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Nope, none of us has all the data, and I'm sure that even if we had the skill to interpret the data, there would be multiple ways to interpret the data. (Hearkening back to my reading a book in middle school, "How to Lie with Statistics")

well, you're often not given a choice about non-compete clauses or "IP grab" clauses. It's either sign or you don't work there. And, if Company XYZ came up to you and offered you 3x your current salary - along with better benefits and a better work-life balance - but, you had to sign a...

In the US, if a manufacturing company workers are part of a labor union, in "right to work" states, a new employee does not have to join the union to work there. However, in some states, a manufacturing company can be a "closed" shop, and a new employee must join the labor union to work there...

ouch - don't their products touch just about everybody? Q Tips, Dove Soap, Suave shampoo, Ben & Jerry's, etc? It would almost prevent him from working anywhere for a year... "sorry, they bought a box of q-tips last year... they're out"

There are a couple of published D&D Next adventures that have garnered pretty good reviews so far that seem like good "starter" modules - Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard. I think they're a bit more sand-boxey than you might be looking for, but they're worth a look. And...

So, you're saying both sides are villains? WotC for trying to protect their IP, and Monte for quitting over it?

well, there is a big difference between working (for example) as an insurance salesperson by day, and then writing your own novel at night, and working in the RPG industry during the day and then working on your own RPG at night. Working on what could be almost the exact same thing and a...

Going back to 1e days, we had never played a paladin's Detect Evil as some sort of invisible bad guy radar. It was always (across multiple gaming groups), something where the paladin would need to get out his holy symbol and boldly invoke his deity's wisdom in determining the nature of yonder...

Many employers have you sign an agreement that you won't engage in any activity that would be a conflict of interest with the company - I would think designing your own RPG would be considered conflicting with them by at least some in management. Also, a lot of employment contracts also have...

As a person that is primarily a DM, I loved that 4E made DMing a lot simpler than it was in 3E, 3.5E and Pathfinder.

Just curious. I haven't been following next too too closely, but are the core books going to be level 1-10, 1-20 like 3e/3.5e or 1-30 like 4e, or something else all together?

I agree - I would love them to have a regular adventure path or two coming out annually, including something by the end of this year. I'd XP you for this, but I must spread it around first. And, I also agree that it shouldn't be Tomb of Horrors, 5e version, or the Keep on the New...

I'd be upset with that as well. While I can see the DM giving you a failure sometimes, I think it works better if you play to each PC's strengths - give the "social" PC things to overcome in social situations, give the burly tank enough burly bad guys to hack away at, give the wizard something...

well put. I ran a 2 year long 4e campaign and didn't use many skill challenges of my own creation. One was from a published adventure that went okay, but the one I created on the fly that I remember worked out well - the players were trying to chase a messenger raven through the streets to...

I disagree strongly with not allowing a quiet person to play a social character. The game is at least partly about escapism and playing a fantasy hero, so I think people should be allowed to play what they want, unless it doesn't fit into the campaign (i.e., a dwarf in a world with no dwarves...

To be honest, I think if I were to DM 3.5e again, I'd just ban the Spell Compendium outright.

I'll have to go back in time to find my email to my old gaming group, but there is a WotC splat book that has a contingent resurrection spell that means a permanent loss of 2 points of CON.

Antimagic Field. Makes it almost impossible to have a high level solo caster as the party's opponent. Just cast it and then have one melee type grapple the solo caster, and another one stab the caster to death... heck, it lasts 10 minutes/level, so lasts at least 110 minutes. Even...

seemed to be some excessive drooling over the Legos to me. :p

Back on topic here, I see more threads here on the forum's first page for D&D Next, 4E and 3E/3.5E than Pathfinder. Pathfinder must be in trouble. Maybe we should start a thread? Quick count: 10 threads for D&D Next 10 for 3.0/3.5 4 for 4E 3 for PF 9 for All D&D 3 for OSR There were a few...