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Perhaps they are coming out with a free version of the character builder, it just lets you pick your stuff and makes you a sheet, but has no power cards? Maybe PDFs are coming back? Maybe both? My guess is more stuff that will further divide their player base, based on the last 2 years of...

I was unaware that there was a Mage Knight board-game out now. How much does it have to do with the Mini's game that was cancelled a while back? Is it a relaunch? As for what games am I playing, I am running a game of Savage Worlds: Necessary Evil and a game of Mage: the Awakening set in the...

As pointed out in between here and your original post, because it is the gateway brand/drug. Most everyone that plays RPGs starts out with (and has first heard of D&D), and it will still be that way for a long time. It might be in the next 20 years that Pathfinder takes that place* but for now...

But then what is the point of hiring back Monte Cook and all the polls in his articles? If not for 5th edition, are we looking at some kind of repacking of 4e/Essentials into one (not confusing and divisive) line? Or maybe a revision of the GSL to allow more 3rd party involvement in 4e, which...

Considering the way that the 4e Manual of the Planes was formatted, I always kind figured that the eventual goal (maybe the 2010 setting if it hadn't gotten bumped for Neverwinter) was a Magic + Plansescape setting for D&D to synergize the two brands. Might be they were planning that and it...

Thanks for this. I was not calling you or Lisa lairs (as implied by another earlier) but as a general academic rule, you mistrust numbers you don't see yourself unless you at least know how they were gathered. Thank you. That makes sense as a way to have gathered those numbers that would be...

More than you know. Between the lawyers and folks in marketing, the hobby looks so far away from what it was when I started 23 years ago...

*shakes head* No, you're missing the point. Mr. Dancey went on about how the industry tries to pick winners based on the flight to quality, but he forgets that in a niche market (as opposed to mass merchandise) that contraction by the industry players can alienate as much as 10% of the market...

Perhaps you have forgotten things like White Wolf's poor taste attempt to market Exalted 2nd edition with the 'Graduate your Game' promotion, done during Mr. Dancey's time at White Wolf/CCP no less? While clearly the most 'cheap shot' out there, it is far from the only one ever done, and is...

Can't argue with your numbers (except a lack of documentation, as neither you nor Lisa Stevens has ever shown the research, much like the Golden Tablets we have to take your word for it), but there are a couple of specific points... Except they changed that with the nWoD. While anyone who has...

I think you might be looking for Castles & Crusades.

There are Dragons, Magic, and a very possible end of your life is becoming a God. Where the ever loving frak does 'realism' come into that kind of game?

While I don't love 4e, it is my favorite of the currently supported forms of D&D, with Castles & Crusades a close second and Pathfinder a distant third. My favorite games right now are Savage Worlds (Necessary Evil, Slipstream, and Deadlands) and Mage: the Awakening.

For me I always referred to AD&D as, "mathematically schizophrenic."

I ran a one year war campaign in Palladium Fantasy over 15 years ago. Palladium is not a bad system, but it's not a good one either. The biggest issue is the lack of organization and clarity. Be ready for a lot of house rules, or discovering a rule you've missed that you decide to ignore...

On the actual topic- My UFLGS doesn't really carry D&D or Pathfinder, or RPGs in general. He's a comic and Hero-Clix shop, first and foremost. Then he carries Magic, then Warhammer 40K, then a few copies of D&D 4e, Pathfinder Beginner Box, and some old used stuff that no one wants. He's...

While I like Castles and Crusades for the BECM feel without THAC0, it's pretty much something I run as a convention game or a pick-up game only. The fact is, it seems to me like it's easier to run long-term games with modern rules because they give you more details to the characters to serve as...

It is one of the few games I've gotten to play instead of run, but it was well over 14 years ago. All I remember is that with a creative mind, the Logrus (sp?) is really abusive.

I'm fond of the Slayer and the Hunter. They do what it says on the box.

Now I really might get that book, eventually. I got the Beginner Box recently, and finally got a CRB (been asked to play in a couple of games, and an SRD is not an ideal table reference) but had no real desire to get any more (as while I'll play it, my days of running v3.5 d20 is long past, and...