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Looks like a good setup. Marrying the Encounters and Living Campaign ("Expeditions") concepts should make both stronger. Magical Item Certifications will probably cause drama, but they want to restrict items somehow and that seems to be the best we've come up with so far. It's a little sad...

Been running Rise of the Runelords, which my players have enjoyed a lot. For the best single session, definitely actually scaring players with hauntings (and figuring out what I've been doing wrong for years). For D&D proper, ran some 5e. Low-level silliness in the Caves of Chaos was a good...

It's been a long time since I had to cannibalize Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur for enough d6s to make characters, but that's definitely the first thing I did with the basic set when I was a kid. That's my first memory of D&D and the one that made me conversant enough about it to join a group years later...

Their outsourcing of the launch adventures is very interesting and, frankly, should improve our chances of getting good adventures. And I suspect you're right about outsourcing @Hussar . Outsourcing on a case-by-case basis seems more in line with the vision of D&D as an intellectual property...

I... thought the opposite thing was confirmed earlier today. Maybe I'm getting some wires crossed. That said, bonus web content or free online tools amounts to the same thing. As long as there's a good slate of characters available, I'm not too concerned. If it's part of a paywalled DDI... more...

If you want to talk averages, they're fairly easy to find. All movie tickets sold in 2013 total $10.9 billion. Spread across 315 million Americans, that comes out to $34.60 each annually. So, the 2.6 person average family could spend their annual movie budget and get a PHB. Throw in popcorn and...

Fair enough. The point I was trying to make is that entertainment isn't that expensive in our culture. Finding free or extremely cheap entertainment is very easy. I like GMing, but I have to do quite a bit of it before I feel like I've enjoyed GMing $150 more than the same length of time...

I think you drastically misunderstand NetFlix, to be honest. It's set up so each person using the account can have their own profile and the cost of the streaming service is based on the number of different streams you can have going at the same time. There may have been an argument years ago...

The comparisons with people's other leisure activities is really interesting, because only free RPGs compare well to mine. I read hours a week from my library for free, I have more legal anime streaming than I can watch for free, we borrow a friend's NetFlix account for access to decades of...

If I buy any 5e, it'll be the starter box. I'm weighing 5e as an alternative to Pathfinder for running one-shots and the starter box is probably the right weight for that... but the box needs to be better than just using Pathfinder (for a group that already knows it) or pulling out the Rules...

As Alzrius mentioned, gods are no longer capped on the level of spells they can provide. It got cut like demihuman level limits in 3rd Edition and for a lot of the same reasons: it only comes into play at higher levels, so any player that cares about the restriction is betting on how long the...

I'd probably go for 4e or Pathfinder, based on group preferences. 4e would work very well for the sort of squad-based combat you'll get and the skill challenge mechanic can be twisted around to handle environment and political issues well enough. Pathfinder would also do well for squad-based...

That's a shame. I'd definitely at least look at their stuff if they were in the exhibit hall. But it seems unlikely I'll happen to end up in the WotC room. I went the entire four days last year without registering where the WotC room was. It's possible I walked right by it and tuned it out...

I do like limiting items and making them individually more special. I don't feel like this is the way to do it, but it might be a good first step. I will say I liked the optional Charisma bonus to attunement better (even if it started with a base value plus Charisma bonus). Both because it...

:p Yeah, the rules aren't honestly a huge deal to me either. As a GM, at least, I've got whole shelves of games I'd be fine running. I'd still run 2nd Edition or Rules Cyclopedia D&D if someone wanted me to. Iron Heroes, In Nomine, Old World of Darkness, Shadowrun... heck, even Rifts. Or any of...

There are a lot of tables playing Pathfinder, bringing a lot of new players on board. There are also Pathfinder products on a heck of a lot of shelves, including a very nice Beginner's Box. And you have people like me with subscriptions, who keep Paizo on an even keel month after month. For my...

There won't be an official conversion because the warlock was never added to the System Resource Document (so, under the OGL, companies other than Wizards of the Coast can't refer to it). Little Red Goblin Games made an Invoker that was a conversion of the warlock, but their stuff's been down...

I have a copy. It's a book that really could have been done a lot better, but I have no problems with it being produced. I think delericho nailed this one. We can have hundreds of books about killing things. We can have rules for torture. We can even have cheesecake art. But acknowledging that...

Oh, since we're talking about the math update in MM3, it's mandatory that someone post this: Monster Manual 3 on a business card. If you do end up using any monsters from MM1 or MM2, and I imagine you will, that's a great way to do a quick conversion. It's also obviously handy for creating your...

As a caveat, I'm not a huge 4e dude. I'm pretty sure I can field both of these, though. 1) I don't think you could find anyone who would say MV and it's sequel were worse than MM1 and 2. MM3 has the updated math, which the Monster Vault line continues, the monster designs are better, and...