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I'm sorry by Kobold Boots has a point. I did exactly what you said with 4E. I bought the gift set (Player's Handbook, DM's Guide and Monster Manual) ran a few games and the system wasn't for me. And I was stuck (and still am) with a core set than I'm never going to use. Not because I cant find...

Huh. I see that my experiences are kind of different than most peoples here as I have an aversion to carrying multiple hardcover books with me to the game that I run. Depending on the encounters that I know that I'm going to get to during that session, I'll usually just print out the monster...

Yeah, I may not be a customer of D&D anymore but D&D definitely isnt dead. There are too many people out there invested in the brand no matter what it puts out to even begin to claim that. The RPG industry isnt anywhere close to being dead either. I've spent more money on RPG stuff in the past...

I just want to clarify: I TOO like having physical copies of the books. I was also looking at my gaming shelf and the abundance of Pathfinder material of them and the fact that I'm running out of space. This just means that I have to start parting with my WOTC 3E hardcovers (except for the...

I use the physical copies for reading. But when I'm prepping? I use either HERO LAB (if I'm adding class levels to a monster) or the PDF or PFSRD. The PDF/PFSRD has the benefit of me being able to to prep a monster encounter from my phone, ipad or laptop. These days if a game doesn't have...

D&D seems to be whatever ruleset currently representing the brand. Right now it's the 4E ruleset, in a year it's going to be whatever NEXT finally becomes. So as it were, Pathfinder is not D&D.

Nope. It hasnt been since 2008. Pathfinder is my favorite for FRPG, Hero System and/or M&M for Supers.

I REALLY didnt care for how the 3E to 4E transition played out both from how WOTC handled it and from the fanbase level. Despite all that I bought the 4E gift set ran a few games and found that I didnt like the system. Paizo/Pathfinder came along and I like how they interact with their customers...

I almost left the hobby because it started getting harder to find 3.5 players in my area after 4E came out. So I either would have left the hobby or tried to get a serious supers (M&M or Hero System) based group off the ground. More than likely though I would have left the hobby and spent the...

See this is the part of the argument that I have huge problems with and it's one that I'm afraid that I cant get past and is and will continue to be a HUGE sticking point. YOU got along just fine without one. I did as well. Although I was patching and creating content for my own games when there...

And now we're starting to see the not so typical tropes in the AP's which I dont think should be included in the talk about diminishing returns as they are not rule books but adventures. As long as there is an idea for adventures it's fresh product. For all that you might as well call movies and...

Agreed. "Many repeated books with diminishing returns?" Aside from the Bestiaries what books are these? Because overall Paizo is putting out FEWER hardcover books than WOTC did during the 3x era. They're basically releasing 3 Hardcovers a year (I'm pretty positive that it's not more than 3)...

I'm not sure that it succeeded at doing the first but it did almost succeed at doing the second. But admittedly that was my fault as well. That's what I get for being almost unerringly loyal to a brand as opposed to the game. Which was, IMHO, a great, GREAT thing. Especially for a system like...

Also about those newer non-OGL D20 games? I have the disposable income for a game like NUMENERA. At $60 I could afford to have it and get PDF's to run games for a table of people. But I cant afford to spend that money on a game that I'm not gonna play or that I cant drum up interest for. The...

Wizards moved on to the next edition just fine. Some of us, hell, I think a fair number of us just didn't like what Wizards wanted us to move to. Paizo didnt TAKE away WOTC's customer base. WOTC didn't want that customer base anymore so we left. WOTC was after a simpler streamlined game and...

First of all where are you getting that I'm "edition warring" I SPECIFICALLY stated that while I dont care for 4E I can appreciate the design that went into it. That's me CLEARLY stating that the game is not my preference but STILL being able to state that I think it's a well designed game. So...

Wait...What? And you dont think that changes made to D&D rules, hell, RPG's in general DONT have their origins in house rules from peoples home games? This sort of thinking is EXTREMELY narrow. I dont care for 4E but as a system I can appreciate the design that went into it. And I dont think...

I was around 11 when I saw Alien in a theatrical re-release I think. It's all well and good to see a movie after the fact, after it's been around for years, decades even and declare that it's not this or that. It's another to see it at the time of release or close to the release when there...

There are some movies that are listed here that I've heard of that ARE in fact pretty obscure (Jake Speed? Plunkett & Macleane, River's Edge, YEAH!) but The Big Lebowski? Really? Kung Fu Hustle? I dont know guys...

It looks boring. I mean it's a super hero movie. It shouldnt look boring. Superman Returns was a super hero movie. It should not have been boring. but it was boring. Common Denominator? Brian Singer. Which is confusing to me because X-Men and X2 WERE NOT boring. In fact X2 (which...