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If you can spare the ink to print off extant conversion stat blocks there's no work involved for you; hence no bonus to Council of Thieves and (slight) negative for Legacy of Fire. I've run/tried to run instalments of several of the Pathfinder adventure paths, and let me tell you they are...

Nice try, Mark. But I ordered the three Power splats (Arcane, Divine, Primal) last month for $10 a piece and let me tell you that they're brandnew.

Well, I don't think the OP's FLGS is an isolated occurence at all. A couple of weeks ago huge swaths of 4E supplements went into the $10 a piece area of major retailers, like this one (make sure to check the variety of 4E supplements that have taken a nosedive in terms of pricing by also...

I'm interested in the staying power of Essentials (and so, I think is WotC). If the past two years have taught us anything, it's that the PHB didn't have much staying power. By the time the PHB 1+2 Gift Set was released, a common reaction was '... oh, you didn't include the latest errata in...

I'm of the minority opinion that Pathfinder is not an improvement over 3.5 at all. I appreciate the occasional nod to Monte Cook's houserules (canonized in his varios Malhavoc Books of Might), but the package deal strikes me as thoroughly unattractive. I never understood where power attack was...

Basic point first: WotC fired all the great talent behind 4E - Heinsoo, Noonan, Schaefer, Bonner - so I think they'd need to hire some new talent with serious capacity before it's even WORTH discussing what WotC could do to improve D&D. My current impression is they'll quickly polish off D&D...

As always, we’re looking at press releases touting the changes as good for everyone round. No relativization – whether you’re a total newb or a veteran player, you gonna love Essentials! What a load of overstatement. For my money, we're simply looking at a revamped 4.0 geared to a different...

Oh yeah, totally. I'm sorry if I ruined your joke, but taking the second thing from the 3.0/3.5 Q'n'A and to suggest Mearls said it a propos 4.0/4.Essentials seemed rather confusing.

I bought "Gates of Firestorm Peak" just last week (because of PHB 3 referencing the Far Realm, which in turn cropped up in an article in Dragon 330...referencing that module) and I was struck by how very similar "Gates" actually is to a 4E module. You get a folder with two battle maps working on...

It's what you get when a company or division doesn't reduce the number of positions, just the number of people filling them.

I think you missed the gist of these posts - or at the very least, of some of those posts. Sammael and Shemeska, to mention but two, explicitly said that they were convinced Mearls would do his best in his new role and wished him best of luck for it regardless of this happening in the context...

First of all, congratulations on the position, and best of luck steering your vessel through the 'Skylla and Charybdis' that are upper management and the fanbase respectively. I'd be grateful if you could elaborate on that!

Ha! Indeed I left out that 4th category. Which is all the funnier because that type of DM isn't just you - it's also me. :) You see, when it came to hammering Second Darkness into a type of campaign that suited my group's needs, I fiddled around so much that I ended up feeling like I'm a...

Someone brought up that post on another forum, and I decided to cross-post my response there on here. ---- It's an interesting post, if old old news, as Jacobs has said this time and again. See, what he glosses over is the context in which his "adventures are also there to be just read, not...

The single best reference on which 3.5 books to pick was the Enworld review section before it got killed in the edition overhaul (something I still can't forgive the mods for - all the effort that went into writing substantial, thorough, and often meticulously documented reviews of 3.5 and d20...

The bad rap of railroading entirely stems from occasions when DMs nullify player input without the player's consent. Basically, if the players don't mind the DM to control certain of their PC's decisions and actions, fine. If you go by this definition, it's fine as a DM to weasel your way out...

I couldn't care less for the sales pitch, but must register my being impressed at the new Essentials D&D ruleset. Nice preview, and free of charge at that! Rules-lite OSR games: be afraid, very afraid! You've got solid competition.

Given the thread title, I thought I might as well post this here... So is Paizo becoming the next Wizards? What if they are already getting WotC-ified? ;) Seriously, looking at Zach' Houstons (extremely well done) interview with Erik Mona, I must say Mona's sales pitch for the next Paizo splat...

So am I, and I expect the setting to receive a major overhaul due to the implied level bandwidth of 4E which frankly wasn't there in 2E and certainly not in the original Dark Sun. My own Dark Sun campaigns in the 90s never had the PCs hit more than level 8. It was a gritty fight for survival for...

Morrus, here's a quick fix that Mike Shea once applied to solo monsters. I see no reason why you couldn't make it a houserule so that any creature automatically qualifies for "Heroic Will" in your game. Let me know what you think. It's short of an outright removal of the stunned condition but...