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I think the issue is that, like many kinds of cultural works, fans feel a sense of ownership of their games. Think about the response to the recent GI Joe movie, which is, honestly, pretty bad. Lots of people watched the cartoon as children, grew up with the action figures, etc. Because of...

I work for a certain fruit-like company, so... ;-)

I've pinged people I know working at Google about this. It's affecting not just all the gaming sites I visit, but many of the tech ones too. Hopefully they'll get something worked out.

Yeah, those Evony ads keep showing up on both ENWorld and various tech sites I read. It's honestly rather irritating. I want to read some tech news in peace, not have all my coworkers stare at me because there's a giant banner ad of breasts on the site. Also, the EA contest thing flabbergasts...

Wow, lots of love for Lloyd Alexander. Glad to see that other people liked him too. In YA fantasy, I also really loved Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence. Of the "classic D&D authors," the only one I've read is Moorcock, and only because I heard of him through D&D.

I game with a Paizo FlipMat, which is dry-erasable. It's great for keeping track of initiative, drawing overland maps, etc.

Despite the fact that we've publically explained this, people still don't that we actually really don't charge that to spite people. We got in a lot of trouble a while for "suspicious accounting practices" where we accounted for a sale at time of sale (duh), but then put money into providing...

Non-determinism (randomness) is not required for a game. Chess, go, and checkers are all completely deterministic, and are still games.

It's a reasonably generic setting, like Greyhawk or FR. The big advantage, to me at least, is that it's my chance to get in on the ground floor, so to speak. I was never able to get into Greyhawk or FR because the backlog of information about them made they practically inaccessible to a...

I think we're waaaay overthinking the loss leader analogy. The concept of loss leaders originates in the world of physical merchandise, where there is a (relatively) quantifiable cost-per-unit. In that scenario, it's pretty easy to say that a loss leader is a product sold at or below cost with...

I buy PDFs of books that are just for reading (setting material, and the like). Anything that sees use at the table I get a dead tree copy of, in addition to the PDF.

I no longer live there, but Source Comics and Games in Saint Paul, MN, is TOTALLY AMAZING. Friendly, helpful staff, the biggest selection in geekery (both gaming and non-gaming) that I've ever seen, and a huge dedicated gaming space. Plus, they have a kick-ass holiday sale, with door prizes...

I don't think he meant passing subroutines as parameters (which would normally be called Higher-Order Functions), but rather just the idea of having functions that take data parameters. :-)

I think you're missing the forest for the trees. I've already offered two major ways in which 4e powers are much more like MMO cooldown than anything prior was (all classes are based on them, and their are different tiers of cooldown form an integral part of the tactics). Your response is "But...

This is where I think a lot people disagree with each other. To me, and I suspect to many others who think the comparison is valid, 4e's at-will, encounter, and daily powers seem very much like CRPG/MMO power cooldowns, and much more so than 3e did. I'm not an expert on WoW, but having played...

Methinks you're misunderstanding how FATE and even more strongly narrativist games handle balance. They don't make any significant attempt to balance the power of the characters, but instead balance the impact of the players. That means that both players have (roughly) the same ability to make...

Maybe not modern videogames, but a lot of older games, particularly strategy ones, had manuals like this. I distinctly remember my Civilization 2 manual, which had the entire tech tree laid out in a format that look extremely similar to 4e's power layout. Not necessarily a criticism, but that...

Hey folks, I'm in the south SF bay (aka Silicon Valley) area for the summer, away from my normal gaming group. I was hoping to find some pickup gaming. I'm particularly interested in finding a 4e group to help me learn, since my normal group plays 3.5/PF. Thanks!

I ran a one-shot Firefly game using the free FATE 2e rules at a mini-con. Everyone seemed to enjoy it.

There is one, and has been for at least five years. I've been using it on my Mac for that long. ;-)