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I find there's also a little bit of survivor bias in questions like these. We tend to remember the very best or very worst of prior editions, and don't really recall the many average or below average products that came out. To resolve this question in a "fair" manner, you'd probably have to do...

Why not try it and see what happens? Seems like it is an experiment with very little cost in time. Why bother discussing the idea when you could just as easily execute the idea?

Two thoughts: First, I think a lot of the more experienced players are underestimating the value of pre-packaged feat sets. I'm currently trying out Eve Online, which has hundreds of skills which allow you to do stuff, and have prerequisites, and have levels from 1 to 5. They play the same role...

It's pretty much Diablo. Gameplay is pretty much the exact same. About the only new element is monsters sometimes drop health globes. It's an interesting mechanic because it sort of shifts your relationship with health potions a little bit. There's also no real mana potions anymore. Resources...

The problem with this is that it is a "win more" kind of situation. If you have the Lich's phylactery, you're already in an amazing position to beat the Lich. Yeah, but how are you going to find out those true names? Why in the world would Asmodeous give *anyone* his truename? To me, your...

In my opinion, truename magic is a good literary device, but does not play well in a game. The question in truename magic is "how do you discover someone's truename?" If it's too easy, then a lot of the fun and uniqueness of that style goes away. If it's too difficult, then it may as well not...

Morale rules change who you focus fire. Under normal rules, kill order usually goes weakest defense/health first. I.e. it's usually better to mop up the little guys while controlling/mitigating the big guys. There are exceptions to this, of course, but it's a good rule of thumb. However...

I think your best bet is to treat the campaign as if it were a television show. I would go with a detective show with the private eye as the 'lead'. So just keep saying, "in this episode..." and go from there. Have each session be an episode of the show. Here's a link that might help: Prime...

The "heir" archetype is an actual archetype in scifi/space opera. Consider Asprin's Phule series, or the character Julia Evans in Peter F. Hamilton's Mindstar Rising, or possibly Miles Vorkosigan in Bujold's Vorkosigan series. The idea that money pretty much doesn't matter is accurate for this...

Computer games. There's DDO, but otherwise 3E and 4E have been a wasteland in terms of computer gaming. The SSI and then Bioware days were glorious.

I liked this too. Apparently he does die if you haven't done everything with him in ME2, though. If you killed the Rachni in ME1, the Rachni Queen is a clone in ME3, and she eventually betrays you and goes back to the Reapers. Though I think this is mostly a matter of losing those War Assets...

In my view, the OGL experience provides proof of my assertion. WotC created the OGL so that other companies could make adventures, as WotC felt adventures were not profitable. And indeed, a lot of the early 3rd party products were adventures. But as time went on, the the 3rd party mixture...

The major problem is the audience generally prefers buying splatbooks to adventures. Look at the OGL days. The vast majority of 3rd party products were splatbooks, WotC doesn't sell splatbooks because they hate us. They sell splatbooks because that's what we buy.

If you like watching sports, I think you are stuck with cable. A major reason the television and cable companies have been investing in the rights to sports programming is because it's programming that is watched live, where it's harder to skip advertisements, and is harder to get it from the...

Oh, I prefer dice too. But one of the things I've learned over the years is that a lot of people's perception of probability matches "draw without replacement" (cards) rather than "draw with replacement" (dice). And that mental mismatch can cause issues.

Somewhat tangential, but sometimes people deal with randomness better if each random event is *not* independent. For example, take a deck of 60 cards with the cards labelled 1 to 20 three times. So there are three 20s, three 19s, etc. Shuffle that deck and draw from the top every time you...

I mostly DM. From a theoretical perspective, I'd prefer to roll out in the open. But from a practical perspective, there's usually a screen shielding my notes in front of me. So I just roll in front of me and the roll happens to be hidden by the screen. But I'm really hiding the notes, and not...

It sounds like you and your players disagree on what type of game you want. If you want steampunk and they want traditional high fantasy, there's going to be issues. Personally, I think "merged with medieval fantasy" is where things are going badly. If you want to try steampunk, you might be...

A Mantis, then switch to the Widow when I got it. And a low-weight pistol for backup. I was basically going for 1-shot kill headshots all the time, so I didn't really need a tank. I used the Incendiary power as a backup or when I wanted to save ammo. I just found Garrus and Ashley were more...

1. Infiltrator 2. Garrus, then Ashley Garrus, because Garrus is awesome and he's been with me since ME1. I like Ash. As well, I played a sniper, so I preferred two soldier types to hold the enemy down. The other companions just seemed too fragile (I don't really bother controlling them in...