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Are there many games besides D&D and Pathfinder that have conducted open playtests as long or longer? I can't think of any, off the top of my head. I agree that an open playtest should be longer than 4 months (assuming that's as long as it will be; I'm inclined to think it will be longer), but I...

Just how basic and bare bones will the core be? If the design goal is to boil D&D down to a "kernel," will that kernel be closer to the original "Red Box" (or Holmes Edition, which is what I started out with) or the 3e PHB in length?

I'm also of the opinion that the rules themselves can evoke a "feel" or atmosphere. I found this to be true of both the Holmes edition of D&D and 1e. I played both of these iterations before I found or used a prepackaged adventure. We used what we could glean from both to create "dungeons"...

No, it's not that. It's my increasing decrepitude. My state of being is increasingly becoming a series of variations on "what was I looking for again?"

Ah, good. Thanks. I must be blind or stupid, or both; I check that page every so often and links to videos somehow never registered. So much for my reading comprehension.

This is the first one I've seen. I knew they did one, but I guess I missed the video somehow. I would likely have had a similar reaction to the earlier video. It helps to actually see and hear them.

I'm heartened by this video. I was hesitant to watch it at first, mostly due to its length, but it turned out to be much more densely-packed with information than I expected. I got insight into the design philosophy, sure, but I'm mostly encouraged by the fact that they chose to put themselves...

Hang on a second; he asked you if you were interested in something, you said no, he didn't hound you into buying something, yet somehow you took offense and decided never to go back? If you were interested enough to have that negative a reaction, why not actually give him a straight answer when...

I'm nonplussed.

So would you rather they just shove the product out and not spend the time they have trying to get it right? They can't catch a break; with 4e, they were lambasted for supposedly releasing it without much playtesting or feedback from the public. Now, the complaints are starting that they're...

Any word on when the next printing of Cheers, Gary will be available?

I hadn't even heard of this before. I just bought it based on this review.

It's from the original 1e Monster Manual. Hoo boy, I sure didn't prefer them. The revised covers for the 1e books seemed very static and boring to me. Even the cover of the original Monster Manual, as garish as it was, held a lot of charm. It seemed fun. The Easley covers just never seemed fun...

I was blathering on about this very subject elsewhere. I love this philosophy.

Ah, here we go; actual footage of Scott Rouse parachuting out of Wizards after the release of 4e: Skydive Escape - YouTube

Maybe he meant like in that James Bond movie where he was thrown out of the airplane and had to fight a guy for a parachute on the way down.

I wonder how much this school of thought is being pursued now at WotC? Given the nature of the 5e announcement, with its talk of unity and drawing from earlier editions, it seems natural to wonder if we could see this happen to some extent. It would be nice at the least to see the pdfs of older...

HackMaster is, essentially, a combination of 1e and 2e, with some modifications and additions. It has nothing in common with 3e.

The "4e isn't D&D" dispute going on in this thread is akin to the "today's music isn't as good as the music back when I was younger" statement I hear from a lot of my contemporaries. As others smarter than me have said, it is an unlikely coincidence that what you grew up listening to (or...

I like the changes (and played Holmes/1e/2e/3e); can I sue the people who forced WotC to change the changes, if this hypothetical suit A) was brought to the courts and B) actually succeeded?