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It doesn't matter. It just doesn't. Will the game sell better if they make such a radical change to it? That's the real question, and I'm going to go with no.

Testimony by victims is evidence, not proof. There are times you can have a reasonable semblance of proof, sometimes erected by a sufficient amount of victim testimony, but usually in life we're forced to muddle through with a pile of evidence that leaves holes for doubt and decide how we're to...

So a female senator can't get a private appointment with the VP, but her male counterpart can? The next generation of politicians frequently come from the aides of the current generation, especially those who get private time to discuss their future with their mentors. You're throwing a monkey...

It's not a random assumption; currently every core race either gets a +2 to a player-chosen stat (like half-orcs get right now) or +2 to a mental stat, +2 to a physical stat, and -2 to some third stat.

Pathfinder APs are sold like periodicals; they're printed mainly for subscribers but with enough to supply game stores, and once they're out of print, they're out of print. They have twice published a full AP as a standalone book, but they've made a big deal about not doing that regularly, in...

He's got a point that these are weird statements to combine together.

It's expensive to run polls, and this came from the lead developer, not market research. Maybe they have taken effort to control for sampling bias, but maybe they just pulled some numbers out of the database and tossed them out there to generate press and discussion. I don't know if they're...

Do you want to propose some other way they could have reached a random sample of D&D players? Or are you claiming they did use a polling firm, which I did not rule out, even if I consider it highly unlikely? For a random sample of D&D players, they need some way to reach the D&D player who does...

Yes, yes, I can know. If you claim that "Most D&D players prefer..." then "an optimally provisioned statistical sample" can only come from a random sample of D&D players, including groups that are playing in home games. The only way to get that random sample is to get a random sample of people...

We know that how this data was acquired was not from an optimally provisioned statistical sample, either, unless WotC has hired a polling firm to cold-call people and ask about their D&D characters, and even that has its problems.

According to the new FAQ, Steve Jackson got the rights to what he wrote and nothing more, so we won't be getting exact reprints of anything. All new art, for better or worse.

Okay, but that type of decades of data is incredibly hard to integrate. As people have pointed out, he can't have decades of data on the feat question, since all non-5E editions have either required feats or not included them, and it gets complicated about how to integrate information about...

After 22 years, I hope they're pulling the plug. Do you know where Steve Jackson got his millions to keep his vanity project going, because I was always under the impression he was a business man. It's not relevant now, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been a successful RPG. Again, it means...

GURPS is one of the most successful RPGs of all time. It has been kept in print since the 1980s, and it has a list of over 400 supplements. Objectively, you're wrong; it may not be your cup of tea, but it is, or at least has been, many people's cup of tea. If you want world-building, GURPS has...

First place, if you want to say Pathfinder is D&D, then you're changing the rules of the game. Then I have to wonder if MacOS X really is different from Windows; the difference between Windows 1 (or even 3.1) and 10 is far greater than the differences between Windows 10 and MacOS X. We're...

I think a lot of PoD stuff will be out there. I also don't think the line will be as neat as "core rule books"; Paizo will still be printing adventure paths, whereas a lot of core rule books are already PDF only. Color books on 8.5x11 or A4 paper are really awkward to use in PDF form, so I...

The way I've seen it argued is that it helps most when it would it realistically make a difference. If you can't hit the broadside of a barn, +1 can multiply your odds of hitting something several fold (e.g. 0.5% to 1.9%), even if they're still low. If you're aiming at the broadside of a barn, a...

I see several possibilities: 1) Something happens to Hasbro: right now the executives are racing for international waters with a yacht full of gold, while the SEC guys are digging through papers stunned by the depth of the fraud, and in the multiyear fallout, D&D disappears. Worse, the...

I'd say most have far more players than they deserve. Each new system has a cost, an amount of work involved in learning, and in easily 90% of the cases, you could find a better system. I can learn some idiosyncratic system for a new game, but usually I'd get into playing and have less...

So if you disconnect the numbers from the fiction, then it's the same as something else where the numbers are disconnected from the fiction? We've long since discovered that we see HP differently, and apparently we see AC differently as well. If having a better AC doesn't mean something in...