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The thing is though, that it is like hiring. It's a lot better to turn down a good player than accept a bad player. Turning down the good player is unfortunate, true. But having a bad player makes the experience worse for everyone and can cause actual damage. So if the criteria are somewhat too...

I'm going to buck the trend. This is going to turn out badly. The daughter will grow up and start hanging out on the char op boards, learning how to min-max and use the giant sword to the best effect. A D&D session, years from now: Father: The dragon wakes up, and looks at you mournfully...

I think you should start by providing a couple of explicit choices. "You can do A or you can do B? Which one?" That at least will get them making some decisions.

Yeah, but most people have no real power. It's really the only way they can contribute to the struggle to define the future. And I would suggest that having desired rules and toxic (internet) community is a better outcome for you than the reverse. The desired rules make your weekly gaming fun...

It is also about shaping the future. Look at the current 3E vs. 4E war. A huge part of the war is about defining the future of D&D. Neither side wants to lose the things they find fun about their edition. Similarly Mac vs Linux vs Windows. Support for an operating system translates into...

Legend of Korra. That's about it, really.

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, Enid Blyton's Famous Five. Even in the field of fantasy, there were works like Lloyd Alexanders Chronicles of Prydain, which were definitely written to a lower grade level. Our generation was just as bad as the current generation. Actually, if anything I...

There are other considerations as well. For example, D&D will be translated into multiple languages. I suspect that D&D written at an lower grade level will be more easily translated. And the resulting translations will be closer in intent to the English version.

Another consideration might be portability. I have a small Sony eReader, and the thing I like best about it is that it fits inside my jacket pocket. So I can take it wherever, read it at lunch, or on the bus, or in a waiting room, etc. I believe there are smaller Kindles, but I think you have...

This may have been obvious, but I may have missed it. What was your definition of success? Is success: 1. The project's funding goal was reached. 2. The end product was created and released.

Well, if the basic rules with pre-gens don't work, they'll have to change all the creation stuff anyways. So may as well start without character or adventure generation.

The point is that there is a very large gap between the DM's perception of the situation, and player's perception of that same situation. You, as the DM, know all about the monk leader's existence, the separate room, and the too loud noise, the potion of invisibility. The players know none of...

I would wager that your players are more upset about your use of invisibility than the actual TPK. Look at it from their perspective. They're engaged in a fight with some enemies who they defeat. As soon as they win the battle, a more powerful foe instantly, magically appears and defeats them...

Very small complaint, but the auto-linking of 5E to the new page is driving me nuts. Maybe consider only auto-linking the first instance of 5E in any given post.

Ah, SSI. Those were good times.

You do get a line of "defensive" abilities. Some of them are movement abilities, like the Demon Hunter has a move where she cartwheels away. So I suppose you could use those and just run away. Not really sure what else there will be.

I'm not so sure that this could have possibly been avoided, regardless of the structure of music business. It seems to me that previously musical genres started out as very regional, and then spread to the rest of the world. For example, grunge coming out of Seattle/West coast. This regional...

I thought the author had a very strong point when he talked about search engines funnelling traffic to patently illegal sites and then profiting off the advertising on those sites. However, his attacks on things like Apple's 30% cut of legal music sales were far less effective. If he thinks...

It's just the way we see ourselves. You see this a lot in science fiction too. Look at Star Trek for a perfect example. Humans aren't the strongest or the fastest or the smartest or the most beautiful species. But we're usually very adaptable, the glue between the other species. We aren't the...

I wonder if, rather than de jure limits on how often powers could be used, the martial classes used a resource system that ended up giving a de facto limit on power consumption. For example, you generate X resource a round, but the ability costs 5X resource, so you can only use the ability...