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It certainly lays the groundwork for one! And, similarly, Sterling's girlfriend recording an innocuous conversation would have done nothing by itself. But the conversation wasn't innocuous. It was vile. It was blatantly racist. And it made him, his team, and the league vulnerable to a PR...

"I didn't create a hostile work environment when I said that all of my employees were trash and deserve to be fired! You created the hostile work environment when you recorded me saying those things and gave it to the employees I called trash!" Hopefully that puts things in perspective for you...

You just sound really bitter that a lot of people enjoy something that you don't. Maybe it's time to consider spending more time on what you actually enjoy, and less time on complaining about other people liking things on the internet? Just a thought.

I'll take a rain check on that one.

I'm confused. Did you run 4e games extensively without a DDI subscription? If so, it obviously wasn't much of a requirement if you got by without it. If not, why do you feel confident enough in your experience with 4e to know whether you need a subscription to play? Speaking as someone who has...

The cooperation is due to a strong organizational structure, and the view that the individual is benefiting through association with the group. That said, nearly every piece of fiction featuring organized crime involves some kind of internal conflict that, almost invariably, stems from someone's...

I do not believe that to be the case. For instance, two evil characters might share a similar, evil belief system ("No one's well-being matters but my own!"), but the fact that those beliefs are shared doesn't mean that they are more likely to cooperate - quite the opposite, in fact! Good...

I want to be clear: are you objecting to the notion that good characters, on balance, tend to cooperate more easily than do evil characters?

"Support", to my mind, means that evil PCs can be created in D&D Next. That appears to be the case, because Mearls said you could do it. Adding that footnote doesn't suddenly mean it's no longer supported. Moving it out of the PHB into the DMG as an option doesn't suddenly mean it's no longer...

D&D does not engage in complex moral relativism. The system doesn't acknowledge it, and the mechanics don't support it. So while you're technically correct (the best kind of correct!) it doesn't really have a bearing on this discussion. Good characters tend to cooperate more easily, and D&D...

You must have missed the part where it was explicitly stated that evil player characters will be supported in D&D Next. Maybe tone down the silly hyperbole and focus on accuracy?

Sure, and that's not too difficult to handle. I think this is more an artifact of D&D-as-a-game than a reflection of the characters' "actual" moral values. What it boils down to is that evil characters tend to look for ways to take advantage of situations in amoral ways. Whereas a neutral or...

Not if they use the inevitable online compendium-style toolset, they won't. It's really easy for me to look up spells right now. I type the name into a box, and the spell's description magically appears on my screen! I'm not saying it's a good decision (and I'd be surprised if it ended up...

I disagree - in fact, it makes much more sense for players in a structured D&D-style campaign to be good than it does for them to be evil. Why? Because selflessness is rolled into the concept of being good. An evil character often embodies many fundamentally selfish qualities, and those often...

There are a lot of claims in there that don't line up with the understanding of the situation a lot of us have - D&D not making any money, or the creative team being discontented, or talk of D&D being licensed - and it's a bit much to ask us to take any of that on faith, especially from someone...

That sounds like two sources to me. Certainly enough to report that WotC has conveyed to 3pps that 5e will definitely feature an OGL.

What the everloving what?

Then show that. Then show that. Being critical once is not the same as repeatedly and persistently hounding them for every perceived slight against people they choose to be offended on behalf of, which is what I was talking about. Hell, I've been critical of Mike's decisions on how to engage...

Oh god. There weren't any "rape jokes". There was a joke that referenced rape, but the topic of the strip was not rape, and neither rape nor the rape victim was the punchline. No. Full stop. We're saying rape jokes (which this wasn't) - and jokes in general - are okay because they're jokes...

Only partway through the study (which I've seen referenced many times but never presented in full) but so far what struck me as the most surprising was the fact that, in 1999, 28% of tabletop RPG players were playing tabletop games online on at least a monthly basis. That's really an incredible...