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I'm going to nitpick your nitpick. There are, literally, dozens of Monopoly branded Monopoly games. In fact, USAopoly has been putting out LICENSED Monopoly for 16 years. Their site says they've put out over a hundred. On top of that, they've expanded into other board games as well. So, while...

Nah, after I replied, I dug around for info on the boards and found the relevant info. I don't spend a lot of time on the WotC boards, so it took me a while. Message boards suck as a way to store information.

It looks like the "build" feature finally works the way I always expected it to. As does assigning an array.

I agree with your general premise: that RPGs don't need new editions all the time. It might help to analyze what went into each D&D edition change. The split of D&D into AD&D and BD&D was driven by differences between it's creators, Arneson wanted a rules set closer to his game (what became...

Ah! Now that makes sense. Learn something new everyday.

Yeah, but the quote it "gone is the clipboard view which was great for discussing characters online." I've seen clipboard viewer programs, but they were for the information in your local computer, not a method of sharing information online. If all you want to do is cut/past info into a chat box...

That's fine with me. The only reason I customized the old sheet is because I didn't like it as much as I like this one. It's clean and well organized. The old sheet is great when you make a character by hand, not so much when the computer does all the calculating for you. That said, I have...

Ah, but, as Isaac Asimov once asked, is magic indistinguishable from advanced technology?

I am excited about the updates. Frankly, we don't know what many of the actual changes are. Personally, I'm hoping the user interface has a face lift. They could have used Java. It's not like Java programs have to look like crap. Quite true. It's a feature I'm really hoping they maintain. Ugh...

I can use it without having to boot into Windows. It has themes and wild talents. It has the Essentials builds. It has an improved character sheet layout. I'm also hoping that it'll let you use your own image for your PC. I have a hard drive full of Larry Elmore pictures I bought in the days of...

I'd say they're an optional, but compatible, element of fantasy. I haven't used black powder in a game in years. And I've never used guns. He he. The one time I used black powder in my games was for exactly that. The invading army had barrels of gunpowder, before they could light them though...

I've been an annual subscriber for awhile. I don't picture that changing soon. At first, I subscribed only for Dungeon and Dragon. When I got Windows for my Mac, I added the CB and MB to the list. Reading that entry made me think two things: 1) Wizards needs to read it. And 2) I need to read and...

The CB and MB have never been inaccessible to me when had access to my computer. While the Compendium does go down occasionally for the monthly updates, I have rarely needed to access it during those times. Generally speaking, I download Dungeon and Dragon ASAP. Typically, when I've used DDI...

I blame Linux. People have not gotten used to beta testing everyone's programs.

Whoa...The new CB is scriptable?

What I find amusing is that I've never heard of iplay4e prior to people complaining that they can't use it anymore. That doesn't invalidate the complaint, it just amuses me. Can't you still use the old CB for iplay4e? That said, I suspect you were waiting for the Dark Sun stuff to come out for...

What I think they have is a history of changing direction after either 1) there's been an official announcement or 2) after there have been hints dropped. I suspect that, to you, this is the same as not knowing what their talking about. Also, sometimes Wizard's is outright misquoted. (E.g...

I suspect that the end results are equivalent: loss of customers.

Except that then a different set of people then complain that Wizard's ins't communicating with them.