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Frankly, this bit sounds kind of like edition warring, suggesting that the d20 system isn't "true" D&D. As to the rest of the post, if I recall correctly, it would have been much cheaper for WotC or another company to sit and wait for TSR to have been dismantled and then acquire the license...

I think a lot would have depended on the state of the OGL/GSL. I think Paizo would have continued producing products that were compatible with D&D had it not been for the delay in the GSL forcing their hands. The restrictive nature of the GSL only made producing D&D-compatible material less...

Football gets rules changes every single year, many of them changing the way the game is played. Lots of these changes have altered the way the game is played, especially in favor of emphasizing the passing game to the detriment of defensive play and running attacks. Many of the rules on the...

My recollection is that going from, say 1st to 10th level, took a very long time. For most XP progressions, the required amount of XP doubled. However, at a certain point, the XP progression leveled off and required a flat amount of XP to advance to the next level. But while the amount of XP...

My take on this news is that it may mean nothing regarding the sales of D&D, but it definitely shows that Pathfinder is doing very well. Considering how short a time ago it seemed that Paizo was in hot water from the loss of the magazine licenses, it's pretty amazing that they now have one of...

So can anyone explain the context of Erik's joke where he may or may not have been booed?

I've done this several times. I've jumped forward 15-20 years to allow the players to play a child of their former PCs. My last big campaign ended with a Time of Troubles-style event, so I hopped the timeline forward 100 years to allow those events to fade into the realm of legend rather than...

While I think Crypt of the Everflame is a good module, my personal recommendation for a single module produced by Paizo recently would be its sequel adventure, Masks of the Living God. It's got both an interesting concept for an adventure and so many different ways of accomplishing the goal that...

My current campaign features a group of seven with four of those adventurers being NPCs. There's one apprentice, a torchbearer-turned-rogue, a sorcerer love interest, and a kidnapping victim seeking revenge. It's a bit unwieldy when it comes to combat, so I've broken it down to each player...

The Avatar Trilogy that bridged 1st and 2nd edition Forgotten Realms were terrible as adventures. Quite literally the only time the PCs get to do anything is during random encounters. Several points in the adventure flat out state, "The PCs should not be able to effect these events," and there...

Might he have been mentioned in The Great Modron March? That was the prelude to Dead Gods, I believe.

I think the answer depends on the NPC, but there are more reasons than one might think. In the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf couldn't take the Ring because a) the ring would more easily corrupt someone so powerful, and b) Sauron would be expecting him and prepare to stop him. In the Forgotten...

Seems to me like a good house rule would be to give tieflings (and aasimar, for that matter) the same +2 to any ability score and no penalties that half-orcs, half-elves, and humans get. That would reinforce the idea that human heritage = versatility that the core rulebook seems to have.

That would be an accurate assumption. I don't know of too many situations where a group of monsters are just going to sit in their caves and wait for the PCs to kill them off.

I ran into this situation for what might be the first time last week. The party was making an assault on an underground city and the sorcerer was running out of spells and asked to retreat for some rest. However, two party members had been captured, so they had to press on. I had to remind the...

For the firepit example and most other combat maneuvers, I think the tactical tradeoff is that you have less of a chance to hit but will deal more damage if successful. I can either attack the orc with my longsword and deal 1d8 damage, or I can push him into the firepit, have him take fire...

The template you're looking for is in the first Bestiary preview.

My experience with the system so far is admittedly small (levels 1-4 of a low-magic campaign), but I haven't seen an issue with combat maneuvers yet. I've had hobgoblins bull rush characters, wolfs perform trips, and a constrictor snake grapple. The rate of success feels about where it should be...

I think there was a reason for every change made in 4th edition. WotC had in their minds a very specific vision of what they wanted D&D to become, and many of the old standards of the game didn't fit that. As to the nine alignments, WotC envisioned a setting where the good-evil axis was...

I guess one could argue that this is an example of marketing that didn't work on me, since the mention of the magazines immediately makes me think of the out of print physical copies rather than the online versions now tucked away in DDI. :-P