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I am not sure what this discussion has to do with 4E, or why it seems to be a proble.

Hasbro owned D&D for 20 years before they really started to care.

Almost all riddles or puzzles.

Thanks. I did not scroll far enough the first time.

I must not be explaining myself. If the PCs' tier sets the Difficulty Number (rather than the tier of the adversary or environment) then PCs effectively never get better.

Oh, I did not want to suggest that was likely, or even a state of affairs that (like you say) has ever been true for very long. I guess the other option would be for it to lose its pop culture appeal and go back to being relatively obscure, so no one in corporate cares enough to mess with creative.

IS there a quick start?

The idea that anything with a single solution is a railroad.

Mainly I MUST be able to run with very little prep and lots of improv.

My #1 wish for D&D is that it would go back into the hands of private company run by people that love D&D.

What I mean is that if your difficulties scale with YOUR tier, your probabilities stay static. Monsters and environments having tiers don't lock players out of that content any more than CR does in D&D -- so long as the GM isn't always making "level appropriate challenges" regardless of what the...

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

The problem with tier difficulties is that it means the PCs never actually get any better at anything.

Man, I do not understand how corporations make decisions.

Sell me on it.

"GM force" just sounds like "GMing" to me.

Out of curiosity, why don't the break down D&D vs Magic vs Video Games etc?

I wanted to run a side quest in the faewild with the plot of said side quest being that the Winter Court had staged a coup. So I decided that the Winter Court would be locking down the plane so no one can leave (aimed mainly at fae, but applicable to "visitors" as well). Because Plane SHift is a...

Someone who speaks corporate: what does "category expansions" mean? Is that putting D&D on lunch boxes, or is it something in the game sphere?

This would make every puzzle ever a "railroad" which does not sound right.