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Oh crap. Free-association does me in again.... You've now just put the image of Richard Benjamin as a Dom in my head. *twitch* (cue a horde of "huh??" responses, as it's REALLY obscure....)

Quick answer -- 'cause it ain't true? More detailed answer -- 'cause many of the changes are to things that have been the subject of YEARS of griping, things like the spellcasting system that were so badly broken that it was easier and better to start from scratch than try to bolt on yet...

I think we can take this as a not-so-subtle (and entirely amusingly worded) hint that a Greyhawk/FR merger is not in fact happening.

You should probably add Bard the Bowman, from The Hobbit -- he may be an even more archetypal ranger than Aragorn. After all, he slew the dragon Smaug with a well-placed bowshot and the legendary Black Arrow.

Oh, please, no. Web/flash-based is completely unsuitable for something of this scale. Barring the vagaries of the mix of different browsers these days, you'd have to download all the graphics fresh each time you logged in. No thanks -- I'll take a thick client any day over the overly-hyped...

This would be a wizard modeled after one Prof. Hubert T Farnsworth, I take it?

Hehe, was just about to copy that post over here for easier reference. Onward ho, however! The reason a wand doesn't go well with a wide-spreading blast starting at the wizard stems from its apparent frailness. They're all usually slim, delicate items of wood, metal and/or gems (oftentimes a...

Isn't that what a codpiece is for? :uhoh:

I'll probably wrap up my current one and switch back to an Eberron campaign if possible, though I'll be advancing the world 100 years forward, and playing with the results of the previous campaign this group had been in. I'd inflicted something almost as world-shaking as the Mourning (not...

Well, let's try it this way then -- look at Cone of Cold, the classic big blast of frost coming right from the wizard. Try some flavor with the staff: wizard grasps the staff firmly, lowers the business end and points it in the general direction of his foes, braces himself a bit and speaks the...

The limitations don't, from what I can tell, apply to power levels of effects, but their implementations. Look specifically at the staff and wand descriptions: the staff refers to powers that come "from the wizard, like cones of flame or bolts of lightning," while the wand's offensive...

WoW-ified 4th Ed? Funny, but as someone who's played WoW since its original beta test, I don't see it. Among other things -- but this is the most patently obvious difference -- their attitudes towards magic items are at polar opposites of the spectrum. In WoW, gear is king. Gear is the...

Anyone remember the old RPG called "Torg?" (I think that was it....). It had a mechanic where each character got a certain number of plot cards they could use at critical moments. One of them was called something like "Martyr" -- and was an option to use when battling the BBEG. It had the...

There's a lesser-known form of player death -- "Death by scrubs." One group I played in had a very, very nasty run-in with about 3 Shocker Lizards, resulting in one dead player and the others (including my own) all on death's door. To this day, they refuse to say the words "Shocker Lizard."...

Oh, nice. There's what I'd consider to be an acceptable option to tide over the wait for a real port. It's sorta like a user-end version of Cider, I'd hazard. Something to keep in mind once I get myself a iMac early next year. =)

As a whole, or consumer sales only? First order of business when calculating your market is knowing what numbers to exclude. For example, I'd be willing to bet that the 2.8% figure you're quoting includes bulk sales to large corporations. Those sales need to be taken out of the calculations...

Unfortunately, the DirectX decision seems to be already set in stone. While it makes it tougher, it doesn't yet rule out getting it running natively on the Mac. There's a few folks (myself included), who have been helpfully pointing out ways that WotC could quickly, easily and (probably)...

Sigh. Too bad my personal fave non-trad spell got all the fun tweaked outta it already in 3rd -- ye olde Tenser's Floating Disc. Used to be, you could move it by concentration, could cast it under something and have it pop up to its normal 3' altitude -- now, all it does is follow you and it...

I'm already planning on keeping the (sorta) homebrew I've got going now, only advancing it 10-20 years. That'll let certain things settle out and set the stage for big things to start happening in various regions. Heck, as it is, the fragments of Eberron floating in my world are set 100 years...