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Hi, all-- I've revised the list of participating shops in my post above; the list should now be pretty final. Good news and bad news. The good news is that we've added about five new sites to the list. The bad news is that Forbidden Planet are no longer on the list. Sorry, Russ, and sorry...

Hi, all-- WotC and Fanboy 3 in Manchester are pleased to announce that FB3 will be the UK headquarters site for the 19 September WWDDGD event. Joining us at FB3, straight from WotC in Seattle, is DDI Editor-in-Chief Chris Youngs. Fanboy 3 are planning an entire weekend around WWDDGD, with...

This is my understanding as well. What D&D (and most modern games and fiction) calls a longsword was more commonly known as an arming sword; the term longsword, when used, more likely referred to what games call a greatsword or two-handed sword. But Umbran's point about the lack of standard...

And an iPhone app! I burn up a lot of downtime screwing around on Facebook because of the iPhone app. Frankly, I'd rather spend that time screwing around on the WotC community, but it's just too hard to use via the web on that tiny screen.

Called The Butts because the butts, or casks, were commonly used as targets. We have a triangle of open land here in Alton called The Butts.

Hi, all-- I'm not a longbow historian, but my credentials include being a perennial visitor to the Mary Rose, having sat through numerous reenactor lectures, having several times attempted (but never succeeded!) at drawing a true longbow, and having just (last week!) finished reading Bernard...

I have to confess that I'm not a huge user of the WotC fora--I prefer the more mature environment here at ENworld. And even as a light user, I can see that the WotC fora--as they are at this moment--have moved backward in terms of features. So I guess I get that if all you care about are the...

Hi, all-- Sorry we're a tiny bit behind the curve, but here at last is a list of participating sites. As always, it's safe to expect a few tweaks in the final weeks, but this should be pretty close to final: EDIT: Three new sites added 09/09/09. Aldershot: Games Shop Ashbourne: Bookthrift...

I haven't played it (and I don't think there were any demos), but I was given a detailed walkthrough of the game in a meeting with Christian Petersen and senior FF staff. If you're worried it's a board game, don't--it's considerably less "boardgamey" than 4E, and even than 3.5. (I don't consider...

I recently had cause to list my dozen or so favourite movies and books. In each of those two-dozen instances, there's a character (often several) that I care about--if I didn't care, the story just wouldn't be interesting, let alone one of my favourites. Count me as one of those people who have...

Gleemax and the DDI tabletop have left a bad taste in a lot of mouths, but I think it's more productive to look at what WotC have done in the past year instead of what they didn't do the year before. Everything WotC has done in the past 12 months has soft-sold, under-promised, and...

Exactly.

Lot of great points on this thread. I value many of the same things, and in fact I think I take many of them for granted. For me: I want the GM to take me some place. I want a story or line of encounters that makes me wonder and care about what's going to happen next. I want to be able to see...

This one is a bit iffy. A lot of people think copyright violation hinges on whether you make money off your efforts, but in fact they aren't really related. Sure, if it's making you rich the IP holder will come after you faster and probably win a bigger judgement in court, but money-making isn't...

There might be a bit of a misunderstanding here. WWDDGD is a retail event. It is run exclusively at retail sites*, not just in the UK but all over the world. For better or worse, organizing an event on this scale requires WotC to rely on the global network of retail sites; organizing individual...

In 20 years as a businessman, I've never held a position of fiscal responsibility in which executive management or shareholders accepted "it's not easy" as an excuse for leaving 10% of the revenues behind. Computer game studios at least have an justification: For decades, Apple actively...

Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day Dungeon Master's Guide 2: 19 September 2009 Hi, everybody-- The third of three Worldwide D&D Game Day events for 2009 is coming up, on 19 September. As with past WWDDGDs, this event will be a celebration of the world's most popular RPG, complete with great...

I'll pitch in for Linae. I worked with her for several years in a couple different capacities. She's hard working, exceptionally capable, a good communicator, and a creative problem solver.

It has major issues with the mac. A year ago the "sorry, we didn't really think it through" line was vaguely excusable. They had the feedback, and knew better this time. But macs are only 10% of the marketplace! Glad to know that WotC is doing so well they can turn away 10% of their...

Hence my caveat: If this data point means anything at all (and it might not). But look, all I'm saying is that this thread is chock full of the opinion that piracy must be worse. And yet the only point resembling a fact seems to point in the opposite direction, if anything. And even they guy...