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I'd take goblins or lizardfolk over tieflings or eladrin any day.

There's a genuine issue in the fact that 4e seems to be strangely off the path of standard fantasy. D&D 4e seems to be the version where D&D decides to start ignoring the source literature and start eating its own tail. A non-grognard who hears of an elf or a dwarf very likely has some idea of...

I know you can, but what's the fun in that? :)

I liked it alot. This sort of thing is really what D&D insider needs to be interesting to the internet at large. If they keep this sort of thing up, I can quit reading altogether. :) Anyways, very nice. And it shows that the Drider stats DID reveal something about 4e mechanics. There...

You might not like it, but to not recognize the reference is just plain incorrect. I guess that depends on how the wizard is played, and what comic books you're talking about. But since this was just laying down a foundation, it doesn't really matter. He was the son of Zeus, but also the...

Sorry, Yeti, but this reference means it's time for your renewal. :)

Oh yeah, speaking of XBox360. I just tried out PuzzleQuest for the first time on the XBox360 arcade. That's actually one hell of an addictive RPG. I keep restarting everytime my character is "Defeated"... Rather a hard way to play it, but keeps you on the edge of your seat, that's for sure...

The reason that people don't want fighters walking on air is that each of these classes has previously had very distinct sources from literature. The Ranger is a tribute to Aragorn. The Fighter is a tribute to the classical mythological/medieval warrior (from European mythology). The wizard...

Any save-or-you're-out-of-the-combat spell is a problem. That's just a flaw in D&D's design. Agreed. Wall of Force, Forcecage and Teleport are hardly "I win" buttons. More like "I tie" buttons. They're certainly annoying from a player and a DM perspective. The rest are simply reasons why...

Just because you enjoy magic coming out the pores of your heroes doesn't mean that all D&D players do. I like to play lower levels. Many people do. You want a magically-inclined fighter, play a swordmage. That's what that class is for. Plus why the heck are people crying for balance...

I'm fine with fighters having interesting abilities. I'm not okay with fighters spouting magical effects as part of the normal career path. There should be a place in D&D for the non-magical grunt. Sure, they can be of mythic proportions, but they should not be shooting fireballs from their...

I'm 31, but I've also been in this experience. Actually, my situation was even more interesting. You see, I found the name of one of my professors in grad school on a RPG site (not really sure about his age. I think he was 40). So, I stopped by his office and said hey, I noticed that you...

Interesting that the Wii is brought up in the same context with this argument. Sometimes a gimmick has its own quality to it. :) I'm not saying Eye of Judgement is that hot, but at least it's trying something new.

Speak for yourself, man. I've done it multiple times recently. And it's not because I don't know what I'm doing. God help me if I DIDN'T know what I was doing. Settlers, NWN2, and LotRO all required video driver updates to whichever nVidia driver happened to be out on release day. Oh I...

That said, I always chuckle when I hear about PS3 owners playing Oblivion. Oblivion? Yeah? You mean that game I had 7 months before your console even came out? How's that going for you? It's pretty good huh? Yeah. It was good. Remember Voltron? Yeah, that was cool too.

The reason Microsoft does so well is because they know that people buy software not hardware. If Sony plays this same stupid game again, they'll lose in the same stupid way that most of Microsoft's competitors have. So, no. I don't care if the PS3 comes with a micro-singularity inside. If...

I've heard good things about the new Ratchet and Clank. So, agreed, I forgot about that. The series has never caught my interest in the slightest. Just not my thing, perhaps? But I've left out Gears of War on the XBox360 side, so let's call it an even trade. Xbox's initial release titles...

I used to game more than I used to. Now, I get in a good 2 hours of gaming if I'm lucky after my kid goes to bed. With a console, I can bring home a game and those 2 hours are spent playing. With a PC game, I spend the first two hours getting the latest non-certified nVidia driver downloaded...

You be crazy to get a PS3 right now. Sorry, Sony fans. As much as the Sony is the "better piece of hardware" it also turns out that it's a pain in the butt to program, and the code you write to program it is not very portable. Soooo, PS3's game selection leaves a lot to be desired currently...

Stupid wires. My kid wants his toy, but Nooooooo! I have to spin the wire spinlock of doom, then I have to untwist the wires which holds Boots down like some sort of medieval monkey torture device. And then Pinhead shows up because I have apparently opened another gateway to hell. On the...