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Best case scenario: gives WotC an idea as to what people want to see in future adventures/supplements. Worst case scenario: makes it likely that a 5.5 or 6th edition will be out very quickly. I disagree. The physical book (or PDF, or whatever) gives a common starting point for the game...

1) I don't see how it hurt the entire hobby. Last I checked, the hobby is doing just fine. 2) While the OGL allowed Pathfinder to exist, what really created it was WotC breaking away from it so abruptly. Had they produced a timely and acceptable GSL, Paizo probably would have continued doing...

I'm not even sure identify is all that iconic. Up until 4th edition/Pathfinder, it was prohibitively expensive. In AD&D, its chance of success was less than 50% up until around 5th to 7th level and your wizard temporarily lost 8 points of Constitution (and good hunting on the live carp you need...

I'm very biased, since the black box is the set that introduced me to D&D, but I think it's pretty much the perfect starter set. The only thing I'd do differently is condense the size of it a little bit so it fits into a smaller box (which TSR did to an extent when they released "The Classic...

Speaking only for myself, character creation was one of the reasons I got into D&D instead of continuing to play games like the Milton Bradley board game HeroQuest. It's also one of the key appeals I've seen in introducing younger players to the game - a lot of kids hear what the game is...

Seems like instead of needing an identify spell, the rules could just say, "You can identify a magic item after a long rest" and get the same effect. Or leave it up to the GM whether a short/long rest is required.

I don't really see this as a problem. Actually, I see this as a textbook example of how new editions are supposed to work, with a dull portion of the game receiving consistent improvement edition after edition.

Honestly, the whole attunement things strikes me just as the equivalent of more magic items having an Ego score. I'm pretty sure that's been in the game for a while, actually. I remember the basic box I started with in the 90s saying that you could identify items by trying them on and figure...

I finished up an on-the-fly conversion of Night Below: An Underdark Campaign in Pathfinder and it worked well. My thoughts on that campaign are here, but as to your question specifically... I found that early-level Pathfinder characters are much stronger than their 2nd edition counterparts. In...

I think the only folks obsessed with sales charts are a small portion of fans. As long as the game is hitting the profit goals, I have a hard time imagining that anybody at Hasbro would care if D&D places at #1 or #10. (Caveat: I do realize that the business world has some stupidly insane...

An absolutely fair point. But even if you're not talking about adventures, I think there's a lot of Pathfinder stuff worth buying regardless of the system you play in. For example, unless I stop playing traditional fantasy RPGs entirely, their Monsters Revisited books will always be an...

In all fairness, they don't have to. I've run AD&D adventures in Pathfinder , and I would have converted over 4th edition adventures had I believed them to be worth the effort. If the game is better than what I'm playing now and there's enough supplementary material to interest me, then I would...

I voted no, but it's also worth noting that I didn't plan on switching over to 3rd edition, 3.5, or Pathfinder until I actually saw the products. A lot would depend on the quality of support D&D gets. One of Pathfinder's biggest advantages is that they make a lot of support material that I...

Didn't WotC previously say that the Sundering was the last big Realms-shaking event for a while?

I don't really care one way or another what D&D does with the official drider, but I always preferred them as a curse. It adds an interesting self-loathing element to Lolth. She promotes the idea that she is supreme, infallible, and perfect. And yet she curses those seen as unworthy with a...

I'm not that interested in a new edition, and I highly doubt that I have enough interest to learn yet another rules set unless it offers me a dramatically new play style than what I already have. That said, I'm not a WotC customer these days, and the only thing that's going to get me back into...

If they're going with a three-book model, I'd prefer to keep them in the Dungeon Master's Guide. If the Player's Handbook is indeed two books, I'd prefer the DMG to be optional and thus the magic items would need to move to the Player's Handbook. An optional approach that I think I would prefer...

The only thing that prevents me from being terribly excited/interested in a D&D starter set is that WotC has a pretty terrible track record over the past 15 years when it comes to these.

I think tiers of play are a great idea, but they are largely useless without the proper adventure support. What made the BECMI model work so well was that the adventures produced for each boxed set were markedly different. You went from dungeon crawling to wilderness exploration to kingdom...

I think the person slamming the book down on the table would be missing the point that Pathfinder wouldn't have existed if the GSL of 4th edition had been more timely and less restrictive.