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Fell behind? No other RPG has ever had the popularity of D&D. Only Vampire came close, it that was only because it's subject matter was just sexier and the game could attract an audience of Goth girls. People who cared about innovative and consistent rules were always a very small percentage of...

When I use the term "archetypal" with regard to D&D, I am referring to something similar to, but not identical with, Jung's archetypes. I wouldn't necessarily want to see the classes reduced to "Wise Old Man", "Warrior Hero", "Trickster" and "Artist-scientist". Although it might make a good...

Not to worry. 4th edition sounds much more like SenZar!

WOTC NEVER had RPGs as their primary focus. They are a CARD GAME company (and subsidiary of Hasbro) that happens also to produce a game they call D&D (which bears an ever-shrinking resemblance to the game of the same name once produced by TSR). D&D books are a small percentage of their total...

I have no objections to making some Orcs into redeemable noble savages, especially if other Orcs are still howling killers. I actually did that in a previous campaign, where Humans, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings and Gnomes were all really degenerate variations on a single elder race. Also...

I'm told the hot goth chicks have been re-designed to look like trees with breasts...

I remember it had a lot to do with the fact you could actually get laid playing Vampire. ;) And with freaky goth girls that liked doing REALLY NASTY THINGS!

This whole thread brings up the abuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements by corperate America. C'mon, we're not talking about the Manhattan Project here. D&D is a game where people pretend to be elves and steal imaginary treasures. What could possibly be happening in game development that it would be...

I think you've hit the nail on its head. Something about 4th edition feels like its going to be 2nd edition all over again. Complete with a large percentage of players who won't leave the previous edition, and the loss of other players in favor of some other, "cooler" game. For 2nd edition it...

HERETIC! I can respect skipping 2nd edition though. Actually, I believe 1st edition had some real problems, and I think that d20 was a great idea. A great idea whose implementation has been lousy, but a great idea. If they had simply cleaned up and streamlined the rules, it would have been...

Not stereotypical, but archetypal. That's the real problem with WOTC's design philosophy with regard to D&D: they seem not to understand that the game was about assuming archetypal roles and engaging in archetypal activities. The great advantage of using archetypes is that they aid game...

Hey, I've known A LOT of people with pierced nipples, and they weren't weir-..... um,... Well, at least they were really fun at parties! ;)

I think we may be encountering the downside of having professionals design our games. Sure, we can be sure that the math will be accurate, but we can't be sure that the time constraints and resources that on on real-world players will be taken into account. After all, when it's your job to play...

Just to make myself clear. My complaint is that the new Dryad is stupid, and an unnecessary (from my point of view) change. I then proposed a possible reason why some game elements, such as the Dryad, might be changed - to create Intellectual Property that will be the sole possession of WOTC. In...

Which was bad enough...

Watch the beat!

Didn't Anthrax and Public Enemy prove that rap could be F***ING METAL too?

Can't wait to see what they do to the Gnomes this time. Maybe now they all run around in thong underwear and shoot laser beams out of their eyes. As far as I can tell, both the elves and Dwarves of 4th edition will be as far away from Tolkien's conception of either race as they could be made...

OK, I admit I can be a little melodramatic sometimes. Hence my attraction to a hobby that involves pretending to be an evil wizard who can shoot lightning bolts. But the new Dryad remains stupid.

Of course, some of us LIKE having "bisexual wiccan reiki master" girls in our games. And sometimes in our beds. Just saying.