Search results

I hope it is 5th edition. I love Monte's work. And for me 3.5 and Pathfinder is D&D. 4e is a nice sidetrack with some interesting ideas, a drawn out Unearthed Arcana experiment. It is good for GMing, as monsters are sensibly built, challenges are nice way of interacting with the rules, etc. But...

The creature catalog is brilliant. The DS book not so much. Content is OK, but the art is mostly crap.

This incarnation of DS - as explained by WotC earlier and actually done so in the book - starts when Kalak is defeated and the rest of the history is up to the DM's. Even back in 2e, I disliked the word that the Prism pendant turned DS into. As previously said, the artwork are crap. Not by...

They banadoned that segment of the community that liked D&D3.5, similarly to those that still play AD&D or even older editions. These people (myself included) are not lost to WotC as I just do not play 4E. OGL helped wotc a great deal. It still helps, as via PF it keeps people in the hobby...

Good idea! I think I might support the development.

I think the main question is why people buy books or pdfs. Anyone can have practically anything from "a complete stranger's HDD, that miraculously happened to be delivered to be" or whatever. I definitely do not buy anything out of ethics (as far as ethics goes I would not buy any digital...

I'm too looking forward to more True20/OGL games. I love Advanced Players anf GM's book as well as some other such releases (e.g. Noble's Handbook). The suits at WotC are plain stupid and do not know the market. I do not think there ever was or will be such thing as a competitor to D&D. The...

Isn't push a bull-rush, and shift a 5' step? I would suggest going throught the SRD (3.5) and modifying thing that needs modifying. But largery use the terminology and format presented there. Powers will be presented as either spells or like class abilities. And not as the nice tables in 4th...

My feeling exactly. If I remember correctly the best 3.x book was voted to be Unearthed Arcana, a book about tweaking the rules. That was the only D&D product that I bought when it appeared (others I did only well after release, and when I was able to read some reviews)

What game were the competitors of WotC? I cannot name any. Please note that an alternate PHB or even an a completly new systems is not necessary a competitor of WotC. Most people, who bought Connan, Iron Heroes, Aracan Evolved, True20 probably have the 3rd edition PHB (3.5 too). They are D&D...

I don't see it all as a market segmentation. Those who stayed with 1st or 2nd edition probably do not buy 1st or 2nd ed material any more (albeit they are available as pdfs). They simply stay there, because they like it. In similar veins, those who play WoD are also segmenting the market, but...

Great idea. Good that WotC has embraced it!

I think the new license will allow the usage of the name of the feats (and as such they won't be Product Identities, at least not for the PHB). Thus golden wyvern attack is fine, it it only appears on the feats list of the NPC. They will only forbid the creation of softwere and derived rulesset...

Certain 3rd party products, for example PC games based on d20 were already forbidden in the former license. That won't be a novelty. It will be more restrictive, granted. But adventures, splatbooks, campaign settings could still be published. What do you mean by IP?

As Monte Cook explained some year(s) ago there is no such thing as a competitor to WotC and D&D. They perceived alternate d20 systems as a form of competition, and rewrote the OGL to forbid that. And the argument that WotC don't want splatbook sor whatnot from 3rd party publishers is not so...

We want a healthy WotC. They need the money that they can have by publishing "official" material. For many 3rd party stuffs are just not "official" (I'm not one of them). The ability of 3rd party publishers to replicate say the classes and feats from the Complete series would not benefit WotC to...

In Hungary - and I think in other countries too - we do pay some extra money when we buy an empty CD/DVD copy machine that is collected by some central copyright agency and then redistribute. Yes I do pay authors, musicians, whatnot even when I write out my e-mails, work, photos that I take. I...

I can live with that much more than with the fact that I cannot legally translate the SRD and put it on my website. With that I was catering to an audience that won't buy WotC product at that moment (they do not know the language), but once they are captured by the game, they might later on. And...

Considering that tieflings are humans corrupted by outsiders, the resemblance is not that surprising.

Let's see if there is net +4 bonus (I'm avoiding +4 to one stat, that it a no-no): There is 15 combination of choosing 2 abilities to have +2 bonus each. There is 60 combination of choosing 1 ability to have -2 and 3 to have +2 There is 15 combination of choosing 2 ability to have -2 and 4 to...