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I have no real issue with 4e being more or less like a videogame - ANY set of rules which changes cannot avoid moving either toward or away from videogameyness (which is a real word, I've decided just now), and toward or away from simulation, roleplaying focus...pick your aspect. Frankly, many...

I don't believe I have ever seen a case where the term 'trolling' could be applied to Clark...you've got your monsters mixed up. The fact that you closed this 'no problem. I get it' post with a snarky dig is a bit frustrating. I'm not sure what you're trying to get from this forum, and I...

While the wording might be considered provocative, I would suggest that one of the biggest problems with this whole community is members who take a slam of a game system created by a large company as an insult to themselves. Imagine how nice this place could be if people didn't seem to see...

I would just like to disagree in part...I would say that, as bad as the GSL is, it can only be bad or NEUTRAL. It is unlikely, but completely possible, that this announcement is meant to calm the masses, but that the actual changes are not enough. My biggest worry is that they will have HUGE...

I think the XP penalty, and the NPC idea can be used without penalizing the non-troublesome player. As far as the 'group' not working, if it really is one player, the problem isn't the group. Now, as an Elder Pfhardt, who has been playing and DM (more DMing) this game since about 1979, I can...

Depending on the situation, if there's just a subset of the players involved, I've handled it a number of ways: 1) XP penalty for killing another player Before I go on - - -most of these yahoos in my experience are doing this to assert their superiority - - 90% of the time when a player is...

for me a big downside of the new world appears to be the modules (even introductory ones) coming from WOTC are coming in at around $25 or more. I'm not going to debate the per-hour entertainment value, I'm just saying that when I started playing you could get hefty modules for under ten...

I would have no complaint about them dabbling in software, whether they failed or not, if it weren't for the GSL and the new philosophy. With the OGL, they could have tried to toss together a DDI, failed miserably, and the customer would still have options (DMGenie, Fantasy Grounds, etc)...

ciao - - it is indeed a rare interaction of effects, it seems. I think it would be far easier to tolerate an increase in postings you don't care about or don't want to see if it didn't take an insane amount of time to click on a post and find out that this is the case. There are a lot of...

Horrible events. But I do think that it is completely okay for you to feel sorry for a killer. Not that you condone their actions, and not that you can't feel that they deserve capital punishment....but I think it's okay to feel sad not just for the victim, but for this person who was so...

I'm confused - wasn't this book meant to cover things like Bards, barbarians and such...and weren't many of those things set to be included in PHB2, making you in dangerous competition? (maybe I'm thinking of another book)

I guess I'm not sure I agree that Paizo needs 3pp, so it doesn't bode well for Paizo, but it's somehow wrong to assume that 3pp support is NOT needed for 4e - - I know WOTC is bigger, but it seems like IF the arguments that seem to have generated the GSL are true - 3pp steal part of the pie...

I don't think I'm following you very well, so if I'm misinterpreting correct me...but I always get a little irked when people say things that are essentially: Cost of DDI = Cost of Subscription to Dungeon and Dragon = $120 I don't think delivering content equal to the magazines, in a form...

I was keying off the original post that compared it to 3.x in this aspect - again, just looking for guidance on the line.

Realizing this has sort of become about women and gaming, but still... I'm confused....is a thread that proclaims 4e is great, and better than 3.5 for a given reason or set of reasons NOT an 'edition wars thread'? Is a thread that says that 3.5 is better than 4e an edition war? I've seen...

not to completely hijack, but on development. I have seen the 'triple the estimate' advice given, and I think it's common, popular, and ridiculous. A smart business won't triple the estimate - a smart business will go in eyes open, generate a REAL estimate, and not force it to be compressed...

Of interest to me (and possibly ONLY me)... One complaint that is voiced here often is that the 'suits' at Hasbro/WOTC don't love the game, and don't care about RPGs, so they do such-and-such. This thread and others may have revealed to me a problem with WOTC: They have TOO MANY gamers...

Not suggesting what GG WILL do, but wondering...if they create an OGL product NOW, AND they plan on going GSL, doesn't that mean that they have about two months to sell that product before they're required to destroy all their old stock?

As with a lot of EoM, the DM has to be on guard.... "Bob, I'd like you to put on this burlap executioner's hood" "Okay...but for how long" "I only spent 2 MP on Transform and nothing on Gen...so just a minute."

Obviously based upon the current state of the company, and some of the resulting moves/decisions that were made, I would think long and hard about a business transaction with the current WEG, even one that simply purchases the rights to a property. It might seem cool to own and preserve a...