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Just a guess here but I am willing to bet that the main work being done is to port this game to the iPad. Since the iPad is new and shiny and makes distribution easy through their App store. I imagine that a PC version will be released but I doubt it will get as much love as the iPad version. I...

I am not. First since this is a clean-up or port of an existing game they pretty much want to tidy it up and leave a lot of it alone. Something as dramatic as replacing all the combat programing would involve entirely more work than such an effort was worth. Besides it would end up being pretty...

It has been my experience that experience points has nothing to do with that. Many players will tackle whatever you throw at them because this is how D&D was always played for them. Other players do like to be creative and seek out their own narrative. I find this second group much smaller. I...

Greetings. I once considered giving out extra Action Points as in-game bennies but then I seen someone do it. Since I play 4E there is plenty enough Action Points to go around already and it was really over-the-top with the extras. I also play Savage Worlds where you do earn "bennies" or fate...

It is terrible that the store owners are harassing the gentleman trying to open his game store. It is in incredibly poor taste in a lot of ways and I am certain it is illegal in more than one way. The economy is always challenging for game store owners especially folks getting...

Actually D&D under TSR did produce many supplements for campaigns that were basically system neutral and also were not filled with stat blocks. I know of several of these books but there weren't tons of them but they do exist. Wizards of the Coast has also done it at-least once before with the...

I highly doubt this. Dave Arneson and his business also lost all rights to publish Blackmoor on his death. I would think whatever arrangement that Gary had with Wizards would be similar. Remember that WotC did pay off both Gary and Dave upon the launch of third edition so some agreements were...

Mmm. Since this is Ed's notes it will likely be largely system neutral but it also has a good possibility of including some character details in first or second edition style or potentially even third edition. We know Ed's game started during the first edition time frame. Since Hasbro is...

The comments about race and species have me thinking. While species is probably a more technically correct term this is D&D therefore we will call them races. Also, this is D&D therefore we will have some kind of racial ability score adjustments. They have always existed. They will continue...

There are two versions of the Slaver series for first edition. The second version published was designed for 7th through 11th level characters and could be used to follow a T1-T4 campaign. In addition to the level shift the second version, Scourge of the Slave Lords, includes some additional...

Aye. TSR was confusing at times. :) The Irishman did do a recreation of the original REF2 sheet (which I call the white and orange sheet). All of his character sheets are pretty much awesome. My plan is run a mostly AD&D first edition campaign with some house rules aimed toward simplifying...

Greetings. For the past eight months or so I have been musing with my local game group about running a retro AD&D campaign. Obviously, this was before that WotC announced the Gygax Memorial Reprints. Now that these reprints are going to be available I might convince enough of my players to...

We haven't heard much about Healing Surges from these initial talks. I am thinking they will be staying in some form or another. Perhaps they will have a new name or just be inferred from the healing system as a whole. I did read something about Epic Destinies being "done right". We have heard...

Today I walked into my local brick and mortar store to place my pre-order for one set of these books. I brought a copy of the Retailer Solicitation PDF linked here at En World. My local retailer had heard of the product coming out and seen some order numbers but had never seen the...

The announced here that Forgotten Realms would be taking center stage for the DDI content for this year. RIP Nentir Vale.

The reason is because they promised up and down that fifth edition wasn't coming anytime soon when they released the Essentials books. At that time they claimed that Essentials would always remain in print and that 4E was going to be around for a long time. Obviously they changed their minds...

As far as skills go the simpler the better for me. I thought they improved skills each and every edition. First edition skills were a train wreck with 3 major competing sources and they contradicted "secondary skills" in the DMG. Second edition skills still sucked and the mechanics was screwy...

I am not sold on the whole Dawn War concept. The reason is because usually every campaign world has its own creation myth. Does it make sense that every world has its own creation myth in a planer campaign where you would be visiting different worlds? Absolutely not. In that case Dawn War is...

Happy to see the return on the electrum piece. I have used it in all of my Greyhawk games regardless of it's absence in some editions. I also used it in a Forgotten Realms campaign in 3E. :) While the traditions of the missing planes from the Great Wheel are important to me and the classic...

I am sorry but I am just being realistic. The "guys" at Wizards of the Coast are ever-changing. They haven't learned anything so much as they change at the core who they are and who is in charge about every 3 to 5 years. Some folks have a better plan for Public Relations than others is what...