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Regardless of how you feel about the edition wars that makes sense to me. I recall some 3.5 products were effectively dead on arrival when 4E was announced, and I heard retailers say 3.0 products stopped selling when 3.5 came out (I think the consumer logic there was flawed...). If Paizo...

WOTC has a beautiful dream, and I'm feeling a lot of love from this company. It's really beautiful to see they're working on unifying people after all of the trolls flocked to my posts about modules supporting multiple editions and ending the edition treadmill. After all, despite some...

I bet you'd be surprised by how many people feel the same way. Hell, I don't even trust myself. So I had the same thoughts this morning. But I'm not quite sure that "design by committee of 10,000 internet nerds" approach is the direction WOTC is going to go. It's hard to imagine anyone would...

Good example. Otherwise it is clear you are not capable of providing a constructive disagreement and this conversation will not be productive. Have a good day sir.

It would be interesting if you provided examples to demonstrate how your opinions compare to my examples rather than laughing at my ideas without backing your own up. What aspects of character creation got nerfed that offset the bonus hit point or skill point for leveling in a primary class, the...

What materials do you use? Do you have any conversion rules? I'd allow spells, feats and races (with an additional +2 to an attribute) in my game after a quick review. If someone wanted to play a 3.5 class/prestige I'd probably give them feats on even levels of some kind of bump. Otherwise I'd...

If you do an apples-to-apples comparison (compare the 3.5 class to PF version) the PF version of any core character is definitely more powerful. Broken and 3pp characters may deviate from this. I was told PF characters are about the equivalent of 3.5 characters of a level higher. So a level 5...

The only thing I disagreed with was your statement that Pathfinder wouldn't exist. My experiences suggested PF would exist and be doing pretty well (albeit not as well) if 4E supported all of the old settings. But we really can't do much more than speculate. "Why doesn't DL/RL material exist...

It is technically a board game and features no rping, but if you've played RPGs it's really intuitive to use dungeon tiles/gaming mats/incorporate miniatures/have NPCs and monsters negotiate and talk with the PCs. So while it technically includes a board I just threw it out and played it like...

As a 4E (I tried so hard to like this game) to PF convert I must say it was not the lack of DL/Ravenloft/Third party support that caused me to jump ship. People were edition-warring hardcore in the summer of 2008, long before the settings had time to blossom. Lots of the criticism centered...

On a side note I'd suggest you track down the rules for an OOP game called Hero Quest. I got it when I was seven and actually played it last week with my 7-year old niece and the family. If you take some time to learn the rules which are probably posted on the internet you can probably play it...

The consensus seems to be that PF filled this niche. I'm sort of in that group that feels abandoned by WOTC and misses buying stuff from them. Particularly I miss having 3.5 support for products like Dark Sun. In the interest of being inclusive and uniting gamers I think it would simply be...

Exactly. While you elaborated on how this makes it hard to find a group, I've noticed it also leads to a lot of confusion about rules systems. Successful play on some level requires familiarity with nuanced rules, hence having a bunch of editions with extremely complex rules has deterred my...

To be clear - the first vanilla monster manual of any D&D-type system. Books that contain the stats of the basic monsters - orcs, skeletons, dragons, etc. The basic MM that's essential to play the game. It's sort of like shouting "Freebird" at a concert, or yelling your favorite edition on a D&D...

Nox Arcana and Midnight Syndicate are awesome instrumental scary background music. Great for haunted houses. I tend to play them whenever we're playing D&D

Everyone likes a good list post. Here's another one for you guys. What are your favorite monster-encyclopedias? I'm talking monster manuals that are fun to peruse for ideas on a Tuesday night. Monster books that are just good fun reads on their own right. Any edition will do. I imagine there's...

You could, but why would you want to? What does that prove? Usually my approach is to ask the players to look up the rules if they appear unusual or unbalanced. I'm a fairly trusting DM and like to keep the game moving quickly. I guess it comes down to identifying the players that are and...

I don't quite follow what you there. Are you saying it's possible to not RP in 4E? Because it seems like you can RP as much as you like in that game just like any other tabletop RPG... If you want to cheat in D&D you can (although I don't understand why one would). I just don't feel it's the...

Yes, technically rules knowledge has no correlation to imagination. What I was saying is that rules lawyers and munchkins tend to lose sight of character development in favor of an emphasis on power gaming. Their conversations tend to be about why it's a good idea for the barbarian to take a...

That's a very curious statement. The implication is that owning and memorizing books translates to running good games? I don't buy it. I've had awesome games with completely inexperienced DMs. I would take it so far to say that I've found a slight inverse correlation between a player's...