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There is evidence for this. Back in the days when BD&D and AD&D were being produced simultaneously, it appeared that many newer players felt more comfortable with AD&D and its apparent 'rules for everything', while more experienced players were more comfortable with BD&D and its looser, more...

THAC0 was probably the best solution that could be adopted when you take into account all of TSR's design goals for 2nd Edition: 1. Streamline the game, and 2. Keep all the 1st Edition material as 'plug in and play' friendly as possible. The designers seriously considered moving to the...

I was actually thinking more of their run on DRAGON and what I heard about the DUNGEON APs--I was getting tired of "Demons! Demons! Demons!" by the end there. :)

Then why make it a distinct class called assassin? This was part of 2E's reasoning for dropping it, along with the tendency of immature players to take the "I'm a thief, therefore I should steal from other party members" school of thought to the extreme, which apparently turned a few people...

In my case, a hybrid of 1E tone and subsystems, Paizo preferences for monster choices, OSR playstyle advice and 3.5 magic, combat, monster design and system mastery will fill this niche quite nicely. :)

*Shrug*. The "level-eating slap-fighter" model of the vampire was one of the things I was happiest to see gone in 4E. I don't mind them having the unarmed attack, but adding level drain to it . . . sorry, but it's the bite of the vampire that should be feared, not the punch or slap. :)

The brand itself? It can be handed over to the OSR or 3.5E loyalists for all I care. :) The things I do care about enough to be interested are: 1. There's a lot of interesting creative material and lore developed for D&D, and a lot of it can only be leveraged by TSR/WotC/the rights holder...

I believe the quote actually says "drop in"--i.e., add them. To be precise . . . I've been pushing for something like this for at least two and a half years, and if they can pull it off (it's a big if, but they've got the people and resources to do it), it just might work.

As a demonstration of how this can work, Hero Games just put their next supplement for Champions up on Kickstarter when it looked like they might not be able to publish it otherwise, and within two weeks they've managed to pull in 75% of the funding. (Including one fan who just contributed the...

The Monster Update articles are actually free to download, so you can get them even if you're not a DDI subscriber. (I've been downloading them regularly since they started, and I'm not a subscriber. I am considering it, though. :) )

My wishful thinking? Restoration of the PDFs.

You're getting them, but in a different format: July 17th: Dungeon Command: Heroes and Dungeon Command: Drow August 21st: Dungeon Command: Goblins

OTOH, the OGL seems to be the only thing he's managed to make successful in this hobby--and whether it's 'successful' really does depend on your point of view. Additionally, I believe he's been doomsaying pretty much constantly since he parted ways with WotC, and his behavior when campaigning...

I was looking through Worlds & Monsters a few months ago, and that phrase comes across as Wyatt summarizing the objections to including fairy folk in D&D--not necessarily endorsing the position himself.

If I were in charge of D&D, I'd stick with the 4E direction, put most of the backstock up in PDF/PoD format, do a "Classic/Collector's Edition" reprinting of OD&D and/or 1E with the best of the old adventure modules, and accept that most of the fans who could have been brought back with a more...

I don't know if I'd say 'love', but a chance to play some sessions of Encounters this summer, picking up several products (including the excellent Monster Vaults) during Borders' closeouts and word of mouth (especially from Ethan Skemp) has me moving back towards very positive feelings about it...

It's things like this that make me feel like the best move would be for WotC to just put everything up on PDF, maintain DDI, and otherwise kill the game and use it for IP fodder.

I've actually seen an upswing over the past decade or so, similar to the rise in comic TPBs on library shelves. Curiously, the Rochester MN Public Library has managed to hold onto a copy of the 3.5 PH2 for several years without it getting stolen. :)

Yes, well, you could argue that D&D isn't really built to sustain good games either. :) Star Wars, Pendragon, many superheroic games, (EDIT: forgot Call of Cthulhu, in the mode promoted by Ken Hite, at least), even a couple of the settings like Dragonlance and Ravenloft--those seem oriented...

They've been made into game products twice--originally for GURPS, and only a couple years back for M&M 2E. (Unfortunately, you just missed the big Green Ronin Warehouse Blowout where you could get all the supplements dirt-cheap.) His Song of Ice and Fire series has likewise been adapted to...