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Yeah, as long as the competion is around who can produce the best game (with whatever that entails), I'm gonna get better quality stuff at reasonable prices.

Every page on the WotC site has a DDI login box, with a subscribe button with it. You're really stretching.

I hadn't even ever played an RPG when this thread was created.

I've seen World of Darkness and a bunch of other games on Borders/B&N shelves in the 2000's. WotC has always had competitors.

I would have been shocked if Paizo didn't end up going in the pathfinder direction, regardless of what WotC did. Going dual system would be rather difficult, and of the companies around in 08, Paizo was in the best position to attempt to hold the 3e gaming crowd. Now unless there was really...

Well, Fatal is clearly the rules setting to use for that.

BADD was down to just her at the end. Sure, Jack Chick might still agree with her, but it's not like anyone takes him seriously either. As a distinction, these ideas should be mocked. The idea that DnD leads to Satanism or suicide is pure derp. Mocking the people is dehumanizing.

Ridicule is mean and spiteful. Its laughing at rather than with. Turned against a person many years past, its really not a good thing, especially as she was basically the only person who believed in her ideas after a while. It would be far more instructive to understand the more general...

I wouldn't be surprised if it has to do with relative economies of scale. The savings from only printing the PHB every other year or so might outweigh the benefit of a few more purchases based on errata. There's also the danger of making your product stock obsolete. You aren't helping game...

For something like RPGs, there are really two types of options. Away from the table options and at the table options. I really don't mind away from the table complexity, assuming it stays manageable. Choosing among different +4 weapons in 3e, for example. There's a crazy number of various...

I don't recall a specific chart to determine the initial attitude. The initial attitude should be DM determined based on situation.

I don't think I could manage 4e limited to just the PHB's magic items. If you were to toss in AV as well, I think I could handle a core + AV game, maybe. That said, I probably wouldn't get real excited about a core book only 4e campaign. If I were ever to go back and play 3e again, I doubt...

The character creator fills most of this need. All the errata is updated in the end use form. That said, I reject the idea that errata has so voluminous.

My objection to making the greater emphasis of system mastery on the character creation phase of rpgs rather than the play phase is that the build phase is typically a very rare part of the game. If you make a bad deck in magic or the like, you just need to adjust it for the next game. If you...

As a specific example: Level 10 cannon. r Cannonball!!! * (Recharge with a standard action by adjacent creature) Standard Action from adjacent creature Ranged 20/40 Target: one creature Attack +15 vs AC Damage 3d8 + 14 Secondary attack Area Burst 1 with Creature from first attack as center...

As a specific example: Level 10 cannon. r Cannonball!!! * (Recharge with a standard action by adjacent creature) Standard Action from adjacent creature Ranged 20/40 Target: one creature Attack +15 vs AC Damage 3d8 + 14 (crit 3d8 + 52) Secondary attack Area Burst 1 with Creature from first...

I'd go with page 42 damage * 1.5 if it's taking 2 standard actions to fire, with possibly a high crit property. Edit: actually, I'd do something like this. Target: One creature. Damage: page 42 * 1.5 [high crit] Secondary attack: blast 3 with the targeted creature's square as the origin of the...

Well, the best way to learn what it's about is to play. Reading the books really isn't a substitution for seeing the game in action. My recommendation would be one of the many podcasts of people playing. The penny arcade/wotc podcasts are pretty entertaining but are relatively short. I'd...

Just because there will be differentiation between class complexity doesn't mean that all future martial classes will be less complex than all future arcane classes. Plausibly, they could decide to make a complicated martial class, just as they could make a simplified caster. But I will agree...