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DM/Payer separation and the DDI You know, I think this is another home run the DDI has hit. I've never felt that it was a good thing to have feats and other player usable stuff in the same book with stuff that the DM might use to design the campaign. I think a big failure of 3E was the...

Ddi I didn't see the DDI coming either. Who would have guessed that WoTC would come up with a piece of _software_ that was so awesome? It's the one thing I wish we had over in Paizo-Land. And yeah, if I were running 4E, I'd have a very hard time justifying using stuff that wasn't in the DDI...

I agree with Wicht Mistwell, I've seen the same stuff Wicht has seen in your posts. It's not just his imagination. I'm glad to hear that you're not accusing Clark of lying. But I think you should take a hard look at your writing style, because it often seems as if you are. Ken

The way it really works in Goblinland: No, goblins shouldn't have all that treasure. What you should do is identify the big boss of the cave, and assume he beat the goblin senseless and _took_ the goblin's treasure, and add it to the boss monster's hoard. So, total amount of treasure remains...

Here's a thought on Monster PCs I think the problem with the EL adjustments in Savage Species is that they resulted in PCs which were largely unplayable, mostly due to lack of HP. But without them, the monster classes would be strictly 'better ' and people who wanted the most effective...

well I can see why you would want that, but to be honest I think it's party of the balance of archery that it can get screwed in some situations. You get a full attack every round, while the melee fighter has to be right up next to his opponent. Ken

Good post I agree with you about the Paizo people being best at stories. And it's true that Pathfinder isn't a revolution in game system design or anything. But, I didn't want one in the first place. Pathfinder is really about enabling people who didn't want to switch to 4E to maintain the...

Good question I've wondered about DungeonADay.com. I really love stuff in the vein of Rappan Athuk, so your comment makes me think I should buy a subscription. But I'm leery of the online-only format. And how does subscribing now work? Would I get access to everything? Ken

Except that, no credit is due. If anything, WoTC (and all of us) owe Gary, not the other way around. Ken

well I think the idea that Gary owed WoTC a thing is completely without merit, and furthermore the thought seems a bit mean-spirited to me. Ken

Paizo and WoTC Why on earth would Paizo want to go down the road of producing content for WoTC again? They tried that with Dungeon and Dragon and Hasbro jerked the rug out from under them and darn near killed their company. It isn't a simple matter to produce 4E adventures. You have to have...

Yeah The whole 'rangers are better potion makers than wizards' thing is pretty messed up, and it was in 3E too. I have to think that making cheap potions is an unintended consequence of the decision to make spells available at a lower level to the hybrid caster/melee types. In my opinion, a...

By the way Lisa, I'd like to thank you for what you've done for the hobby. Ryan Dancey made it possible for there to be a version of D&D owned and run by gamers. You made it happen! Ken

Hmm The bane of companies the size of Paizo seems to be the temptation to expand too quickly. So I'd think twice before hiring any more people. I think something like DDI is probably out of your core compentencies and too expensive. So I'd suggest partnering with the open source community...

Wow That is insanely cool. I think I need to learn about this Google Sketchup thing. I can't imagine being able to create a map like that. Ken

Edition War? I don't see how this can possibly be an edition war. If anything, seems 4E is more suited for sandbox play than Pathfinder, because of the ease of building 4E encounters on the fly , and the 'monsters use different rules than players' paradigm. In fact, when I first heard about...

My opinion The main thing I see is that retail bookstores/game stores no longer serve an essential function. It's 100 times more convenient for me to have a Paizo adventure path and chronicles subscription than it is to drive down to the game store. And I find time spent talking with James...

Interesting Post My takes: 1) It isn't clear to me how important it is to the hobby that specialty retailers survive. It's ironic that they guys complains about hosting game day; hosting planned events is pretty much the only value that gaming stores provide me these days. My interface with...

Maptools Get Maptools. It's free, it's open source, and it works really well. Ken

Oh, and just to clarify: I mapped out Farshore and the sea approach on big sheets of easel paper with 1" squares. I had a large scale approach map (where a square was 100ft) and a smaller scale map of farshore (where a square was 30ft). Each 'squad' was represented by a 1" square of colored...