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Isn't that the case with any Android phone, though? You know that whatever you buy this week will suddenly look bad compared to something that gets announced next week. Sure, with Apple if you buy right after the product is released you know you'll have a year with the latest device, but on...

It wouldn't affect my purchasing decisions. Frankly, unless I had known your company a while, I wouldn't trust its promises for events in the future. Too often companies make commitments which quietly go away. It's all the worse in this case, since you'd be making a commitment on something you...

Nope, you just work it in as a subplot, or you can work it in as the main plot, or maybe your players don't want it and you skip it. It doesn't work if you're running a campaign where the plot has players running constantly on the main story. It does work if they have any downtime. One of the...

Depends on how they did it. If they took advantage of the features, I'd buy it. I could see things like little roller widgets, one that calculated XP for an encounter. It would be great to run an encounter and tick off any powers/spells/effects that the monsters used. And with iBooks, I can...

This is true for paid books developed with iBooks Author, although free books can also be published on your website. This seems to be a licensing restriction on the tool, not necessarily with the iBookStore (since many books there are sold by many markets). I don't like this, and I'm hoping...

The theory is that iBooks Author (new free app from Apple) will make it much easier to develop interactive books. I have not yet played with it, but it sounds pretty nice. Drop in movies easily, use Keynote for simple interactivity, and build HTML/Javascript widgets for more complex stuff...

If they reprint the RC, I'm buying a six pack.

In the games I've played, yes.

That's an excellent question. A good place to ask might be the Cartographer's Guild. I think I've seen some redrawn maps there. The Piazza also have a lot of redrawn maps of Mystara. I haven't heard of any complaints from copyright holders about this. The Mystara folks have historically been...

That's just the early version of charging you five bucks for the bottle of water on the pressure sensor in hotels now!

You're probably talking about Barnes & Noble. But while they're fighting it, the case isn't over yet. Microsoft is also suing Motorola and got a preliminary ruling from the ITC that Motorola was in violation. I haven't read the 43-page filing Barnes & Noble made, nor the patents in question...

I've found that in general, I use the PS3 for movies and the 360 for games. Unless it's an exclusive, there's no real reason to buy a game for the PS3. I try to wait until the picture quality reviews come out, but a lot of the time 360 has been winning in that department lately. I got DA2 for...

You know, they do look familiar. Just don't know what it was from. Might have been Technic, but I don't think so... Most of the tires I remember from that set looked like normal tires from outside.

So very true! I loved Planescape:Torment. I HATED actually playing in a Planescape game. To me, Planescape is the epitome of the DM saying "No matter how cool you get, you aren't as cool as everything else here in the setting, which is only not killing you because the Lady of Pain, who is even...

The question is really, how much the intangibles are worth it to you? The benefits with a standard market value don't add up to it. For me and a number of my friends, they're worth it. VIG will-call saved us a lot of time last year and gave us a change to get to events rather than waiting in...

That's an interesting software model, but there are some benefits to the user of a less locked-down delivery model. The first is the widespread usability of the content. Biblical scholarship is a fairly large niche, and there are many companies that you can go to for tools. Older translations...

I think the edition treadmill is more like the multiple editions of War of the Worlds. Same stuff, different format.

You're right. I was just giving an example of folks i know where Pathfinder has taken former 4e players.

That's the million dollar question, isn't it? Paizo seems to do well with their focus on story over rules. They sell both, but they sell lots and lots more adventures, campaign settings, etc than they sell rules. WotC sold both, but sold lots more rules than story. (And, imho, their story...

Here's mine: Fix the business model. 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 all had exactly the same business model. Put out a new edition, flood the market with splat books, and when you finally run out of splat to print, create a new edition so that you can cover all the same material again, just with new rules...