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In 3E, the rogue actually sucked as a damage dealer and really was necessary for countering traps. Pathfinder made this worse and removed the need for a trapfinder specialist for the most part; in the one AP they have where it is a good idea, they include the ability to turn anyone into a...

Actually, from what Paizo has said on their official forums about the subscription model, it generates just enough income for them to keep the doors open. There have been repeated calls on their site for a PDF subscription model, but they've explained repeatedly that allowing such would cause...

Actually, I can compare the two. See, the Transformer movies everyone's familiar with are not the first Transformer movies. Most Transformer fans are well-aware of the rather long cinema history the franchise has. Most of the movies were crap; that's why you don't really hear of them. But, they...

They may have been low-budget, direct-to-video crap, but they show the franchise has enough fans willing to shell out money for ANY DnD movie that they can still make a profit making them. Even the direct-to-video movies have to make a profit to spawn sequels. That's part of why Hasbro is...

Already happened. The third movie in the series started by the Dungeons and Dragons movie of 2000 was released in 2012.

We don't do that because it is of limited practicality. It works for DnD and it's spin-offs; you get into things like Numenera and Savage Worlds, where the pagecounts can be different in the player's copy than in the GM's, and you start finding that just because it's on page X in their copy...

If you don't buy them, you hamstring yourself for getting players, a lot of whom will want to use the material in newly-released books (the few that are not intimidated into playing something else by sheer volume of published material). So, pretty much, unless you know for certain your group...

It can produce issues. Paizo, for example, has an epic ton of splatbooks; those are any book in the Chronicles and Companions line (they also have a lot of core rule books, which also isn't a great strategy for allowing game growth). However, one problem that comes up with Paizo is that they...

Are you an Eliza program hooked up to a psychological warfare computer? If not, I'm pretty certain we're not the same :P

At least two on this forum if you include me.

The concept is not the same. Even in a lot of MMOs, it's not; MMOs tend to have what would be called striker builds for quite a few classes; it isn't a secondary role like what 4E had, but one of several primary roles you can choose from. WoW is probably the best example. So, pretty much, it is...

A simple answer: As fast as is necessary, with an option to try to speed up or slow down. See, in real life, the issue of how fast a human falls is comprised of four factors: The mass of the person, the strength of the gravity, air resistance, and aerodynamics of the position the person is in...

They make excellent tax collectors!

Only if they're halflings. Covering half-orcs or dragonborn in spikes is too expensive.

Seventh Edition will be diceless free-form roleplay where you write your own settings. WotC will sell blank books for people to use for this.

"Ah, yes. Finally, an edition where Nergal won't have proficiency in government workers!" DM of face-to-face group, reading over 5E weapon proficiencies.

You both have good points. I admit I wasn't entirely clear-headed when I replied.

Sacrosanct got what I had for the rest, so I'm addressing this. This is so very, very much true. 3.0 departed from DnD tradition in quite a few areas, to the point I was actually confused because I was transitioning from Baldur's Gate 2 to 3.0. It took me a bit to figure out I didn't need THAC0...

In all fairness and speaking as someone who argued with GMforPowergamers on the topic number 1 came from, I do not believe GM is overreacting.

How has Numenera looked since 5E launched? With the places and people I normally frequent, it seems 5E gobbled up Numenera's players and may have effectively killed that game. I know I can't find enough people playing it to justify any further investment in it from my end.