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The vast majority of the changes made were to things like stat blocks, feats, or powers. All of these become invisible once they are rolled into the Compendium or Character Builder - at least, for those using the Compendium or Character Builder. The point is that rules updates to a tabletop RPG...

I think you're missing the point. Under this model, older releases are compatible with the current version, because the older releases are updated as needed to maintain that compatibility.

So disable updates. Problem solved. Or (gasp) house rule.

Notice that I never used the word "books".

You don't "reread" the rules. You are simply updated on changes. And, if you forget one for some reason, no big deal! Not my point. My point is that obviously a mismatch between a player's understanding of the rules and a DM's understanding of the rules is not an insurmountable obstacle...

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, here. Do you believe that this is a problem for living services? That no one has ever contended with this issue before, or that everyone who has tried has been unable to solve it? Also, you're using words like "PDF" and "print" as though they would be...

Nonsense. People dislike the edition treadmill because it forces them to choose between making all of their prior purchases obsolete and being able to make use of new releases. The living model avoids this dilemma - the game updates automatically, new releases are always compatible with older...

Why would everyone else be at 1.1? The system should push updates automatically. Besides, that sure as hell isn't any more complex than the idea of house rules, which we've been dealing with fine for decades now. Then why not get on board with the living game idea? The game gets improvements...

Which is a really great reason to move beyond physical books. If you ever want to see an end to the edition treadmill, this is the only way that happens.

I would hope that at this point that would be obvious. Even just a laptop at a table can allow you to do things like bring your entire library with you, quickly search for a specific rules item, share documents with your players, pull up images on the fly, etc. Heck, even just this last...

I very much doubt this is a pitch to get you to go out and buy a tablet. More along the lines of, "Hey, we know you guys have tablets and smartphones, how about we make an app that leverages them at the game table?"

Agreed. When I suggest that we explore the design space of games where players control multiple characters, I don't mean a return to the old days of having hirelings "check for traps", but rather the idea of having personal investment in more than one character, along with mechanics that play...

I should clarify - I'm not suggesting that this is how D&D should do it. D&D should continue to assume a one-character-per-player standard. I just think it would be cool for game designers to develop new games that explore the idea of breaking that standard. Though, certainly, this could form...

That's actually a tabletop gaming concept that I think designers need to spend more time exploring - the idea of divorcing the player from the notion of having a direct proxy in the game world. I used to play in a D&D game where each player had at least two characters, and chose one at the...

And no one plays it that way. What we're saying is that character death is, in longer campaigns and on balance, best used sparingly, because it is more likely than just about anything else to lower a player's investment in the game by effectively nullifying the time they have spent playing it up...

"High-lethality" literally means that the game will be more lethal to PCs than normal. That's what it means. Player characters will have a significantly higher chance of dying when engaging in the same sorts of actions.

It mentions adding content and features, which doesn't happen with the 4e tools anymore.

I hope you're not confusing this with a player entitlement issue (and really, let's not go down that road; it doesn't end in a nice place for DMs). This isn't about player entitlement, or spoiled players, or anything like that. This is about a play philosophy that, at its core, threatens the...

If you say so. I think it's pretty obvious when a game's characters are more superhero than hero. I've played plenty of games like that. D&D, of any edition, doesn't come close. It should only take "dozens" of them when there's a large power disparity between the player and the attacker. I...

I thought this was interesting. A recent (5/28) job posting on the WotC jobs site mentions, among its major accountabilities, the following: "The Lead Editor manages the relationship with the TRPG digital tools licensee, providing new TRPG content for the tools, and approving new tools...