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Short version: Yes, they did it better. Long version: While I think that modules like Ravenloft and the Desert of Desolation series showed that the US could do good story-driven adventures in interesting settings with interesting characters, the UK series did it first (or at least I was exposed...

This is increasingly becoming less true as Pathfinder grows. I'm not saying a Pathfinder brand is going to equal a D&D brand any time soon, but it can happen. It'll probably take years (if it happens), but it's far from impossible. I introduced my kids to RPGs via Pathfinder a year or so ago...

I don't know, from this, perhaps: "You can never, ever take anything that any representative of a for-profit company says as truthful." Sorry, I didn't feel this added much to the conversation and was based even less in fact that the purported rumor appears to have been. YMMV.

Could be. This is the Internet after all.

TANGENT: I find these assertions pretty well divorced from reality. At best, the cynicism dial is turned to 11. Slamming the totality of the private sector is absurd. Business plans change, executive management changes, markets change. Just because something changes doesn't mean that the...

Doesn't WotC have their own con, D&D Experience or something? If they were going to announce 5e, wouldn't they do it there rather than GenCon?

Ruminations on some of Danager’s statements: If most gamers are casual gamers that are simultaneously NOT invested enough to have a strong enough opinion about a game that they wouldn’t stop playing a game they didn’t like; why wouldn’t they continue to play a game that lacked active support...

I don't see that assertion holding water at all. If there was no PF, I'd be playing Conan, 3.5, or some other system. I wouldn't be playing or running 4e. Also, when you speak of "fracturing the market", that only applies to D&D. Plenty of gamers played multiple systems prior to 4e and PF...

Yeah, I hear ya. In a related note, I'm still waiting for GM, Chrysler, Honda, and the rest to come up with a transport vehicle built from the ground up instead of relying on four wheels, an internal combustion engine, etc. I mean, where's my consumer hovercar, dammit! And really, if the new...

While it could be a "rub your faces in it" if you choose to go that route, I don't think gaining a little perspective is a bad thing. Regardless of how you felt about the announcement at the time or how you feel about 4e or Pathfinder in general, looking through the lens of now-vs-then that...

Here's hoping that "crying a lot" isn't one of the options for "the usual". :)

As an aside, the biggest "what if" I took from the movie was will a Sharon Carter show up in either Avengers or a Cap2? -- and will Haley play that role as well? I'm certainly hoping so -- she was great as Peggy Carter. [And my wife's a sucker for the whole reincarnation/descendant looking...

Couple of points: 1. Capt America rocked. My favorite of the Marvel crop. 2. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, I'd like to have seen some Nazis getting beat upon rather than just Hydra. That said, I liked the Red Skull-Hydra set-up and it was obvious that it was still the Nazis who the Allies...

Nothing GenCon specific, but I'm always shooting for a Pathfinder game on the weekend. Good luck with having your daughter play an RPG for the first time. I started my kids on it when my oldest was 10. His younger brother, at 5, wanting to be included in the game with his brother, got the...

Quick to judge, you should not. Mysterious are the ways of the Force. Could be awesome. Could suck raw eggs. Time will tell.

WotC may be in a no win situation. I'd be willing to bet on that, but I think the DDI model makes them enough $ and D&D itself is still enough of a draw that 4e is doing respectably well. Maybe not well enough for the WotC business plan/goals, but respectable/good by any other measure. If...

I loved it. More importantly, my wife and kids loved it. I liked Reynolds as Hal Jordan. I thought Strong as Sinestro was perfect. This movie, unlike many other comic book characters had a whole lot of ground to cover -- and I felt it delivered. 1. The Energy Sources at play - Will vs. Fear...

Generally speaking, I agree and would prefer the setting to be more grounded in the swords-n-sorcery level of magic than the high fantasy camp. However, you kind of know going in with a game like Pathfinder, you're at the deeper end of the magic pool. Agreed that it's not as bad as FR or...

Also, while they are little things, I really like them. 1. There is no over-arching meta-plot. Each GMs version of Golarion remains intact. (okay, that one's a biggie) 2. Sidebars - many times in their APs and modules, they have sidebars providing sources of inspiration, a peek into the...

Generally speaking, as a GM, I like kitchen-sink settings. Over the years, I've found that it keeps the setting from getting stale to the players without having to hit the campaign reset button. With that in mind, I think Golarion's fantastic. Even the elements I'm suspect about (Numeria...