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You're certainly welcome to your opinion, but I don't share it. Every single game I've played since the original Red Box and AD&D has had elements of rules supplementing or removal. Is it harder to play some versions when removing some elements? Certainly. But I've played 4e (and 3e, GURPS...

Nut bunnies. Double-post. Sorry about that.

Can you recreate AD&D feel in 4e? I'm sure you can. But it would be a very personal design choice. Arumvorax's description of what AD&D was is entirely correct....for him. Much of what he describes did NOT describe my 1e experience at all. Not the campaigns I ran or played in. The games he...

The idea that MMORPGs will become the inevitable victors over pen-and-paper RPGs certainly didn't help Realtime Worlds and APB very much. DDO wasn't terribly profitable until it changed it's financial model last year. Star Trek: Online and Champions: Online are struggling. The fact of the...

Just a quick note: the VGA adapter DOES work with some apps...but they have to be written to take advantage of it. It does not work on just any application. GoodReader for iPad, for example, a really good PDF reader, supports VGA out. I believe that Netflix also supports video-out. There are...

Derek, nice work. Quick question: does Dungeon Mapp support video-out from the ipad? That would seem to me to be a very useful feature, though I have no idea how difficult that is to actually implement, if it hasn't been already.

Too many games, not enough TIME. Playing Metroid Other M right now and Halo: Reach drops on Tuesday (which is an event in my house). Finished Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands a couple of weeks ago... and I haven't even finished the DLC for Assassin's Creed 2, let alone get ME2 DLC. OH, the...

It's worth noting that I often use a variation of this for many installments of a regular campaign game. I will often envision the starting point and how to kick things off and then a few plot points that I'd like to hit, up to and including a final encounter. For example: I know from the...

Glad to hear it! And for reference, the cabal is known as the Rat Bastards Dungeon Masters Club. Not that you heard it from me. :)

Pish-Tosh, I say! Railroad != "bad" automatically. It most certainly CAN be not fun for some, but it's all in the execution. There have been threads where we've debated this topic, but it should be noted that there is railroading...and then there is RAILROADING. Case in point: in the...

Just keep saying to yourself: "Don't want the campaign to run 16 years. Don't want the campaign to run 16 years." :)

Can you give some examples of what 'more about heroism' means? What sort of interactions or options can you think of that would provide the opportunity for the heroes to be more heroic without combat? And why aren't these already molded in the rules? I'd argue that with each successive...

To follow on to the previous post: sometimes I just make a map and that can BE the adventure. Or rather, it's the reference for it. In the bit above, I started the adventure. Two episodes later, they've penetrated the jungle and find the fallen temple. I created the map first and the...

My methods can vary according to my available free time. When I was in college, I produced VOLUMES of material. Material I still have, in fact. I produced hand-outs constantly and wrote detailed material for every session. Now, many years and two children later....not so much. My process...

I guess I'm thinking the problem is not that you convince your players to not be murderous psychopaths than wonder why you're playing with three completely separate groups of them. I'd recommend that you run, not walk, over to the Gamers seeking Gamers part of the site and start looking. Now...

I have to second this. I have enjoyed some of Anthony's books, but there has long been controversies surrounding his material. Claims of misogyny and being a pedophile make Anthony a particularly bad choice to show an author who writes detailed sexual material in his work and doesn't get...

The problem with both Sidekicking and Exemplaring is that they didn't always work that well. When a friend with a level 50 character exemplared with our level 10, he wasn't suddenly a Level 10....he was a level 50 with 40 levels worth of attack bonuses removed. So he still had access to...

It's been confirmed that the classes will be, as you might guess from their website: Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Wizard and Ranger. Their description of the game sounds like something in the middle between Diablo (or, if you prefer, D&D Heroes) and Guild Wars. It does not sound all that great...

Hmmm. The Forgotten Realms. Some thoughts: I remember when the Realms was the 'new upstart'. D&D had already had Greyhawk, but in all honesty, most people I knew used a homebrew setting or not true setting at all, at the time. Stuff just happened. :) When there was interconnection (as much...

Sir, you continue to astound. I salute you! Note to self: get painting!