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Uusually, although I think the EN contingent at GenCon will be greatly reduced this year. There's a subforum for GenCon planning off of 'General', so keep your eyes peeled there for announcements of pick-up games, etc.

The recent Green Ronin announcement and subsuquent reaction (mine and others) got me wondering. What's the appeal of a licensed property? I completely understand what the publisher gets out of the deal -- built-in customer base, free PR, cross-promotion, etc. And I understand what they give...

Good luck with that. I know in our game the players were carrying all the weight.

Yes. Really, it depends on style preference. Both are excellent settings that break out of the mold. Midnight is a little darker, I think, but hews more closely to traditional fantasy in trappings. Dark Sun is kinda out there, but while the stage dress is wild, the tone is more old-school...

Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies

Since it looks like our 4e group has lost interest in the system (at least for the time being), it's looking like a mix of GR's Song of Ice and Fire, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, maybe some Hollow Earth Expedition or Spirit of the Century.

Meh. Unless, of course, it's going to use SoIaF mechanics, and add magic. In which case, I'd be interested for the rules, anyway. Not that I'm not looking forward to Dragon Age as a computer game, but the addition of yet another more-or-less standard fantasy setting is totally meh.

Spot on, Rel. While I can sympathize with people looking at the cool games that are already filled (it happens to me all the time), first and foremost you need GMs to make the gamedays happen, and they should be given a lot of leeway in how they run and organize their games. It's a Catch-22...

Having run Serenity at a few gamedays, I'm not terribly impressed with it. The Cortex system as presented is rough and borderline broken, and the lack of useful setting material was very disappointing. It certainly didn't seem to offer anything new or compelling. A copy of Savage Worlds and...

Finally got to run this at NC Gameday last weekend. I think it went rather well, considering it was a brand-new system to everyone. I'll see if I can get some of the players to post their thoughts here as well. There was a snafu at lunch that delayed a couple people, so we started almost an...

Meh. The cyclops is pretty good, the orcs are average, and the gnoll is terrible.

You've refuted nothing. You've taken a single data point and extrapolated an unverifiable conclusion. How many other relatively recent D&D books were there? More books divides the market, making it harder for any individual title to score big numbers even if the aggregate sales were...

I don't think it says anything about that theory. We don't know what the print run was or what the threshold was for hitting the list.

Hitting any non-fiction bestseller list isn't that hard. For April 2nd, when the PHB2 was #14, "Who Moved My Cheese" was #15, and it's an eleven-year-old book.

Couple bones to pick with his analysis. First, I would be very, very surprised if retail booksellers *increased* the percentage of RPG sales they accounted for. That would fly in the trend of every other kind of book sale. Amazon, OTOH, likely accounts for far more of the RPG sales than they...

Also, there's a lot of attendance overlap among the various East Coast gamedays. Some of the games that are reserved are being run specifically for people that couldn't get in them in prior events. And the Vizzinni's Revenge game is a make-up for when the GM cancelled at the last minute at the...

Just noticed that zacharythefirst's avatar is still overlaid with the ENnies staff background. He's not been associated with the ENnies since last fall. Can you please change that (and check and make sure he no longer has access to the ENnies forum, if that's what's causing the avatar)? Thanks.

The limiting factor for a character in 4e is the number of powers he has and their types. That is fixed regardless of the classes or classes he has access to. With 4e, there is very little of the synergy between classes that there was in 3e, and even when there is (eg, being a multiclass rogue...

Let's hope it's a well-thought-out replacement for the current multiclassing rules. The rules as they stand are terrible, punitive, and (I hope) an overreaction to some of the excesses of 3e.

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