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I was hoping for DMG 2. That book will be published this year and Arneson's contribution seems to have been more on the worldbuilding/shared story side of things (I may be wrong).

This - and the virtol and hyperbole in all these threads has again made the climate here less friendly and welcoming.

They haven't so far. And the fact that some posters have a financial interest in one or the other edition succeeding makes it unlikely that they will, barring a change in moderator strategy. As I said, it was a terrible PR. At the very least they should have had a statement ready. I think...

I think that a lot of the anger is just a result of the poisoned atmosphere in the D&D community that the ongoing edition wars have produced. EN world is not a rational place these days. And, yet again, wizards bungled the PR. However, I agree that removing all pdfs from distribution for an...

How about the following alternative reading: Piracy is bad for the Hobby as a whole. Most RPG companies have thin profit margins and cannot afford to lose even 5% of sales. Hence going against pirates is in the interest of the industry. According to jasonbostwick (contested) Paizo managed to...

Doesn't this suggest that going after a few miscreants can help? Together with beefing up security of course.

I don't think that this statement accurately represents what happened. To me it seems that Paizo correctly understood wizard's request, informed their customers and orderly removed all the files after a short grace period. And made a killing in the process. OTOH RPGNow removed files without...

There is no such thing as a water elemental in D&D anymore, so i doubt they'll be making a miniature for it.

Congrats, nice job.

Wow, 6 answers and already 2 snipes by ppl who don't even play 4th and thus can have no idea what they are talking about. Dragonbreath in older edition was quite binary. Either the players found a way to negate it, at which point the dragon was better off not using his most iconic ability. Then...

Except for the many combinations that never became viable. Try building a divine assassin as a Rogue/Cleric: No relevant spellcasting ability for a tenth level character, insufficient skills to be a good rogue, low sneak attack and MAD to boot. I pity the player trying to make that character...

May I suggest Asmor's Monster Maker? Monster Maker - Asmor.com It is a lot nicer than the Wotc App, works offline and is actually supported. Plus you can save your creations and go back and edit them.

I found resident evil 4 an outstanding adult game for the wii. No two-player option, but almost as much fun to watch as it is to play.

I'm not sure ppl have done too much statistical modeling on this. Among other things, because the negative binomial really covers the simple skill challenge quite well. Modeling a skill challenge as a random walk is quite compelling, but has a couple of challenges: A) Your state space may be...

Honestly, I see powers and stunts as two sides of the same thing. After all you could interpret Encounter- and Daily powers as pre-packaged stunts. If you actually read the description of most of these powers, they sound pretty stunty to me. And if you get your players to actually describe what...

I disagree. The fact that you only have a limited number of daily/ encounter powers are more than enough encouragement to do stunts. After all, there will be combat left after you have used all those powers. Stunts do have to be better than At-will powers to be encouraged, that is all.

I've started to multiply npc damage by 4/3 while reducing npc hitpoints by 1/4. that will cut combat time to ~75%. An other problem i have noticed is that some players like to think forever about their next move, as 4th gives them a lot of options. Cutting down on that requires table rules.

Is this statement based on your experience playing 4th edition or a theoretical conjecture?

Thanks for your concern, I have a grip. However, I do think you are blind to the amount of venom sometimes spewed in edition wars. For each edition, this site has one group of ardent supporters that will be up in arms if their favorite edition is attacked. Almost like philosophers with (verbal)...

And starting out with "Why my edition is more fun than yours" is a useful way to start such dialogue? Especially on a forum that reels from one edition war to the next? I think your post makes for an excellent blog post, but I wish on this forum it would be locked immediately, as it does...