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4e didn't so much as jump the shark, as the shark now appears to have jumped it. 4e's a great RPG, it just isn't DnD. Pathfinder is DnD - or at least feels like it. Erdrick Dragin: 3.0 was a wonderful creature in that it did not too far alienate the DnD faithful, while at the same time...

Might be interested here. More interested in Pathfinder, but open to 3.5 as well. :)

I'd prefer a modern that was a modern genre. Not modern with elves and orcs. But modern like 'law and order' / 'military' / 'spy' / etc... I'd prefer a future setting that was likewise based on some common sci fi tropes, and not 'orks in space'. Give me Foundation, Star Trek, Uplift, or even...

This whole discussion is so 2000-and-late ;) Lame yeah... but come on... I left this place and gaming right after 4E came out (for completely unrelated reasons known as the economic crash). - And this conversation and these edition wars were the conversation then. It made sense in 2008, 4E...

A moment ago when clicking into the pathfinder forum I scrolled through the threads and saw this at the bottom of my screen, repeated twice in the sponsor section: admeld_publisher = 434; admeld_site = 'burstdirecttier1'; admeld_size = '300x250'; admeld_placement = 'ad21754a'; admeld_house_url...

I found 3e was an almost trivial change to DnD. It added a few embellishments on the top: skills and feats. But the change to 3e was less than the difference between DnD and ADnD. 4E though, has almost no game mechanics at all in common with anything before it. A few things had names that were...

Pretty on the fence over which system. I've been away from gaming for a few years (originally got into it in 1981). Looking for something light once a week or so in the evening most likely. I'm in Daly City, willing to go to San Francisco or down the peninsula about as far as Belmont / San...

I think the argument is largely a moot point. Whether or not DnD 4e is still DnD or something different - it doesn't matter who's right. What matters is that the argument itself exists. With the creation of 4E and the changes in the d20 license causing a lot of people who were putting out d20...

Well from a marketing standpoint - you want to put a preview behind some kind us 'give us your contact info' - but no more. Then use the contact info to target spam people with a higher chance of being interested rather than annoyed. :) Making people pay you to watch your commercial though - is...

But wasn't Mearls just a complete outsider d20 hobby guy until he had a few writing successes and was then brought on board WoTC to write for 4e (and maybe late 3e - I don't know). Ie: he's not a leader there, just a contracted writer who may now be an employee. Point there being that he might...

Renditioning an Orc and using enhanced interrogation on him... well, that's a prety good case for evil. I'd just slide their alignments over and then be silent about it, but at some point have an alignment based effect come into the game in a very vibrant way that indicates to them that 'the...

I have a couple questions not addressed in the review. Since I haven't seen the product locally, I can't just flip through it and answer them for myself before ordering / buying. 1. How does it handle the internet? Does it use a Gibsonian VR, an advanced internet model, a HUD-display overlay of...

Circle, Square, or a square inside a circle. Square: everything is ordered in perfect structure. Circle: everything is uniform and there are no exceptions, no differences. An alternative approach would be to find a symbol for Confuscianism. That's the real world philosophy of extreme 'lawful...

State or public controlled media? Don't forget PBS and the BBC, or if you live in Korea, KBS. ... Oh wait... Those ones actually work and produce quality material. There's also AAFES for US military personnel, but they're mostly a distributor, and well, you could argue they're not as good...

What's funny about this is it has zero to do with quality. San Francisco in the 1800s committed environmental heresy by flooding one of the most beautiful valleys in North America and turning it into a reservoir. The resulting Hetch-Hetchy reservoir provides some of the cleanest water in the...

First approach: setting exists for the characters. Second approach: characters exist for the setting. The first approach assumes a gamist approach. You are there for the game experience, and the setting and story are secondary or tertiary (in varying orders and degrees of importance). The...

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My first severe complaint is the 20,000 number. Populations like that from 3E were grossly off from history. You only saw major cities get that small in one place in the world during one specific dark period - Europe under the black plague. And even there 20,000 would be low. 3, 4 or more times...

And there's the rub. The 'ethic' you've just presented, as you note: fails to compensate the artist for her work. Lets put my proper quote in here: EDIT: Looks like I left out a vital word in my original post, the word need that I've now inserted in brackets. :) Really changes the context when...

This argument kind of stems out of the old debate against the music industry. It was very easy to form an ethic that it was ok or even proper to steal music - you were cutting out the middle man. A lot of people back during the days of that debate often said they would turn around and buy if...