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Forked from: The Luke Skywalker Paradox Ktulu's thread got me thinking about how this would have played out at the game table. Luke's player was metagaming. He saw that the rest of the party was in trouble and wanted to be the hero and save the day instead of finishing his training - even...

I think that's a great idea. On a bit of a tangent I'd have loved it if this old gem could have somehow turned into a series... YouTube - Drizzt mithril drow fantasy

The Finch would be proud. (Sorry, I failed my save against the lack of context in that paragraph.) Of the six regular gaming groups I've played with I've seen five women compared to twenty five odd men - not counting one anomalous three session game I ran that had four women and two men. In all...

I think that's a good point. By not attempting the conversion it has the potential to send a message that says "this edition is so different from what has come before that attempting conversion is pointless" - upon typing that it seems so familiar that I think one of the previews may have said...

I have, but only once. In 1988 my cousin and I, both in our early teens, were playing D&D. My cousin had a friend over so we took him through rolling up a character so he could join in. About thirty minutes into the game this guy's mother poked her head into the room to see what we're up to and...

I'm not sure what there is to be excited about when it comes to skill challenges; it was a failed attempt to codify various processes that people have been using in their games for a long time. Having said that I think including a systemization of the process was a good idea and would certainly...

It seems to me that power sources are there as an attempt to provide some contrast between classes doing things that may be very similar in terms of game mechanics. They feel kind of tacked on and cosmetic and I haven't seen them come into relevance in actual play - although none of the...

I'm considering C&C or 2E WHFRPG for my next game so I'm curious about the part I bolded. You feel rounds are resolved too quickly?

Thanks to the OP and contributors, I was just starting to think about taking a browse over at Paizo. I've always been interested in checking out Rise of the Runelords - the name of it really grabs me for some reason - so with the discount I think I'll indulge my curiosity. I'll probably also...

Taking him at his word, in particular his stated intentions of maintaining the health of the industry and attempting to take some strides against piracy, I think WotC has chosen a remarkably poor way to respond to the situation. His statement that "the piracy of our products was increasing at...

I don't think they're evil, but various factors - a number of which you summarized in your post - make them prone to psychopathic behaviour.

It is probably true that it helped pirates, but it is also probably true that it helped customers. I still question the soundness of a response that works against the wants of your customers in an effort to secure the business of people who are obtaining your product without paying for it.

If they did see it coming then I'm finding it hard to come up with reasons why they would have gone ahead with it. Piracy happens. I think it's something we just have to accept. The problem I have with this action is that they're letting the pirates call the shots. WotC have customers out there...

In that case I think it could be pretty nasty unless they're able to consistently exploit striker stacking. Hahah, yes, thanks. ;)

With no defenders and no leaders - and assuming the paladin had been playing double duty as the healer - I'd say they're in for some hurt. How much hurt depends on whether you shuffle things to accommodate the composition of the group. (Reading your thread title gave me a headache.)

I think that's true. In some markets a seller will intentionally ration stock so that retailers will sell out of stock, with the implication following that the product is so good and so popular that the seller simply can't keep up with demand. They can then let the stock trickle to retailers...

This reminds me of Stardock. Brad Wardell has often discussed the topic of responding to piracy in a manner that he deems the most productive for his business and I think he has a very realistic approach to it. That approach, in essence, is to spend money on adding value to a product rather than...

I think it may be interesting to consider the point you're making in the context that this is the first edition of D&D to be released and targeted - at least to some degree - to the first generation to grow up with broadband internet. I saw a documentary not so long ago about the topic of...

I think you may have a faulty power coupling in your sarcasm detector.

This is the most frustrating thing about the way corporations and industries react to piracy: they punish their paying customers while inflicting minimal or no impact on the people who are stealing their product. Look at DRM schemes on computer games that make the product more inconvenient to...