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Sounds wonderful. Wish I could come.

That's cool, I only quoted yours because it was closest to the end - other people upthread were saying the same thing. And with the explanation it does indeed make more sense to me. I don't share the feeling, but I understand it.

Nope. None of the 40+ local gamers I know are playing 3.x anymore (well, of that 40+ I can say with confidence that 25 or so are definitely not, and I suspect that the other 15 or so are not but have no direct eveidence of such). I hope this doesn't count as trashing the edition, which I...

Off-topic, kind of (but maybe not) I've never really understood this sentiment. I too spend my working life in front of a computer screen. This time, however, is not spent reading gaming material. It is spent coding and running simulations and writing papers and reading papers. When I get...

True here, I suppose. I'm about even with Merric - just peeking my head into Paragon. But I reckon an all-14s PC would be almost as terrible at level 1 as at level 22. :P And while I'll freely admit that the amount of terrible is smaller in 3.x, I posit that an all-14s PC in 3.x is also...

And with only one magic weapon required, and only one Expertise feat. Nice idea.

lol I was planning a list like this in my head, and it included both Sin City and Spongebob (my list finished off with Groo the Wanderer and Sandman as well, my two favourite comics if you can believe it).

I'm with you bud. While I wasn't a constant subsriber to the dead-tree Dragon, I was a subsriber more than once (and a newsstand buyer when I wasn't). I read the magazines, but got almost zero actual game use out of them. Now I find things I can actually use in almost every issue. Way more...

I think that uniform ability scores is just not the way to be a generalist in 4E. You can broaden your scope in so many other ways that don't make you totally suck. Training in a wide variety of skills. Feats and/or backgrounds and/or magical gear to provide bonuses to skills for which you...

I can understand the sentiment. I draw a "stuff" line myself, I just draw it a bit lower. For me, I don't feel like there is enough stuff until I get my second Daily - level 5. At that point, I feel like I can go a ways without shuffling back down to at-will, at-will, at-will.

I feel more or less the same way.

I only played in 1E, didn't start DMing until 2E. I didn't even know there WERE formal training rules until I read this thread - I thought training rules were always informal house rules that other people made up. :P

I apologize for the hyperbole.

I was just having a similar discussion with a friend down at the FLGS yesterday, only about the Character Builder. It hasn't even been a year yet, and yet I can't really imagine not having it. :P

To be fair, the DMs (who switched off) went through and found whoever had the best rolls on the Treasure tables compared to their XP value. We stuck mostly to those.

Other - we went through the monster lists killing things and taking their stuff. I didn't play in an actual campaign with a plot and story until I was in college (and in 2E by then).

I'd go as far as saying that pre-2001 Tolkien himself was reasonably obscure outside fans of the genre. Less so than any other genre author you'd care to name certainly, but really to "outsiders" we're a pretty marginal bunch at the best of times. There's a whole wide world out there of people...

I'm not a member of the NYT online so I can't reread it right now, but I did read the article earlier this week linked to another site. Isn't the title of that one "The Genre Artist"? And isn't it basically about how unknown/unappreciated he is? I remember a quote about how if he was from...

I started looking for Vance books in used book stores in about 2005, at the same time I started looking for Ted Sturgeon books. I found over 20 Sturgeon books and only 1 Vance book (Dragon Masters, which was very good). The two actually compare reasonably well, as they both use language in a...

He would be less obscure if he was known or discussed outside the niche market of roleplaying gamers. There's a big leap in fame between "mentioned* in several roleplaying games, most of them pretty obscure even inside that market" and "sitcom on the Disney Channel". lol *I wouldn't even...