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I kind of agree with you here, but they do need a "owner" of the project, even if they have a contractor on it. You can't just say: make some software. You need someone with very good knowledge of the game working with the software guys to get a product that isn't lousy.

The printing cost of the book is maybe 7$, so nobody is losing money here. It's not like the PS3 where the components cost more than what they sold the product for.

What I found most interesting was that he states that this time the whole team is working on the same book (PHB). Which more or less states that they had different teams on each of the books in the past. No wonder the math between monsters and characters didn't align in 4e... I find this a bit...

Even Google play has some problems. I tried searching for a game yesterday and couldn't find it because of other games with similair names. Quite strange really, because I searched for the exact name of the app. Now, if Google, the world's #1 search provider has problems with glut, why wouldn't...

You totally spoiled that adventure, I was totally going to play it sometime!

You are quite right about 4e being much easier to DM (in a way). I have a friend who was terrible at 2e and 3e because it was so hard to create and run "balanced" encounters in those systems. Now, I haven't looked at the rules for NPC creation in 5e, but I don't think the baseline is to create...

Sounds like they will actually keep their promise and reign in the splat-book publishing. I don't mind splat books if you get 1-2 a year, that will probably be a welcome addition to the game. The interesting part is how they are going to go about with an adventure based approach. Do they just...

Bzzt! Jumping to conclusions again! You are forgetting that Lightning Bolt does half damage on a miss. So, let's say you hit 60% of the time and you get half damage for the last 40%, the damage would be 80% of 194 = 155. Glorious Prescence is a bog standard wizard attack power that you can...

Getting the standard versions of the other iconic classes will be very easy as well, 30$ and you got them*! ;) *or, atleast many of them.

Don't panic, it ok! :D

The character isn't optimized when you can add +12 to the static damage modifier and get it from +14 to +26. That's a huuuuge gap. Regarding Glorious Presence, I just checked it, you can select it as any random level 1 wizard in the character builder. Improved Glorious Presence is a level 13...

I wouldn't say highly optimized, I have only got implement focus, dual implement spellcaster, destructive wizardry, hellfire blood feats to boost my damage and a Gauntlets of Blood to boost my damage vs bloodied foes. I am pretty sure an optimized character could have gotten that static +14 to...

Now, this is strictly only true compared to suck-or-die powers with stacked save penalties, not compared to single target damage powers. Compared to those, the damage* output of AoE powers is pretty good. Btw, I never claimed that my character was optimized. I said he was efficient (hopefully)...

I was thinking you could write something like "I think Blackbrrd's point of view is really misleading because of...". It's not as if you are coming with an objective statement. But, nevermind, I see my statement just rubbed you the wrong way and you really didn't mean to be insulting. ;) The...

Saying that what I said was "outright untrue" is something you might consider retracting? It's just not correct. You might say you think I am misleading, but I am playing in a very typical 4e campaign, with the DM running the H-P-E series. 4e "fixed" much of the monster math with the MM3, but...

I don't think the adventures will be made to support groups of both 1st an 5th level, but will be as they have always been, for levels x to y. For instance level 3-5. The advantage of the bounded accuracy, is that if the PC's blunder into the harder part of the adventure, they won't...

Red Hand of Doom (3e), Reavers of Harkenworld and Madness at Gardmoore Abbey (both 4e) are all adventures that don't feel linear. Examples of the opposite are the 4e adventures H1, H2, H3 and P1 which I felt where linear slugfests. I really hope WotC releases lots of adventures that aren't...

They are confident people want to play more than the basic races/classes and buy the "advanced" rules. Which I am pretty sure will be everyone that likes the basic game. I really hope they focus on the adventures and try to make money that way.

From the 4e campaign I am playing in now, I think the biggest problem is how much better AoE powers are than single target attacks. At level 13, with an encounter power and a really good hit, a single target attack from the Warlock in the party did 59 damage. My Wizard did 4x(36+10) = 184...

I maxed out the hp of monsters in 2e and 3e instead of using the "rolled average", except for some monsters like Dragons. Those used their superior senses to put up defensive spells in advance. It made combat take maybe 3 rounds instead of 2 rounds.