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My understanding is that when the primary author discovered that the art budget for the book was going to be tiny, he pushed hard for it to go into maps. This was a wise choice, I think.

That's nothing any amount of writing is capable of fixing. You need orbital mind control lasers for that problem.

It says they hear the outcry, but aren't planning on changing anything of substance. That's pretty much what Baker blogged last week. Changes nothing in my book. It reads a lot like damage control. Potentially sincere damage control, but damage control no less. This is especially odd: That...

I have to make myself see it. Seriously. Even after reading the whole thread. When I do I just laugh. I'm a bit sad that WotC changed the image, though. I would have left it and laughed at anybody who phoned the office with a complaint. But then I am not in charge of selling anything to anybody.

I've heard of those; they're from Venus. Or was it Mars? I'm no expert.

Thank you for putting the finger on what DC is lacking that has kept me from getting into their universe for nearly a decade now. Aside hating Superman. :) All of my thumbscrew collection is in use on my own players right now. I would like to help, but if I go soft on one of them it will cause...

Androgynous superhero overdose?

It's been longer.

I have something close. It took five years (no, I am not exaggerating) for two of my players to get how bonuses did and did not stack through their heads. It happened, I'm sure by coincidence, not long after I started very nastily accusing them of cheating every time they tried to play that trick.

Peter had precognitive dreams about flying, which is what finally drove him to hop off that building. Whether these are his own or something Simone's father gave him is an open question, I suppose.

That's a very impressive codpiece. All it's missing is a bell.

Actually, it tells you that given EL=PL encounters you will need about 13 of them to level. It doesn't tell you to always use EL=PL. As a matter of fact, the book suggests otherwise. Only half of all encounters should be EL=PL if you're going absolutely by the letter of the suggested spread in...

Currently playing: 1 D&D 3.5 PBEM. Currently running: 3 D&D 3.5 PBEMs 1 1:1 Mutants & Masterminds PBEM, set in a modern-ish reinterpretation of the Marvel Universe of about 1983. May soon be playing: a 1:1 Alternity game Desperately want to play, but have never found a good group interested...

It wasn't too hard to figure from the last known party lineup. :)

Eve? Mara? Agar.

I don't find monsters hard to run now, and I have run high-level classed NPCs. As a matter of fact, I just had a nice bit of fun yesterday reworking about seven or eight mid-level NPCs and monsters to fit my current house rules. I'm thinking of diving back under the hood and giving them a few...

I said as much. I wasn't actually trying to restart it; I don't even intend to continue it. I'm stating my own aesthetic and design preferences here. It's simply on the list of things that, by my lights, 4e is doing critically wrong. It's not a dealbreaker in itself, but it's probably about 75%...

And that's exactly what they should be doing. Yet they're not. Hence my problem. The rules are the laws of physics for the game. If monsters exist in the same universe with the PCs, they should be following the same rules. 3e made great strides in this direction, which 4e is throwing away large...

It amounts to the same thing. There's no reason a game should have two different systems, one for antagonists and one for protagonists. It's less a system for being so, just as 2e and 1e were less systems because they had a mishmash of subsystems that resolved everything differently. This is the...

No, they stated unambiguously that the robustness of the system no longer extended to monsters. They're being made using ad hoc improvisations instead of the most thoroughly-playtested and best-built element of the game: the PC rules. The instant you have a separate system for one game element...