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That's one way of looking at it. Another one would be that, unless you have the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, some parts of your Adventurer's Vault 2 will be completely useless to you. I can't really speak for the whole gaming community, but I am way more attracted to good modules and...

I think it's more true that 4e was designed from computer RPGs (among other sources). And that was a good decision: only fools refuse taking advantage of something that works.

I think there's a difference between History, Literary Fantasy and "D&D Fantasy". D&D Fantasy, which is what I want when I'm playing D&D, is a kitchen sink of cultures, mixed and deformed to suit not accuracy nor plausability, but awesomeness. When I see the Zendikar pics, I don't think about...

I can download the character builder and watch it take up space in my hard disk because I'm not a Windows user. That, and that ANY amount I HAD TO pay in addition to the core rules is too much, if we compare it to what any other game or D&D iteration does: give you the core rules in the core...

So you really think 5 books for making a PC is not overkill. Wow. And when I played 3.x, the only book I used part from the PHB was PHB2, just for the Fighter feats. That's a big difference. In 3.x, splatbooks were largely optional, whereas in 4e they're pretty much needed for very basic...

For Eberron, I can understand people buying the 4e Player's Guide, as it has all the crunchy stuff. The Campaign Guide is maybe a bit more streamlined, but of less use to someone who already has the 3.x Campaign Setting. Nevertheless, it's a very good idea from WotC having their Campaign Guides...

I really, really hope you were trying to be sarcastic there :p

I think 90% of the changes that have been labeled here as being "for the sake of change" are just "for the sake of sales". I mean, if the Great Wheel was still in place, there'd be no need for a 4e Manual of the Planes when we already have the 3.x Planar Handbook. Same thing for Forgotten...

About the changes on alignments, I can totally understand why LE and CG were ditched. They were utterly strange and alien concepts no one could grasp. I mean, who's ever heard of nazis* or hippies? :p *: I hope this won't invoke Godwin's Law upon me...

Zendikar looks great (and I'm looking forward to the release to play the heck out of it), as did Alara and Lowryn/Morningtide. I wish the guys who come up with the setting ideas for M:tG would write something for D&D. If the Loxodon, Rhox, Viashino or Leonin made their way to PHB-X, I might...

For a setting like Dark Sun, i'd use something like Rolemaster or Runequest. 3.x would be a close 2nd (3rd), because it's basically Rolemaster/5, without the tables.

Reach 36th level?

CMB vs. the target's CMD :)

But you can blame the marketers for letting the game designers open their mouths. I mean, it's great to have the creator of something tell you about that something, but they should have a PR guy read their texts beforehand in case they had to edit a poorly thought of commentary ("Gnomes are...

I know. In some places, it's a question of how much we love our Balance goddess and what are we willing to sacrifice at her altar. On one hand, we have 1e or Rifts. On the other hand, we have everyone playing the exact same character. Where do we find our middle ground? Of course, the answer...

My problem with 4e's marketing wasn't so much the amount of previous editons-bashing, but the overusing of the word "cool" (heck, I'm not a native English speaker and even I know there are many other ways to say something is good). If I had made a drinking game out of it, I'd still be drunk :p

You'll forgive me for talking about how to remove 4e's homogeneity on this thread, I hope ;) First of all, there's nothing wrong with a power-based system. That's not the problem; the problem is that everyone seems to access and recharge those powers in the same way. Let's look at past...

I've run up to the 4th part of Rise of the Runelords using the Beta book, and with a little luck tomorrow we'll finish the 2nd book of Legacy of Fire, this time with the final book. Both campaigns have had no conversion on my part, besides some tweaks where I've added a monster o changed one...

Yes, you did. You presented a situation in 3.x where a trap could only be dealt with by a Rogue. That meant almost exclusively (correct me if I'm wrong) a non-magical trap with a Search DC above 20. Even in that case, the only time where "everyone except the Rogue sit on their hands" is the one...

I work with the materials that you give me. Crappy example, crappy trap ;)