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"Hey Bob! Mind if I borrow your copy of Acrobat so I can install it on my box?" "Knock yourself out." *laughs* All I can download, for free, forever, thanks to P2P networks. If I need a physical copy, I burn it to disc. Alternatively, I can borrow someone else's copy and rip it to my hard...

They could call it "World of Warcraft"! Oh wait...

I'll take "Epic Failure" for $1000, Alex.

There is no such thing as a product worth paying for that you can't hold in your hands. Only fools and idiots do such a thing without the immediate threat of men with guns at your head ready to do violence if you don't cough up the cash. Nothing online is worth so much as a cent; wait and it...

This is an epic failure of a decision on WOTC's part, as stupid a move as Blizzard's implementation of their current Looking For Group system (for World of Warcraft) and it will crash and burn for similar reasons. Specific to this matter, I list these reasons: Passive is Superior to Active: A...

Soon to be fixed in the next patch for CoX. Not kidding either. This came up at RPG Net not long ago.

Like Warren Spector?

Tabletop, console, PC and MMORPGs that achieve mainstream popularity all feature gear as one of the primary means for character differentiation and capability. Grades of gear are a key feature in this system. In D&D and WOW, this grade differentiation is in terms of magical power and rarity...

If WOTC went out of business, and took D&D with them, Blizzard would find themselves with a noticeable influx of new WOW subscriptions.

For characters, it certainly is so. For players, not so much, but I still hate wasting time with unnecessary talk. Good games are like good board meetings: tightly focused, with a set agenda, and everyone on the same page following competent leadership. It's rather uncanny how successful D&D...

Says the Rules As Written. What you do in your campaign is totally and utterly irrelevant when talking about the game in general. D&D always was, is now, and ever shall be noted for item dependence. Gear matters, like it or not; it makes bad characters passable and good characters shine like...

Sunder away. If its broken, slag it for materials and use it to make a replacement when you get back to town. It's not as if you can't buy or replace magic items anymore.

Magic always was a commodity. Magic is a commodity. Magic always shall be a commodity. Allowing PCs to buy and sell items and enchants is nothing more than making this truth work for you, instead of fighting a futile battle against it. D&D needs a more robust crafting and market system, if...

The older I get, the less I care about story-telling--I can get that from books, comics, movies, TV, etc.--and the more I treat it as I would if it were real: carefully employed resources, optimized capabilities, strong team discipline, and an increasing intolerance for time wasted by stupid...

Failure = Death, so yes.

Missed that "Master of Nine" PrC, yes?

Statements of fact isn't advocacy. It is an option for action; whether or not it's legal doesn't mean a damned thing- it's still one of a handful of options to choose from.

I see D&D accepting its place as the tabletop parallel to World of Warcraft, competing with it directly, and working to recreate in its milieu many of the social elements that are present in WOW. I would not be surprised to see another major push for RPGA expansion and greater emphasis on...

An understatement worthy of honorary Minnesotan status.

To think that magic items have the same problem as the spells from which they derive? Not shocking. Simple, utilitarian magic always trumps the highly-specialized stuff when talking about everyday use; you keep the special-case spells on scrolls/wands/staves for when you need them, just like...