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I have an iPad and I strongly recommend it. A friend of mine brought an Android tablet and he now admits it was a bad purchase, despite the fact he really enjoy his Android phone.

I have followed Monte Cook work since Rolemaster and I am definitely not a fan. Still, he is a smart guy and I think he might do some good under Mearls's guidance. For what I can see, I like Mearls' design goals for fifth edition whereas some of the design goals for third edition (including the...

Give me an Expert box with expasion to the tenth level and perhaps a few more classes and I would gladly join the wagon, as long as they don't reintroduce the more complex rules.

I find interesting how many people are taking tech into their tables. Personally, I like the complete opposite approach, even considering most of the people in my table are tech freaks with Ph.D. titles. I see D&D as a social game and thus I see crunch as an obstacle and not as a tool. For that...

Sampling is always the most critical step in any statistical inference. The behaviour studies I think you are citing are experimental and thus very different from pooling to access taste. As others already pointed out, a pool within ENWorld is very biased and thus not representative of the...

WotC sells the same products at each edition. They already released a full 3.5 line and, thus, they will have trouble creating new products for it. Also, customers who want this kind of thing are already served by Paizo and thus WotC will have to differentiate their line. Anyway, Mearls column...

I understand that Cook and Mearls are friends and that bringing Cook might attract some customers Wizards lost to Paizo. That said, I have an image of Cook as a crunch oriented designer, which is exactly the opposite direction Meatls have been talking in his column. As a matter of fact, Cook is...

Curious move in regard to the previous columns of Legends and Lore. After all, Mearls went a long way to propose a modular design in order to allow a style of play that was removed from D&D by the third edition crafted by Cook, among others. I don't like Cook writing style but he is a competent...

You misundertand the problem. I can pay for the dice and I am sure most of the people who complains about them can also. I just don't want the trouble to look for them along a huge set of very similar ones. Also, I don't get the nostalgia effect. Those are not the weird dice from the time I...

People are reading too much in his column. Mearls is clearly stating where his sensibilities as a designer are and, obviously, they will point out where D&D is going, either in 4th edition and, eventually, in fifth edition, whenever it cames out (probably it will take afew years more). As he...

I actually liked the high letality and some other features. However, my interest died when I found out it requires a few new weird dice and added some tables that needed to be consulted oftenly. I don't need a compilation of gimmicks in my table.

It seems that Gary changed his opinion with time or, more likely, he was originally just trying to promote a product he wasn't happy with. or He also admits the reception of Q1 was also rather weak:

When I started with D&D, back in early 1982, I already have some experience with wargames. I still remmember how I became fascinated with the concept of a game that required no board and was played entirely in the imagination of the players. There is no way to beat the images evoked by...

Each game has its own advantages. Third edition brought an unified resolution mechanic, which was a much nedeed improvement on the system. Unfortunately, the designers did some bad choices as they tried to fit all DM tools, such as monsters and NPC classes with the PC rules. This just brought...

Wizards don't comment on unanouced products. As such, Mearls gave the only possible answer. He stated he doesn't players to be surprised by the direction D&D is taken. Right now, I belive he is creating a concept, I wouldn't expect a product in less than two years. Also, they might try...

As much as I would like to see it come through, I don't think it makes much sense business wise. Perhaps a limited luxurious edition with a new foreword or something like it. That might makes sense and I will certainly have it.

Thanks for the good review. Let me ask you something. How much luck is essential to a winning strategy? I tend not to like much games in which luck is more important to planning a good strategy.

I agree with Jack7 and others that epic refers to events and not to charcters. As such, I am very confortable of the idea of low level characters playing a major part in world shattering events. That said, I am not particulary found of these adventures as they often put too much importance in DM...

@KS: Although I think Mearls is actually showing where the game is heading, I am not so sure WotC would be ready to release it as a new edition as they don't want to further alienate the current players. They might go for a relaunch of fourth edition with the core books structured with a...

I haven't read this article until today as I thought anything penned by Dancey under the title "Lets start a flame war" was probably not worthy of my time. What a surprise to find it actually pretty well written and that I agree with virtually everything he wrote. Ryan, I am pleased you agree...