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This is unbelievable. Considering Rich started asking for $57k and ended up with over a million, it's even more impressive than DoubleFine's numbers. That's over 21 times as much as he asked for. The quote in the publisher's weekly comments really sums this up. QFT.

Yes, it was. OD&D Holmes Moldvay Mentzer Rules Cyclopedia

So far, D&DN has done nothing to incite interest in me. There's not enough information out there, and it's dribbled out all over the place so it would be difficult to form a coherent picture. So for right now, I just don't care. This may change as it gets closer to release. Right now, I'd say...

I agree that might happen if Wizards does not release a game that lots of people don't want to play. I don't agree that I should buy the game whether I want to play it or not, just because Hasbro might stop releasing D&D as an RPG.

Ahh, I'm near-sighted. I think that explains the difference.

FWIW, I find reading text on my iPhone 4 to be a bit nicer than the iPad 1, because it has the retina display. It's so clear that even though the iPad is bigger, it's almost a tossup which one I want to use. I'm looking forward to a retina iPad which would be a big improvement for me.

I disagree. For me, a game that is written in a way that I don't want to play it is just as valuable as a game that doesn't exist. Either way, I'm not going to be playing it and will be playing something else. A game that is really successful at getting people to pay Wizards is not helpful for...

Incidentally, he did. Search amazon for 'Star Wars Original Theatrical' and you'll find them. They aren't on blu-ray and haven't been remastered, so they're still non-anamorphic, and they're Dolby Surround 2.0. Basically equivalent to the laserdisc releases. So the image and sound isn't up to...

It's a rotten summary. The judge decided not to enjoin ReDigi before the actual trial. The case hasn't been decided yet.

I disagree, for two main reasons. First, OCR has gotten much, much better over the years. I've been chopping bindings off magazines and OCRing them, and I get good results even for text on top of full color pictures. The second reason is that you don't need to replace the image with text...

If WotC did want to scan their old stuff again (to take advantage of better technologies) it would be much easier than it was before. With consumer-quality digital cameras, you can now scan books very quickly and nondestructively. I just jury-rigged a scanner with my digital camera, a piece of...

Well, they're sort of imploding as fast as they can, but now that they've gotten rid of the bizarre co-CEO thing they had going, they might be able to turn things around.

I'm reading the red dragon book (Amazon.com: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (9780201100884): Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Books) which relates to this site in a peculiar way.... Way back when, Jean McGuire wrote a program called TableMaster, which was an automatic...

Apps and music are supposed to be kept and redownloadable. Movies and television shows are not currently downloadable (per licensing with the studios).

Actually, publishers can't stop it because legally, they can't. Book publishers tried to argue that they were merely licensing the material, but that argument was denied in 1908 by the US Supreme Court. Application of the First Sale Doctrine for software has had a varied history and it does not...

I'm in the minority, but I actually like race and class being conjoined. A dwarf fighter shouldn't be identical to a human or elf fighter. But as mentioned, it's homebrewable.

I recently started playing in a ToEE game in 1e. Average character lifespan was 2 sessions. For me, that's definitely too much. I'm for interesting consequences for failure, but the frequency of failure has to be balanced. I've played in a 4e game where about half the time you tried to jump...

Microsoft and the game publishers have no incentive to create a system to allow you to do it. The game publishers don't want you to be able to transfer content because they won't get any money. MS has no incentive to push the issue because they get a cut of every DLC purchased on their system...

We'll see. According to Good Technologies, iPad had 94.7% of total tablet activations. Android had 5.2%. (Good sells an alternative email infrastructure for enterprises, similar to Blackberry's BES.) Here's another report from Chitika showing the numbers of tablet ad impressions. The kicker...

I had no problem getting the iPhone 4 on day one. Ok, the 11 hour line was a bit extreme.... (Seriously, I thought by getting there early it would be a few hours max... By noon, I'd been there long enough I was committed! And probably should have been committed....)