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I don't think this would work. While talking about how great the original boxed set is in vogue, a lot of what makes the Realms what it is to many fans is the material that came afterwards. Speaking for myself, while the actual novels/modules for the Time of Troubles were terrible, the event as...

My lasting impression of the Forgotten Realms is that it's fun to play in but not so fun to talk about to many Realms fans. I played and ran Forgotten Realms through much of 2nd edition and had a lot of fun with it. I used the 2nd edition boxed set, which was pretty cool. I'm pretty sure one of...

The 2nd edition boxed set had Elminster pop in and accidentally heal the party. After a grueling series of encounters, the group finds Elminster (just described as an old man) trying to teach a dog to heel. Whenever he says "heel," his wand flickers and one of the PCs gets healed. The challenge...

In terms of modularity, I could see things becoming like 2nd edition to an extent. Looking through the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide, there were a lot of optional rules, such as weapon modifiers based on armor, critical hits, story-based XP, death from massive damage, material...

I'd prefer somewhere in between - numbers go up, but not as quickly as they used to. If you could take the 3rd edition numbers progression and cut them maybe in half, I think that would be a decent place to start.

I don't think rereleasing old editions would do much without new supporting products, which is pretty resource-intensive. If WotC made their back catalog print on demand, I'd probably buy the Rules Cyclopedia. I'd maybe buy AD&D 2nd edition's core books. But I'm not going to be a long-term...

See, as a Pathfinder player, my complaints about the playtest are mostly about similarities to 4th edition I didn't like. But then, if I had just bought the game as-is and planned to run a campaign with it, I'd just houserule the stuff I don't like by subbing in rules from other editions. I...

That's what I used for a house rule in the last few years of 2nd edition. There was some initial resistance from people who liked THAC0, but after instituting it I never got any complaints.

Fun story about this article: it was originally written up as a big campaign expansion for the Council of Wyrms set. The whole western continent was supposed to be a human-dominated area rife with dragon slayers, with a new map and everything. The problem is that when I wrote the article I...

I agree with just about everything in this video: Dungeon Bastard - Edition Wars - YouTube

I think Paizo sticks with Pathfinder unless the D&D resurgence starts to damage their sales. They're doing quite well for themselves and they've invested a lot into their game and their product lines. Even if a new edition of D&D takes back the top spot on the sales charts, then Pathfinder can...

Based on the statements made by the D&D Brand Manager at the time and the general feeling among third parties, I think WotC wanted something closer to the OGL but that it was blocked by someone higher up that either didn't get it or didn't like it. Granted, it's all speculation, but I would...

Maybe a compromise could be that only the first roll of a round counts as a possible fumble? That would at least reduce the chances of a fighter rolling multiple botches with his iterative attacks, for example. Taking baby steps might be a good way to reach a compromise. If he can scale things...

I used to use fumble rules, but eventually realized that the "natural 1 is always a fumble" rule was not the best way to go about it. Using that system can be punishing to those who are good at what they do. A fighter with 4 attacks in a round, for example, has 4 separate chances to fumble and...

Do I need or want a 5th edition of D&D? Not really, since I'm perfectly happy playing Pathfinder and would be unlikely to switch back even if D&D became more similar to my game of choice. At the moment, I am not a WotC customer, and I feel that it would be best for WotC to focus on making D&D...

And in the case of Pathfinder Online, even a moderately successful game would be huge for a company that has no previous releases out there.

I used no level limits. Humans got a 10% bonus to XP to reflect their ability to learn quickly.

I'm running it at the moment, having first started it in D&D 3.5 and then converted it over to Pathfinder. The PCs are in the midst of an assault against Great Shaboath, although I'm afraid that they will soon get slaughtered by the pit fiend there, which they are rushing in to attack head-on...

While there's no doubt that WotC buying TSR was partly a business decision, I don't think there's any denying that Adkison's love of D&D was a major motivator as well. He had a chance to buy D&D and he took it. If any one of us had that kind of ability, I'm sure most of us would take it. At the...

I'm not sure how accurate that belief is. Sure, AD&D was the top dog for a long time. But it was also waning by the 90s. Had the D&D game not been revitalized, I don't think it's necessarily true that it would have made it all the way to 2011, especially with the way it was being mismanaged...