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I introduced my wife to gaming when we first dated. It didn't work out between us back then, but after we split up she ended up gaming with her older brother and his friends. We've gamed together quite a bit since we got back together and got married; she played in my Third Edition D&D game, and...

Rob Schwalb gets the old Planescape cant right in the fiction intro, that's for sure. The second page mentions that the Lady of Pain banned the factions, but that they persist in secret even if they can't have any official role in government anymore. The Sensates and the Doomguard are...

True "fantasy heartbreakers" get their name from the fact that they are, generally, their creator's passionate ideal version of a classic, D&D-style fantasy game, doomed (hence the heartbreak) to failure because the market is flooded with dozens of games which are likewise their creator's "D&D...

If you choose to ignore the presence of technomagical elements in the world, Exalted fits the bill nicely. It's professionally produced by White Wolf; lavishly illustrated; uses a heavily adapted version of their Storyteller dice-pool system; has a decidedly high and epic fantasy feel albeit one...

I am happy to pay the current subscription price for Dragon and Dungeon. The other tools are a bonus.

The Japanese branch of Amazon often ships before the American street date. I remember SpringsBoundlessThorns' having posted about other books before release.

This is terrible news. My heart goes out to all of you - I recognise half the names on the list, and I'm sure the other half did great work in places I just never saw.

Keefe summarises my original point quite succinctly: EN World and GenCon attendees, in my opinion, are not representative of the general population of gamers.* I'd say the same about a place like RPG.Net, too, where I spend more time these days; if you try a poll of what RPG.Net posters play...

The seeds for dragonborn were, indeed, probably sown by the draconians of Dragonlance - not that they were initially presented as PC options, of course. The "dragonborn" name first appeared in late Third Edition's Races of the Dragon, but was quite different in conception - dragonborn in that...

Nope. I asked my mother to buy me the one-volume British edition of the red box Basic Set when I saw it on a sale table at a bookstore in 1990, because I'd read about the game in the novelisation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The odd thing was, it was an adult novelisation of the film - I...

I'm not saying that they're not, necessarily, I'm just saying that they don't represent the majority. (That's trivial to demonstrate; unique gate numbers at conventions across the world, even discounting the obvious factor of people who go to multiple conventions, don't begin to approach the...

I think there's a qualitative difference between the Chamber in Eberron and draconic villains who conceal themselves and/or their true identity in order to weaken the PCs. Eberron gives dragons a civilisation of their own, but explains why that civilisation doesn't just a) enslave everyone else...

I voted for the first eight choices on the poll.

Yes, but when you talk about going to a convention, you're already limiting your potential pool of interviewees from "gamers" down to "gamers who go to conventions". "Gamers who go to conventions" are not the majority of "gamers". Likewise, "gamers who post on EN World" are not the majority of...

It varies, of course. Some nights are all about cracking wise out of character, other times that wouldn't be appropriate. The longest-running, most enjoyable, and most successful games I've played in have been ones where at least some of the time we took the situations and characters of the...

I don't really find dragons that interesting as combat opponents. Sure, they're interestingly-designed solos in Fourth Edition, and that's cool . . . but they just don't appeal to me, so I have a hard time finding a place for them in my games. That said, in the right setting where dragons are...

Well, Lord Mhoram kind of did, but that's because he's a Mormon, if I recall correctly. So it's actually part of the definition of moral uprightness for him. ;) You don't have to get drunk for drinking to interfere with your ability to concentrate or take the game seriously.

I don't see any reason to assume that convention gaming is reflective of home gaming, to be honest. The vast majority of gamers don't go to conventions; trends there are no more representative than trends on sites like EN World.

I've never considered gaming a drinking sort of atmosphere. Largely, I think, this is because of where I've played. When I was at university and we played on campus, people usually wouldn't drink because they'd have class after the game, or at least have to drive home. Keep in mind, in...

You know, if that's what you meant, then I must have misread it. I apologise. I still think it's crazy for anyone to think - as I think you said your friend did? - that the paladin would be covered in Martial Power, considering the whole point of the Power books is that they're tied to the...