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No. And it is plain they are not soldiers by their haphazard way of walking.

Which is different than "tarrying" down the highway, which the seven NPC's are most decidedly not doing, neither are they running, joking loudly, or singing as they advance.

Yeah, I suspect campaign setting, fluff, and adventures made the actual printed products under 3.x greater by far than 4E (though I haven't looked at the numbers). My original argument was that the crunch glut ramped up faster in 4E than 3E, with the further conjecture that the goal was a quick...

I don't believe that's correct. By my count, there were 70 full-crunch splats for 3.x and 59 for 4E. EDIT: 56. I accidentally counted the two softcover design books and a character portfolio that doesn't properly count, I think.

I played and enjoyed 4E. I believe ultimately, however, that it failed to serve me as a player, but it served WotC just fine. The goal (IMHO) was the pump out as much content as soon as possible for a quick cash-in. I mean, in half the lifespan of 3.x we got just as many books, covering just as...

Some people think random generators are uncreative. I disagree; the best random generators produce paradoxes that require creative storytelling to reconcile. Best example: random NPC personality table from 1E DMG. I rolled up a lady paladin who was "very young, chaste, pious, unforgiving...

I'm not sure. Theoretically, yes, but not in practice, IMHXP. Aside from D&D Classics, I can run down to my local 2nd & Charles and get a hardcover of just about every book put out for either 4E or 3.x (though, not surprisingly, the Palladium section dwarfs them both).

Why should gamers use the corporate metric? What value does it bring to my table when deciding on games to run?

Don't expect any retractions from the small number of posters who called 5E the "mothball" edition.

"To coax or cajole with flattery" is not a positive spin to put on it.

See, I think that would be a major mistake. While I like my campaigns serious and my plots intelligent and surprising, I still think the first rule is Fun. If the movie is not Fun, it will fail to make anyone say, "wow, there's a game behind this? I wanna play it!" The movie doesn't have to be...

In general, I agree: Michael Bay makes terrible movies. But the first viewing of the first Michael Bay Transformers, when that truck transformed into Optimus Prime and I heard Peter Cullins' voice again... I was 5 years old again, and for the rest of the movie I squealed like a little kid at...

The good ones are. You have no idea how long I searched for a mint condition Rules Cylopedia.

Part of what I'm saying is that the community can do a lot of these things WotC could be selling for free, and better than WotC can or will do (going by historical precedence). Now, this is an excellent argument for a near-future public license, which, having been obtained, will free WotC to...

TBF, there's hasn't been a need for a Rogue's Gallery since the advent of the internet, and its attendant cornucopia of NPC generators (shameless plug: my sig has the very bestest OSRIC henchmen generator on the planet Earth). I visit each one (for variety), randomly pump out ten or so...

Two things: 1) You're assuming that they are not happy with the amount of money (probably gobs) they are making. I bet their profit margins are huge, since they aren't printing fifteen bajillion splat books. 2) For the last couple editions, they pump n' dumped, and we now know, for certain, that...

And we wonder why no one from WotC comes around to talk anymore. :/

Chop out every hardcover book outside the Core and Bestiary, and I'm with you. As it is, the PFSRD is a complete glut of content printed just because.

And the old codger in the bed next to you, yelling over his applesauce, "By gum, next quarter that new-fangled 5E will fail, you'll see!"

Thanks, perrinmiller! Sorry I was incommunicado; I'm in the tax industry and it was hella crazy this year with long hours. Thanks again for your patience!