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QFT - this is something that gets overlooked in the discussion of light vs. heavy. Thank you for phrasing it so clearly. Some great games have a very well defined system, and the fuzziness is more about how we apply that system than how we reach a particular outcome - like 4E skill challenges...

We'll have to see the number and type of adventures they produce once the game is launched. I think that will drive sales more than the relative cost of the books. Campaign settings may also become a bigger part of sales, especially if they are well supported lines and not just a book or two...

I'm not thrilled with the covers either but since they're the same on the WOTC site I'm pretty sure they're final.

Beyond normal inflation paper shot up quite a bit a few years back but then printing in China became a thing and offset price increases somewhat too. The Pathfinder hard and softcovers are printed in China as are Games Workshop's newer-style hardcover codexes. WOTC's 4E books all say "Printed in...

I think the simplest assumption is that it's in the box, until someone says it's not. Sure, there are space limitations but it still may be in there somewhere. I think the second most likely option is that 5E DDI is available when it releases and the first 5 levels of character generation are...

D&D RPG's, novels, and video games were popular before all of those things, from the gold box games and Dragonlance in the 80's on through the Drizzt books and the Baldur's Gate games in the 90's. Game of Thrones is pretty popular right now, zombies are a big deal, pirates have occasional movies...

This is a big concern of mine now - I think WOTC was spoiled by the existence of the DDI tool and that meant there was less of a brake on the natural tendency of designers to tinker. In any other game you might have gotten a book of optional extras or some web articles about alternatives to some...

I don't care about sides - I've run, played, and liked both games and lived with the errata for each. There were definitely different approaches though, and you seemed to favor one over the other. That's fine. I like a lot of Monte's stuff but that's one guy's opinion. I'm sure economics was a...

Dropping back a bit: I thought they should have done this with 4E once they published the Rules Compendium. If you're going to make it a $20-$25 softcover then don;t sell me the "Rules Compendium" - sell me the "Rules Compendium 2013", then next year put out the "RC 2014" with all of the past...

In this same thread you yourself acknowledged that 3E and 4E both had errata and both presented it differently and stated that you preferred 3E's format. The format is a big reason that 4E's errata takes up more pages! If 4E had been handled in the same way as 3E then the page count might have...

Exactly ... and it looks like things might turn out OK. Here's a thought from another mostly DM/occasional player: Don't declare it broken until you get there. I'd be disappointed if any player decided that my campaign was not viable just because they can build a character at max level that...

First, I suspect Next will have less errata then 4E early on because much of 4E's was spent tweaking or correcting individual powers. With less of that kind of thing it should be easier to manage. I suspect typos just flow at a certain average rate per amount of words so those will still happen...

"Should you"? Isn't the question "How do you" or "where do you sell them after you"? - oh, you mean while it's still alive ... Point 1: 4th edition D&D, while not everyone's favorite, has exactly this kind of thing built in to its various powers. Slows, Stuns, Prones, Forced Movement, Ongoing...

Weird Wars Rome is aimed at a legion-based campaign and has decent historical information but does assume Weirdness is possible. My review on the blog here: http://towerofzenopus.blogspot.com/2013/09/weird-wars-rome.html Besides this there was a small game ten years ago or so called "Fulminata"...

I will second that motion - it's a great store. There's a chance some kind of event will be going at any given time so if you have an interest in anything from 'clix to Magic to Pokemon to a wing game you may be able to play in one of them.

Pathfinder launched its Adventure Paths before there was any Big Book of Golarion. I would expect that the adventures will contain some FR-specific material and that we will get a Big Book of Faerun by the 2015 Gen Con.

Well if you want my notes you could just ask : ) My powers have weakened - somehow I missed this thread until now. I'll warn you, they are notes, not a complete written-as-prose modern adventure, but I do have lists for the encounters as I saw them. It's not a note-for-not transcription of...

You're entirely right, but I wonder if that has changed now. Paizo has shown that they can run a healthy line based mainly on providing adventures, with the rules as a supplement to those. The companies run on a different scale, but the financials seem to be working better than 4E's were a few...

It was, but it covered everything you needed for a set range of levels in each box - races/classes, monsters, magic items, DM advice, etc. Call it a "layered" approach where each release stacked on to the previous vs. AD&D's model (and the main one ever since then) of a "silo-ed" approach of...

I think $50 sounds about right - Pathfinder core book came out in 2009 for $50. Supporting books list at $40. Against the Slavelords hardcover last year from WOTC was $50 (limited print run but black and white interior as well). Marvel Heroic Civil War hardcover was $50 in 2012. Lots of RPG...