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Consider it done. :) I too love K's idea, though I fear the instant turn off when you'd break it down as basing combat encounters on skill challenges (in 2008 it was the other way round). Imagine running a dungeon as one huge skill challenge with players activating skill powers. That sounds god...

Iterated two days ago at WotC' presentation at Gama:

You know, this is the fourth time within 5 days that I see an OP cross posted on several forums (not always by the same person), and it draws a wide spectrum of reactions, all of them fairly fair minded and respectful.* But geez, on Enworld there's always that someone special who manages to drag...

Thanks for saying that, really appreciated. :) That said, now that it's pointed out I think we've warded off the risk of misattribution. My personal opinion focuses less on 'would it be a good thing?' but more on 'is it actually the case?'. I don't think it's the case. The quoted claim was...

Except it isn't. Two people on page 1 confirmed this. Thanlis wrote, "any game store that participates in organized play events gets to break street date now." Amazon has been breaking D&D street dates for years. Heck, the Gift Set was shipped early even to us people in the UK before June 6 in...

Thanks for clearing this up! Yes, I'm still very bad at getting my head round the 3-tier model (publisher, distributor, retailer) and reliably miss its subtleties when it's brought up in a debate. Last time was triggered by an interesting post by Ryan Dancey here (July 2009), which I excerpt...

This is the part I don't get fully. I understand that the experience he relates and which you confirm is very real for some people. I wonder though how far it generalizes. See, the FLGS owners I've come to know in Germany and the UK over the years had more of a second hand car salesmen attitude...

Well, if the OSR can, so can the 800 pound gorilla. ;) Seriously, around 2007-2008 WotC put out huge budgets for people volunteering to found D&D-specific university clubs. I think they ought to look into a similar program, if at vastly less scale (i.e. less budget), for high schools.

I messed up when quoting the first post (and copy-pasted a wrong one), but fixed it - one minute before you wrote yours. I guess you read the OP before I fixed it. Your judgement that the third quote has nothing to do with the first two remains unaffected, though. I did find it worthwhile to...

Over the last couple of days, there's been an interesting exchange of sorts between a retailer and WotC president Greg Leeds. 'Exchange' may stretch the terms here, but in essence a retailer presented his situation and Leeds wrote a response. I'm going to quote both in full and, to round it off...

This, a hundred times this. Both the 3.x Handbooks and the Pathfinder Core Rulebook expect you to have picked up that very same game from elsewhere - as in, Starter Kits. Seriously, the authors/publishers of these books do not want new players to pick up the game from this book. Pathfinder is in...

This has always been an issue for WotC "retail store only" events, like the D&D Gamedays. WotC' response is always the same: Please report these stores to WotC. In Europe the person to contact is Charles Ryan, who's even here on Enworld. In the US I don't know who to contact - and would ask...

Picture taken at a Toys'R'Us in September 2009:

?? WotC are doing this already. I proudly own the complete PH2 set of Power Cards, all 4 of Divine Power, and 2 sets each released for Arcane and Martial Power. What you mean I guess is that you're worried what might happen if WotC stopped their plan so as to exclusively release new powers on...

I'm curious about this question as well, because the upcoming "Essentials" line for D&D 4E doesn't remotely look as if it's trimming stuff down to make it a more compact rules reference. Sure, it's intended to make it easier to pick it up as a game for people who've never hard of RPGs before -...

I think the thread is salvageable. I'm trying to wrap my head around other people's experiences with sandboxes as hard as others, but I find them well worth my time brooding on them to reflect what I'd take into my own campaign. In other words, this thread has absolutely gravitated towards a...

In a sense, yes. As part of developing 4E Mearls picked up playing OD&D at the WotC offices to see how the game works. OD&D didn't come with a hex map but mentioned that you ought to buy the Avalon Hill game 'Outdoor Survival'. Mearls bought that game in 2008 for presumably similar reasons -...

Thanks for the honest break down, guys. On inspection, MYRE has too little incentive for us. The LFR scene in Germany is so small, the chance of players porting from one campaign group over to another so negligible, that this benefit you outline here doesn't currently have the appeal that I'm...

I think you're misreading your own quote. Here's my own take, if conspiracy theory is what you want. ;) WotC recently started 'Encounter Nights' as a measure to promote the waning brick-mortar stores. The fewer stores exist, the fewer stuff WotC sell. WotC has concrete figures of store feedback...

Well, the function of the survey, I think, specifically targets people who currently don't use DDI mostly because they don't have any of the payment means which DDI allows. I'm not even sure it allows Paypal, but that would aleady help oversease customers a great deal. WotC is apparently looking...