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It beats the pants off of every other e-reader out there, soundly. The only thing missing is e-ink and that cuts both ways as that's part of the reason it's so responsive. PDFs work great. I'm using GoodReader which was .99. I'll pay more for more features if another pdf reader comes along that...

A couple of anecdotal good experiences don't invalidate his bad one. I realize it's typical for people to chime in with "nuh uh I've had godo experiences" whenever someone complains about a company, particularly about online ordering but it's absolutely meaningless. No one is saying they're...

CEO of Paizo edicts: Fix the forums, they're awful, actually the site in general is pretty bad. Smack some sense into customer service. A buddy emailed and called for a week before getting a response. Completely unacceptable. Keep Pathfinder going the way it is. A small number of 'core' books...

I buy everything online. I don't own retailers anything and I'm not going to suffer through a sub-par buying experience just because there's the incorrect idea out there that game stores are necessary and should be supported. When I shop for game stuff, everything is in stock. I get it cheaper...

Fair enough. As far as I'm concerned this is definitely a good thing.

Anything to paint WotC as an evil megacorp I suppose. They can't win for losing, any edition of D&D is welcome in that single big ballroom. It's a good thing no matter which way you look at it. If it attracts more people to 4E then many there's a reason for that, or vice versa. Of course they...

He is precisely some dude who likes Pathfinder more than 4e. Elevating his opinion through a REALLY bad analogy to a cardiologist is ludicrous. If you want to make the experience argument, I have far more than he does. It's only barely possible for someone to have more.... but what's the point...

* I like 4e. * I also like Pathfinder. * Clark Peterson's opinion shouldn't carry any additional weight for anyone. * Clark Peterson's opinion is completely meaningless to me. * Clark Peterson doesn't get to decide what D&D is. That about covers it.

As far as I'm aware the kit is free, and there are incentives for the retailer to run it. Paying for events at a store is fine when they're not corporate sponsored. This, however, is a sponsored event. WotC is providing the marketing and materials to drive customers to LGSs and it's a shady...

Neither of those systems are FATE. FATE does provide an excellent replacement for Serenity RPG though, particularly as implemented by Diaspora. In fact, little tweaking at all is needed if you use Diaspora as the base. Aspects just make it so easy to describe characters, especially cinematic...

Err, the Internet definitely existed when 2nd edition came out... it predates D&D. In fact IIRC 2nd edition and the opening of the Internet to commercial entities happened round about the same time. Something that was banned for quite a while. Regardless, that's the way many people played as...

You made the horrible mistake of pointing out the obvious truth that the opinions on a site like this aren't representative of the gaming community as a whole. You're wounding their sense of self importance :)

Classic or not, it's irrelevant. It IS D&D period. (And yes because WotC says so). If your opinion is that it's not, you are wrong, period. Contrary to popular belief opinions can be wrong. It's a completely different claim to say it doesn't feel like D&D to you. That's an actual opinion. One...

Actually yeah, it is. Says so right on the cover and by the only people allowed to make that claim. As far as the opinion parts of the post, meh. Everyone has likes and dislikes. The game isn't perfect, but on the other hand you give a positive review of Munchin which means I, personally, am...

Your belief is incorrect. A trademark making it's way into common usage is precisely something that will cause it to be cancelled. Here is a list of examples: List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this case the phrase already is common usage and has...

I've read most of the back and forth. It's a trademark that shouldn't have been granted. It's descriptive, generic, and weak. It is and was a common term regardless of whether you can Google it. I've been using it for well over 20 years, as have been many I've encountered playing wargames...

XP is a relic. We quit using it with Eberron too coincidentally.

Hmmm... Either cut back the entire DnD arm and have 2-3 people making a couple of books a year. Or: Really embrace the digital age and try to go big: Provide hi res maps for use in VTTs. Change DDI to be a pay web service. Partner with a software company to build official tools based on said...

The Wargamer | For All Your Strategy Gaming on the 'Net That talks about 2008, in 2009 attendance at Origins was down somewhere between 16 and 20 percent. IIRC it was closer to 16 but I'm too lazy to dig it up.

Gencon is the biggest, Origins has about half the attendance of Gencon. DragonCon isn't usually considered a gaming convention, even though gaming goes on. Evil Hat is at Gencon as well. In general you're not going to find any companies at Origins that aren't at Gencon. There may be a few...