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I've said it before, but it bears repeating - you guys did a great job with Babylon 5 and I'll treasure my B5 RPG and my Traveller B5 books forever.

Batman isn't a superhero. He's jut a guy with too much time, money, and training on his hands. Batman gets my seal of approval.

The only time I prepped "correctly" for a 3E game was when I was playtesting an adventure I was writing or I was using a published adventure module. I was using the "4E method" before there was a 4E and it always worked wonderfully. The players don't know what's on my side of the screen, so as...

Yes, but these powers are accessible to everyone, depending on their class and magical gear, so despite the trappings, they're still humans harnessing the natural forces that exist within that world. OK, so you can throw fireballs. It's magic that allows you to do that. It's also magic that can...

I'm pretty lucky at the moment. When 3E came out, I was gaming with a group that I only knew because of the game. I went to the local WotC store (back when such things existed) and asked if they could hook me up with some local gamers. They couldn't because of store policy, but they could...

Sure, but everyone can become any of those things. How many normal people can be Superman or Wolverine? Another difference - you don't often see D&D characters throwing each other through concrete walls.

Congrats! Novels aren't the easiest thing to break into so this is a noteworthy achievement.

There's a very short list for me. Vampire/Werewolf. A decade or so ago a friend of mine talked my ear off trying to get me interested in these games. Despite his efforts, the more he described them, the less interested I became. I've looked at the books and read some campaign writeups and nope...

The new Mongoose version.

I wasn't there when this decision making was going on, but I'm of the assumption that they didn't go into 3E with the intention to kill Alternity. More than likely they took the wait and see approach with the system when they started working on 3E so that they could see if Alternity was going to...

The games that are currently in rotation are Pathfinder, Traveller, Castles and Crusades, and True 20. Right now I'm converting Reign of Discordia to the Traveller rules so I've got the group playing that. We're currently on hiatus between adventures 2 and 3 in the Rise of the Runelords...

Alternity didn't actually get released until after WotC acquired TSR. The Alternity PHB has Wizards listed as its corporate headquarters, so it was not in fact doing anything other than waiting to be published before the collapse of TSR. Wizards would have never launched the brand at all if they...

Say what you want about some of WotC's business decisions, but one thing that has always been a strong point with them is listening to their customers. In fact I've seen them go to some extraordinary lengths in the name of customer service.

It might be impossible for them to track the exact numbers, but they can do the following: 1. Have someone actively looking for torrent downloads. 2. Have someone torrent the books and leave them seeded. 3. Watch to see how many other seeds are out there and how many leeches there are. 4...

Geekiness is difficult to quantify. It's also been years since I've actually wanted to test my tolerances for alcohol. Was I part of that? I beat a hasty retreat from that panel so I could meet up with an old friend I almost never get to see. What have I been up to? A good amount of Paizo...

I'm afraid that the panels were named by the convention staff. Our involvement was to simply show up and discuss what we had going on and share our expertise on the subject. It was a good panel.

Millions? No. Only if you're a huge corporation that wants to spend that much. It would be fairly easy to pay three guys $30,000 a year for less than a year to come up with a perfectly workable and playable RPG system. In fact, people routinely do it without spending any money at all on the...

I'm sure I'll surprise nobody when I say that I fully agree with Stan! In fact, I've said as much here in the past. Here's what bothers me about this. When WotC was trying to be the good shepherd for the industry, they still dominated the market. The philosophy was that anything that was good...

I haven't watched TNT for a decade now because of the horrible way they mishandled the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade (for those not in the know, they wanted to change the whole format and then they canceled the series when JMS refused to compromise). Consumers can hold grudges for a long...

Honestly, this doesn't jive with my firsthand experience with WotC. Early on, I sent a piece to someone who worked in R&D at the time, telling him to feel free to use it. It was used, I wasn't credited, but it was accidental. When I brought this up, not only did they make an immediate correction...