Piazo/4E games in reference to this argument. Neither you nor I can show exactly what causes someone to access this "Grognard" culture, and any attempts to tie one factor (Web 2.0 and...