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Going to quote some things out of order here... I'm one of those minority gamers who is more or less now an ex-gamer. I left this hobby roughly 10 years ago after some incidents with a couple of gaming groups and some rather rough conversations in a number of online forums all convinced me...

In the final published game, I'd prefer but don't expect to get race not mattering as much. I would rather have players choose a race for a character because of story and background than because they believe the bonus to X will be most useful given the DM's penchant for using trick Y.

This is something that has bugged me about dungeon crawl adventures since I was 10 years old back in 1981... The only realistic way to do one of these home invasion really, is 'Seal team vs. Osama' style - come in stealthed from above, storm the building, and use the layout against its...

Yep. I used to use all the random tables to make my adventures. I remember my sheer excitement when I finally moved from D&D to AD&D and found I could also make random maps. :) In 1981, modules like Saltmarsh that had actual plots in them of a sort were beyond my concept of managing, and flew...

Its just too early to answer this. Not enough info out yet. And it -IS- a playtest... the numbers will be changing in big ways. Now is not the time to get frustrated, nor sadly, too attached to something you like. I know your question says "IF" it stayed like it is... But we're looking at...

I could have sworn there was some issue with one of the major game publishers in the 90s selling its rights to online use to Microsoft - and I'd thought it was D&D. But I'm coming up blank on any Google references... so... shrug... not sure where I got that from.

EDIT: Read you as suggesting 2 meters, and like an idiot I didn't even finish reading your sentence... I always get annoyed when people do that to me... So the below is really in agreement with you rather than disagreement... :) 2 yards / meters is even worse than 5 feet in terms of scale -...

Mearls: "Personally, I actually like meters because if you draw a map with one meter per square, the dimensions of rooms are more realistic." Use 1 yard. also known as three feet. Its very close to 1 meter. And for many people, "close" to the distance from ground to hips (for those needing a...

I always thought the online issues for DnD had to do with a messup between TSR selling rights to Microsoft -way back in the day-. Of course these days there are several online things that imply this got resolved long ago - unless its only been resolved in pieces.

On th question on OA's, it seems to me like the simple approach would be something as small as: 1: "x penalty to AC vs. melee next round." Or: 2: "anyone who could have hit you in melee last round can still do so for the next round without having to move." The first one assumes 'generally...

Having GM'd a 12 session of Champions that was just one single fight - which did not finish at the end (we just gave up and said: Ok, those 4 guys just up and fall down, its over)... The more tactical the game gets, the more variety, the longer it can take to resolve. And this can get...

I guess I don't see the harm in bringing everyone back to full at the end of an encounter. Kill em during the fight, or try again next time. It works in a -LOT- of competing RPGS just fine, and in MMOs. And it allows the cleric to be an active participant in their chosen role, rather than a...

It goes beyond just this - many of the traits given to the 'evil' races of this brand of fantasy are taken from real world propaganda wars used to justify race wars. Orcs of D&D in some books of the 80s on into 3E had traits taken not from Native Americans, but from how Native Americans were...

D&D has always been a game where healing took a very back seat role. You had a few heals, but you didn't really top people off, and you didn't usually use them in combat unless there was a crisis moment. Years of playing MMOs have kind of re-tuned my expectations for playing a healer - and...

I like this in general, but feel it should move to a class ability of clerics and an option that paladins could take. In other words, a group with someone who had the ability being able to 'full heal through' with rest. But a stack of rogues and warriors - out of luck. Years of playing MMOs...

You can kinda say that about almost any computer game (I would say any, from my experience, but among those I've missed is probably the gem). Those of us who come from RPGs or from reading a lot of fantasy novels can sit down in front of nearly any computer game and realize after a bit that...

I used to be a big proponent of highly detailed PC personalities and background descriptions. I've even had rules in days gone by requiring a certain number of -pages- of backstory, and for some massive long form about traits to be filled in fully. But frankly - how often in game does that note...

This has been a struggle in every gaming campaign I've ever been in. You always have at least one person on the other side of the spectrum from another - with the rest being here or there, there is always the exception, and sometimes an even divide. You'll have that player for whom it is very...

Makes sense to me. 2E seemed motivated solely to remove the word 'demon' from every book, and to cover up all the bare chested females in the artwork. I give that a 1, because it was an unneeded edition. I'd give 4E a 1 because it was not D&D. As an RPG in general I give it an 8. Its a -great-...

5E already? I knew 4E didn't quite go as planned and led to the rise of Pathfinder... But didn't it only just come out a little bit ago? Will we see 6E come 2014? I feel as I barely got started buying into 4E books, and haven't even seen groups yet that had made a switch up from 3E, and now...