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Exactly. The reason why PC-A can do it and PC-B can't is because PC-A made that choice already, PC-B did not. And really, how often does a situation where you need to roll really come up in a campaign? Does a smith really need to roll every time he makes a horseshoe or repairs a bit of...

I agree, completely. A video game requires internal consistency and player knowledge of the working of the game world (the rules) because your choices are so limited and your interaction with that game world defined. I love turn based strategy games and am playing a lot of Galactic...

They are both crap. GDS was a theory pushed by people who were, to the person, hardcore simulationists arguing that simulation was the one correct way to play. GNS was a theory that redefined gamism and simulationism as bad and narrativism as the One True Game. Both need to be taken out in...

Yeah, if tonight's update is a link to screens of Game Table and company, it seems clear that these are not dead projects.

As opposed to other editions with wishes, time stop, meteor swarm, super hero prestige classes, transforming weapons, immovable rods, magic liquids, otyughs, demons...

You confuse the issue, xech, when you are really arguing about what you see as the flaws of D&D in general and couch it as criticism of the current edition. D&D is what it always was. If that is not what you want in a game, you have a lot of choice out there in the hobby. But to criticize 4e...

By this rationale, 4e also implemented "MMO characters", since 4e utilizes attributes, levels, hit points, armor class, defenses, and other stats. 4e also implemented "MMO magic" since it has spells, "MMO magic items" since it has magic items that grant bonuses to those "MMO stats", "MMO...

When you say things like this I really have to question if you've ever played 4e, DMed it or even read the books, because this statement shows a lack of knowledge of the 4e system. 4e has better mechanical support for creative stunts than any prior edition. The mechanics require one table and...

The idea that it legally comes down to effort is absurd. "Acquiring" the .pdf by scanning it myself or finding it online or getting it from a friend all result in my legal right to have a copy of the book I own. The site offering such downloads may well be illegal, but that is their problem...

It does give you that right. You can make a copy for personal use. If you own a copy of the book and have a copy of said book in digital form on your PC, how does it matter from where that digital came? Scanning it is fine, but getting it scanned from someone else isn't? That doesn't make...

Roles have been around since always. MMOs got the term 'tank' from us tabletop players. It's a natural term for a heavy armor clad killing machine. Party roles have been with us always as well. D&D began as an extension of tactical minis games. Teamwork has always been one of the defining...

Not to get too political here, but actually, they did. This "blame the consumer" nonsense is white noise from those that got us into this mess through staggering greed and unrestrained gambling. Read up on the credit default swaps market. Blaming undereducated Dave the factory worker...

When I first built my homebrew years ago, it was after some time using FR as my campaign world. I had the Waterdeep and the North supplement, the Waterdeep boxed set (the one with the map of Waterdeep split over 12 poster sized maps), and the Undermountain boxed set. So I changed the names to...

But if you go to Kinko's, its not? No one is arguing that the person making the .pdf available for anyone to download is not guilty of an offense, only that is not morally wrong to obtain a .pdf copy of a book you own. It doesn't matter how the copy is obtained, if you have bought the book...

Yep. He's quite right, actually. If I own the book, I own a license to the content. I can copy it on a copier for my personal use. I can scan it and create a .pdf for personal use. A .pdf is a .pdf and as far as me having a copy on my harddrive, it does not matter if I created it myself or...

Wow, I only got one name back on my results - Ted Kaczynski That's weird. Hey, UPS is delivering a package to me, now, at 1am. I didn't realize they worked so late. I'll be right back...

I'm classically CG, civil disobedience is a moral absolute for me. :)

In before the lock :)

So it would be your position that you have never broken the law? Never gone over the speed limit? Never rolled through a stop sign without coming to a complete, resting stop? Never jaywalked? Never downloaded an "illegal" song? Never shoplifted anything? Never had a drink underage? Never...

Really? How did that internal conversation go? Something like this? "What the heck is this crap? Roleplaying? Fantastic worlds? Player Characters? Dungeon Masters? Adventures!? Game books and dice? Exploration? Taking turns?! Oh Gods! What have those bastards done to D&D!" *shakes...