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To be fair, all editions have brand loyal, vocal fans. It kind of comes with the territory and I try not to judge entire communities of fans based on the vitriol and conviction of a few. If I did, then i wouldn't be able to talk about games with anyone because all of those communities have their...

My only real concerns are twofold: 1. As a DM of this unity edition am I going to have a harder time with rules adjudication if all of my players are essentially using very different character options. I mean will the options really try and give the feel of many editions (which seems like it...

I would browse your 5e at the store when it came out, but if its just an update to 4e, then at the store is where it would remain as I would not buy it. And this not not meant to be offensive to you. I would be happy if 5e catered very strongly to 4e players as I remember how I felt when 4e came...

The only time I have ever been intimidated by the PF rulebook was when this lady we game with threatened to beat me with it and try and insert into my unmentionable areas for poking fun at her new facial piercings and various studded apparel by referring to her as a "masterwork girl" for all of...

Actually to be fair, the PC is the one who is trying to get around DR rules and the DM is the voice of reason in your example. If a player has chosen a "golf bag" then they are trying to circumvent DR instead of just having their damage reduced and the bad guy getting a few more hits in. I don't...

I think that the previous editions demihuman focus with multiclassing had to do with the fact that humans could in the end be higher level than their demihuman counterparts. Mutliclassing made those non-human characters more appealing for long term campaigns. It also gave distinction to humans...

I am not really sure what would be good for the 5e wizard class. I know I really like how 3e/PF handle casters, but even though its my preferred method of dealing with magic (out of the D&D flavors) even I must admit that if a player wants to, they can abuse the system and have better options...

Oh I see. You are one of those players. In my circles the players and the DM can usually come to a consensus on character generation. love, malkav

The Dragon Compendium has a very good set of random dungeon generation tools. My group has used them several times to play test homebrew classes with a rotating DM. I am not sure if is against forum policy to link to products or not (if so please feel free to mod my post), but here is a link to...

OP you should check out PROJ.4 It can be found at: PROJ.4 Its open source and can do all sorts of projections. JH labs makes a java version that can do all sorts of projections (from azimuthal to Wagner projections, probably about 50 in all). It can be found at: Java Map Projection Library...

I gotta say I am totally excited about the idea of a non Atari D&D video game. Most of the Atari games were cash grab garbage. I mean NWN 1 and TOEE were the only things they ever got even remotely right. And ToEE was crippled with bugs and pretty much unplayable after release, I remember...

What does this even mean? Why are images other than avatars even important on a text driven forum? Yeah I see a lot of posters on ALL of the message boards I read taking pot shots at 4e. I secretly believe its because then that forum's resident 4e hard-ons will show up and bring out the angst...

I play both (kind of). My group plays regularly in a few PF campaigns and 1 star wars saga game. We don't actually play 4e as a full blown campaign but we like the adventure system board games so much that several members of the group kind of expanded the rules a bit (converted a few of the 4e...

We had the same concepts and still played them. I believe the point being made about 3e was the niceties of having a system that could back up RP concepts with in game skills that had measurable gamist effects if the player cared to use them. My GMs tend to let craft skills double as highly...

The product you have pictured there was actually the first D&D product I ever owned. My mother got it for me for my ninth birthday. It gave me everything I needed for hundreds of hours of entertainment. But more importantly it left me wanting more. I joined my first gaming troupe just over a...

How I level my groups really depends on the game. For some games that aren't scheduled to run for a long time its nice to see some progression after every session. For games that are intended to have a longer run, then the leveling really depends on the pacing needs of the game. For instance if...

I once played a cleric of Bane who had max ranks in Craft:Milliner/Hatter. In addition to being a murderous bastard he also had impeccable taste in head wear. It ended up being one of the core foundations for RPing the character. Not to mention it led to some very fulfilling and amusing...

I was thinking of something that was a mix of WHFRPG 3e and the current board games made by WOTC (the adventure system ones). I see a lot of folks would not play it if it arrived in that form. For me the modern D&D board games really shine well on 4e's strengths (its combat system). For...

What If the board game was just the core release, and TTRPG play per norm could occur without the hardware with the supplementary material? Would you be so turned off by the board game being at the heart of the release schedule that you would still avoid the game? love, malkav

Before I get started I would just like to say this is not a hate thread. Just some from left field thoughts. I know I have seen trash talk stating 4e is like a boardgame. But here is where I ask: Its that a really a bad thing? What if if 5e releases as a board game? Often I think of what my...