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What? :confused: :\ :eek: It's a lot easier to sell books as an established author rather than as an unknown. Why would a group of authors turn a nobody into the richest woman in England? Ghost writing makes sense when the credited author is a celebrity, or when a popular author decides...

It's not unusual for a first time author to change in quality over a series of books. Even experienced authors can vary greatly in quality in a series of books. Any good author is likely to run their ideas in front of someone they trust, and get suggestions. Many hire people to help them in...

Wow you've gone from calling Rowling a "thief hack writer" to saying she doesn't write her own books. I think we get that you don't like her. You are making a very serious allegation here. If your only proof is "being around the writing business," you probably shouldn't be making it.

Should be really neat. I would like to see a full multi-Doctor episode again. The 8th through 10th Doctors would work just fine, and Davidson is still young enough to pull off the 5th Doctor. Yes he is noticeably older then when he played the role, but he isn't as elderly and different...

Always by the book. As has been pointed out, the book lets you change monsters' alignments. The stated alignment simply represents the majority for that monster type, or the most frequent alignment when "often" is used as a describer.

There's actually some work going on now though. Lucas is evidently meeting with a pool of writers next week to choose writers for the first season. They hope to start filming in 2009, and seem to be looking at a 13 episode season. All this comes from the Force.net's TV series info page...

Every time I've pre-ordered a gaming book from Amazon, I've ended up canceling because they didn't get the books in until weeks or months after their release. It also often takes 5+ business days for Amazon to ship books that are listed as in-stock when using the free super saver shipping. I...

The way company PR releases information over several months is to start with as little information as possible and then slowly increase the info flow as release day approaches. That way, they build anticipation in the target audience. The lack of information at the beginning can be...

I'm happy they're putting out all 3 books in one month. It makes it easier on DM's to get it all at once. The people that want to buy one book a month still can. The 1 month delay also makes it easier for people who have trouble affording more than 1 book a month. Now they can save the money...

Right. It would be far better if WotC just stopped supporting D&D for 2 years while they worked on D&D 4e. :\ Really it was a win-win scenario. We got some great books, and WotC found out what worked and what didn't.

Gaming. I'm not even sure if 4e D&D is the gaming product I'm most anticipating for 2008. Dark Heresy comes out a couple months earlier, and I've been waiting years for a Warhammer 40k RPG. I'll probably end up GMing both games on alternating weeks.

Nope. MerricB gets excited about D&D stuff. Some people I know get excited about sports or music. I don't go overboard on things, but to each their own. MerricB appears to be a genuinely optimistic and nice guy to me. Actually, I think WotC does want to make a better game that most people...

Basically correct for early Battletech except for one thing. It isn't an alternate universe. It's the year 3025, or later as the storyline progresses. They call Earth Terra.

I think it is interesting to note that there is currently a poll on the 4th ed page asking what rumoured aspects of 4th ed people like. Currently around 64% of the people who have responded like the defocus on Vancian magic. That seems to indicate there are quite a few ENworlders who favor a...

I don't think they've ever read any Vance, and want mages that play more like most fiction. Most other systems have a lot less record keeping involved, making it easier on GM and players. The D&D magic system is about resource management. Systems that have fatigue or dangerous spell failure...

There hasn't been any problem with the houseruling. We play a lot of RPGs, not just D&D/D20. D&D is one of the most popular. The players that like magic type characters seem to prefer systems with mana/magic points, or ones that have a mechanic that makes low power spells safe to cast all...

My current group has never used by the book Vancian magic. The first change we made was to quit forcing memorization. Casters still had limited spells per day and had to rest to recover them, but they could cast any combination of spells they knew. We also gave wizards a relatively weak ray...

I like some Anime, but dislike a lot of Anime. I wouldn't want to see D&D with a lot of Anime inspired art. I like Anime RPGs such as BESM, but I would prefer D&D to maintain mostly European fantasy elements for its base setting. I do not think it is just the physical art, but also the...

This is the best thing I've heard about 4th ed so far.

Looks good to me. It doesn't look like it will be anywhere near Alien or Aliens in quality. That said, it looks better then the two later Alien movies or either Predator movie. It looks like the people in the AVP:R trailer were doing their best to fight back. I didn't see evidence of horny...