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I agree largely with that assessment especially in regards to the worst 3pp products. Some were horrible. I have to challenge the idea that the best WoTC was equal to the best 3pp at least in one instance. The Green Ronin Book of the Righteous is by far a superior deities book than anything that...

I'm working on writing up a setting myself and I wouldn't touch the GSL with a 10' pole. There is no way I am going to put my IP into WoTC's fickle little hands. If I was kjust doing adventures, like Goodman games....why not? However with an IP that is taking a lot of work and energy to create...

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3e's problem with excessive PrCs was an issue, not of the rules themselves, but of wishy washy DMs who failed to remember that PrCs were initially intended not as "let me dip in and get a cool ability" but as a special, campaign specific class that carried with it.....prestige. DMs are at...

Here! Here! I agree in theory with the OP 110% but it cannot happen. D&D is marketed to kids, written for kids, and presented in an adolescent manner for one reason.....$$$$$ This is not a slight against it, it is a reality. If core WoTC D&D did otherwise it would die. D&D as written...

Exactly. Wyrmshadows

We do not need more RPGs. We just need a few that do what they do and do it well. Lets say for example True20, Pathfinder, and Runequest Then we need the cross pollination of several publishers that cross pollinate each of these increasing their visibility with gamers and distributors. D&D...

I'm certainly with you on this. Nothing against 3pp publishers of 4e products. However, I choose to spend my money on good products whose mechanics I enjoy, created by companies whose work supports open gaming. The more companies that are willing to support the OGL/3.5 and its offspring, the...

Me too. I loved 2e with some Player's Option material added in. I DMed for years using those mechanics and they were utterly unbalanced according to today's balance obsessed mindset but I never once had a problem because as DM I was in charge of the options I allowed and I had players who...

QFT Hope for the best while preparing for the worst is the onty way to go. If I were in the business of simply creating adventures, like Goodman Games, the GSL wouldn't make me nervous in the least. I would create fun adventures that I could afford to abandon once the GSL was revoked. However...

IMO compared to 3.5e 4e is to D&D what the Wii is to the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Its the perfect game for casual gamers. Easy to pick up and learn, few options (eve settings are only getting one major book), and optimized balance that allows for everyone to be awesome all the time. None of these...

Nah, he is putting on a brave face, that's all. He's just trying to keep Necromancer Games' fans hopeful but the reality is very bleak indeed. IMO WoTC isn't going to grant Clark any special dispensation because WoTC is no longer being run by gamers...even if the designers are themselves...

Not surprised at all. I like Clark and Necromancer Games and believe that his early enthusiastic support for 4e and WoTC was due to the fact that he had more faith in WoTC than they deserved. The guy obviously loves D&D and really wanted to support 4e but even he, a very enthusiastic early...

I see it this way. If 4e allows more people to enter into the hobby I am a supporter (if not a player or DM). This way, as folks tastes change and they find that they would like to play some non-D&D genre fantasy ie. anything other than fantasy supers, they can look at other systems that...

So true. 3.5 was also able, through the OGL, spawn really high quality options due to a cast talent pool. Arcana Unearthed, Midnight, Conan D20, Iron Heroes, etc. That's not even counting real variants like True20 that are even farther removed. Wyrmshadows

Interesting topic Edena. Just thought to add that. :) Wyrmshadows

True20 It assumes nothing, it allows pretty much everything and is IMO a nice, not terribly complex sytem that allows for cross genre gaming. I use it for fantasy but know people who use it for sci-fi and horror as well. Great rule set for worldbuilders and its OGL so there are 3pps making...

I was too, before I actually saw the ruleset. I loved the "idea" of some of the changes being made such as no more mechanical alignment effects, jettisoning the Great Wheel, having no actual core world, etc. but the implentation IMO is far from what I was hoping for. I played it more than...

Ah yes, that you much. Systemless, this seems the way to go IMO. I'm considering this option myself (with add-ons for True20 and Pathfinder perhaps). Wyrmshadows

I would argue that if you can, with little effort hot-swap said adventures into any generic D&D setting, they are fundamentally the same. Of course the plots and locales are different, but they use the same bricks and mortar to build them. That is the strength of these types of adventures, they...