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To go with your football analogy, have you ever heard a team described as "lazy" or "lacking effort"? Is that "by literal definition" a shot at a person? Or is that a shot at the whole team? or in this case, a shot at the department responsible for this? Ah, it's the "you have to have done it...

If anyone had tried to actually build and play an arcane archer from one of the almost-final drafts that contained this error it seems likely that they would have noticed the breakdown. It's not difficult to see the problem. If he feels like that's "lazy" on the part of WOTC then he has a basis...

No, 4E was ten encounters per level so it didn't come from there. That was intended to be a mix of combat encounters, skill challenges, and quest rewards so it was typically 5-8 combat encounters per level in practice. Combat could take a while, but from an "encounters" perspective you leveled...

I'm with you to a point. I think some of the discord is that the front page articles used to be mainly "news" or "reviews" from an original point of view. Now we have this type of article which is basically a re-telling of the linked blog entries on the Paizo blog. It's not a review, but it's...

The main reason it is "better" at the moment is that many companies, from small business to corporate behemoth, are hypersensitive to social media feedback. If someone starts complaining they will typically bend over backwards to staunch it in some way before it becomes a trending thing. I...

Based on this discussion I'm not sure we will see a traditional "setting" book. I know that's what most of us are used to, but I think it's more likely we will see setting as an element of an adventure book (more like Strahd). They seem very reluctant to dive into those DM-only type books beyond...

Oh good lord - this is definitely a misleading title: "North Texas RPG Convention Refuses To Listen To Harassment Concerns" He did listen. He posted a response - by definition requiring some form of "listening". Some, presumably including the author of the article don't like that response...

I loved Lew's work back in Dragon, and this is a nice "video game design 101" kind of nugget but this is a pointless, useless article on a tabletop gaming site. Here's one example why: How on earth does anyone assume that all of the players want to play the same thing? That they are looking...

This may be the game where the Palladium system worked best. Fantasy was OK, and Heroes Unlimited was ... limited, but adding in guns and martial arts with a cut-down set of powers worked pretty well in this game at that time.

Well in AD&D 1E you could build whatever you wanted whenever you had the gold to do it. There were some perks in that a a certain level your church would help you build a temple stronghold so it would be half cost, or the local lord would grant the fighter some land to build a keep, that kind of...

I can see being around that episode in particular might cause one to be more protective of it. Makes a lot of sense. I started with Holmes Basic and the Greyhawk Folio was the only campaign setting we had for years once it came out. I still have a pair of the poster maps up on my game room...

That's fine for a new game and setting (to a point) but this is supposed to have 40 years of actual play behind it. I'm assuming players didn't have to sign an NDA to play in the games years ago so where are the testimonials from long-time players? Where are some convention game summaries and...

We don't have a book every month. Were you here for 3E? For 4E in particular where it literally was a new hardcover book every month for quite a while? Try explaining up with that adjustment to the gaming budget. Do you play Pathfinder where it's literally 2+ books per month, though smaller ones...

This is exactly what some people are talking about. Please stop acting as if there is something unique about this project that makes it more difficult to describe in words! It's a setting, primarily for D&D, that has been in use for 40 years we are told - repeatedly! There should be a lengthy...

It's a great system for Star Wars and other pulp or cinematic type games. For most people who know what it is though it is so heavily tied to Star Wars that it's a tough sell to use it for any other genre. With this though - who are these guys? I'm not seeing any names I recognize. People have...

I agree with you in general but I suspect this is mainly done by those looking for the feel of earlier editions where 1hp per level per night of rest was pretty common. The only fast healing was magical healing. The cleric lobby is strong ;)

Another consideration: they have Goodman Games publishing updated classic adventures now. WOTC may view that as freeing them up to do something else in the future with one of their "book slots".

YES! In the earlier days of podcasting there were plenty of actual plays of various games out there but there were also quite a few devoted to talking about the game, not listening to a group playing the game. In fact I'd say that at one point that was the norm. Somewhere along the way it...

I was reading about the level cap increasing from 60 to 70 in an online game, with many new possibilities/abilities. "How do people keep track of so many abilities at such high levels?" I thought. ---In most online RPGs your number of powers doesn't increase beyond a certain level as older ones...

I'm sure the toning-down of the name dropping (Gygax, Greyhawk, various other TSR IP mentions) is for legal reasons but I'd like to think it might also have to do with things like "a sentient but indifferent Planet" or the sub-plots have nothing to do with any aspect of Greyhawk published thus...