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Yeah. A lot of people here seem to be assuming that 4E will not be a significant improvement. A lot of people are also assuming it will be. Me, I'll wait and see... in the meantime though, I'm eager to follow all the information that's being released, and surprisingly (you may recall that...

Making money and improving the game are not mutually exclusive.

Well, I would never create a pantheon made up of Thor, Anubis, Quetzalcoatl, Coyote, etc. I agree that would be stupid. My approach would actually be to import some of the more important members from each of several pantheons and assign them to different cultures, with perhaps a little overlap...

I'm currently playing in a 3.5 homebrew campaign. Our characters are 4th level. The DM and I are both (mostly) liking what we've heard about 4E, and we're hoping to get in on the playtesting. If that happens, we may just convert/rebuild our characters for 4E, since we don't want to end the...

Personally I would prefer that the implied setting of 4E made room for a vast array of thousands of deities, major and minor, global and local, scattered across the dark and foreboding landscape. I do like the idea of bringing real-world deities into Core -- I find that many of them are more...

I too have found that I DM better while standing. It especially helps when roleplaying NPCs -- it's much harder for me to "act," to get into character, without using my body. I'm not a LARPer, but my game starts to cross over sometimes when more than one person is standing and speaking...

Yeah. As a player, I have to admit that I appreciate at least relative freedom to have my character do as he or she wishes. I dislike extensive railroading and "epic plots" that my character is not really invested in. I do like there to be plot hooks, especially if they are custom tailored to...

I played a Halfling Bard in RPGA (LC). Tibbs Brighton was his name. Kind of an annoying character, actually, but it was fun at the time. He was fun to roleplay -- he played the piccolo and got on people's nerves. Unbelievably effective in combat, but that was because LC was janked and he had...

First of all, I think the random encounter thing is probably spot on. But just to be sure -- what kind of dungeon is this? Is it a vast underground cavern complex, where creatures are few and far between, or a heavily-trapped tomb just crawling with mooks? If the dungeon is inhabited, and...

My favorite approach would be this: The new PC starts at 1st level, as the apprentice/sidekick/little cousin of an established character, preferably the player who is bringing the new guy into the game -- someone who the new player is already friends with and who will be willing to teach them...

There seems to be an increasing emphasis on the 3D visual-tactile element of the game, including miniatures and dungeon tiles. I would not be surprised if we see pre-painted plastic terrain features at some point. Frankly, I have no problem with Wizards producing this kind of stuff -- it...

Yes, these are awesome! Be sure to check out the Papo (http://www.happyhentoys.com/a_Papo/Index-Papo.html) brand as well. One of the players in my group had his birthday last week and I gave him two of the Papo knights (with mounts), which I had found at our local toystore. I wish I had had...

Well, my daughter is almost a year old now. Basically, as others have said above, it depends on your schedule and your partner's schedule and the agreement you two have with regards to childcare. If you're partner is willing to let you go play D&D for a few hours once a week, I don't think you...

Update: I picked up the C&C Player's Handbook on Friday and have read about half of it. In general I like what I see so far and I'm excited to try it out. It has really renewed my enthusiasm for the game -- I'm working on a mini-setting and a couple of short adventures, and I'm actually...

Yeah, I've been seriously looking into C&C as an alternative to 3.x. I've read damn near everything about it on the internet at this point, and finally ordered a PH from my FLGS (they usually stock it but were sold out). I'm picking it up from the store tomorrow! Pretty excited, actually...

Yeah, our group drinks at table on occasion. Maybe one out of every four games, on average, and always either wine or good local microbrews, with about equal frequency. In this part of the country we are blessed with both organic vineyards and really, really good beer.

Oh, yes, happily indeed... :p You make an interesting point, though -- obviously there are a lot of DMs who use the 3.x rules supplements and homebrew settings, plots, NPCs, et al., some of whom are not interested in buying other people's fluff. On the other hand, there are a lot of DMs who...

I have a feeling your experience with fast food is far from typical. In any case, my criticism (by way of hyperbolic analogy) was actually directed at WotC, not McDonald's (I'll leave that to Eric Schlosser). My complaint is not so much that WotC are publishing books full of rules that I will...

Nevertheless, it's hard not to feel some resentment for a company that uses shiny Disney-toys to tempt your kids into eating their toxic sludgeburgers. It's hard, you know, when the kids keep nagging you to take them to Mickey D's and you have to explain to them that those Happy Meals that look...

I played 2E, owned a great deal of the splatbooks, and used almost all of the 'extra' material -- specialty priests, elven bladesingers, even Player's Option. At the time, I welcomed the new ideas. On the other hand, I was in junior high. Even then, though, I realized that my friend's Wood...