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If games like Conquest of Nerath is any indication of what WotC is going to produce going forward I say bring on the board games!! Dungeon of Dread looks great too and my group likes Castle Ravenloft just fine (we haven't gotten the Wrath of Ashalon game yet). Also, historically, the publisher...

This is brilliant, imo. THe pepper spray I mean ;) Seriously though I would follow through with everything James lays out here. Once they see how "exciting" the game has become they should desist (if they are beyond the maturity and intelligence of an 8 year old - actually scratch that - even...

For the most part we have done away with XP in my games. Some players do like it as a 'way to keep score'. I'm really starting to think the old Warhammer FRPG had the right of it - small increases given out on a near constant basis. In that game you need 100XPs to gain a skill, ability...

I do game with friends - people whom I have known for years. And they can change a great deal when playing RPGs. Think of it like Jeykll and Hyde if Mr.. Hyde was obsessed with magic items and XP.

Mainly it comes down to the person(s) who didn't get a bonus even if all they did was say "I swing my sword". Players often, ime, want everything everyone else is getting regardless of effort. Annoying I know but that has been my experience. Often accusation of favourtism and coddling get...

I hate when it's just me!! also - that irks me too. Not quite up to the hate standard being set for the Hate Thread though.

Why is it necessary? If the players aren't into it I can't think of any way to make them do it that they wouldn't resent. Adding in-game bonuses for flowery descriptions is a sure-fire recipe for resentment and drama, imo and ime. I would just make your own descriptions nice and vivid and...

Bah! You don't know hate until you've played Monopoly for 13 hours straight!

Of course a DM can fix that with ease regardless of system if he is willing to actually build encounters and challenges around the party's actual power level rather than what it says in the 'level' box of their character sheet. Don't get me wrong - I agree 100% with you! I just think any D&D...

I hate players who whine about 'railroading' and complain when things are never 'too tough' for them to handle. I hate players who then whine that the encounter they just had was 'too tough' for them and that everything should be scaled just for their current level. I hate when players don't...

Sorry - I forgot paizo can do no wrong. Didn't the ever increasing price of DDM doom the line as well? Oh but that's different. Right. Carry on!

$13 for 4 miniatures pretty much dooms this to failure. That is an outrageous price to ask for this.

That wasn't the guy who made the misogynist comments apologizing. That was the LJ writer who was quoting Uri apologizing for having made a statement about other WotC staffers. Uri doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who apologizes for anything. So yeah - it sure as hell wasn't cherry picking...

"Rocks fall, everybody dies." "Wanna play some Savage Worlds now?" That should pretty much get you out of the adventure [-]treadmill[/-] path.

I have to ask - why aren't you playing there instead? It sounds like they are offering a lot more of what you want than this other place.

Actually Hasbro does have a history of sitting on IP for a long time, decades even, without attempting to sell it. Tranformers and GI Joe are the two that come to mind immediately. Both were pretty dead by the early 1990s. Both have seen revivals in the last few years (Transformers much more...

Lord of the Rings. George Martin is a hack. *dons fireproof suit* nyah!

My first thought too and I am in the market for new board games. $80 isn't outrageous however given the number of pieces and full colour board/rules. Fantasy Flight Games routinely breaks the $80 mark and even some small publishers have put out games at that price point. I find that the...

I don't think you would have to eliminate divine classes in a world without gods. Paladins already do not receive their powers from a god so why couldn't this be used for other classes like clerics? I would think it could easily be replaced with a "holy" pursuit of an ideology.

Boy - can I ever empathize with this. About two years ago I did give up on DMing. A combination of irritating players, boredom and the sinking feeling like I was going to work every Friday & Sunday lead me to stop DMing cold. I do think you have hit on the core of your problem - giving up...