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Regarding the whole MMO reference in the interview, what I find interesting is the lesson learned: Computer games can do flashy combat much better than pen and paper. What they don't have is an interactive AI that can compete with a living DM, or the open, on-the-fly judgement calls that can...

Meshes well with what was said in http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/315975-wizards-coast-dungeons-dragons-insider-d-d-4th-edition-hasbro-some-history.html, also, as I understand it, from an actual insider: In the light of that, Mearls' reply is not surprising at all. If the big-money-dream is...

I currently play in a system where each players has a pool of rerolls per session. It feels like there is a 50/50 mix between "important" rerolls (life savers, plan savers, plot savers) and "vanity" rolls ("I refuse to let my character look bad in this situation"), which is quite interesting.

Played in a 3E and a 4E campaign In parallell. In the 3E campaign I played a buffing support sorcerer together with a swashbuckler, a druid and a ranger. Support was freely given and accepted, and the characters felt nicely interdepentent, with nobody domineering over the others, all the way up...

Recharge house rule that sucessfully hindered both Nova and 15 min adventuring day in a campaign I played in: See http://hastur.net/wiki/Recharge_Magic_(D%26D) for full rules. Eminently tweakable by changing the target number for recharge. Such tweaking occured during the campaign in question...

Warning, anecdote time: When I joined my first 1ed game years and years ago, the campaign was a couple of years old already, so the PCs had quite a few levels. Of course I got told endless stories of what had already transpired in the campaign, and among those was this: The PCs were attacking...

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I played a wizard in a D20 Dragonstar campaign, which is D&D with laser guns, power armor and space ships. Since the fighter types were packing loads of fireball-equivalent hand grenades, laser cannons and so on, i thought it meaningless to go for damage-dealing spells. Instead, I went for an...

That said, I think there really ought to be a place for a class that actually does lead, in the sense of giving orders and telling people what to do, not as a "sanitation engineer" style euphemism for buffing and healing. It could for example have a pool of NPC minions or henchmen, or even...

Shows how much of a break with tradition 4E was....

This thread seems to forget an OD&D staple that was a powerful disincentive to taking too many rests: Wandering Monsters and rest-time ambushes. Against a party where just one or two guards were prepared, and the rest were sleeping, unarmored and unarmed, or not daring to break their spell...

There were a lot of hullabaloo about MS de-emphasizing .NET and emphasizing HTML5 and Javascript instead for Windows 8 application development some time ago: Microsoft's high-risk Windows 8 .NET switch ? The Register

So now your character was just a whiney drama queen who blew a mere owie out of proportion, whenever he has gotten a stern talking-to by the Warlord? ;) ;)

I used to play the MMO "City of Heroes" year after year. One thing never failed to evoke the spirit of wonder in me during these years: Getting to the top of a scyscraper at in-game night, standing there seeing the sunrise. Then I'd step off the building roof and fall... And just before I hit...

I feel very much the opposite. When numbers increase simultaneously on both sides of the equation, they feel empty and meaningless. If both your salary and the prices you pay rise, do you get any richer? Think hyper-inflation 1920:s. If you are paid in millions of Marks, but the eggs also...

When I played a weekly three-year Savage Tide campaign with lots of exploration and interaction extras tucked on, we begged our DM for halved XP and berated him when he wanted to give out XP bonuses, as we all liked the campaign and our characters so much and wanted them to last and last and...

Remember when WoTC said during the initial 4E launch that there would be no further editions? That its exception-based design made it so generic that all future development could be done as add-ons?

Traveller (1977) and Runequest (1978).

I would like a comprehensive skill list that is *less* tied to attributes, levels and classes than 3.x.