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I hope this line of thinking is true, but I do agree with Lanefan's premise that all things negative in DnD are getting dialed down. Your point on players having nothing to do reminds me of one my worst DMing mistakes. Our 11th level fighter failed a save against a rakhasia hold person spell...

Bingo! This is how the system should be set up. You buy the book you get the miniatures. Otherwise I am spending money on a "cup of coffee" priced book activation to get a simple PDF. A nice convenience, but again how much is that really costing WotC in production values. I would assume...

I like your logic with Dungeon and Dragon being supplemented by advertising vs. decreased cost of shipping and printing. It really simplifies the discussion to call it Even Steven. However, I would argue it probably comes out better for WotC's bottomline otherwise they wouldn't have done it...

I would agree with you as a whole. Killing a foe and stealing his +2 longsword is a bit boring. However, acquiring stuff while in the face of advancing the story is awesome! Case in point....During the Age of Worms, we unearthed artifacts from the Wind Duke's tomb which were pretty cool, all...

Note Delericho, this is not a criticism of you but of Fred Banks assumptions. I am not familiar with "The Mythical Man-Month" but I am a surgeon (urologist) and while this type of thinking is often applied to surgery, I think it's a bit inappropriate or more accurately, over simplified. As the...

I guess my point was that I am not as familiar with the changes made to create 3.5 Duergar. I was merely stating that my argument against (devil taint as I will call it) may be misplaced if there had been backstory changes in 3.5 that I was not aware of. It appears that there weren't any story...

Maybe that's why I stopped buying 3.5 products :confused: Anyways, I would agree it's pretty bad to insinuate that those working for WotC don't love DnD.

That's a good point. I haven't looked at the 3.5 Duergar in a long time (May be ever?) I was thinking back to my old Fiend Folio days. Regardless, the devil taint is still something I don't need.

Not to threadjack, but do those who feel Duergar don't deserve "racial" status in the MM also feel that way about dragons? Should we have a generic dragon entry with stats based on dragon age? Then a simple paragraph at the end with something like red dragon's breath weapon is fire, blue's...

Yes, because duergar specifically have known powers associated with them: "All duergar have the following psionic disciplines: expansion, invisibility, molecular attraction, and reduction." That makes them different than run of the mill evil hill dwarves. I don't want to figure out how to...

I am starting to see what people are getting at regarding the race vs. subrace thing. You bring up an excellent point. I think their should be a Duergar racial talent tree off of dwarves much as you suggest. Brilliant! However, this should be for PCs only. I am dramatically opposed to...

Duergar are a subrace, but in my opinion is different enough with their extra psionic powers. As a DM I don't want to take a race and have to customize it by adding character levels. Too much prep time. They have to be ready to run out of the box. As for some of the other subraces...various...

Great more devil infused creatures! This seems very unoriginal. So unoriginal it's about as unexciting as evil version of the core race with the same stats. Do Duergar really need revamping? Why not come up with entirely new races to stock the MM? Wouldn't the veterans prefer something...

I guess that is why my last name is my forum name. :D

I am not sure what you're directly referencing about August but I would offer a word of caution. Post count is a double edged sword. A low post person can have a well thought out opinion or statement just as much as a high post count person. They may have arrived on board late or simply spend...

Why do I conjure up images of a guy on a corner selling cocaine from a bad 80s movie. Dealer: Dude, I've got the best stuff right out of Columbia. Buyer: What is it? Dealer: "Exploding Monkey Blow"

Head of nail, meet hammer!

This ignore mechanic in 4E really sucks!

If you take fan opinion of changing gameworlds with new editions, advancing metaplots based on published novels, proliferation of a campaign setting with supplement creep(sum of the parts), it appears the overall thought (organized whole) is the setting should be left relatively alone. Perhaps...

Perhaps, I had drawn some inferences that did not exist in your post regarding change (or lack thereof) being implicit to each setting. Hence my use of the term disagreement. I read into your post that FR has a natural progression with each new edition. I think they have changed FR due to...