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The game was moving in the right direction and is now taking a step backwards and in a wrong direction. This is why I can't support it. Isn't this fun?

Must spread XP, but very much this.

That you feel this way its telling, but then you also implied you not being around in the 80s meant that it wasn't the Golden Age. Some people, like Monte Cook even, felt the imbalances were a feature. Many others felt it was a bug. The latter group was extremely large, even if they liked the...

Yeah, every tall creature is a behemoth and ever short creature is a sluggish weakling is somehow "more realistic"?

The 3E grappling rules were terrible. Even my die-hard 3E fan friends acknowledge and joke about it. They've all houseruled it out for a system that's streamlined and makes sense. It was widely panned by the fanbase and has been a great meme. Class balance was also an issue widely panned by a...

Creature stats are based on the creature type, baking in difficulty of larger and smaller creatures difficulty of grappling. I'm sorry you don't possess this knowledge but then if you actually know/acknowledge the full information your view doesn't hold water.

So does 4E (you can't grapple anything more than one size category larger than you), but don't let facts get in your way.

Of course they did, that was the whole point. EVERYTHING in the ad was a silly exageration for comedic effect, including the cheesey accent on the narrator.

The game was poking fun at itself, and the things in the game many of it's most die-hard fans complained about. You were only offended if you were consciously trying to be. Was this also a condescending abomination of an ad? http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/2ebook.pdf

He's fighting Billy Idol?

Egads, they're all horrific. :)

No, you really didn't. You painted Ed as this wonderous being of altruism and benevolence. He's not. He had a setting TSR wanted to buy, he sold, they bought, they also offered him contractual work to keep writing for the setting, he accepted and makes a living. That's the truth. Assigning...

It's not opinion, it's fact. These message boards are demonstrably a tiny portion of the audience. As long as they get their books, play their game, the majority of gamers don't care. We (the message board community) aren't a statistically significant portion of the audience. We're not "the...

In real words, he wanted the money and recognition. I don't think anyone faults him for this. This post is so full of blind, fanboy rhetoric as to be ridiculous. 'If Ed hadn't written it somebody else would have' was not because he was such an altruistic "Champion of the Realms". Mod Note...

So as long as he bad mouths what you bad mouth he's a "stand up guy" got it.

wiper blade

My main issue at this point is that there seems to be no chemistry building amongst the cast. When Min Na Wen's hyper-stoic character seems teh most accessible to the rest of the cast there's a problem. Fitz-Simmons is a distant second.

The Menzoberranzen book was system-neutral and could be used easily in any edition.

When I'm running Realms I either use pre-Time Of Troubles or Post-Spellplague as I prefer the ...."less developed" periods of the Realms. I'm not saying others don't prefer the "more populated" periods, but for me those were less interesting and felt more constrained. Mystra should have stayed...

To an extent, yes. Most gamers aren't forumgoers complaining about Edition This and Story That, they just enjoy their game, story and pasttimes. New Edition=New "Realms-Shaking" event anyway, and hunder the whole "re-unification banner" that means trying to bring back the "old" while keeping the...