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Yes, but there isn't an ability score for "being clever." Other than Intelligence.

You know, that's a very good point. The keep was much more interesting than the caves of chaos.... For some reason, though, I can't remember the name of even one NPC in the keep. It's almost as if the only thing the module actually said about the keep was the names of the buildings, what could...

The way I see it, Clerics are priests spreading the word of their god and being ambassadors of their faith. Paladins are the inquisition who punish the heretics.

This is another really good point, I think he's meant to represent everything "bad" about 3rd edition that's being "killed off" with the new edition. Just my take.

Shouldn't you be calling it "white liberal guilt"? Far be it for me to put words in the designer's mouths, but it seems like the goal was to make a multi-ethnic, multi-racial group of iconic characters working together and sharing the spotlight, and marketing decreed that there would be a group...

I don't think so. He's like Jar Jar Binks to the creative team, and I think that's the beginning and the end of it right there.

I think, avoid race and gender because we've already been in that minefield recently, that the dead Redgars are a statement about marketing interfering with the creative vision. I find it comparable to Battlestar Galactica, when marketing asked them to have "a birthday party or something" and...

You know, this seems simple, but it's the truth. The GSL prohibits selling items released under the GSL before October 1st, so any products released before October 1st couldn't be GSL, period. These are either: A) Under a special arrangement with WotC. B) Unofficial D&D 4e products (like the...

The exclusion of Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain kind of saddens me, it's my girlfriend's favorite movie. Also the top-grossing french movie in America. Le Samourai is my favorite, and I don't think I saw a single Alain Delon film on there.

hunh?

I don't think D&D has ever been about roleplaying the way Vampire is supposed to be. It's true that everyone plays the game how they want, but D&D has always essentially been about "kill the orc, take his pie." All that's really changed is the method in which you use to take said pie. It's an...

I would be beyond shocked if D20 Modern 2e was anything other than Urban Arcana 2e.

From what he's said in the rare out of character interviews, he loved D&D as a kid. So it's not just part of his character.

I always hated this idea that we needed a "starter" class for new people. My first 2e character was a Bard, arguably one of the more complex classes, what with spells and thief skills and what not. I didn't have any problem learning to play the game, and I'm not so sure I'm so smart that I'm a...

The veins and goo thing is just about regular eyeballs. But Colbert has talked much more about D&D on the show, last year he did a whole segment on how he used to play as a kid.

And he was released in Europe as Action Joe, generally. Might be a more familiar name on that side of the pond. Also, GI Joe was made of win and awesome.

Yeah "Oops, he has a longer reach, you take 5 damage" is one thing. "Oops, you looked in the wrong hole, your head is gone, give me your character sheet and start rolling" is something completely different.

This is true. But the fact that Wizards didn't offer the interested parties a chance to pay for it means this. It's my understanding, though I'm an outsider, that it generally happened like this. Wizards introduced tiered license. X number of companies signed on to pay $5K fee when product was...

So people will play clerics.

Honestly, I think it's classes, too. I think the only real answer is to A) go classless or B) focus the game and system on a specific genre. Working a class system into a system with a generic system just doesn't work that well. I realize the classes are generic, but still, it's too much like...