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I think it's partly a by-product of how RPGs have been sold over the years. Not simply that this RPG was different, but usually that this RPG was objectively better. And later this expanded not just for different RPGs, but different editions of the same RPG. Yeah, a lot of the editorials by EGG...

Given the track record, I don't think Hasbro has the ability to make decent movies, either.

This basically sounds like Dragonlance 2.0, specifically, War of the Lance That didn't have the big multimedia push, but it did have some computer games to do with the modules and novels, and eventually a boardgame, sorta (DL11).

According to this post from a couple weeks ago, sometimes after Easter http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=58098&start=60#p1452862

That's basically how it worked in 3.0. Weapons had inherent sizes, like a long sword was (always) medium, a two-handed (or greatsword) sword was (always) large. A medium creature could use a medium weapon in one hand, or a large weapon in two hands. But then large creatures could use large...

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No one played it, but I think the best 3.x implementation in a video game was D&D Tactics for the PSP.

Since getting a tablet, I've actually enjoyed reading PDFs. Ages ago, when TSR first put out PDFs (I think even before WOTC bought them) I bought several. I never really used them until now. However, using them in a game is a bit of a hassle, since it's not that easy to flip through page. If it...

They need to copy Frank Mentzer's Red Box as much as possible. Really brilliantly done

Nice, although I would have liked to have seen a Samurai class and centaur race just for the heck of it.

While they licensed out the D&D brand, they didn't license out any of the settings. They cannot make a D&D movie, but they could make a Forgotten Realms or Eberron or Dragonlance movie. Forgotten Realms at least has a lot of name brand potential, since it's on all of those novels. But I think...

Name of Product: Tome of Secrets from Adamant Entertainment Why It's Good: I'm not sure I would say it's good, but it's very useful because it adds knock-offs of various WOTC things. Classes like the Swashbuckler and Warlock and Warlord. Are they exactly like the 3.5 ones? No, because that's...

I think the inherent problem with asking fans what they want in a new edition, is that the people who answer are often those that don't like past editions. So the people who did like past editions are left out. 3e and 4e were for people who were unhappy with 2e and 3e. They weren't for fans of...

The boxed set of Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. I can't really justify buying it, since I have the PDFs. I likely will be buying myself the Advanced Adventures Compendium 3 from Expeditious Retreat Press though...

Some of those "biases" are just reactions to fiction popular back then. That thing about the servants? A reaction to "the butler did it". That thing about secret societies? That Fu Manchu stuff which had spawned a lot of imitators. Similarly, up to and after WW1, there was a lot of...

The people interested in the classic settings almost by definition already have past products - so what do they get from the new one? A superficial recap of the setting and that's it. And they likely won't like the recap of the setting, since chances are good it's by someone who doesn't know the...

Heh, welcome to the ranks of retro-clone authors. I entered one, Monsters & Ruins (It's hard to find names for these things that haven't been used already :p), in the ENWorld rpg contest this summer. Still working on polishing it. I find the flat math in yours very interesting, but doesn't...

From a regular at Dragonsfoot, the pdf download link is in the thread (or here http://www.dcrouzet.net/temporary/Fantastic-Heroes-Witchery_screen.pdf) http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=63759 Perhaps closest to 1e in the essence of its rules, it borrows ascending armor...

I always thought it was because they were a negative image of elves. You know, like when you take a picture, reverse the colors (like in a photograph negative or nowadays, a paint program) and skin turns an inky black-purple, and hair usually becomes white. Obviously they aren't perfect...

Isn't there a danger in mixing open content and non-open content? It can give the impression that non-open content is actually open. For instance, I was browsing this http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=d20-Modern:Empires-and-Species And it has several Star Trek races listed. I...