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Nicole, I don't think anybody is claiming that BoTR is unsuccessful. The debate is over whether a lower price point (or an even higher price point) would make it even more successful, and to be true, I'm not sure anybody knows the answer, or where the market is really going. I'm positive that...

Hm... I'll take your word for it, but I named those two companies because they came to mind right away as being the worst. I also had contacts with EA Canada, Blizzard (the company was proud of hiring former carpenters and training them as programmers!), and Monolith studios (Monolith actually...

No, and I won't dispute the rules system. Very few DMs, for instance, would come up with their own Epic Level Handbook, or SuperHeroes system. That's why there's a market for d20 Modern, d20 Call of Cthulhu, or d20 Super Heroes. No argument from me there. Though some of the third party...

Hm... That would indicate a sea change in the industry since I last surveyed the industry in 1998. At that time, some engineers at Westwood Studios and I exhcanged data, and I was surprised to see the wide disparity between what I was making and what they were making. To make it worse I was...

Queen of Lies: 11th level module. First major encounter has a troop of bug bears (CR 2), female drow (CR 3), dinosaurs (CR 3), backed up by relatively low level cleric and wizard. The encounter is TOUGH! Hard. The players barely survived by the skin of their teeth. It was cool. The players...

Eric, I'm not convinced that the creatives won't continue to be paid poorly even if industry started making a profit. Take the computer game industry, for instance. They make billions of dollars a year, even more than movies, as an industry. But the creatives (programmers, game designers, and...

The problem is, it doesn't matter that Amazon.com prices it at 30% off cover, and your FLGS prices it at cover. The publisher still gets paid the same price. In other words, it doesn't matter where you buy it. The publisher gets the same deal. The only case where the publisher gets a better deal...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Higher prices? I have to say, the industry distributor chain must be incredibly inefficient for this to happen. I usually see books sold at 30% off on Amazon.com (and I typically manage to an additional 5% by using the special credit card), plus free shipping. That means that on...

Uh, no! If you're helpless, the explosion would do an automatic coup de grace on you, and you'd have to make an incredibly hard fort save to stay alive. If he's holding it and it goes off, and he survives, he managed to roll away. Same as if someone threw it at him. In CoC, if the damage...

Not really. What I've discovered is that while my groups will occasionally play CoC, or a science fiction game, or super-heroes, whenever we return to D&D, there's always a sigh of relief. For some reason, D&D has long term play potential that none of the other games have. What this means is...

My apologies for getting that fact wrong. Your overall tone of disappointment with d20 had led me to believe that you had dropped support for Deadlands d20. Regardless, my main point still stands. Despite the installed base CoC has, CoC d20 has generally been a success, while PEG seems to...

So Mike, I'm curious. How do you explain then, the success of Call of Cthulhu d20? It's been around for 20 years, has a RABID fan base, and the flame wars associated with the announcement of Call of Cthulhu d20 over at RPG.net was just amazing. Yet, within 3 months of the publish date, not only...

Read my post again: I've analyzed what you yourself reported --- that people complain about the missing feats and the skill list. The issues there should be pretty obvious to anyone who didn't consider the SAS game primary and the d20 game secondary.

But you lose inter-game compatibility! And you have to explain to all your players that there aren't feats in this game. Can you hear the groans already? Again, you're leaning towards SAS instead of the d20 defaults. Why add unnecessary barriers towards market acceptance? If SAS d20 was the...

put me in for d20 As a veteran of 2 mega-d20 conversions (Temple of Elemental Evil, and Masks of Nyarlathotep), I have to say that (1) doing the conversion is not fun, and (2) play-testing the conversion takes FOREVER. Give me d20. If they publish it as Hackmaster I will not touch it with a 10...

Let me explain what I think Hellbender meant: If I'm at the gaming store with $40 in my pocket, what would I get? Let's see. We have this game called "Godlike", and this game called "Nobilis"... But my chances of getting my D&D players to play either is slim. On the other hand, Monte Cook has...

In a previous thread last year, I talked about what I would like to see in a $100 product. The pre-built campaign was the concept I had in mind, complete with reoccuring NPCs, NPC illustrations, and modular pieces the DM can pull in and out as needed, as well as a "level map" indicating where...

Ryan Dancey on PEG Here's Ryan Dancey's comments on PEG's withdrawal from the d20 market ages ago: http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=72 Great thread entitled: "My d20 game doesn't sell." He doesn't name any names, but he was clearly talking...

Game balance is #1 for me If the feats, magic items, or spells are balanced, I don't have a problem using it or putting it into the game. The problem is that a lot of the splatbooks, supplements, and what not have a nuclear escalation effect (i.e., the later the book is published, the more...

Nellisur's experience mirror mine 4 hours/session, 1 year of play, middle of 9th level. PC deaths slow down advancement significantly, so I don't have a problem with the so-called "fast" levelling. It's been a level every two or three sessions, which is just fine. I can't wait to explore the...