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There's a lot of fuzziness in the government's current position on copyright, especially the part about copyrighting "expression" -- it's really hard to create a game with same mechanics as D&D without using the same words. No matter how hard you try, there's a good chance you'll accidentally...

I think Delta deserves a prize for The Simplest Answer to A Tiresome Question.

Everybody can stop staying "RuneQuest" now. Empire of the Petal Throne had a critical hit rule in 1975. Here's a review that mentions the crticial hit rules.) That's three years before RuneQuest.

1. Yes, but at this point, it will mostly be seminars added to the catalog. 2. Yes. Buy some generic tickets and see if you can crash some games when preregistered players don't show up. 3. You can download the event catalog as an excel spreadsheet, which makes it easier to sort and find...

That's very similar to how I discovered the game, except I had to spend three years convincing my parents the game wasn't satanic before I could get a copy. My parents never were reality-based. Toys R Us sold (TSR) miniatures, too. A toy store that sold lead to children. Those were the good...

I made a serioulsy last-minute decision to go to Gen Con last year, registering on the last day of pre-reg. I only managed to get into 2 games via prereg, but I still enjoyed myself. Anyway, like others have said, there are lots of demos running, and generic tickets are an option for many...

Are we talking "real world" historical polygyny, or modern "made up a new word" polyamory? Because in the real world, polygamy usually appeared in societies where economic productivity and social status were connected, and even then it was somewhat rare in those societies. That is, it usually...

Strangely, here in the Detroit area, none of the stores that stock a lot of roleplaying games participated, but RIW Hobbies, which barely stocks roleplaying games did participate. So I finally went to RIW Hobbies, a store I'd never had a good reason to visit before now. They underwhelmed me...

The WOTC message boards are still largely an afterthought. They don't promote them to newbies. I can't even find a mention of them in the PHB -- just a www.wizards.com/dnd at the bottom of the title page, and an ad for D&D Rewards in the back that obliquely mentions "a community of D&D fans."...

Clearly, Gleemax got to you. He's using mind control to damn Enworld with faint praise. But seriously folks: You know what the most significant differences between Gleemax and Enworld are going to be? 1) Gleemax will (probably) be advertised in the D&D rulebooks. D&D newbies will know about...

I was going to say custom dice, too. If you want to go all out, you could try custom dice bags.

Well, that's just stupid. He keeps publishing a game he knows can't be played as written. Seriously, that's just stupid. That's why he only has fanatics playing his game. Unplayable rules lose casual players.

Moon-Lancer, have you ever taken a joke too seriously?

Here's the thing: There are certain D&D settings that get their "hook" from totally smashing a time-honored convention of the game. (Spelljammer and Darksun are probably the most extreme examples.) When faced with a convention-smashing supplement, most people have one of two reactions: They're...

She looks underage to me. Looking at that picture, I wanted to know: Who the hell lets their sixteen year-old dress up like that? Man, I'm getting old and grumpy.

I have to correct myself: Ubercon Great Lakes was in Livonia, not Garden City. I get suburbs on that side of Detroit confused a lot. They all look alike.

The seventh-largest D&D Meetup group in the country, apparently. They're local, they play D&D, and (if they're like most meetup groups), a lot of them are looking for games. The trick would getting them in one place at one time.

convention 116 was in Garden City, not Detroit. Not that I really expect it to happen again -- it was a serious mess this year. convention 176 should be "BASHCon". UT-BASH is the name of the club that sponsors it. The convention website is http://ut-bash.com/bashcon/index.php I spotted one...

Yes, it's just the e-mail newsletter. This is from an e-mail announcing it in June 2006: It's the exact same newsletter they've been sending out for a while (basically just a "what's new" list for the WOTC website), but it says "Polyhedron" at the top of the page. That's it. Nothing new or...

I want them to hire somebody's who good at one and can learn the other. You know, like every other successful small retailer in the country does. Evil Big Boxes like Wal-Mart and Best Buy succeed through volume and marketing. Small businesses like the corner drug store or the local appliance...