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Just a little note to say I love the little humorous bits you can find in a lot of the WotBS stat blocks (at least in the original, 3.5 version). I encourage people to post their favorites here! Or such observations as "OMG, I never noticed most of this stuff was even there!", as appropriate. My...

I would add to your list, questions that carry false presuppositions. For example, the one in the latest Legends & Lore that assumes that major changes in tone must be either (a) linked to levelling, or (b) nonexistent, ignoring the possibility many of the comments on that poll mention that the...

All kidding aside, there might actually be something to be said for this sort of division of playtesting labour (toned down a little from what's in the article, of course!).

When I first load the ENWorld site, I am occasionally redirected automatically to the URL http://www.enworld.org/forum/profile.php?do=dst, which gives me a blank white page. This has happened twice in as many days, on different computers with different browsers. I have to load the site again...

The question is meaningless without knowing the context those numbers appear in.

I should add to this, that even if I agreed that his motive wasn't bad, in some cases a non-Evil motive isn't exculpatory. Otherwise we wouldn't look unkindly on those who recklessly endanger others - in most cases of this, the fact that they are endangering someone is the last thing on the...

Not that I want to turn this into an extended rehash of that debate, but his main reason for doing it was to psychologically torture a foe he had already decisively defeated. His own future safety (a neutral motive, compatible with any alignment) was a consideration too, but I got the definite...

Draketooth. Right. Oh, by the way - does anyone STILL think V's Familicide was a non-Evil act?

I think you missed SnowLeopard's (and Berlew's) point. She's visibly embarrassed, and obviously (or at least it struck me as obvious) speaking... "sarcastically" isn't quite the right word, but it's closer than any other I can think of, and certainly closer than "lying" which would imply that...

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS A LINK TO TVTROPES. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. So what does ENWorld figure happened here? Is Yukyuk's Search really terrible, did V not issue the command he* implied he would, or were the DCs just insanely high? Or is this just another case of Rule of Funny being a...

I don't think it reigns supreme over some minimal effort at consistent characterization. I'll accept some pretty thin rationales for apparent breaking of character, but surely not everything goes. Just because there's more than one "right" way to play a given character, doesn't mean some aren't...

Yes, they are from WotC. Different game, but very much WotC; indeed, Magic is the reason they're famous, much more than D&D is. And in Magic, "Artifact" means roughly what "Magic item" means in D&D. Not that any of this is actually relevant to the point I was making, or that I take Ryan to...

I was going to mention the exact same Magic card as Ryan did. Flavour it however you like - alternating bands of the two types, rapid oscilation between them, energy spreading from the wounds the weapon delivers, or as on the Magic card, two blades, one of each sort (or one that simply keeps the...

breaks into wild applause

Well, from personal experience: Two can work well or suck Three, four, five and six all seem to work fairly well Unwieldiness starts to be noticeable at seven, and is appreciably worse at eight. It's also hard to make combats challenging at that size - merely adding opponents doesn't do the...

Not that I disagree with either sentence of this in isolation, but the second sentence is not an example of the first.

As has often been said (usually on the Magic side of the fence, granted, rather than the D&D side), if WotC put out boxes of free money, people would complain about how it was folded.

It pretty much has to be a dragon, doesn't it? There's nothing else anywhere near as iconic.

Cautiously optimistic. If there were a choice between "positive" and "neutral" I'd pick it, but I defaulted to "positive". The concerns folks like Kzach have raised (don't know if they're in this thread, but he's mentioned them elsewhere) are valid, but you know what? Despite that...

Mary Whitehouse, you mean. Google usually works best if you get the name of the person you're searching for right.