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Realistically, I think Gygax knew he was making a game and his framework for Magic-Users was from a resource management angle. That's why the fire-and-forget framework is there IMO - because he wanted MUs to have a limited resource to track for their spellcasting and the "you have to prepare it...

You've got to wonder what those film rights are actually worth at this point. I know the comic strip has been kinda sorta soft rebooted in the last decade, but it's still not exactly the kind of IP that has people dying to see adaptations. I'm sure that Tribune is dying to create a Tribune...

What I need is minimalist - Lasers and Feelings type games are great for me. At least for a one shot or one-or-two shot. What I want for more than that is light I guess by the definitions you laid out. On top of what L&F gives me, give me some kind of plot point currency to spend on a stunt...

I mean, of course he's guilty. But I always thought that picture of the fighter standing over Alleena's corpse made me, the player of the fighter, look suspicious. Also- why hasn't the Patriarch resurrected his niece? Shouldn't she be able to speak on behalf of the prosecution? I feel like...

If one of my players did that after I'd asked them politely in the manner that TwoSix's DM did, that player would fall off my text chain for reminding folks about our games. I literally can't imagine an adult player that I'm willing to play with who would come back with a "house rule it or I'll...

/me turns to dust, blows away in the wind... I am now realizing that I could start up a 4e D&D game and call it "old school D&D" and be technically correct - the best kind of correct.

IMHO - if it encourages them to change even less it'll probably be a good thing in the end. If it ends up with devs who can't let go of their pet ideas rushing to put them into place instead of just dropping it and hoping to add it in a later supplement, that would be bad.

"Comparatively minor" is a great phrase to use with investors. It sounds like you're saying something is "minor" when in fact you're kind of saying the opposite. Being minor when compared to something else usually means it's major within its own context. Like having a twisted ankle is a...

Yes, that was darjr's point in response to a comparison being made to an executive at a private company. Discussions of how private company executives act are not necessarily relevant to how publicly traded executives act. Private companies have a completely different dynamic - usually you have...

See for me I looked at the cost of moving to 4e and decided to tap out. I was already trending away from GURPS in general (3e D&D had pulled me back into D&D's orbit) but if 4e had come out with a single, smaller book instead of 2 big hardcovers, I probably would have gone along for the ride...

I now have an itch to write a game called "Fantasy Heartbreaker". It would be a dating sim set in a D&D style world.

Yup. The original Ranger got a single Cleric spell at 8th level and the ability to use healing magic items. Then the ability to cast a MU spell at 9th level instead of a cleric spell and the ability to use scrying items. It's pretty clear that the influence on the author was Aragorn, and the...

If it has I would be surprised. The only game company that would surprise me more to move into the open gaming mindset for their core system would be Palladium. SJG has always been very protective of their systems - they were looser than TSR back when TSR was around, and have always treated...

I have mostly avoided failed campaigns in recent years by not being overly ambitious with my plans. The structure that my regular group is able to fit is a series of one-shots or at most two-shots. Very episodic, with me taking copious notes so that we can have a "last time on" blurb before each...

I mean, this time we're going on 10 years since the last edition, which is pretty good. I think only 2e had a longer lifespan (by 1 year) and that was partly because TSR went bankrupt towards the end of it and couldn't have put out a new edition even if they'd wanted to. IIRC Wizards started...

So the original polyhedral dice - d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20 - are all regular polyhedrons and are the platonic solids. They have the nice characteristic that all of their faces are the same size and are all regular polygons and fit together in a regular pattern and so make for good randomizers. I...

D&D - It would have been 1981 I think. Maybe '82. A snowy recess when we were stuck indoors and one kid pulled out a basic rulebook and offered to run a game for us. I think we stole the dice out of the Risk boardgame that was in the classroom and he basically made a bunch of stuff up but I was...

Maybe. I actually expect that IF Wizards plans for a VTT come to fruition (a very big if IMHO) then the game will change even more slowly over time than it is now. Because making even minor changes to large scale software projects is a lot harder than tweaking rules in a text format. And the...

I agree. The only way the VTT team is having input is if there's some particular rule that they're finding hard to put into the game. Mostly I'd expect that to be clarification on spells where the language is unclear (though those all generally have some errata or Sage Advice ruling clarifying...

I think they're supposed to look like the uniform that Star Lord wore in the comics Annihilation: Conquest - Starlord Vol 1 1