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This is correct. I'm also getting the BECMI vibe, and that is awesome. BECMI is still my favorite version of D&D. That might actually change when I get my hands on 4E.

I was nonplussed by the pod-cast, but your website redesign looks great. I am now inclined to agree with and support you.

It sounds like it's going to be a better system for "fast and loose" DMing than 3E was, but I'm not sure how well it runs without minis. The developers say it can be done, and I don't doubt them, but it sounds like the game will play much better with minis. Then again, that's the way I feel...

Role doesn't necessarily limit ones way of helping out in a fight. Paladins are Defenders, but they also have some limited healing, a Defender ability. It's better to look at roles as, "this is what you are best at doing," instead of, "this is what you do." You can easily pick up abilities...

1E, 2E, and BECMI, even, were also infinitely easier when you used miniatures. Using miniatures makes combat easier to resolve in almost any system.

I would think these patrons would be something akin to Furies or Muses. That seems to be what they're going for.

I do hope you realize that was a horrible generalization made as a joke. Anyways, I don't see any 1E bashing going on in this thread. I do see people asserting that some of your contentions concerning 1E don't jive with their own, but no trashing on 1E. It's kind of a cop out to say that some...

The only real difference between D&D and Chainmail is that D&D additionally concerns itself with what goes on before and after the fight.

Ahh, that makes sense. I handle player attendance a little differently; we just play something else if the whole party can't show up. That's probably why I didn't understand your initial point. I get what you were saying now. It's different, though, in this case because the players are...

I would hope DMs (and players at that) would narrate the effects and outcomes of powers.

How does this address his question?

Not to derail, but it seems to me that there can be better ways of encouraging players to show up than extra XP for attendance, or that if one's players ask for extra XP just for showing up, they're kind of missing the point.

So, why is this front-page material? Don't get me wrong, I'm as sure as the next guy that blogs are the new media, but having a web-cam doesn't legitimize your opinions about professionalism and quality presentation, especially when you lack either. That being said, WoW does have a lot nicer...

Yeah, I get more of a BECMI vibe than I do a 1E AD&D one.

Like roles, I see power sources as rough guidelines as to what kinds of powers a character possesses. Neither of these two terms is meant to define restrictions and create strict categories. Instead, they (the terminology) are an example of the design transparency that is built into 4E D&D...

There can be a whole lot of changes that, in the end, don't really amount to much at all, especially when you're dealing with a pantheon of over a hundred figures. A dozen or so gods getting aced may seem like a lot, but you still have another hundred hanging around. Rich's comment seems to...

You're right, Rich Baker is a damned liar. Wait... I'm going to take his word over yours, buddy. This is the biggest pile of platitudes I have ever seen. You've basically said, "FR is a world with a bunch of detail and a bunch of fantasy." That hasn't changed. Does any of this actually...

An important tidibit from that very post about the FR gods: Dying in droves, eh? Can you articulate what the "spirit" and "feel" are in your opinion? In my opinion, the "spirit" and "feel" of the Realms is its nature as a big old grab bag of fantasy tropes where you can find a place for...

I'm not sure if you can say the FR had a Renaissance theme that's been subverted by a more modern high fantasy feel. FR has always been high fantasy with perhaps a tinge of Renaissance. As opposed to changing the Realms to fit the 2E and 3E paradigms. They did a better job of killing her...

I don't know what we can do, but you can pull your head out of the sand and realize that these sweeping, essentially slate-clearing changes aren't nearly as sweeping and slate-cleaning as you'd like them to be. That's right; I went there. I'm sorry if you want to continue being purposefully...