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Perhaps he is not irrelevant. I wonder how much of Wizards sales come from hardcore customers that brought most or all of their books and how much come from occasional purchasers. I know many people that buy a couple of Wizards books per year and I think they might be the majority of their...

Chaosium's problems derive from bad management at the time of the CCG bubble and the Wizard's Attic fiasco. Anyway, I never said that a line formed by a single core book, very few rules supplements and many scenarios was the best strategy to the publisher. However, it is the best offering to a...

This kind of content is better given by the magazines as they are already printed and thus easier to be brought at table. Unless they are setting up a great fiasco, I believe they will take advantage of the digital media. I expect to see at least character, npc, and treasure generators linked to...

I became a TSR customer when I first brought the three core AD&D books. At the time, TSR hardly publish any supplement, adventures were their main product releases and the few supplements were quite shy about introducing new rules. This business model is still followed by Chaosium and it is the...

I have a bad feeling that they will charge for useful maps among their digital initiative offerings. This really sucks, but there are some noble souls that are having the trouble to convert some maps from previous adventures, such Red Hand of Doom and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. Perhaps they...

I am more of a mac user, so you have to understand I may be biased. However, if your system is running fine with XP, I would wait till Microsoft release the Vista service pack to clear out the most obvious bugs and tuning the drivers.

Traveller is my favorite sci-fi game but it assumes an age of sails in space setting, which will require some adaptation to the airplane carrier in space setting of Battlestar Galactica. If viper combat is among your priorities, d6 would do it very well, much better than Traveller, GURPS or most...

These lists are really cool. I was thinking more in terms of named NPCs but you guys came with really thorough lists.

I have notice that a few famous NPCs have appeared in the form of D&D miniatures. I've seen Greyhawk's Lareth the Beautiful, Mordenkainen the Mage, and King Snurre, as well as Ravenloft's Count Strahd Von Zarovich. Is there any catalogue of minis per setting?

Don't forget to decrease the amount of money in the treasure. I haven't run any 3.x module, but, in the old days, I used to divide all treasure by 10. Works nicely!

Actually it is very simple. The DM states what the opponents are doing and, based in their action and the players response, match them in combat. All tactical movement subtleness is lost, but the speed easily compensates for that. Some tactical options remains as players and opponents usually...

Dungeon & Dragons is the market leader in Brazil by a far margin. However, World of Darkness, despite being definitely second, has a solid share. Everything else, Brazilian created or translated from English, has a tiny slice of the market. GURPS was once strong, as it was the first translated...

And it costs US$ 20.00 a year. That's great value for your money. Sadly, I don't think Wizards will be satisfied cashing so little for a subscription.

When I read most of the magazines through the Archives CD, I found Giants in the Earth to be the best series of articles except for the Voyage of the Princess Ark. I wonder if they were paying the original authors for the right of using their characters.

I used to like sourcebooks and despise adventures. As it usually happens, my tastes have reversed with time. I have little time to read sourcebooks and adventures became handy. I still like to create my own stuff and thus I continually expand published adventures. As such, I am not really the...

They have a license from George Martin but I guess they don't have the rights from Guardians of Order work. As such, they will likely try to differentiate from the earlier products to avoid any involuntary plagiarism. Still, I'm surprised they will not use True 20 or a different OGL variant.

Although I cannot say for your particular case, many posters tend to view opinion polls in boards such as EN World as representative of the opinion of gamers in general. This is a fallacy. Wizards' survey, despite being old, is probably their best map of the true preferencies among their...

I marked the might subscribe both option as I am open to any possibility. However, right now, it is unlikely I would subscribe to any of them.

I brought a PSP about a month ago and I deeply regret it. The machine is just fantastic but it is very bulky to a portable console. It doesn't fit in my pocket and I found the battery to be a little bit shorter than what I expected. I have no experience with the NDS, but it seems now it would be...

I liked most of the novelties, especially the new skill rules. I also liked the combat, although I don't dig the triple initial hit points and I would adjust the game so that armour became more relevant.