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I'm going to go against the grain here partially. It can be a benefit to be so flexible. Others have stated many of the reasons. It gives you real ownership of the game. However, it can also be a significant negative. We have very little common experience of D&D. You can see that all over...

Del Toro. Full stop. Gilliam is too erratic to trust with it and Burton lost his mojo years ago, IMO. (Perhaps his Alice adaptation will change my mind on that, but I'm not holding my breath).

I finally "watched" a few since my wife is sick and I had some spare time to spend in my office. The video is just a pure distraction for me that makes it harder to visualize the action. All the podcasts with Gabe, Tycho, Scott, and Wheaton got flagged for keeping.... these, not so much...

Stipulated that there is tremendous variety in quality, cost, and access. Many areas are worse off than us, but I was responding to a fairly blanket statement. Most areas that are in any way significantly worse than the U.S. are manifestly NOT a market for D&D books, and most places outside...

As an aside.... this is sort of funny to me. There are third world countries with better, faster internet than the States and Japan. The States in particular are awful that way. Going purely internet would theoretically open more markets than it closes... of course, you need to figure out how...

That kind of compromise would work for me, especially if they were to stop clogging up my podcast feed with huge, irritating video files.

They need to come to some sort of compromise. These are way too short and take a year and a day to download. Also, I don't have time to sit at my computer and watch video of dubious quality. However, commuting and some of the more basic lab tasks at work leave me TONS of audio time. I could...

Polyamory in various forms has been kicking around in human societies just about forever. We've done a real good job of marginalizing it, but a subset of the population always practices it. Not really that unusual. Actually, taking "traditional" marriage as seriously as we do nowadays is...

If course, in D&D, lost hit points are kinda sorta a game effect, but actually have no impact on the play of the game except at 0. Barring 4e, where there is also an effect at half. In D&D you "hit" a whole bunch of times, and it does nothing at all noticeable to the target until they suddenly...

In fairness, at that size, anything better than 720p is irrelevant. You can make a solid case based on the human eye at normal viewing distances that 1080 is entirely unnecessary until you hit something like a 36 inch screen. It's just window-dressing at smaller screen sizes. I think the...

Wasn't my point, and I wasn't insulted. Didn't mean to call you out, per se. There are plenty of good reasons to not like the A-Team. I just didn't think that particular objection was A-Team specific. It was sort of decade-specific. Possibly generation-specific. If those were the only...

It's not about what they can afford. It's about what they are allowed to do. Depends on the TV... or at least on its manufacturer. Lots of items that are popular are basically set in stone by the manufacturer. Apple and Nintendo products are notorious for this, for example. Some of the...

That drove me batty as well. But ultimately the Earth Mother schtick was more important to them than their ecological continuity.

Bah, unnecessary post

Warlord is a close second for me, but as I said in the last thread, the Fighter holds together so well and is just such fun to play now.

Agreed. Though, the fewer retailers there are, the less resistance there will be to moving exclusively to one model. Even if you sell 4 physical books for every 1 e-book, they may well pull more total profit from e-books. (I have no proof of that number handy, but have seen all kinds of...

Nonsense. Raw numbers of books are irrelevant. The profit per unit is what will keep books viable. The higher their margin per item, the better. And by that standard, e-books win every time, especially for online retailers. Why do you think that the retailers who do most of their business...

Or they'd practically be in the middle of an explosion (or even blown out of a vehicle by one) and look less shook up than if they bumped their head on a low doorway. Practically every show that was in syndication when I was a kid was like this, and even a few of the prime time ones.

Storage is migrating to the Cloud, too. But that's a whole different kettle of fish.

You didn't watch much action TV in the late 70s and early 80s, I take it? That was pretty standard.