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A couple of comments: What is this "whimsy" that people keep saying they see in these works? For me, at least, whimsy doesn't just mean "anything other than epic, romanticist art," but something that specifically evokes playfulness. I'm not really getting that from these. Additionally, I...

The problem with trying to get too detail-oriented about a GNS discussion is that there's no such thing as absolutes. I'd say that what's more relevant is what relative weights the three elements receive in a design. Traditional (pre-4e) D&D had a mixture of rules, some of which were justified...

I suggest you try playing a FATE3-based game like Spirit of the Century or Diaspora, or Amber Diceless, or any number of other indie games where narrativism is an explicit element of the game design.

How about we define success as "able to make a viable living off of it." Back in the day, that generally meant that you had to be a big name like Shadowrun, because printing and distribution costs cut into the percentage of the sale price that ended up back in the hands of the authors. Today...

You forgot the part where it's a triangle, not a line, the three corners being gamism, narrativism, and simulationism. What you call "gritty physics" is precisely that third corner: simulationism. We can argue until we're blue in the face about whether encounter powers are more gamist or more...

Eh, that's not really a new problem. When I played Guild Wars, hammer warriors could cause knockdown pretty easily, and it was entirely possible for an enemy to start moving away, only to be knocked down a moment later thanks to lag. Also, Mesmers in GW are a pretty good examples of an MMO...

Your wish is my command.

A friend of mine as a child has the HeroQuest board game. Eventually we obtained a D&D Basic Set and played it as a more elaborate version of the board game. ;-)

For physical books, I like hardcovers. For digital products, I prefer "boxed set" style, with multiple smaller documents/printable maps/counters/whatnot.

I ran a one-shot Firefly adventure using the FATE 2e rules that worked quite well.

I think there's a distinction to be made between converting me back to a regular customer (almost impossible) versus getting me to buy one or two specific products. As others have already said, I'm simply not very interested in the game they sell now, so the likelihood of my becoming a regular...

I have mixed feelings on it. Like Shemeska, I view the (later) 2e era as sort of a golden age of setting creativity and support. Unfortunately, the business model underlying that has been shown to be unsustainable in the long term. The 3e approach of two settings, period, with full support...

Morrus, Actually, it is possible to control the ads that are served through AdSense, see here. Now that Google has narrowed down the source of these ads to a single domain (evonyonline.com, see above), is there any chance we could see some progress on this? Thanks!

I count myself as serious. I've known several casual players: people who only played because their friends recruited them to their games, and only kept playing out of loyalty to those friends. If they owned books, it was because someone gave it to them. They didn't have a working knowledge of...

I actually never thought there was any deliberate malice involved, and I've never subscribed to any of the "conspiracy theories" that claim that you've got an agenda in this. I'm sorry if you got that from my posts, because it's absolutely not the case. I'm also not concerned so much about the...

+1 for this proposal

Just to illustrate the problems with the loss of mind share for older editions, consider Paizo's recent Bastards of Erebus issue. It has an article about "Tieflings of Golarion." They ordered art for it, with their artist guidelines that specify a 2e/3e-ish varied look for tieflings. And...

Morrus, You point out some good reasons for the existence of a Pathfinder forum, which I support. What bothers me is the (apparent) different standards of moderation for PF and 4e threads. Being somewhat generous and assuming that Dark Sun counts as general interest, I count six threads in...

Just a general request to mods: Please try not to be overzealous in moving general purpose threads that happen to mention/use Pathfinder into the separate forum. I have bad memories from the 6 months or so immediately following the 4e release when it seemed like any thread that even mentioned...

Dark Sun would be cool, but I think Dragonlance is more likely.