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Everyone should buy a shotgun. You will surely need it when the Edition Police come for your old D&D books. As a fan of both OD&D and 4e, I personally keep a 20mm minigun by the bed. It's really the only sensible thing to do in light of all the burning and dying suggested on this thread. Not...

Here's the cold hard reality: 5e isn't going to unite the gaming community. Like any new D&D edition, its going to get lots of attention at first and many people will try it...and then go back to whatever they are most comfortable playing. A fraction will be left playing 5e, but 5e will leave...

I am not a fan of 2e, but 2e did clerics best. The cleric should be an avatar of his god, reflecting the aspect of the god in his powers and abilities. AKA, clerics of Thor should be far different than clerics of Apollo. One of the cool things about the OD&D cleric was that he was the...

Gamma World 4e did stats really nicely. Put 18 in your prime stat, put 16 in your secondary stat and roll 3D6 down the line for the rest. It was fast, simple and nobody complained. The silver standard is a terrible idea. D&D has always been on the gold standard and gold piece is one if its...

Kudos! It's important to be honest about nostalgia. I know that plays a part in some of my gaming choices. BTW, I did find a RPG that hit all those "nostalgia buttons" for me that is D&Dish, but has some fresh ideas. It's a free PDF. Worth a look. Mazes & Minotaurs M&M

Mazes & Minotaurs (its free!) M&M I have yet to discover a RPG that makes me as happy to GM and play as Mazes & Minotaurs. It is so rocking in actual play. The only thing that would make it more ideal would be if M&M had a serious marketing budget to spread the word of its awesomeness so...

Why buy it? It's a new RPG and RPGs are really cheap! Dollars to hours, RPGs are incredibly cheap entertainment. If I only play 20 hours of 5e and spend $100 on books, that's $5/hour. And if I have so little interest in 5e, I can sell the books on eBay for half price which doubles my value...

Their hope in uniting the clans isn't the rules. It's the VTT that lets you play whatever edition you want while you pay a monthly fee and/or get nickel and dimed via micro-transactions. Also, if the base game is good enough, it may draw in casual gamers and teens who aren't veterans of a 1000...

You will be able to play your game right now. Plenty of players will continue playing 4e and enjoying it tremendously. Lots of them will never switch to 5e. And when some 3PP creates a 4e clone, you will have even more 4e stuff. When will you be able to play AEDU 5e? I expect that Advanced...

D&D does not have a "huge market". They have a tiny market full of old people who aren't good customers compared to other hobbyists. Teens and young adults are the prime demographic if you want customers with significant time and disposable income to devote to a hobby. The D&D populace is...

I would love to see 5e Scarred Lands and 5e Iron Kingdoms. I hope that 5e revives the D20 license which was the smart one. Encourage 3PP to make modules and settings, but keep the ability to make full games in the hands of WotC.

I run OD&D without a combat grid, just minis for relative distance between monsters and key terrain bits. I do use AoOs based only on the logic of the situation. If you are in melee, you can't cast spells. If you want to try, that's cool. The foe gets a free attack and if he hits, your spell...

The free PDF corebook is a good idea...until e-readers become the normal way for people to read books (aka 5-10 years). But its a good idea for 2013. 4e failed because WotC did not market the game aggressively to new players. Their hope with the open beta is that they will get a bunch of free...

It's a PR gesture and hopefully WotC is giving enough per book to make the Gygax statue happen. But based on the comments in OSR forums, I doubt many people are going to buy the reprints. BTW, the OSR proved that there is NO real market for OSR stuff. Its a market for hobbyists to make beer...

We forgot our pact with Lucifer!!! The dark one must have the sacrifices we promised!!! Or its a decade of incredibly bad marketing and near zero advertising by WotC and the lack of a VTT to engage online gamers.

Do you see Hollywood or video game companies worried about this stuff? It's called Grand Theft Auto, not "Kinda Naughty Driving". Sex and violence are the bread and butter of big money entertainment. D&D hasn't been edgier than Sesame Street since 2e came out. If WotC wants teenage males to...

DDXP will introduce the core 5e system in 2 weeks. Its doubtful that the community playtesting will do much more than a few cosmetic changes to the direction WotC has already chosen. eBay!!! You can easily find good condition books from 1977. I am sure eBay will have good condition 4e books...

Save or Die completely rocks! Of course, I play 0e where you have fast chargen. I love RPGs with high PC mortality, but those games only work when the player can get back into the game after 10 minutes of making a new character.

I want D&D 5e to scare fundamentalists again. Full blown fire and brimstone from every pulpit. Oh Tebow, the end is near and Mike Mearls is the harbinger of the Anti-Christ! I want to see Mommies panicking across Real America. Website upon website with tearful columns about how completely...

This is amazingly terrible "advertising". I am glad ENworld is doing videocasts. It is a very good idea. But do they live in a cave where they have never seen a movie trailer or TV commercial? Even Osama, who did live in a cave, did a better marketing job. Matt James, this is a FAIL. Go...