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Comments like this aren't terribly useful for conveying rational arguments, ProfessorCirno. I'd encourage you to develop your theories with a little more rigor. My theory is that eliminating a reliably certain source of zero-hour, maximum-quality PDFs will delay the torrenting of product PDFs...

Many people are eager to have the next book in a fictional series as soon as it comes out, because the story in it is expected to be enormously satisfying. Speaking for myself, I'm eager to have the next book in the 4e line because I expect it to help me make my own stories more satisfying...

Slowing piracy is worth a substantial amount. Everyone knows that sooner or later, anything WotC publishes will be scanned and posted- but how many enthusiasts are willing to wait a week until somebody finally gets around to it? Those people most likely to be hovering over the torrent site...

I used to buy WotC PDFs because they were most convenient to me. Now I will buy WotC hardbounds, because that is the only option. WotC is not "disrespecting" me by refraining to sell me what I want them to sell, nor do I feel the urge to somehow personalize the motivations of a large number of...

In brief, the idea is that each class is stripped down to a "hybrid version", containing part of their skill list/HP/surges and one or two keynote class features, often weakened- such as the leader hybrids being only able to heal once per encounter. A player then simply glues two of these hybrid...

D&D is system-agnostic. It measures in squares, which you can treat as 5 feet or 2 meters more or less interchangeably. But for games in general, I can't imagine that the advantage of having distances and areas described in your system of choice could possibly outweigh the expense and burden of...

And, some words on Twistnack's helpful observations: I'd agree it needs this badly. Without a combat example, the use of flux tokens in the flow of combat is left implicit, and that's not helpful. To paraphrase Chris Onstad, my layout is something an ugly little crab on a beach eats instead of...

And some commentary on your useful critique: This bit did concern me during development. The mechanics are just plain boring for completely nonmagical PCs, and any PC that doesn't emphasize development on building their Octant powers is going to run out of interesting mechanical ways to develop...

When I read over the rules for it, what ended up stumping me was figuring out all the modifiers involved for a typical round of combat. I could track the talents used for a particular mode of attack, and the opposed roll, and the degrees of success were easy enough to determine if I wrote the...

Ignition I've been slacking with the Conjunction reviews lately, but example has provoked me to put up another one. This review is for "Ignition", a game of near-future arcane forces and the powered armor that channels them. Layout: The layout is clean and straightforward, five pages of...

How would you address the point he raised about fast, cheap rituals turning into no-brain solutions for the problems they're meant to address? That's the problem that ritual cost and cast time are meant to solve. They're intended to be a choice with tradeoffs and costs, rather than the trivially...

Some thoughts on The Awakening Next up, it's David S. Percival's The Awakening. I'll allow that I've got a soft spot for post-apocalyptic settings, so this one was an interesting one to look over for me. Presentation: I really like this layout. The TOC was handy, the two-column format was easy...

My two cents on Deep Black Since I got Eightfold finished for my own conjunction entry, I've had time to read over some of the other submissions. I haven't played any, so these estimations should be taken with more than the usual grain of salt. The first game up under the inquisitorial gaze is...

I bought the gray box way back when, and I also shelled out for some 2e FR products. By 3e, however, FR had just gotten too fiddly, too archmagey, and too pantheon-crowded to interest me any more. Sure, I could ignore all that stuff and fill in my own blanks as needed, but if I'm going to do...

I didn't note my participation in this, as I wasn't sure I'd have time to gin anything up. All the same, I did manage to pitch together a few ideas for a retro-flavored offering. I think the biggest lesson I learned during this was that my layout skills are truly abominable. If I do something...

I have a hard time imagining that any 1E or 2E purchaser could, in good faith, presume that a company that didn't even own the license at the time would provide official support for the next 20-30 years. In the case of 3.x, I'd also find it peculiar for a customer to think that official edition...

Remember that the Fire Warrior has Fly 6 for movement. It's a 1st level daily that gives you a perfectly obedient and expendable flying minion (complete with opposable thumbs) for five minutes. If a wizard can't get any out-of-combat mileage out of that, he's not trying.

I'd say it's perfectly fine to let yourself get hit. As the OP pointed out, it's just generally a really dumb idea. Exceptions exist, but it's almost never a good plan to let the shapeshifter hit you. The consequences of really dumb actions tend to provide all necessary balance to the tactics in...

Then it seems I mistook the pre-4e parallels your argument was drawing. The ritual turns a corpse into an animated servitor perfectly obedient to your will and capable of normal movement. It does this for 150 gold and an hour of your time- relatively minor costs at 6th level, when you can first...

I was keenly reminded of how the balancing by armor types allowed is in there when my Hide-wearing wizard started looking up what sorts of enchantments he might get. I seriously considered switching to Cloth just so I could get Shimmering on it.