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The only way to be sure a clone is not at risk of being put out of action is to follow the OGL and SRD conditions on every detail. WotC might be even less keen on seeing 4e given away for free than seeing it sold.

How much profit is being turned is anyone's guess, but DDI has been very successful on a number of levels: Engaging fans, e.g. the Legends and Lore blogging. Capturing subscribers during a recession, i.e. lots of sticky customers who are used to logging in for ideas/ resources to use in their...

I play a lot of OS and it's pretty rare anyone's PC gets killed. However, having their legs chewed off by rats is the closest to compulsory OS gets. There's also usually a couple of sets of mushed-up remains that have to be glued back together. In part the play's maybe a draw because the PC's...

Please god don't make D&D like a 70s prog rock band. I want Nirvana meets Gil-Scott Heron at a Dr John jam. Thank you very much :)

dull, but accurate factual stuff teambuilding and gamification language-based, modular, cognitive RPGs - example Posts in RPG Cookbook, e.g. RPG Opportunities and RPG Fun for Kids Currently putting much of this into practice with a cut-down version of 'comic book dark' original game clone...

Using tablets more and more in-game. Don't have enough for everyone, but they're very handy. Tend to use them with a basic map keeping action on the table.

:) Thistle Games Corruption RPG Cookbook

These are very funny - but these clashes are perhaps why it's a new edition. Those differences have to be ironed-out one way or another. Some will be straightforward - e.g. race and class is likely to win out over an elf class. Others, maybe like feats, will probably be treated on a different/...

Dude! :D you've re-framed my 'options', adapted them to your perspective - and called for decisions about a type of gaming based on teamwork and collaboration to be made on the strength of much win mentality. I would still welcome you at my table, but mainly run gritty, medieval Gotham, so the...

Foot fault? :) I'm good with - but don't share - your opinion now you've explained it. Just don't quite know why some, other, commentators feel the need to hang, draw and quarter WotC for finding a way of potentially growing RPGs instead of continuing to fracture the fan-base and strangle...

I'm kind of under the impression that the concerns being leveled at them are largely unfounded. Especially as they were criticised a great deal more last time round for not going early and a lack of consultation. This time WotC seems to be going along the route Pathfinder took by letting stuff...

As with so many of these 'one true way' simulationist posts there's no explanation to go with the claims. A PR nightmare is Gerald Ratner saying his bling's crap or Perrier water with unhealthy chemicals in it. So, let's be having it. What is so terrible about the handling of the release of...

I'm suggesting having the choice in the first place is better, as one person's preferred baseline or default is another person's optional extra.

More RPG players objecting to choices :confused: If the rumoured attribute/ skill checks are true - and optional - it seems obviously better to have choice. GM A can invent special doors, GM B can make almost every door the same and GM C can choose to use a simple mechanic to turn doors into...

How unpopular can one dodgy analogy be :) I'd not be unhappy because I'd received any kind of raw deal, but because if I was a regular buyer of WotC sets/ Insider it'd be real frustrating (to me) to just miss out on building-up a chunk of a war chest for a must buy next edition.

Advertising makes a fortune out of handing-off the constant breaches of Wheaton's Law built into promoting products.

Doesn't work like that with the scheme I buy Adobe under - but, yes, I guess I'm embittered after the hoops I had to go through to get CS4 to run on Win7 x64 :blush:

Depends on the functionality of the two versions.

Yeah, I'm such a skinflint :) Personally, I'm off down a different route for now. $200 is enough for a KindleFire. Add New School clone Pathfinder at $9.99, Old School clone Corruption at $7, Tome of Monsters at something similar and it'll take a local version of Next without a subscription...

Personally I'd be a bit hacked-off if money went on Photoshop for the next version to appear a week later. One way to ease the arrival of 5e would have been to play like Windows, i.e. if you bought after a certain date you get a discount on the upgrade. Bit hard to do after the event, but...