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In general? I see some of it; there's a guy who shows up every session of my LFR game (shoutout to Renaissance Games) and he's never shy about saying he dislikes 4e. I sort of wonder why he doesn't just go play Pathfinder, since he likes it more. He apparently feels some obligation to play RPGA...

There were a ton of 4e events at Dragoncon; they were just listed under Living Forgotten Realms instead of under 4e. See my above post. :)

There were 50 or so 4e events listed on the event list. If you searched for 4e, you'd only see the Cheese Grinder, which threw me off as well; however, if you searched under Living Forgotten Realms, you'd have seen a ton of 4e. I've been tracking fall con D&D games of various editions for my...

It's been a pretty decent thread as these things go. ;) IMHO, the key is to remember that the people having fun playing 4e are not idiots and they don't have some covert motive for liking the game. Likewise for Pathfinder. Likewise for OSR games. If something is driving you nuts but isn't...

Sure! I've been playing 4e since a little bit after release, both as a DM and as a player. At this point, I find the rules are nicely in the background. There was a key moment for me as a DM when I realized that I should stop worrying about understanding everything any PC might do and just...

Well, you know. In D&D, I don't play more or less solo for the first umpteen levels. I also don't have some sort of global chat channel going all the time while I'm soloing. Nobody yells over to me and asks me to join their guild whenever I start my solo D&D sessions. I don't randomly run into...

I don't usually bring my DMG with me either. It's for prep work. I think you're pretty much in line with the DMG's advice as far as encounter balancing goes. After all: "If every encounter gives the players a perfectly balanced challenge, the game can get stale. Once in a while, characters...

RPGA_Tampa : RPGA Tampa is pretty active, it looks like; they apparently play at Emerald City Comics, as per Emerald Conclave : Event Overview. I guess that's around 20 miles from you, though. :( There's something over in Temple Terrace, too, but that's even further. I'd say join the mailing...

Well, reporting your private gaming does get you ship tiles, but it's perfectly plausible and reasonable that you may not care about that. :) But in terms of value to WotC! I have purely antecdotal evidence that it brings people back to the game; both in Boston and down here in Maryland I've...

It's a little bit more open than that. My Realms in a nutshell: "Write a Forgotten Realms adventure; you can use monsters and skill challenges worth up to X experience. (Y if you're running it at high tier.) You should have so many fights and so many skill challenges. Don't rewrite existing...

Sure! So I decided to try out LFR because there was an active group in my area and I really wanted to experience 4e as a player. (I'd been DMing, which is also awesome, but you know.) I started by downloading the RPGA character creation guidelines. It's a medium-sized document but the key...

What he said. I started playing in the RPGA about a year ago, somewhat skeptically, and I wound up enjoying it enough so that I started a new group when I moved to Maryland. (Ren Games represent, yo.) I like it for the community; you wind up gaming with people you'd never have met otherwise and...

That wouldn't disappoint me. I've been digging what I've read about that one.

I'm running fairly by the book, although that's partially because I wanted to do that to get the feel of the game. And because I also run LFR, and you gotta stick to the book there sort of. I still drift away from skill challenges as written. I think using skill challenges for social...

Yes. And your assumptions about what it bodes for the future of the game all assume that 4e players are incapable of making the same sort of play adjustments that original D&D players made in practice. This is probably a fruitless conversation -- we've gone back and forth a couple of times now...

I did say that I was perfectly happy to believe that play drifted from the text and that people didn't use miniatures. I'm not talking about what people in Gygax's group did in practice, I'm talking about what the rules said. Here's why this matters: "But the game design has arguably changed...

The text says: "LAND COMBAT: The basic system is that from CHAINMAIL, with one figure representing one man or creature." (Page 25, Underworld & Wilderness Adventures.) It also says, on the same page: "PLAYING AREA: Paper counters and a hexagon or staggered-square playing board should be used...

I'm trying to get a Living Forgotten Realms 4e group going at Renaissance Games, which is in Fallston, which is a bit north of Baltimore. I'm hopefully running our first session a week from tomorrow, 6/19, starting at noon. The Warhorn signup page is here: Northern Baltimore LFR : Event...

Yes, certainly. I think you may have misunderstood my post. I'm not arguing that online gaming is superior; I was responding specifically to the assertion that "a computer is going to be klunky and slower to use than just doing it the old fashioned way," because I've had some interesting...

Can you give an example of a game which has mechanics that'll inherently be faster on a tabletop than they would online? I can think of some ideas but I don't want to misinterpret you. Or do you mean that mechanics should fly faster on a tabletop game than they do now? I.e., are you just...