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I happen to think both games have some very clever mechanics in them. I love the combat system in the WoW boardgame (assuming you're talking about World of Warcraft: The Board Game, and not World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game, the latter of which I don't own and have never played). Descent's...

o_0 What FFG games do you find so terrible? (and to say nothing of the fact that FFG and WotC both publish games designed by a variety of people, so making a blanket statement like that is fairly silly)

They can still be captured by enemies, rebuffed by guards, etc. While death is not a threat, physical force can still stymie whatever plans they might have. And while death is not a threat, imprisonment certainly is.

The terribleness of Daggerdale is something I think we can all agree on.

That's one of my favorite series! While quite a bit different, the author's next foray, The Black Prism, is even better. I recommend it if you haven't already read it... Indeed, but I think this is one of those places where I'd just sort of handwave away such considerations. I'd say that's...

What if there was some very small amount of people, maybe a couple hundred in the entire world, who were immortal, unharmable, and unkillable. They could be tossed into hot lava, spewed out encased in volcanic rock, and trapped in their stony prisons for a thousand years, and then chipped out...

Of course, the games WotC is putting out aren't euros at all. They're glorious Ameritrash (note: term of endearment). Which is also doing quite well (see, for example, the aforementioned Fantasy Flight Games who specialize in the genre and are one of the dominant forces in the board game...

Actually, that's something the original 'complainer' wrote on LiveJournal, and then later retracted after deciding it wasn't a fair thing to say. That's not something he said.

My understanding is that a very vocal minority complained that it was stereotyping women, and someone on LJ cherry picked some (admittedly pretty damning) quotes from the author on some social network (not sure where they came from) to paint him as a misogynist.

I look forward to Dead Drop (or is the proper title actually in all caps? :)).

You are correct. I remembered what Feng Shui's system was at work today... You roll 2d6. One is always positive, the other negative, so you get a bell curve centered at 0 and that can give anywhere from -5 to +5. Actually a pretty neat system with a lot going for it. Since the average and most...

I think that may be Feng Shui's system. Someone who's played the system care to comment? Cthulhutech has a neat system. You roll a number of d10s, and you get to choose a set of dice from your roll to add up. The set of dice can either be all dice showing the same number (so three 7s would...

I'm wondering if anyone's put any thought into how people address each other in their settings, and in particular how different cultures in the same setting might address each other. For example, in the Shadows of the Apt series, which is what made me think of this topic, in the regions most...

Indeed, alas they've been quite adamant that the two shall never mix. Unofficially, I'm pretty sure the reluctance is entirely on the Magic side of the equation; they're worried about watering down the brand and/or any negative connotations D&D might bring.

I bow to your supreme knowledge of WoW lore. Though I've been playing since WarCraft 2, I've only really been paying attention to the story since WoW. Had some vague awareness that Draenei pre-dated The Burning Crusade, but really didn't know much about them at all. Sadly, I must spread some...

I've done... Ravnica as a setting for D&D 4e Slivers as a group of monsters for D&D 4e Zendikar as a setting for Savage Worlds (including color-based magic system) Here's a link to those: Encounter-a-Day Magic: the Gathering I've never used the 4e stuff, just made it. I did run a very...

Industrialization of magic was one of the core principles of Eberron. o_0 The Draenei don't look like demons... demons look like Draenei. Or, more accurately, both look like Eredar. In essence, many of the Eredar were corrupted, and those that escaped corruption fled their homeworld of Argus...

Generally speaking, when it comes to divination, the future is not set in stone. In many cases, knowledge of the future changes the future (i.e. I see that I'm going to die tomorrow on my motorcycle; I take my car instead. Thus the motorcycle prophecy is now invalidated.*). To extrapolate from...

I dunno, the 15-minute format is kind of annoying I guess.

WarCraft has had at least industrial revolution-era technology for a long time. Granted, my memory's pretty terrible, but at the very least WarCraft 2 had bombs (Goblin Sappers), and I'm fairly certain WarCraft 3 had tanks. Of course, the same arguments were made about Eberron (e.g. there was...