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This is the long and short of it, yes. Here's an interview transcript featuring Andy Collins talking about the difference between 3E and 4E. Watch this quote - premise and conclusion. So a monk is basically a guy who can jump. Ooookay. But here's the problem. Even if you agree with the...

In a recent talk, Erik Mona (to the OP: head of Paizo, a mid field RPG publisher) said this - I paraphrase from memory: Will the RPG industry go under? Well, the actual number of products sold in the industry is ca. 10% compared to how much stuff (A)D&D sold during the 80s. On the other hand...

I must say, even as a multilingual group (English, German, Hungarian, Finnish, Portuguese) we're probably provincial enough to find foreign naming conventions funny. I love your proposal! And grats to the OP. Kudos also to whoever first said that it's all about IP protection. *crosses both...

1. The situation surely wasn't helped by WotC designers coming out with highly misleading statements on their part which invited overreactions such as yours. Dave Noonan's "The clouds are moving and you can't do anything about it. 4E is coming and you can't do anything about it" comes to mind...

So .... you haven't heard about 'the incident'? ;) It did. Starpact Warlock in Annual 2009.

XP given. Exactly how Mearls described the difference between 0D&D and 4E, but yours is more thoughtful - and also more forcefully expressed. PS. That said, if you treat 4E as only half a game where the other half is spent on the players solving problems by means not codified in the game ...

THANKS! That's absolutely great to know. I loved the simplified 3.5. char' sheets Goodman did for his Dungeon Crawl Classics.* Always wanted a 'lite' version of 3.5. without changing system (too much, anyway), so here's hoping that's what he's been up to. * And yes, I'm aware that he also did a...

That's the surface level at which such debates are usually conducted, yes. It's not the proximate cause of whipping people into debate, though. Ironically, we aren't even talking about the time people invest into playing their game of choice - but about the time people have intested in defending...

This, a hundred times this. It's about self-validating a choice or (more often) an investment you already made, and to defend it in the face of countervailing factors (usually) brought up by people who've made a contrary investment. 'Contrary investment' here means having committed oneself to an...

Then Curse of the Crimson Tide (incidentally, my first recommendation) is off the list. It's an urban adventure path which moves the PCs out of the city only for parts 4 and 5 in a six-part campaign. Rappan Athuk and Castle Whiterock are Mega-Dungeons in the vein of Return to the Temple of...

Thanks, I didn't know how they functioned on Enworld. :) (Fixed my above post accordingly.)

It wasn't so much that WotC didn't provide an outline at all. It was just felt by quite a lot of people that the one they did provide wasn't that helpful for a DM to prep the campaign, use foreshadowing etc. See here.* By way of comparison, here's the sort of info you get as a DM when starting...

Thanks for those helpful comments!

Since people are already reminiscing about the entire Scales of War adventure path (exactly what I was actually hoping for in clicking on the thread), I'd like to hear some redeeming features you found when reading/playing it over the past 18 months. Beyond the obvious one (PirateCat's...

You remember correctly. Check this discussion. You'll find a couple of posts by Lisa in the entire thread, but the post you're looking for is right on the first page, namely here. It doesn't quite say what you remember she said, but I think the meaning is close enough ("If WotC is the 800 lb...

That's what his friends call him. Either that or Wolfie. I forget which it is. We are talking about the guy who once said that the reject pile for (submissions to) Dungeon magazine on his desk made him whince and lament the American education system. Or more precisely, the failings thereof...

Not that you've intended it, but I think you inadvertently succeeded at placing one of the best puns on this site ever. Why? Because of this: Seriously, once the giants of the D&D industry say these things, Keefe's quick dismissal strikes me as highly insincere. I love 4E as a game, but boy...

I'd love to hear more about this (in particular, what you have in mind re: the bit I bolded).

I'd recommend having a look at The Great Beyond, which explains the new multiverse. You got a point, though. For instance, it's hard to look at Golarion's Demon Princes and then place Fiendish Codex I on the table and see real differences. But that's not surprising. It's the same fiendish...

No need to guess. As Chris Perkins explains in the first commentary video (just linked by Mustrum), the reason they put it in Undermountain is to have it as a tie-in to their D&D Wendesday Night program to draw in new players. Which is basically Delve Night for newbs, and set in Undermountain.