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That's very frustrating to hear. We didn't even come close to selling out, but we heard from a lot of people who couldn't find the game. I'm not sure if you were at the wrong booth, or what--the game was fairly prominently displayed, taking up the top two shelves of a bookrack display, and thus...

Yep, i'm totally ready to let go of the current edition and embrace new material. In fact, i've been ready since 2000, and while i played D&D3E a couple years despite my misgivings, i certainly don't plan to again. When i want to play D&D, my PH is Arcana Unearthed or Iron Heroes or Blue Rose...

You know, that's not the only choice. I only voted in categories where i was familiar with all the entries, and could give them an honest appraisal. It's the way i vote for all things (including politics--where i consider it my duty to find out about all the choices). Now, i don't actually...

If your dungeons use all right angles. Me, i've always been a fan of lots of curves and slopes and funky angles. At which point, hexes *might* be a better fit, but likely both of them are equally-poor fits.

Um, huh? Fact: i'm not publishing any more to support this. Conclusion: 'this' must be insufficient. Huh? Isn't it more reasonable to assume that, if the author doesn't plan any further 'support' for a product, it's because they believe the product is complete and doesn't need support? Yes, a...

With Palladium on the ropes, doesn't that mean WWGS, or maybe SJG? That would be interesting...

You're making the same false assumption that many proponents of the D20 System do: that all systems are equally difficult and time-consuming to learn. I've read, figured out, taught to the other members of the group, and gotten ready for (creating characters, whatever) some systems in less time...

Yeah, my dumb. I was posting in a hurry. Nonetheless, i find the notion that the grid as what determines this, ro that altering it magically alters this in any way, silly. Which was my real point: it's arbitrary to begin with. 4, 6, 8--they're all approximations anyway. Personally, i'd say it...

So, which side up do we eat our eggs, er, i mean, grids? Yeah, i'm firmly in the "use whatever" camp--as in, i wish the rules would tell you to use whatever, and not even speak in terms of representational grids. Give us distances and areas and reaches and spaces and so on in terms of actual...

Why? There are no rules for half squares and quarter squares right now. What do you do if a room has dimensions that aren't divisible by 5'? What about a natural cavern that has irregular walls? Or a column 3' in diameter sitting at the corners of squares? If the game can somehow make do without...

Like James Wallis, Greg Costikyan, and Sandy Petersen? Unfortunately, they don't always come back.

Not at all true. A product needs to be sufficiently good for its task, it does not need to be better than the competition. VHS wasn't better than Betamax, but it was good enough that those who had VHS didn't feel any need to upgrade. Prior to Windows XP, MSWindows was definitely not as good as...

And, in fact, despite my previous post in this thread, i think this speaks to the strength of something other than the system. But not just the network of players, either. I think it speaks to the popularity/functionality of the style of play D&D engenders. It's not the ruleset that keeps it...

Just a nitpick, here: he makes 3 conclusions from the initial premise: Given: the more people who play a given game, the easier it is to find players for that game Therefore, the more people who play D&D: (1) The harder it is for competitive games to succeed (2) The longer people will stay...

The last point ("overcomplicated" rules) is so highly subjective, that i'm not sure you can make any generalization about it. I, and several of my friends who were formerly huge fans of D&D3[.5]E, think that D&D3E is considerably overcomplicated, especially for the degree of detail it provides...

Unfortunately, i suspect that a lot of new RPers would disappear along with the D&D name, if the D&D name disappeared. So, from a market/industry standpoint, it would probably be a bad thing. A lot of proto-gamers don't go looking for "an RPG" they go looking for "D&D", and if that isn't an...

If those on the adjacent corners (as well as sides) can attack with a square-based system, why not in a hex-based system (that would mean 12 could gang up on 1)? Hex upside: they're not conducive to exactly tiling typical constructions. That is, the fact that corridors are typically (1)...

It's a non-issue in a typical all-squares dungeon. The only time we ever had to do any real figuring was outdoors. Quick: what's the radius of a fireball with a target origin 5' above the ground, on an open plane, if its volume is equivalent to a 20'-radius sphere? That one gave us a bit of a...

And Gen Con isn't a publisher. No conflict of interest. So, you got me technically (i should've been clear that outside financial influence is acceptable, if only because it's necessary), but the spirit of what i was trying to say still holds--the publishers shouldn't be deciding how the awards...

I think the real problem isn't the fighter 5/wizard 5. It's the wizard 5/sorcerer 5. And other similar caster/caster multiclasses. I'm not sure the fix. My gut reaction is dissociated caster level from class level, same as BAB and class level aren't identical. But that might go too far the...