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I think the default of "it's a bad world and you can't fix it, you can only make it better in small ways and stave off the inevitable" doesn't work for everyone. I've never had luck drawing my group to it, though I think it's a great setting. I never liked the CoC "everyone dies" mentality...

Did they ever fix the software problem that was supposed to be the cause?

I like rituals, but some of the costs and times are a bit off kilter, Tensers Disc seems a bit pricey, and taking ten minutes to craft it from the ether seems a bit much. Gates, Ressurection, Demon Summoning, all those I can see costs/ times being higher.

That's not what he posted. He posted "Hi, I've decided I'd like to vent my frustrations" and said that he's not looking for someone to convince him to like the new edition. In no way did he say he only wanted people to just agree with him, just that his mind was already made up and it would be...

Shows up for me.

See, that's how I felt about Elminster & such, totally irrelevant to my game. The gods though, were at least a common influence. Churchs are in each city, players have clerics. Mostly though, Cyric bugged me. Not even the Avatar Crisis itself, but the stuff that followed. Suddenly gods were...

Can we just let the racism thing drop in this thread? If you want to discuss racism, then fork a new thread.

I don't know that 3e superceded it, but it was a great book. It just had a different feel. Original FR boxed set had a sort of low end feel to it, a lot of focus on the dalelands which I didn't care for, but it felt like a place where some first level adventurer could leave the farm and become...

Then the next semantics arguement is when something is a "plan" and when it's a "preview" of material.

The thing is there, you're removing the expectations, it's two difference vantages. "They've broken promise after promise." and "WotC keeps changing their plans after they announce them." Those are a bit closer in vantage. The thing is, it's pretty easy to see "broken promise" and "WotC...

See, that's the thing, it's all about semantics. If they say PHB2 will contain druids and then change plans, it doesn't matter. "I'm mad, they promised us Druids and I wanted druids!" and "I'm mad, when they said it'd have druids and I wanted druids, now my expectations have caused me to be...

And sometimes, the "internet rage" or "nerd rage" or whatever dismissive term is used, is simply someone airing a grievance because they're disappointed in something they were told that is no longer the case. Sometimes it's just a way for the opposite side of a discussion to belittle folks...

People are blowing the word "promise" out of all proportion with the hyperbole that some how the posters that say "promise" mean that a solemn oath was sworn. When obviously they mean "we were told this would happen, and it didn't and now I'm disappointed." With the obvious nature of "WotC told...

It's all semantics. change "if WotC keeps their word..." to "if WotC does what they said..." and it's the same meaning. Whether it's a "promise" or a "statement" or whatever, if the customer is told that "this is how X will be", then they have a reasonable expectation that it will happen...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i3accb70086cea8f58a8ce3f48856a305 From November to July...

I would think, using them in a non-Eberron game, it'd be easy to house rule them anyway you want. The default assumption of the Eberron In Campaign stuff makes no bearing on that. As for Eberron, unless they're breaking the world, it means a huge retcon. Either way sounds bad.

Ah, okay, I see what you mean. I'm not sure how much you know of WoW, so I'll just expand a little bit. WoW has some powers that are based on other things, in sort of a reactive manner. It wouldn't work for movement, but... well, I doubt anyone would care really? Spell interupts are in WoW...

Actually, I think CoC is one of the best games. Even when I don't use the actual ruleset, I've used the adventures in Shadowrun & D20 modern. I just don't think it's quite receptive as an introduction to roleplaying. I think Fantasy is easier to grasp as a game, and then the more "serious"...

Actually, I don't really care for their systems. I've played a few of the oWoD games, and am in Exalted, and the system seems vague, cludgy and arbitrary. I adapted Hunter: The Reckoning to D20 Modern and it went much better. Depends on the setting, really. Hunter was a fun game, but it...

I've looked at a few of the newer books (the Created set looked neat and so did the god-one), but they just didn't capture me into jumping in. Part of it is not wanting to invest heavily into games I know I'll never play. Part of it is shelf space. But, really, towards the end of oWoD, they...