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I agree that WotC has gone a bit too far in the direction of making things hard for 3rd parties to get traction. That being said, I think the monster builder is not a negative thing for third parties, contrary to their comments. I can add most 3rd party monsters to the monster builder. I...

I agree with this. Plus, their early material was pretty much classes and races. That's something I really don't feel much need for beyond the official WotC stuff. After the release of the character builder, I felt even less use for that. Their later themes expanded beyond that, but even...

2E got it from both sides. There were the "grognards" who disliked many of the changes, especially things that were eliminated. That's pretty standard. However, you also got a lot heat from those who felt there weren't enough changes. For example, they kept racial level limits. Indeed, I...

I think they all were fans, at some level or another. That doesn't mean they believed the system was perfect. Their job is to improve the areas they either feel need improvement, or that they find others feel need improvement. In fact, I will argue the feeling that D&D needs improvement goes...

I agree. Once you change the original statement to being "official" (it may have been the original intent, but that's not how it was stated). Given they stated they went with Dark Sun because they felt they had covered "generic fantasy" with Forgotten Realms and Eberron!?! then Mystara has no...

The biggest trick with repaints tends to be getting the paint off. Plastics react differently to the various things to remove paint, and even a single line will change the type of plastic used over time. Mage Knight had a one time experimental release of the second base set (Unlimited) called...

I think there is a lot less houseruling D&D these days, but I think it started with 3.5. Part of it has to do with what we consider houseruling. For example, I don't consider playing with the skill challenge mechanic to be "house ruling" since it seems to have been intended as something...

Interesting. I left an RPG campaign when another player & I decided to play a knight and his squire. I decided it would work if I had an area or two that didn't overlap with the knight's. The GM disallowed it because a squire had no time for extraneous activities. Not directly applicable...

From the review: You are correct by your count as a release of the town. However, the moathouse also appears in the early 4E RPGA one-off adventure, Return to the Moathouse by Mike Mearls.

I mostly agree. Strangely enough, that's how I felt about Greyhawk. We started with brief tidbits of information that stirred the imagination. We then got the setting, which didn't damage this too much. We had mostly guidelines. Then more and more information was released we slowly but...

The best starter RPG I have ever seen is the Prince Valiant RPG by Greg Stafford (of Runequest and Pendragon fame). It's very simple (instead of dice you toss coins in sort of a dice pool system). There are only two stats, and a few skills. The "advanced" rules even suggested a reward system...

I disagree. I think the main lure was the ubiquity of the setting. That an it's pretty standard fantasy setting. While some are attracted to "different" setting, I think that more are put off by them. "Odd" settings tend not to become super popular.

Where are the 4E updates to Dragons of Eberron & City of Stormreach? GenCon in 2008 WotC mentioned that the 4E updates were in development for the last of the 3.5 books. About June it was announced they would be released in a few weeks. Now, in July we ended up with the updates for two...

Indeed, given the policy that the adventure should be generic enough to fit into any world, the adventures don't really have a strong connections to the worlds as it stands. "Two and out" seems to cover it. Fortunately, we will have DDI support for the campaigns (at least until we have...

It might be intentional, as this appears to be a series marketing their novels.

James Wyatt has notes using Night Below on his blog.

I agree with the OGL. I miss having a wide choice of 3rd party products compatible with the current version of D&D. I wouldn't have to actually be the OGL, but it would have to be attractive to 3rd parties. I miss having 3 adventures of diverse focus in Dungeon ,agazine a month (pre-Adventure...

I agree, with a caveat. I think they should go for stability over flexibility. Let them allow custom bits that fit the rules of existing WotC 4E parts. Too often char builder programs lose a lot of use because they try to fit everything and the kitchen sink in, and cause the program to have...

Runequest took a big hit as a game system shortly before Avalon Hill folded. Avalon Hill and Chaosium/Greg Stafford had a rocky relationship for much of the time Avalon Hill had the right to produce Runequest (largely due to quality issues and frequency of the product schedule). Finally they...

And a lot of people who were signed up didn't get the first wave of Hommlet for some reason (I am one).