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"Drizzt". or, using pronunciation-by-example: d as in dog, ri as in rip, z as in zipper, t as in cat. There's no vowel on the end; there's no vowel between the z's and the t.

To each their own. I'm really on the fence about Arcana Evolved right now because i love the rules--i own Arcana Unearthed--but have absolutely zero interest in Diamond Throne, and have seen very few bits of it that i'll likely steal. So i'm not sure if it's worth paying for all those pages of...

Maybe for you. I prefer rules-lite systems because they give the players more power, and/or because they are less work for the GM. And one way they can be less work for the GM is precisely by giving the GM less power--power is burdensome. The more power i have as the GM, the more responsibility...

Depends on what you mean by "younger". IME, middleschoolers and highschoolers will have the best first-time play experience with something fairly complex, but with a bit of hand-holding. Because, once they get past that first session or two, they're gonna want the complexity. [And this isn't...

I ain't Snow, but: yes. I've always hated "Game Master", and dislike "Storyteller" just as much. "Storyguide" is my preferred nomenclature, because i think it's the most accurate term, and has the fewest misleading connotations.

What's the point of an award that's just a popularity contest? Isn't that a sales ranking? Until someone presuades me of an even better solution, i still think that the best way to make the awards both relevant to gamers in the they-get-to-directly-influence-the-results sense and relevant to...

Well, it depends on what you mean by "like Burning Wheel"--which aspects you consider defining. I'm not sure if any other game has exactly the same system, but plenty of them share significant portions. The Riddle of Steel has spirit traits that relate to specific beliefs and give you...

Dunno about that, but, as i've always heard it explained, the reason those particular nasty fae got named after the mineral (or, rather, the mineral was named after them, once they realized it was a distinct element), was that the kobolts were blamed for the injuries/sickness that the toxin...

I'm not sure what you mean by "rulebooks", or how that category differs from "A complete guide to magic item creation a la D&D3.5E"? Also, surely a large part of the appeal of new rulebooks--and new systems--is precisely that they're different. So making them nothing more than extrapolations of...

Because then the store won't be there to browse at, in the future. If you see value in browsing, then you should be giving your money to the business that supports your browsing habit. If you don't see value in browsing, then quit browsing.

I hope the only people who hate them and still frequent them (1) live somewhere where there is no other choice and (2) didn't frequent them when there still was a choice. 'Cause, otherwise, i got no sympathy for them. Me? I don't like the large chains with predatory pricing practices and...

oh, i dunno. Given how easy it is to stumble upon a porn site when you're not looking for one, surely it would be possible to make RPG sites as in-your-face ubiquitous?

Of course, there's at least one ringer in there: Fudge can be as light or as crunchy as you want it to be. Still, the default assumption is probably light enough to be "rules light" by most people's standards. So i'd say Fudge, The Window, and Over the Edge are the only examples on that list...

That's funny. I ended up with ~$1000 worth of stuff for ~$400. There seemed to be plenty of deals to be found. As near as i can tell, every booth there was eating the sales tax, so that saves you ~5% right there. Green Ronin had a whole passel of books for $5 and $10. Paradigm had some...

Isn't that pretty much what the CityBooks did? Sure, they were pretty much compatible with AD&D, but the actual rules skeleton in them was pretty light-weight--much more in line with D&D Basic Set. Oh, and i just had to share: my primary complaint with GURPS books, and what keeps me from...

Of course, since day one i've never considered V:tM to be rules-lite. Lighter than most D20 System stuff, yes, but not "lite" in a pseudo-absolute sense. And i love the WoD games (well, except for Vampire), so this isn't meant to be disparaging. It probably stems in part from having discovered...

Um, Fudge? It's got a bigger audience than Amber DRP, i'll wager (not that that's saying much). And, depending on where you put the threshhold, BRP and D6 System might both qualify--certainly, compared to D&D3E, they look awful light. Sorcerer's been in print for more than 5 years, hasn't it...

Well, this gets to "what's 'lite'?" Frex, lots of people refer to Cinematic Unisystem (B:tVS RPG) and Storyteller as 'rules-lite'. Personally, i don't think they've really gotten anywhere near the threshhold. If i'm going to divide all RPGs into two categories "lite" and "heavy", those games...

As reported, the "study" is no such thing--it's just anecdotes. We don't know the situation, the backgrounds of the players involved, the systems chosen, or, really, anything useful to judge whether this is meaningful data. Which is not necessarily an attack on Ryan--in his original context, i'm...

On the flipside, i've known several people whose first intro to RPG was D20 System of some flavor, and they had no idea that not all RPGs were that complex, and probably would never have given them a secnod chance if i hadn't let them know that fact. Ryan's comments are ambiguous, but it sounds...