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Certainly it has advantages, or no one would ever want a digital copy. Some of us just think that it's far, far better for consumers if what we're buying is the ability to use a product as we choose, as opposed to only in the way the company that created it chooses. For instance, let's say I...

You know how Dungeon Delve was delayed? Yeah, that stuff about the cover material was just a cover story...

My friends say from personal experience that the Gibbering Orb takes the Beholder formula and makes it massively unappealing.

See, I think a lot of people think they're lucky or unlucky when they're not. Like one of my friends always complains about his low rolls during actual games, but really, they aren't so bad. Then there are people who consistently roll better or worse than what should be statistically...

I generally side with the person running the game being more important, though there are a lot of games that I'd never want to play regardless of who was running them. But like, I'm not going to lose sleep over you wanting to run Exalted, 4e D&D, Palladium Fantasy, or Middle Earth Roleplaying...

On-topic, Hussar, I find it to still be somewhat bad advice even with the addition of "you should say yes, but sometimes...", because while that criticism no longer applies, you certainly shouldn't be blaming the players in any case. They had a thing about treasure parcels in which I seem to...

Yeah, I'm not quite getting why you'd blame the player for not doing it right when really, any "blame" lies with the DM for not taking into account the party's abilities when they planned out the adventure. Not that there's very much - DMs are human and have limited time, so sometimes they...

No sir. Lead the Attack lasts for your entire party for the rest of the encounter. So for the rest of the encounter, if the Warlord hits with Lead the Attack, you're hitting the dragon on a 3 or higher. If he whiffs, you're hitting on a 13 or higher. This has some balance implications, though...

More raining on your parade Should Boggle Dodge really be an immediate reaction as opposed to an immediate interrupt? I mean, on one hand making it an interrupt would provide a nice near-immunity to many area attacks. But on the other, as an immediate reaction, you leap out of the area of...

...This is my embarassed face. Teaches me to look at PDFs on my old CRT monitor instead of my good LCD monitor. It's "overpowered" in that it's far better than +2 to two stats for those classes and builds which focus on a single main attack stat. It's a +1 to hit and damage on every hit and...

I'm not exactly sure where would be best to leave this feedback, but... Uh, to be perfectly frank the Obitu is horrendously overpowered. +4 to a stat is something that's not found in official 4e D&D races for a reason, and while it's possible that a high stat could balance out with some of the...

Amusingly enough, the game I was talking about there was Morrowind. It apparently pissed off enough people that they fixed it for Oblivion, yes.

So the legendary sword you entered this dungeon to get is across the room, hovering above a pedestal on a platform five feet off the ground. There's a door leading onto that platform, but otherwise you can't get there from here, and you'll have to complete the entire dungeon and climb up and...

Yeah, but a lot of those poisons are things people have to inhale or consume, which presumably they only do once, not things that you can apply to your weapon and have it hit repeatedly. If you want to be non-charitable about things, it could also easily be that poisons were intentionally...

Athas was just cut off, because it was a Craphole Desert World where there was a pronounced lack of important things commonly available elsewhere, like metal and food. (The idea being that free teleportation to and from other dimensions with plenty of metal and food would be, well, bad for the...

Because they were in basically all the other editions they were in, at least theoretically. What gets me there is his insistence upon a 3rd-party Monk not using too much in the way of ki powers, when I'll be surprised if the official one doesn't at least have Hadouken as an official power...

I'm not a published RPG designer, but I've done design work (of various sorts - both programming and RPG design) I thought was totally awesome when I finished, and done work I thought was passable when I finished, and done work I thought was a pile of crap when I finished. I don't see why it...

Pretty much every single 4e design post before the D&D Experience was saying "3e's mechanics are dog doodoo, and 4e does them better in every way! But we're not telling you how... yet!" I can't find the example that was clearest in my mind, but it was about treasure parcels, and involved a...

New editions can have a game-chilling effect in a way new games can't. Like, I'm pretty sure the release of Exalted 2e didn't make too many 3e D&D players into ex-players who declare that they've seen the light and shall never ever play such a benighted, backwards mockery of an RPG again. 4e...

Especially for running bigger battles in 3e, you want to remove as many sources of delay as possible. <Player> "I cast Frostbite on the hobgoblin." <GM> "Save?" <Player> "Fortitude DC 18" <GM> "roll 1d20+8" <GM> "Failed, roll damage" <Player> "roll 6d6 cold damage" <Player> "roll 2d6 dexterity...