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To clarify, it's the "Forgotten Realms as we know it" end. I'm actually down them them busting up the Realms and giving them back to DMs to change as they wish. EDIT: And the first, Cormyr, is definitely a railroad. It has 5 chapters and your players absolutely will be confronting them in order.

That has nothing to do with tactics. What that means is your outdoor traveling plan failed. And you should figure out a better way to do it.

I've highlighted the important parts. Wizards are the ones who determine what qualifies as a Product Line and what doesn't. Not your company. And this determination can change without warning. If they chose to act in bad faith, they could declare every product published by your company as...

Then you probably shouldn't have tackled them head on. "Kick in the door" is pretty common since 3e though. And with 4E, Hack & Slash is practically the whole game. So it's understandable that you would see Hack & Slash as the correct way to fight. Put that still doesn't excuse bad play on...

I read the first one. It was a very bad railroad. The series is supposed to tell you the story of how the realms end. You play through it like a dragonlance adventure meaning you don't really change anything. And then the new ones for 4E will tell you what happens 100 years later. Or that's...

I totally agree with this guy. This is the offline version of WoW.

TPKs happen because players don't play well. They should have run when they determined they were beat.

It was a poor decision on Wizards part to release this video. I don't think it has anything to do with whether I don't like it or you don't like it. It has to do with the audience they are trying to bring into D&D. People who play computer games. I'm willing to bet that 9/10 times if you...

Why limit yourself so forcefully? The only meaning your games have are ones gained by "story"? The bitter and illogical forge terms like stakes and drama actually function in the real world man. Drama comes because you were poisoned. The stakes are you die unless some how it is stopped...

Yeah. Now you're back to saying 4E encourages roleplaying because players don't think in terms of rules if we get rid of skills. Only, if you get rid of skills, then your back to having no game. Roleplaying can be done without rules, but it can hardly be called assistant to or encouraging of...

Can anyone here tell me how this video is not a group of people playing DDM? I mean, the one guy plays the whole set of evil dudes. But everyone else just plays one mini. Is that what RPG means? I only get to play one mini?

It's best not to think of 4E rules as representing a fictitious imaginary world. The rules aren't designed to do that. It's better to think of the options the rules give to each of the players as cards in a card game. As cards are played sequentially or simultaneously for a trick the whole...

A lot of indie games use "Per Scene" abilities, but they generally don't represent something the PC can do. Rather they are the player getting to define the world vs. other players or sometimes a GM.

How much XP do you get for killing a PC? Maybe an Elite of that level?

So are there any good new comedy games out? The last comedy game I played was Paranoia and it was written over twenty years ago. Here are a few others I can think of. Not just games where comedy happens because of how people play it. -Toon -Tales from the Floating Vagabond -Bunnies & Burrows...

Dude, you have to photocopy those cowboy sheets and hang them on the dartboard. Who cares about how well your guy can shoot when you know it's all about how well you can throw the darts?

Just wanted to pop in and say yeah, that is pretty much me and my group as I understand it. No offense taken. I've pretty much stopped coming here as there's a moratorium on badmouthing the new edition and I get that. As to why 2E works is because it requires a DM. And the potential...

Aces & Eights has really cool firearm mechanics. And you can use them with a dartboard too.

I don't know those games. Have more than a 100 people even played those? Why should I care if they are RPGs are not? BINGO And the DDM crew should be proud. Within combat rounds they have Magic card levels of variation. Got anything of worthwhile mechanically that isn't combat related? I...

Zero and it's going to stay that way.