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This may also be a big selling point against Greyhawk. The way 3E handled it, it felt like an empty setting they honestly didn't care about and which had no real level of detail to give the players reason to really care about it. The 2E and 1E players in my group back then actually said it was...

Technically, Earthdawn's major apocalyptic disaster hadn't actually happened yet. Remember that this is the same setting as Shadowrun, only thousands of years prior.

And, if they're big enough, controller.

I dunno. I always felt that combining that with the German Chocolate Cake Stance and Caramel backsweep was just overpowered.

Because almost none of them actually play the defender role. Superman is the sole one who typically plays it. Thing? Colossus? Hulk? These are not defensive characters. Within Fantastic Four, the Thing has very little to do with presenting an impassible barrier; that's the role Mr. Fantastic...

I've played quite a bit of pathfinder, and I have noticed that when online Pathfinder games are only taking a limited number of characters, someone inevitably produces a list that organizes the applications along those lines. Often, they will openly indicate they are recruiting along those...

They have confirmed that the PDF will both include all of the player content from Princes of the Apocalypse and exclusive material not found in Princes of the Apocalypse.

Not directly. MMOs inherit their character design strategies from RPG, TPS, FPS, and RTS video games. The RPG and RTS games tend to inherit their design strategies from older editions of DnD and table-top wargames (of which DnD is a descendant). Of course, some of those earlier RPG video games...

Fighter-Cleric-Thief-Mage is another; it's a paradigm of party building.

There is another side to this: They might be trying to keep the brick-and-mortar stores open because for DnD, that's where the profit is. The same with Magic. One interesting thing is to see how Paizo talks about books. You know how it is Paizo offers PDFs and printed books, but does not offer...

I think you're overestimating how many spells it will have. My general feeling is that it's probably going to be less than the PHB due to how specialized the spells are. Otherwise, I agree with everything you've presented.

I had no problem creating an account and downloading from them last night. Is Fifth Edition Foes actually out yet? Everything I see on their website says it'll be released in April and marks it as a pre-order, but that could just be the hardcover.

Many bothans died to bring us this information.

To be honest, given the way it was worded when they did talk about it, I'm expecting fifteen pages of material at absolute best. And that's including the cover. I don't think they ever intended to give us more than that with the Adventurer's Handbook. It would take very little for them to set...

That's why I mentioned the part on improving on it a bit further into my post.

It's not a strawman if it's something argued early on. This is stuff Sailor Moon argued on page 2 of this thread. Except they didn't do the same set of surveys prior to 4E that they did for 5E, considering 4E never had an open playtest. So, no, it's not the same set of data. Around the time...

Mind if I steal this?

I talked earlier about how presentation affects judgement and how that was probably 4E's biggest weakness. Also, I'll note that, from looking at 5E, defender isn't a combat role that seems to exist anymore. And prior to 4E, I can't recall it actually existing much; it seemed to be a combat role...

It depends a lot on the campaign, the setting, and the game system. Shadowrun? WoD? By the time the first night is out, prostitutes will be the least of the child-inappropriate things you've seen. They come out as downright child-friendly by comparison. A heroism-focused game? We tend to go a...

Sailor Moon is contesting that point. I don't remember them claiming this. I do remember them claiming that they were responding to forum criticisms of game design up to that point and something about broader appeal. Could you link me to the statements behind this? I might be remembering...