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Saw this on the front page and curious what people thought? Here is the link to the original article, poll is above. Does Format Matter? Er, option 5 might be confusing. I meant that the 4E option was way better for that one.

The way you have written this, which might not hazve been the iontent, makes it sound like EVerway and The Primal Order occurred when WotC already owned D&D. They both predated the purchase of TSR. Everway failed b/c while it was an innovative game, it wasn't something that was exactly going...

I definitely agree with the first statement, it leveled the playing field significantly. It made things much easier on people who hated Wizard complexity to get into it and it helped people who loved having more options feel ok about playing a Fighter instead :) As far as the second part, I...

(Referrring to Paizo equaling WotC in sales) I was really wondering how long it would take someone to point this out when I first read it. Oh yeah, neither company publicly discloses their sales figures do they? Hasbro COULD post the specifics of WotC, but they aren't required to. They can...

Count me in the category of "too many low level campaigns, let's do something different". The last time I played 3.5 I was in a year and a half long campaign where one of the players insisted that we "would never really know our characters if we started at a higher level". I questioned his...

My wife and I joined a 3.5 group several years back and they were all very nice when we met them. The DM was brand new to RPGs, but he was an actor at the local U and was very excited. I tried to convince people we should start at 3rd or so b/c I get really bored when my wizard casts his one...

Yes, Thief was the fastest leveling class and Wizards (Mages, whatever it was then heh) were the slowest. To keep things easy, we used to ask what level characters were being made at and it would be things like "5th level Wizard". Which meant 7th level Rogue. I was a big fan of that 5th level...

This Amazon commenter should probably have read the current edition, especially this quote from the front of the book: "You can still find 2nd Edition DARK SUN game products online or in used bookstores, but this new edition of the setting is a reimagining of the campaign world as its story...

We just joined 2 gaming groups last week. Last Saturday we joined a group that gamed from 2-9 (2-8 tonite) with a dinner break in the middle. The Tuesday group played from 6:30-10, but we didnt' actually get started until about 7:45 and it was another 30 minutes before they settled down...

In the Dark Sun game I just joined, the DM prefers to keep everyone's XP together to make things simpler. Players who are absent even get splits on XP and loot. Our first combat, everyone got about 700XP, but to get caught up, my wife and I got a bonus 2k. So we started w/10k and ended at...

The art for the ships of Spelljammer was one of the best parts about it. Box sets w/big art cards...always a plus. Much as I love a lot of the old settings, my only vote was for something new. I loved that WotC did a campaign search (hell my wife and I weren't dating yet, but we worked on a...

I second the MSE, altho I haven't updated my files in a long time. I just picked up a DDI sub this month after 2 years of not getting to game. I've filed several bug reports so far and just filed a new one for Far Spell last night. My new DM won't be picking it up until campaign editor...

The funny thing is that people said 4E took a lot of things from WoW. The Cataclysm expansion of WoW saw them take many things from 4E, like the whole damage to heal. Discipline priests especially Smite enemies and heal for the same amount of damage to the lowest health person nearby. If they...

Like all examples of power creep and or just plain bad/weak feats (Axe expertise vs older versions) it just supplies us with more targets for "system mastery". Wasn't system mastery something that the designers of 3E said they included at the time to help show which gamers understood the system...

Thanks for the link Peraion and I will read the blog Jacob. Of course using the CB means you get the post-errata version of spells like Magic Missile whether you want to or not heh. Pluses and minuses to the CB. On a plus side, the beta Monster Builder seems pretty nice so far. With all...

At least the owner can console himself that it wasn't an upper-decker. :)

Eberron may not have been to everyone's taste, but it can't be denied that it was very different from past D&D settings. I want to see books on the shelf and realize I haven't seen a D&D book like THAT before and feel the NEED to buy it. Rather than, "Oh yeah, they didn't give me nearly enough...

Oh definitely. We didn't accomplish much more tonite (luckily we only had to add magic items and print our characters before we could get going) as they had some bookkeeping from the last session to finish up first and our combat went way longer than usual b/c the DM didn't use any minions...

Mithreinmaethor> Yes I realize this, I pointed out that Essentials characters are equal to 4E ones, they just have several less options. DracoSuave>They use the original offline CB, thus, they don't have access to the Essentials stuff as it wasn't added to the CB until after the online version...

Hmm ok, didn't realize it was a novel. Replace that with Libre Mortis vs Open Grave, not to mention the BoVD, 2 Draconomicons, the X Power series replacing the Complete series, Manual of the Planes (I will grant there was a major overhaul of the planes). I understand they need to make...