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YEAH! Let's put aside this nonsense talk about what's really on everyone's mind. CENTAURS. I mean, they got the torso of a human attached to the torso of a horse. That is TWO TORSOS. Now, if they have a full compliment of organs in one torso, what's in the other? Is there a human digestive...

First off, what the heck does the word "over-sexualized" mean? Feel free to show me a cover of a recent D&D product with one such over-sexualized woman. Is Xena over-sexualized? For that matter, is Hercules? Does it just mean "sexy"? We shouldn't have female adventurers with sex appeal? They...

Here's the major hurdle to appeasing even 80% of gamers: There are all kinds of RPG players, but there are two major camps that are almost inimcal in nature. The can be broadly categorized as "right-brained" gamers and "left-brained" gamers. In RPG design, it is vital to acknowledge that these...

Sorry it took me so long to reply to the comments on the first page. I think this was came closest to being on the money: While I think the example track provided is a little too protracted, I agree with the basic idea that the correct approach is to avoid all-or-nothing results, and have...

So, let me ask you guys something. I watched Gamespot do a livestream during the beta, and it was a very featureless, bland-looking game. Characters would walk into a bar, and there would be barren. No decorations, nothing that made it look it was open for business, no ambient sounds, and...

Well, even Windows has freeware, or cheap-to-license shareware. That "ghetto" software just doesn't get much love from Windows users because we tend to just go ahead and get a full-featured application. But when I view media, it's usually on GOM Play, VLC Viewer, or Irfanview. By the end of...

4e introuduced the concept of rituals, and I personally found it to be one the finest concepts the edition had to offer. It's one of those things that seem obvious in hindsight, that a leomund's tin hut is not the same type of resource as a fireball, and thus they shouldn't be drawn from the...

Essentially, 4e used aftereffects to induce a "two saves end" requirement.

Exactly. That's what makes the complaints about "buying books twice" kind of a canard. There are a lot of thing you buy more than once throughout your life. It's just another deeply-engrained mentality, like the bias against physical components that I mentioned in another thread. People feel...

OK, that's a legitimate beef. So let me ask you this: what should happen when a spellcaster throws a hold person, or a mind flayer cuts loose with its mind blast, or a medusa catches you with its gaze? These are effects expressly intended to stop an opponent in their tracks. Should they do...

After reading your post in its entirety, I still have no idea what it is exactly that is remotely sympathetic about the OP. I'm glad that modern D&D evolves and improves upon itself. I hated playing D&D in the eighties and nineties because it was so blatantly lacking in any cohesive design...

The one I don't like is the idea of the "medium" being limited to something movement-related. In 4e, it's kind of odd that you can have attacks that are standard actions, and some classes can have attacks that are minor actions, but the move action itself is sacrosanct--unless, of course, you...

One of the big problems with our cummunity is that a great many of us are stuck in our ways. We're okay with rolling dice and adding that random number to other fixed numbers. However, if a publisher adds other physical components to a game, then somehow it's no longer an RPG. It's been...

One of the 4e mechanics that never grew on me was how they handled saving throws as a way of ending conditions. They basically just made it a flat-up coin toss, causing many "big gun" attacks from both players and monsters fizzle out after a single round's duration. I liked 3e's division...

Well, there's simply worlds of difference between playing iPad or Android apps and having access to every PC game on the market with an i7 processor and a proper GPU. You'd have a real OS, not just some wallpaper with app shortcuts. They could afford to charge what a good laptop or PC would cost...

CES 2012 is here. One of the biggest deals at the expo? Windows 8 tablets. Here's Razer's concept tablet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpj9TUp4rkU

Well, let's talk about what was good about 4e's approach to roles. Some roles have always been implicit. Take defenders, for instance. It was no major revelation to tell folks that fighters and paladins should be on the front lines protecting the softer characters. I think it's to 4e's credit...

That's a signifcant presumption. I've played with plenty of DM's over the years who don't have the empathy or pragmatism to give a player an out. To their mind, with their love of one-armed bandit character generation, you play what fate has chosen to give you. After all, there's a flipside to...

Looks to be the same either way. $2 for a single issue, $12 for a six-issue compilation. I figure the compilations save me a bit of scrolling when I'm looking at my titles.