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An edition war forum would be a terrible idea. Doesn't anyone else remember the WotC 4E Concerns and Criticisms forum? That place degenerated into one of the worst cesspools on the internet. Okay, maybe not that bad, but it was unpleasant to say the least. Creating an Edition War forum wouldn't...

I find the Edition Warring to be very tiresome myself. My brother, a long time lurker and poster here at EnWorld, got so fed up with the constant negativity that he decided to just delete his bookmark to the site just a few days ago. Recently coming here just left him angry and put him in a bad...

1: The Far Realms. I just plain hate the Far Realms. It muddles up perfectly good cosmologies, and I don't think it is even remotely necessary if you want to have Lovecraftian horror. 2: The utter dominance of medieval western fantasy. Most campaign settings fit into this mold, with few...

Not really. There is a pretty big difference. In MMOs, the taunt ability is completely binary: if taunt works, then the enemies start attacking the tank, if it fails, the enemies keep attacking the mage as before. Marking is noticably different because the Defender gains an advantage even if...

I for one love races that are wildly different and unusual. Heck, if I had my way, dwarves would have skin that was literally made out of stone and elves would be replaced by fairies. Then throw in cat-people, dog-people, centaurs, and about thirty other weird and unusual races. I think it is...

"Hit points", or more often than not just "HP" is so commonly used not only in D&D but in videogames as a whole that I don't think you could get away with changing their name unless you were using a radically different damage system. Though I suppose you could get away with "Life" or "Health"...

Well, when playing 3E I have played with people who tended to start reading through random D&D books when it wasn't their turn, or started bragging about how awesome their characters were during slow points in the game. I for one will admit that I occasionally became bored and distracted during...

I think there is a very different facet to the whole complexity issue that is rarely addressed. Lets look at this quote from the article: Most people seem to take this as a statement that "young gamers have short attention spans and aren't capable of learning something complicated". But I think...

In the opening post of this thread, the thread creator defined videogamey as an RPG with an overabundance of rules to learn. Besides, you are only getting your "clear idea" by ignoring most of the posts in this thread. My opinion is that "videogamey" doesn't have a clear meaning. You don't get...

I completely disagree. In both cases, all the use of the word "videogamey" does is cause confusion and anger people. If neither the writer nor the reader understand what is being written, then no communication is happening. All that happens is that the thread degenerates into confusion or even a...

From what I have seen in these discussions, the use of the term "videogamey" is often used as a negative, and usually towards some new aspect of the game. People rarely use it to describe any of the traditional core fundamentals of D&D, despite how often those fundamentals have been copied and...

I am not going to tell anyone that their fun is bad or wrong. That wasn't really my point. As I said elsewhere in this thread, I am a fan of the WildARMs series of videogames, which has rocket launchers crafted from the fossils of biomechanical dragons alongside princess-sorceresses. I wouldn't...

And, someone once again brings up buffalo guns, six-shooters, and rifles (all stuff from the 19th century) as examples of firearms in a D&D game. *sigh* What will it take to change D&D's audience's perceptions of what it means to be an appropriate firearm for a D&D setting? I mean, there is...

Dannyalcatraz, what exactly are you trying to get at with the argument that guns are more deadly than bladed weapons? What bearing does that argument have on the question of whether or not guns are acceptable in D&D? Even if you are right, and guns are more deadly than bladed weapons, so what...

Its probably a matter of how you presented the character to your players, though without knowing the specifics of how you described the character, what the necromancers were doing specifically, and so on, I can't say for certain. Fine details of how you present a character or situation can have...

I don't want to get too deep into a "are guns more deadly than swords?" argument, but I do have to ask if it is fair comparing statistics involving domestic violence in the modern day with modern guns to fantasy combat between highly trained warriors in a medieval/early modern setting using...

As long as you are saying that you just don't like the feel of firearms in your fantasy, I have no problem. The issue I have is when people say that guns would cause some sort of necessary, drastic, and fundamental change in a setting. I don't see any reason for that to be the case. You could...

Why do people tend to attribute every change that happened in the Early Modern period to the existence of guns? There seems to be a fairly common belief that the rise of gunpowder immediately obsoleted the knight, which then caused a chain reaction in Europe's social structure that swept aside...

You obviously have never played the Wild ARMS series of videogames.:) Those games mixed Western mood and weaponry with every standard fantasy trope you can imagine (with a heavy dash of Sci-Fi for good measure). I guess this illustrates a possible major source of the difference between the...

When did I say that horse archers were a new invention of the Mongols? I clearly stated that horse archers from Central Asia had been conquering everybody else for most of human history. Don't forget the reason we are talking about the Mongols in the first place. You were arguing vehemently that...