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Paizo is a smaller company. I've found, in many cases, that smaller companies, like Green Ronin and Malhavoc, are able to respond personally *much* faster than larger companies. Ask a question on the appropriate boards and you can expect an answer from Chris Pramas or Monte Cook, and the...

You see it in political or religious discussions more often, where people have internalized beliefs that they now consider to be a part of them, and thus any attack on those beliefs is considered an attack on their worldview and their sense of self. But it's become increasingly common on the...

And, according to WotC themselves, sales have never been better. The OGL grew the market, as it was intended to, and sales of 4E have been described as better than any sales that came before, so it doesn't appear to be 'horrible' for WotC. Or, if it is, it's the sort of 'horrible' that they'd...

Also; Maybe different people prefer different things, and that's okay, too. Too often the arguments seem to be, 'You must be an irrational grognard afraid of change to prefer that unplayable broken boring 3.X!' or 'You must be some WoW-loving Magic: the Gathering player to prefer 4e to 3.X!'...

They actually had Living FR games in recent memory? I thought Living Raven's Bluff or whatever it was imploded spectacularly years ago? Anywho, if the 'win' for WotC is making sure that passionate customers who loved their product don't buy every single product they pump out obsessively any...

I'm not playing 4E at the moment, and still with 3.5, but I like the change. If the Driders were indeed mindless monstrosities, then their form could be seen as a curse, but since they are indeed smarter, more charismatic (which means more self-confident and self-assured!) and wiser than...

Most fans of a genre of writing, style of music, particular band, etc. would argue the opposite, that the very best stuff is the stuff that doesn't get popular attention. But the object of a novel, in today's world, is to make money, which is why some lame 1600 year old story like...

Maybe with a happy ending? :) And then Mammy gets the greatest gift from Lamashtu, a child which even *she* regards as monstrous. After a surprisingly difficult labor, she squeezes out an absolutely gorgeous human child, apparently four years of age! [sometime later] Oh, she's so precious...

I've had no use for them, but I've had players use them, and I'm not going to say no if they want to play a core race. The last one we had was a Conjurer in 3.0 who liked to get away with murder because of his size and weight (pre-errata, a Lantern Archon could teleport with him and Evard's...

One issue I've got with Drizzt is not even a little bit unique to Drizzt. He's kinda down on himself, despite being utterly unbeatable. It's like reading Wolverine complaining about how he got mindjobbed sixty billion years ago, when he's immortal and unkillable, or Superman wax philosophical...

If their marketing folk aren't interested in what customers and potential customers think of the health of their product and their company, the company has a far bigger problem then whether or not 4E is selling like hot-cakes. Companies don't cite strong sales because they like to pay their...

And this is rife is almost all human interactions. I say something about Star Trek, and *somebody* is going to chime in with 'oh, but on Memory-Alpha...' If it's Star Wars, I've got the same thing going on, and it's nearly impossible for a conversation about Star Wars to not have mentions of...

Ideally, a pirate haven should be in some sort of secluded harbor, with some sort of terrain that hinders that sort of thing. (Perhaps, like Green Ronin's Freeport, it has treacherous reefs and sandbars, and no vessel not piloted by one of the city's pilots is likely to be able to safely reach...

Sounds bogus. All of the 3pp's I've read a reaction from have pointed at the GSL (and / or the severe lateness of it's unveiling, which would have cost them six months to a year of production lead-time) as the reason they aren't going 4E. I've also heard that 4E is selling well.

My absolute favorite fantasy settings, Midkemia and Kelewan, are already part of Tekumel, as far as I know. Most fantasy MMOs have richly detailed worlds. Norrath, from EverQuest, has already been touched upon, but the worlds of Shadowbane and Dark Ages of Camelot would also be interesting...

I still have all of my 2nd edition stuff, and a fair amount of 1st edition stuff. (When do the charts in the back of the 1st edition Dungeon Master's Guide stop being useful? Not yet, for me, anyway!) My 3rd edition stuff will likewise remain useful for ideas, inspirations, etc. even if I...

Make it Drow and Orcs, and it will better fit your premise. Both are chaotic and untrustworthy races, filled with contempt for 'weak' humans, elves, etc. But Drow are purty and 'look' more intelligent.

A) It's trendy. We are automata, mindlessly trudging forward with our torches and pitchforks, because someone told us that it was kewl to hate on Drizzt, and, being socially clueless, we wouldn't have any idea what to hate on our own without being led along by the nose. B) He's the Wolverine...

Unless your name is Ed Greenwood, you're gonna be running a homebrew Realms game anyway. And, for that matter, 90% of the current Realms is stuff that was strapped on by people not named Ed Greenwood (and while he's been gentleman enough to do little more than raise an eyebrow at most of it, it...

20 minutes! Luxury! At Origins, we got 15, and three encounters in that time. Rumor has it the head RPGA guy was also a fiend. His assistant DMs called him Drusipher. :)