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So, Mike Mearls got called into a meeting in the middle of the latest WotC podcast and was absent for the second half. I see this as a perfect opportunity to wildly speculate about the cause, hopefully with humorous effect. My guess? It wasn't a meeting at all. The new sculpts for the minis...

The general point I think most of us agree on is that the historical layoffs were a crappy way to treat what seemed to be talented employees. As a community, we want to reiterate our views on the matter in close proximity to the anniversary of the last time it happened. And perhaps recall how...

Oh, snap, my matrix just got turned into a neural network! This sounds an awful like the end of the first Matrix movie. Are you saying, "There is no spoon."? :p In all (er mostly) seriousness, I worry that classes with blended roles with be jacks-of-all-trades and masters-of-none. Anybody...

The Eberron books have some good city adventuring in them. Especially the very first series (whose name I forget).

Everything OnlineDM said sounds good. If you want slightly easier characters, you may want to look at the new Dungeons and Dragons Red Box and the Essentials line. It is still D&D and it doesn't invalidate your current books. However, it is aimed at first time players and focuses a little more...

Maybe it is more like the Ryder Cup where individual performance determines team outcomes? The foursomes format requires that the two players on a team alternate who strikes the ball and they alternate who tees off on each hole. There is strategy in determining who to put on what teams for...

Finally! The power source/role matrix will be complete! Muahahahahaha!

For ideas, you could steal from older FR and Eberron material pretty easily. And most of the 3e stuff is still relatively available. Eberron probably would be the least daunting to wrap your mind around because there are fewer books. It certainly has plenty of maps and NPCs. The novels would be...

I definitely would like to see more adventures, either in DDI or actual publication. Really, it would be nice if third parties could put out adventures for the WotC settings. Best of both worlds?

You may want to put it in terms of "If you are looking for X, then setting Y has it." Such as: If you are looking for high fantasy, FR has powerful PCs and a rich, detailed history. If you are looking for action/mystery, Eberron is pulpy and you'll never know what the next twist is. If you...

GM: You start to examine the entrance to the dungeon. You see an ancient script etched on the door. PC: I wonder who wrote this? History Check? GM: You succeed. Apparently Mike Mearls runed this dungeon. <drum hit>

I was on the road to London when Mike Mearls and his Merry Men took all my gp :( Then he ruined my archery contest >:-{

We have a small whiteboard on the wall with everybody's inits on it. It has helped with keeping people on task since they know where they are in the order by just looking.

I'm certainly willing to cut some parents some slack on the 80s craziness. If the first thing you saw was the MM, you might have second thoughts about your kids playing anything with demons and devils in it. Particularly if you don't have an adult to ask about it. Surely its easier now with so...

I like the floating bonus. I bet if that had been in place, we wouldn't have needed both the Elf and the Eladrin.

At GenCon, it was about 50/50. Outside of that, I don't play with bad DMs, so my experiences have been great!

Dedekind was a mathematician famous for a technique called 'Dedekind cuts.' I had to apply it in my modern algebra class and it struck me as a cool handle. I've been using it ever since.

Ours were all 'stu' + 'first 4 letters of last name' + 'first letter of first name'. I still have friends whose email/username is stuxxxxy.

Absolutely. It makes it impossible to scan. But... I don't see a lot of problems in most rpg matter I read. Even the bloggers seem to avoid most pitfalls, though style is sometimes an issue.

These are general comments I have heard on poor editing: 1) "If I spot poor editing, it makes me wonder what they missed that I also missed." 2) "If they didn't put the time in to make it easy on me, why should I go easy on them?" 3) "My time is precious and I don't want to waste my time...