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I feel like this idea may have worked better in 1E than 4E. Slogs like this make me suspect the people that wrote the early 4E modules didn't really "get" 4E. The Slaying Stone played much better than it ran. I'd definitely run that again in PF. It appears to be a bunch of aimless encounters...

Apparently I'm not the only one that freely mixed 1E and 2E stuff... Without discussing the merits of the editions themselves - I feel that continuity and the utility value of products is very important to keeping the gaming community unified. Having thirty-one flavors of ice-cream is great...

You nailed it. I used 1E material frequently when playing 2E. This wasn't an edition change that made you throw out and replace all of your existing materials. I know 2E alienated some of the 1E fanbase, but in my mind 2E was stretching the 1E base game as far as it could possibly go. It really...

I'm running my copy of the 2E Silver Anniversary Ravenloft this year over two sessions (in PF - I tend to wing the monster stats). Any advice? I tend to have a hard time scaring my players. They're sort of callous and don't really flinch at the agony and torture of NPCs and fellow players. The...

I'm just getting into Planescape and haven't really found your experience to be true. If anything I've just been overwhelmed with the possibilities and the amount of stuff you have to learn and buy. But it's worth it. Limit your scope. I'd stick to one or two planes to start. Read up on them...

THANK YOU! When I started writing about planned obsolescence it was all about obstacles that prevent people from gaming together. It didn't start out as a discussion of the economic viability of moving away from the edition treadmill (but a case can be made for how this hurts the gaming...

I don't quite follow you. Innovations can be useful, but if you're saying young people need new editions and new rules I just don't buy it. The new kids don't really have a previous game to compare it to I'm not sure why they would be more or less interested if a new edition comes out. The...

I think Paizo said they wouldn't do a Pathfinder 2E during the first decade of the game. I would prefer small incremental changes and claims of backwards compatibility to be gradually dropped

Castles and Crusades - Almost everything in C&C is also in 3E and 4E. Players don't have to learn new rules, it just removes rules - 3.x/4E munchkins can't min-max the game with crazy feats and multiclass combinations - 3.x/4E rules lawyers (generally the same crowd) can't argue with my...

That's and the overhead costs are a fair point We've discussed this So they should use this to drive sales towards two distinct core lines. A used 3.5 PHB holds value better than almost any other book or media product despite competing with a popular clone game. So they could do a two-pronged...

I can't recall meeting anyone that has played 3.0 since 3.5 came out (as in barring 3.5 resources and mandating only 3.0 books) and I see 3.0 content used in 3.5 all the time so I don't think this is really an issue for people. No one produces 3.0 content now and there's never been a 3.0...

I really can't imagine any D&D product WOTC sells has higher profit margins than D&D Insider. If I were them I'd do anything possible to ensure their customers keep sending them money monthly. I'd put as much old content as possible behind that paywall and wouldn't care what edition people were...

You've convinced me it's not feasible to produce 2E and 1E content in this day and age, but 3.5 and Pathfinder are going very strong. How is it viable for ENWorld to produce adventures for multiple editions with small profit margins and a limited audience? They're even printing both editions...

This is a good list These are good points. Frankly I don't worry about balance or appropriate challenge much when running games. The only DMG I ever owned was for 4E. So enlighten me. 4E has a really easy method for creating balanced encounters and 3.5 has the CR system which seems a bit...

Wrong thread yo. It's really easy to run that analogy off the tracks but it misses the original point of the whole discussion (that popular games don't see constant major and controversial revisions. People in that thread have noted the same thing about roleplaying games similar to D&D)

I'm actually a professional cartographer (electric engineering and business strategy maps - not gaming) and I've used publishing software so I have a lot of experience with visual layouts and budgeting space. These are good points and the app is a great idea. The most realistic approach in PDF...

That's a good way to look at it. But if in the same day you were brought to the brink of death in an unconscious state by being: - incinerated with a flamethrower - assaulted by a maniac with a battle axe - robbed of 3 gallons of blood by a 500 pound mosquito - turned into a duck by a witch...

I read through a bunch of posts and never really encountered anything similar to my experience with healing surges. I approached 4E anxious to slaughter some sacred cows. Ultimately healing surges were the only thing I really truly disdained about 4E. This is what I noticed in my game - As a DM...

This is interesting. Can you point to an example of design philosophy in a 4E module that simply would not translate backwards? We've discussed a bit how spells and equipment work slightly different across editions but I'm not entirely convinced game designers carefully keep track of such things...

So I guess I didn't make myself clear on some things. I'm not sure how you got that goalpost We all know you can't convert a 1E edition to 4E directly since monsters and roles and spatial issues are so different. No one contests this. It's also unrealistic to retroactively convert existing...