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Thanks for linking these! I'm esp. looking forward to part 4 where Chris will comment on the section that drew the ire in the "This mentality is video-gamey and it got to stop" thread ("nope you can't use your powers on the door - only on creatures!.... say yes!")

That is EXACTLY what I'd like to have in my 4E game too - ritual cards for my players to have. Of course, the card set would cost twice of their standard Powers Card deck these days, owing to what, 268 rituals in the game and counting (link to a PDF I made), and that's leaving DDI-exclusive...

Except that Pathfinder the RPG isn't the company's flagship product. It's Pathfinder the Adventure Path. Adventure Paths pretty much didn't exist before Shackled City. And once they did, people could only wonder why no one came up with the concept earlier. Look at Scales of War. Look at 32...

Ooooh can anyone post photos of the new shiny?

Oh, come on. That's not remotely as interesting as the question... Is WotC becoming the next Paizo? For one, they've lost the Star Wars license. Which is exactly what happened Paizo, and when they started to blossom into the type of company they are today. ... ;D

Libel isn't their preferred way of dealing with these things. They're too polite and, I'd say, above the folly of these things to take them on in those terms. Have a look at how they handled the McCain/Goldfarb smearing in 2008 here, and the result thereof. To the contrary! The article is...

Yes. It's called "Into the Shadowhaunt". Unfortunately, it was never up for sale, but a promotional freebie at 4e's release in 2008. It was amazing - you got all the encounters AND all the minis for the adventure...even including the 5 demo PCs! Your best chance is to occasionally check if it's...

Hey, I agree with that! I think the preview material they offer for free is great (and never said it was too little - that wasn't my complaint). The amount of free preview material you get for e.g. Underdark or Draconomicon 1 is astounding. I suppose if anyone went through the effort to collate...

How about we keep the attributions of motives and intent out of the thread and focus on what's said? Speaking of which, here's one thing I didn't say: 'DDI is poor value for your money.' Here's one thing I did say (roughly): 'Using columns for the mere sake of uninspired product pitches is a...

My 2 cents: it's the same as WotC' decision to move product pitches (like Slavicsek's otherwise frankly useless "Ampersand" column, or even most editorials) and previously free content like map and art galleries of their products (another free preview opportunity missed, to echo James Jacobs'...

This is great news indeed.

Let's just say there's a reason why I don't post these things on EnWorld anymore. But kudos for taking my post and just seeing how much signal to noise ratio it would catch here. Impressive!

Oh, I don't think anyone in this thread, including the blogpost referenced in the OP, propounded on the 'true nature' of anything much really. We live in a time where a plethora of entertainment products are available. Heck, if you hate a DVD ten minutes in, chances are you kick the eject...

For extremely simple but functional rules I'd check out Chris Perkins' rules for his homebrew 4E campaign which you can find here. Perkins supplemented these with a catalogue of various ship types (see here), the illlustrations of which you'll find in this gallery. If you want something more...

So much to learn from this thread. So, next time a D&D designer at WotC is asked about 5E and he laughs it off + says 'we got 4E stuff in the pipelines into next year', I'm to parse this as "into next year and no further, har har!!" ...and sell of my 4E stuff since 5E will be announced six...

Yep. See a (sort of) twitter from the Q&A with WotC at D&D Experience in February 2007: That answer was given by then (as now) Creative Director of D&D, Chris Perkins.

How very touching that so many of you think Wyatt will be still employed when 5E is in the works, and that his opinion on this topic is at all relevant. WotC already fired every key designer responsible for the earliest stages of 4E except Wyatt and Collins. Who know the clock is ticking. And...

Not sure if the news made their impact on this thread, but WotC positively plans to bring out a wholly new setting for 4E. As announced by James Wyatt earlier recently here:

Me too.

An interesting reaction to the upcoming 4E Red Box seems to echo this analogy. Some people who were turned off by 4E seem to like to try out the new Red Box coming out in fall 2010. I wonder how widespread this welcoming reaction to a new game had been if WotC had started to market 4E as a basic...