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The 3d6 system will give a lot more predictable results to dice rolls. Basing things on d20 will lead to boring games, when the variety in what happens goes down. My prediction is that it would be less suitable for systems that want a focus on exciting combats. The 3d6 model is better for...

Hey I can handle a whole party at once. Doesn't that make me a solo DM?

I must have been too unclear for you. Everyone will get everything on their machines locally. They will not be able to use special v-minis unless they own them, or someone that they are gaming with owns them. Very much like how it works on Magic Online for example. I can see cards and avatars...

Not just us Swedes. Halflings too!

This is sort of off topic, but I feel it kind of needs to be said. I will avoid the politics. :) You know how people have the image that Scandinavians have a very free view of nudity and sex compared to Americans? That is kind of true. But when we speak to Americans most of us try to take into...

Not cannibal. They very seldom eat other halflings. Humans on the other hand... :) Another little detail is that they prefer the meat of their enemies raw when they eat it.

He didn't mention the wereshark. Or the Nilbog. Or... (well I guess most of us could go on for at least an hour...)

Play more Dark Sun. Will cure you of that. The only commercial setting I have ever seen where halflings feel necessary.

In general I think future editions will keep looking at what is happening in popular culture, technology and game design around it, just like they tried to do this time. But that is a boring answer. Lets try to have a bit of fun instead. I think future D&D will come in the shape of database...

Rolling 3d6 would mean that roughly 1/4 of your rolls were 3-8 1/4 were 9-10 1/4 were 11-12 and 1/4 were 13-18. This would of course be possible to make good game design around, but I think it would take a lot of rethinking from a d20 point of view. Fun things that could be done with the system...

In my limited experience of 4E combat on low levels I would say that combat might take more rounds, but every single round is a lot quicker. Now when the group I am in has started to figure out how to play with the new rules I would say that combats end up being quicker than they used to be. I...

Not really. Look at Magic Online. (The main reason I don't trust them with online projects, but that is another story...) Everybody has all the art of cards and avatars downloaded onto their computers, whether they own them or not. When new cards come out, you download them in a patch. Once...

Ok, I give you that one. But in this case doing it the way you describe would be a lot more complicated than the way they have said they would do it. Their problems so far have never been in that direction. the reason why they don't tend to deliver what they set out to never seems to be out of...

You didn't read that there will be tokens in place for all of the monsters? Or that the virtual minis will only be there for some of the monsters? If you did read those things - how is then virtual minis something that is necessary for using the virtual tabletop? If you bothered to check the...

With this edition I have moved into preferring point buy, and 22 is enough to make a good character with. Considering racial bonuses, later increases in stats and feats demanding stats along the way, it feels like there will be enough routes to go for the players anyway - no risk that every...

Sorry, but the analogy doesn't work at all. V-minis are not in any way needed for the game to work, like bugfixes and patches are. In a MMO it is important that every player has the program running the same way, so patches need to be free for everyone - not the case here. Many of us don't...

Really? I thought he was doing a summary of what they have said that their present plans for the DDI and Virtual minis are. They have said that tokens for all the monsters will be available. They have said that it will be possible to use any mini or token you want to represent a certain monster...

As an old Vampire storyteller, I like preludes (= individual sessions before a campaign where you play out parts of the character's backstory) and other storytelling tricks that aren't just following thestandard flow. One thing I came up with after I quit my Vampire habit is the concept of a...

When trying to set up a new group with people I have not played with before, my strategy would be this: Have one test session first, where you provide pregen characters for a mini adventure - but allow the players to have made their own character in advance instead, if they want to. As you run...

For the 4E campaign that I am planning, the one thing that causes the most problem right now is the lack of necromancer support. My world as I see it has quite a few good or unaligned necromancers. I can easily make NPC necromancers from what is released so far, but it feels a bit unfair not to...