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Well. I agree with some of the criticisms of the post, but there are some valid overall points too (wishy-washy enough?). It could very well be that the era of the very small dead-tree RPG publisher is over. That doesn't have to mean the death of the entire industry, though. I wouldn't think...

Now there's a truth.

You might just be right. I'm an engineer (still in academia even), and I know a fair bit about how the world works. Any game is going to blow my sense of reality. However, I find that this has a different effect than you are suggesting. For me, since it's not "real" anyway, I can totally...

I think that the style is an indication of this culture gap as well. I started playing in 2E, and I have this impression that many of the people playing ahead of me played similar types of characters to the Dying Earth ones, who were only interested in things they could kill, steal, or hump...

I'm reading Dying Earth for the first time myself (at age 34). I find that I'm not enjoying it, and I probably will move on to other books without finishing it. And I doubt that the problem is the age - I'm a big time Golden Age SF buff, and continually read SF from the 40s and 50s. I just...

What about those hunting packs (whose name I forget), where the members get progressively stronger as you kill other members, until the remaining few are nigh invulnerable? I think about that notion quite often, but have never really gotten around to actually fleshing it out in game terms.

Purvenger?

A lot of it for me comes down to the fact that I'm a big wuss. I don't care for PvP/competitiveness in any setting, really. I think it is a problem with empathy - in order for me to win, someone else has to lose. I know how much I hate to lose, and I don't like making someone else feel that...

No caveat here. Sounds like something that could work fine - just not in a game that I'm involved in. :)

Some of my things have already been mentioned. 1) Evil campaign. I've heard of this working, in a "my friend's cousin's co-worker ran an evil campaign that worked out fine" kind of way, but I've never seen this work myself. About half of high school was this type of game for me, and I hated...

One less now, but if you pick masterwork armor for the Will bonus and the scale guy goes for AC bonus the difference will increase over time.

That's what I'm seeing too - it returns the BRV fighter to being a defender, rather than an island.

lol According to many people who know me, I AM bigfoot.

Just make sure there's a lady-type there. :P

No real opinion about the main issue here, except for this: Are there people out there claiming that Ed didn't enjoy dressing up as Elminster at GenCon? I met him there once, while he was in-costume and in-character, and he sure looked and acted like he was enjoying himself immensely... Send...

On a related subject: I just tried out the encounter builder for the first time the other day (I run RPGA modules only, but I wanted to write something of my own). Am I correct in that none of the current tools will allow you to make a Solo or Elite monster (other than by doing it all by hand...

From TV tropes (Mary Sue - Television Tropes & Idioms) "The closest thing to a widely agreed-on definition is a character who has too many positive characteristics, and too few genuine flaws to be believable or interesting. Of course, despite what many tongue-in-cheek litmus tests claim...

You know, when someone mentioned Beorn, this thought crossed my mind also. Beorn would be the high-heroic/low-paragon Warden, and Bombadil would be the epic warden.

That would be fun. Some sort of terrain infused with arcane energies, such that any creature arriving in such a square via Teleport actually arrives 1d4-1 squares away in a random direction. Or arrives in its intended location, only 1d3-1 rounds later.

He wears light armor...