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I work hard to make sure things balance out for everyone, and that if I alter a rule dramatically (even temporarily) it is beneficial to the character. I don't alter things frequently, but when I do there is a reason for it. I wouldn't reveal it to the players in most cases, though. I don't...

What compensation range are you considering?

That's a lot of money for five figures of that size.

What you are calling "cheating" goes back into earlier editions of D&D, too. Even Gygax said that DMs should alter rules as they see fit. On one end of the spectrum are highly mechanistic DMs/players who basically see D&D as a wargame with roleplaying added on top of it. On the other end are...

Roughly $30 each is a fair price.

I don't have anything against them, but I don't use them. A very big part of my enjoyment of DMing comes from the creative process of building adventures and campaigns from scratch. I prefer to run long-term campaigns (as opposed to one-off adventures), and the worldbuilding process is half...

Poor customer service is probably the #1 reason that small businesses fail. In a past career I worked with a lot of businesses of every size. I saw the small ones making the same mistakes over and over: 1) poor customer service 2) unwillingness to keep things stocked 3) being open when the...

I have never bought adventures, even in the early days of D&D. I always make up my own.

Well said.

What announcement?

It looks like a bomoh, dukun, pawang, or (for women) bobohizans would be good candidates for the cleric role. Bomoh is the most generic term for that sort of person. They are healers and spirit mediums, and originated in old animistic beliefs. Some practitioners mix standard religious beliefs...

I look forward to that. Thanks!

Do you need clerics at all? Why not look to Malaysian culture and myths in general to see what sort of a person would contact deities and/or which sort would heal people? The standard fantasy rpg classes might not be the best fit.

I bought a few of your Kaidan products and enjoy them. Are you ever going to do a full Kaidan setting book, though?

I'll get the Player's Handbook for myself if I like it. I just pre-ordered a copy for my library (we have a circulating RPG collection), so I'll look through that to see if it interests me. Beyond that, I'll pick and choose.

That has been my experience with both game and comic stores, too, particularly in the last 20 years. Sometimes the biggest offenders are the owners themselves.

I have stopped shopping at the various FLGSs in my area because they never have anything I want. I used to do most of my geek shopping at them, but in the past several years they just don't ever have the things in stock that I want when I want them. I can overlook the higher prices when we're...

It had all the basics in it - chargen, magic, and ways to measure the success of an action. The 5e starter set doesn't. We played characters for several levels above the 3rd with the Moldvay edition. There's nothing to keep anyone from doing that. From my perspective, if they put chargen...

What if they left combat out of the set altogether? Magic? That's less important to some people than character generation. You can easily play an entire multi-year campaign with no combat at all. Does that mean it isn't a vital thing? I don't expect everybody to follow my advice, because it...

My Moldvay edition of D&D wasn't crippled. It had enough rules to play all aspects of the game. The PHB is part of a set, not a standalone product. Character generation is an intrinsic part of a roleplaying game. So far, only a few have actively indicated that they disagree. Whether...