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Then in a text that's meant for experienced and NEW players alike he should have been clear and concise in what he MEANT to say and not leave it up to interpretation. As the 'SPEAKER' in this case for a reference book, it's not our job as readers to extrapolate and try to figure out what he...

You can take issue with it all that you wish. Now did you take exception to everything else that I posted as well? Or are you just looking to nitpick instead of addressing the greater issue here? Which is basically James Wyatt clearly stating that "If you do X you should skip X and get right...

That may be a great way to run Burning Wheel, (another game admittedly I'm not a huge fan of) but for D&D? Is the implication now, with you bringing that quote in to bolster your argument) that ALL RPG's be run in this manner of skip EVERYTHING that isn't pertinent to kicking someone's teeth in...

See this I understand. I dont use the guard encounter over and over UNLESS I have a specific information that I need to pass to the PC's via the guards in question and depending on the relationship with them, if any. Otherwise then yeah, we can just breeze past that encounter if it's the...

Interesting. In my games sometimes PC's get information from skill checks but there needs to be some sort of actual interaction to get those skill checks rolling. If a PC says to me "I need to find out where the black market is and I'm trying to be discreet." I'm gonna ask that player if he...

Except that obviously to a fair amount of gamers it is different. I'll say this and it's not just limited to gamers, people in general dont appreciate or value the work that gets put into any endeavor unless IT'S THIER WORK or ENDEAVOR. It's not just artists and writers either. Look how easy...

Wow a lot of venom in that post right above mine. I especially love how he basically calls Dancy and Lisa Stevens both liars for failing to produce research that's probably over 10 years old. If the research DID still exist it probably would be in the hands of their competitors WOTC. But let's...

It wouldnt affect me at all. I've pretty much stopped supporting D&D since 2008 so if it went away? Meh. I'd still have Pathfinder and Hero System and M&M so...

Which is something that I'm kinda fine with as someone who doesn't play 4E. While I dont and wont play the RPG, the boardgames are things that I've actually spent money on and have enjoyed playing with my 9 year old. And there's no danger of them really being obsolete in a way where people wont...

I think that I have the first 2 or three adventures of the WOTBS AP (3.5). I remember them being interesting but not really my cup of tea. Then 4E came and it seemed that EN Publishing hitched their wagon to WOTC and 4E. My dollars went to Paizo because they were supporting the game that I...

Man either people in this thread we'rent around here for the 4E transition or they have really short memories. I could have sworn there was a contingent of folks around here who were applauding the fact that the D&D 4E were going after the younger, MMORPG crowd (citing that getting new blood in...

For the record I've actually run a few games for the author more than a few years ago he was part of a short lived D&D 3.5 game I ran in midtown manhattan. I saw him again a few years ago at a few of the NY D&D Meetups and he was deep into 4E. In fact I'm pretty certain that his name is on the...

I suppose the all of the people who are STILL playing 3.5 in some form or fashion (including Pathfinder) are playing a broken game? Way to edition war there buddy.

The IMF had a "name" for the big baddie, not an identity. The name was "Cobolt". That was the whole point of them breaking into the Kremlin at the beginning of the movie (to pull the file on Cobolt) and the set up for everything that happens afterwards. By the time they have an identity to go...

I saw it the day that it opened in IMAX and loved it. To me it's the best movie in the series and the only one that feels like a team movie. Tom Cruise is still definitely the star but Paula Patton, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner arent just window dressing. Each of the team members have a...

People who doubt that this movie is connected to ALIEN in anyway need to watch the original trailer for ALIEN then watch the PROMETHEUS trailer right after it. Not only is the formation of the title credits the same but several of the audio queues are pretty much identical to the ALIEN...

But it's as far from the mark as much as it is you implying that NO ONE switched out of pure brand loyalty because we know that that's not true. There are people who are blindly going to follow WOTC / D&D no matter what they do. There have been people here on this board during the switch to 4E...

Exactly, my group is 5 players and I've had to modify some of the encounters anyway and have STILL lost two PC's during the first two parts of the AP. Would have lost more if not for a *house ruled action point mechanic that I have in place. Without that rule we would have lost at least two more...

Yeah, everything else that you said I was fine with up until this statement. I've been running Pathfinder since it's release. The AP I'm running now is actually an 3.5 AP (Curse of the Crimson Throne). I'm using resources from 3.5 pretty much with little modification with my game and have been...

Yeah the whole " You people dont like change!!" thing by some of the 4E proponents rings about as hollow and the whole "4E isnt D&D" thing. It's not that it's different or that people are afraid of change. It's just that we tried 4E and DIDNT LIKE IT. If we were so afraid of change would some...